Mule ESB Contracts

Mule ESB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mule ESB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mule ESB over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 - 666
Rank change year-on-year - - +193
Contract jobs citing Mule ESB 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% - 0.004%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.22% - 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £426 - £329
25th Percentile £451 - £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.23%
75th Percentile £674 - £384
90th Percentile £754 - £386
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 - £363
% change year-on-year - - -32.56%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Mule ESB falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,631 4,099 5,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 10.50% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,368 2,831 3,878
10th Percentile £281 £275 £258
25th Percentile £392 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £508
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +0.94% -3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £825 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £458 £475
% change year-on-year -1.64% -3.68% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 114 153
10th Percentile £19.17 £13.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.75 £31.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.12% -39.60% +133.33%
75th Percentile £66.44 £68.56 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.00 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.12 £30.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year +52.43% -27.26% +112.50%

Mule ESB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mule ESB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mule ESB in the UK

Mule ESB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mule ESB.

Daily rate trend for Mule ESB in the UK

Mule ESB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule ESB over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule ESB in the UK

Mule ESB
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule ESB within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 8 £500 - 3
UK excluding London - 6 £498 - 3
South East - 4 £476 - 1
London - 2 £654 - 1
North West - 2 £725 - 2
North of England - 2 £725 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £455 -

Mule ESB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Anypoint
1 7 (87.50%) Mule
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) iPaaS
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) MuleSoft Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) XML
3 6 (75.00%) Web Services
4 5 (62.50%) SOAP
5 4 (50.00%) RAML
5 4 (50.00%) RESTful
6 2 (25.00%) J2EE
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) Spring
6 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (12.50%) Kafka
7 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) API Management
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) API Design
4 4 (50.00%) API Development
4 4 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) DataWeave
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) CloudHub
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) MuleSoft
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media