Hybrid/Remote Mule Contract Job Trends

Mule
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Mule skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 323 419
Rank change year-on-year +11 +96 +151
Contract jobs citing Mule 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.056% 0.025%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.45% 0.43% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £272 £333 £411
25th Percentile - £363 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.59% -22.73% -4.18%
75th Percentile £315 £544 £578
90th Percentile £330 £608 £584
UK median daily rate £365 £425 £563
% change year-on-year -14.06% -24.44% -4.26%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,115 1,613 2,088
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.56% 12.86% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 1,129 1,444
10th Percentile £300 £315 £313
25th Percentile £400 £419 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £745
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 63
10th Percentile £20.42 £16.00 £20.10
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.08 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -34.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £60.63 £72.26 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £78.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -21.65% +122.99%

Mule
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mule as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mule trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mule
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Mule.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Mule

Mule
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) RAML
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) MUnit
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Availability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft