Anypoint Contract Job Trends

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Anypoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 505 573
Rank change year-on-year -125 +68 +90
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 35 39 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.12% 0.053%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.77% 1.10% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 10
10th Percentile £374 £422 £403
25th Percentile £414 £461 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £584 £589 £534
90th Percentile £645 £670 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £486 £538
% change year-on-year -7.46% -9.53% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
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 4,532 3,535 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 11.07% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,991 2,307 3,107
10th Percentile £310 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £634
90th Percentile £675 £718 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 83 157
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.56 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.39 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +55.69% -38.83%
75th Percentile £62.75 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £74.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £33.56
% change year-on-year -33.33% +56.45% -28.22%

Anypoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Anypoint job vacancy trend in the UK

Anypoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Anypoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anypoint over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Anypoint in the UK

Anypoint
Top 11 Contract Job 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 8 July 2026. 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 -109 28 £450 -12.20% 10
London -60 20 £450 -24.05% 9
Work from Home -45 12 £500 -4.76% 6
UK excluding London -122 8 £450 -7.46% 3
West Midlands - 4 £425 -
Midlands - 4 £425 -
Northern Ireland +2 1 £650 +36.84% 1
East of England -26 1 £600 +20.00%
South East -80 1 £575 +19.79% 1
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

Anypoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 20 (57.14%) Mule
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) iPaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
3 2 (5.71%) Boomi
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
4 1 (2.86%) Fivetran
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) AMQP
2 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) GoCD
2 2 (5.71%) Gradle
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Billing
2 4 (11.43%) Publishing
2 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Retail
4 2 (5.71%) Back Office
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Developer
2 15 (42.86%) MuleSoft Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Architect
4 6 (17.14%) MuleSoft Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Integration Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Database Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Integration Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) JSON
1 15 (42.86%) REST
2 14 (40.00%) XML
3 10 (28.57%) RAML
4 8 (22.86%) OpenAPI
4 8 (22.86%) Swagger
5 7 (20.00%) SOAP
6 6 (17.14%) Middleware
7 5 (14.29%) OAuth
7 5 (14.29%) OAuth2
8 4 (11.43%) JWT
8 4 (11.43%) RESTful
9 3 (8.57%) JMS
10 2 (5.71%) JSF
10 2 (5.71%) Kafka
10 2 (5.71%) Spring
10 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
11 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (2.86%) MUnit
11 1 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) API Management
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
2 12 (34.29%) Integration Patterns
3 10 (28.57%) Microservices
4 9 (25.71%) API Design
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) API Development
5 8 (22.86%) Event-Driven
6 7 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
9 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.43%) Webhook
10 3 (8.57%) E-Commerce
11 2 (5.71%) Benchmarking
11 2 (5.71%) ERP
11 2 (5.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) DataWeave
1 8 (22.86%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) C#
2 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) Groovy
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) CloudHub
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 7 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Nokia
5 1 (2.86%) Axway
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.86%) Planon
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Workday