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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 572 657
Rank change year-on-year +43 +85 +102
Contract jobs citing Mule 24 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.019% 0.050%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.67% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 21
10th Percentile £353 £306 £513
25th Percentile £450 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £311 £625
Median % change year-on-year +52.73% -50.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £509 £331 £700
90th Percentile £655 £388 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £311 £538
% change year-on-year +52.73% -42.14% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,583 4,409 5,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 10.45% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,318 3,053 4,067
10th Percentile £288 £263 £263
25th Percentile £391 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £800 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 145 164
10th Percentile £18.03 £13.57 £16.77
25th Percentile £26.02 £16.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £47.12 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.98% -38.10% +112.72%
75th Percentile £66.00 £53.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £74.78 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.81 £35.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +42.31% -23.08% +127.50%

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 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mule in the UK

Mule
Top 12 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 17 July 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 +35 16 £475 +52.73% 3
England +66 14 £498 +59.97% 8
South East - 7 £455 - 2
Work from Home +28 4 £398 +22.31% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 -
London +35 3 £750 - 6
East of England - 2 £500 -
Scotland - 2 £373 -
North of England +2 1 £340 +9.32% 1
North West +1 1 £340 +9.32%
East Midlands - 1 £340 -
Midlands - 1 £340 -

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 23 (95.83%) Anypoint
2 4 (16.67%) Mule ESB
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) iPaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Boomi
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) AMQP
1 6 (25.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Banking
2 1 (4.17%) Retail
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) MuleSoft Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Architect
4 5 (20.83%) Integration Architect
5 3 (12.50%) MuleSoft Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Applications Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) SOAP
2 17 (70.83%) XML
3 13 (54.17%) RAML
3 13 (54.17%) RESTful
4 11 (45.83%) JSON
5 10 (41.67%) JWT
5 10 (41.67%) Kafka
5 10 (41.67%) OAuth
6 8 (33.33%) REST
7 7 (29.17%) OAuth2
7 7 (29.17%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (29.17%) Swagger
8 6 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (25.00%) Apache Camel
8 6 (25.00%) OpenAPI
8 6 (25.00%) Web Services
9 3 (12.50%) MUnit
10 2 (8.33%) SAML
11 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
11 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 12 (50.00%) API Development
2 12 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 12 (50.00%) Microservices
3 11 (45.83%) API Design
3 11 (45.83%) API Management
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
5 9 (37.50%) DevOps
6 8 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (25.00%) Scrum
9 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
9 5 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) DataWeave
2 13 (54.17%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (29.17%) CloudHub
3 6 (25.00%) Ansible
3 6 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) MuleSoft
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media
5 1 (4.17%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow