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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 365 407
Rank change year-on-year +15 +42 +99
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 20 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.050% 0.074%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.22% 0.53% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £329 £447 £359
25th Percentile £397 £491 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £666
90th Percentile £575 £575 £672
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £625
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +13.64%

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 1,644 1,714 2,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.65% 9.56% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,066 1,500
10th Percentile £220 £220 £200
25th Percentile £347 £356 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -
75th Percentile £540 £569 £600
90th Percentile £625 £647 £678
UK median daily rate £483 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 56 113
10th Percentile £14.76 £18.82 £14.32
25th Percentile £20.50 £29.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +5.15% +143.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.79% -26.67% +144.19%

Anypoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Anypoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Anypoint 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 September 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 September 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
South East +26 14 £455 -9.00% 3
East of England +3 2 £500 -13.04%
Scotland - 2 £373 -
South West +26 1 - -
North West -13 1 - -
North of England -30 1 - -
Anypoint
UK

Anypoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (50.00%) Mule
2 3 (15.00%) Mule ESB
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) AMQP
1 2 (10.00%) DSL
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Git
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) RAML
2 6 (30.00%) SOAP
2 6 (30.00%) XML
3 5 (25.00%) Kafka
3 5 (25.00%) REST
4 4 (20.00%) JSON
4 4 (20.00%) JWT
4 4 (20.00%) MUnit
4 4 (20.00%) OAuth
4 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (15.00%) OpenAPI
5 3 (15.00%) RESTful
5 3 (15.00%) Swagger
6 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
6 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (5.00%) Middleware
7 1 (5.00%) Spring
7 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) CentOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) API Development
4 7 (35.00%) API Management
5 6 (30.00%) API Design
6 5 (25.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Batch Processing
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
8 2 (10.00%) High Availability
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) DataWeave
3 4 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) OCP
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) CloudHub
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) MuleSoft
2 6 (30.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) VMware