Mule Contracts

Mule
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mule skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mule over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 589 676
Rank change year-on-year +83 +87 +69
Contract jobs citing Mule 13 11 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.025% 0.062%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.39% 0.26% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 32
10th Percentile £396 £310 £513
25th Percentile £452 £311 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -26.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £527 £525 £700
90th Percentile £573 - £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £311 £525
% change year-on-year +52.73% -40.76% +5.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Mule 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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Mule
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mule in the UK

Mule
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mule in the UK

Mule
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mule over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in the UK

Mule
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mule within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +59 9 £475 +52.73% 3
England +60 7 £498 -0.50% 7
South East - 5 £455 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 -
Work from Home +45 3 £455 -9.00% 5
London +31 2 £556 +11.25% 3

Mule
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 13 (100.00%) Anypoint
2 4 (30.77%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) iPaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Boomi
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Matillion
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Publishing
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
1 12 (92.31%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) JSON
1 12 (92.31%) XML
2 11 (84.62%) RAML
3 10 (76.92%) RESTful
3 10 (76.92%) SOAP
4 6 (46.15%) OpenAPI
4 6 (46.15%) Swagger
5 4 (30.77%) REST
5 4 (30.77%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) JWT
6 2 (15.38%) OAuth
6 2 (15.38%) SAML
7 1 (7.69%) JMS
7 1 (7.69%) Kafka
7 1 (7.69%) MUnit
7 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) API Management
2 9 (69.23%) API Development
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (38.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (38.46%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (38.46%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) API Design
6 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) ETL
8 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
8 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 1 (7.69%) Data Transformation
8 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
8 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) DataWeave
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) CloudHub
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow