Anypoint Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Anypoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 349 405
Rank change year-on-year -23 +56 +77
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 17 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.033% 0.005%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.92% 0.31% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £396 £424 -
25th Percentile £400 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -9.09% -25.17%
75th Percentile £478 - £575
90th Percentile £526 £538 -
UK median daily rate £480 £506 £625
% change year-on-year -5.19% -19.00% -10.71%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Anypoint 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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,856 1,631 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.21% 10.92% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 949 1,240
10th Percentile £213 £206 £213
25th Percentile £360 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £563 £552 £594
90th Percentile £669 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 59 102
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.77 £16.40
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £23.13
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +83.78% +32.14%
75th Percentile £69.45 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% +29.63% +46.14%

Anypoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Anypoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Anypoint job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Anypoint
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Anypoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Anypoint

Anypoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anypoint in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Anypoint in the UK excluding London

Anypoint
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Anypoint within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Midlands -30 9 £400 -20.00% 5
West Midlands - 8 £400 - 5
South East -17 4 £500 +5.26%
Scotland - 2 £373 -
East Midlands -20 1 £500 +6.67%
North of England - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Anypoint
UK

Anypoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Mule
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) iPaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) HTTPS
2 2 (11.76%) AMQP
2 2 (11.76%) DSL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) MuleSoft Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) SOAP
2 4 (23.53%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) XML
4 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
4 2 (11.76%) JWT
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.88%) J2EE
5 1 (5.88%) JSON
5 1 (5.88%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) MUnit
5 1 (5.88%) RAML
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
1 11 (64.71%) Integration Patterns
2 8 (47.06%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) API Management
4 6 (35.29%) API Design
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Data Privacy
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Validation
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
7 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (17.65%) User Experience
7 3 (17.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) DataWeave
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) CloudHub
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) MuleSoft
2 4 (23.53%) Axway
2 4 (23.53%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk