Mule
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Mule skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mule over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 648 739
Rank change year-on-year +89 +91 -177
Contract jobs citing Mule 12 39 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.068% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.29% 0.62% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 90
10th Percentile - £480 £413
25th Percentile £311 £513 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £635
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -1.57% -2.31%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £670
90th Percentile - £703 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £311 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -40.76% +5.00% +26.18%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Mule is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,160 6,255 11,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 10.98% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 4,383 7,541
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 150 220
10th Percentile £13.03 £16.12 £13.99
25th Percentile £15.47 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +91.49% +10.20%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +44.74% -

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 2024. 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 +88 10 £500 -20.00% 5
Work from Home +103 9 £500 -11.11% 4
London +84 6 £500 -25.93% 2
UK excluding London +46 4 £311 -40.76% 2
North of England +36 4 £311 -40.76%
North West +24 4 £311 -40.76%

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 7 (58.33%) Anypoint
2 5 (41.67%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) WhatsApp
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Liquibase
3 4 (33.33%) Log4j
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) REST
1 9 (75.00%) Web Services
2 5 (41.67%) SOAP
3 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 4 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) API Management
1 7 (58.33%) Integration Patterns
1 7 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
1 7 (58.33%) SOA
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Open Source
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) MuleSoft
2 5 (41.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Pega
3 1 (8.33%) TIBCO