Anypoint Contracts

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Anypoint skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Anypoint over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 567 653
Rank change year-on-year +67 +86 +191
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 39 23 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.053% 0.057%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.11% 0.52% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 23
10th Percentile £422 £403 £400
25th Percentile £461 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £589 £534 £666
90th Percentile £670 £589 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -9.53% +2.38% -2.33%
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

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,499 4,431 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.19% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 3,076 4,088
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £713 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 160 159
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.44 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £31.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.60% -39.21% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +63.48% -31.30% +133.75%

Anypoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Anypoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Anypoint in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Anypoint.

Daily rate trend for Anypoint in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anypoint over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Anypoint in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +71 30 £513 +2.50% 17
UK excluding London +50 24 £486 -9.53% 11
South East - 17 £480 - 7
Work from Home +36 12 £525 +5.00% 9
London +45 10 £593 +18.50% 11
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 -
East of England +25 2 £500 -13.04% 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2

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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 20 (51.28%) Mule
2 5 (12.82%) Mule ESB
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Boomi
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) AMQP
1 3 (7.69%) DSL
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.38%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Law
4 2 (5.13%) Police
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
1 19 (48.72%) MuleSoft Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Lead
3 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Integration Architect
5 3 (7.69%) MuleSoft Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Functional Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.56%) SAP Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) SAP Functional Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (53.85%) RAML
2 17 (43.59%) SOAP
2 17 (43.59%) XML
3 15 (38.46%) JSON
4 12 (30.77%) RESTful
5 10 (25.64%) REST
6 9 (23.08%) OpenAPI
6 9 (23.08%) Swagger
7 7 (17.95%) JWT
7 7 (17.95%) OAuth
8 6 (15.38%) Kafka
8 6 (15.38%) Web Services
9 5 (12.82%) MUnit
10 4 (10.26%) Middleware
10 4 (10.26%) OAuth2
10 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (7.69%) Apache Camel
12 2 (5.13%) SAML
13 1 (2.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) CentOS
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) API Management
2 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
3 16 (41.03%) API Development
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 12 (30.77%) API Design
4 12 (30.77%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Integration Patterns
5 10 (25.64%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (12.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 5 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.26%) Event-Driven
9 4 (10.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (10.26%) Scrum
10 3 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) DataWeave
2 9 (23.08%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) C#
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) OCP
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
1 3 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) CloudHub
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 11 (28.21%) Salesforce
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.69%) SAP
4 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.69%) Virgin Media
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Dell
6 1 (2.56%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.56%) VMware