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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 512 593
Rank change year-on-year -30 +81 +147
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 32 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.038% 0.014%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.87% 0.34% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £400 £441 -
25th Percentile £403 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £622
90th Percentile £575 £570 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% -6.38%

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 3,661 3,484 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.10% 11.06% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,534 2,138 2,865
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £689 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 73 131
10th Percentile £14.92 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.28 £37.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +54.17% +35.44%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year -39.53% +102.25% +27.36%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -43 29 £450 -10.00% 10
UK excluding London -33 18 £425 -10.53% 5
Midlands -35 12 £425 -15.00% 5
West Midlands - 11 £425 - 5
London -6 10 £538 +4.88% 5
Work from Home -9 5 £525 - 1
South East -15 4 £500 +11.11%
East Midlands -21 1 £500 +6.67%
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
North of England - 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 10 (31.25%) Mule
2 3 (9.38%) Mule ESB
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
1 9 (28.13%) iPaaS
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 2 (6.25%) AMQP
2 2 (6.25%) DSL
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Maven
2 2 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) MuleSoft Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Lead
4 6 (18.75%) MuleSoft Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Integration Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Integration Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.13%) Business Integration Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Integration Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (3.13%) SAP Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) SAP Business Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) SAP Functional Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) XML
2 7 (21.88%) SOAP
3 6 (18.75%) JSON
3 6 (18.75%) REST
4 4 (12.50%) RAML
5 3 (9.38%) Kafka
5 3 (9.38%) MUnit
5 3 (9.38%) Web Services
6 2 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (6.25%) Apache Camel
6 2 (6.25%) JWT
6 2 (6.25%) OAuth
6 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.25%) RESTful
7 1 (3.13%) J2EE
7 1 (3.13%) Middleware
7 1 (3.13%) Spring
7 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) API Management
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
2 13 (40.63%) Microservices
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) API Design
3 11 (34.38%) Integration Patterns
4 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) Scrum
6 6 (18.75%) API Development
7 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.50%) Data Mapping
8 4 (12.50%) Data Privacy
8 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) User Stories
8 4 (12.50%) Validation
9 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) DataWeave
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) CloudHub
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) MuleSoft
2 4 (12.50%) Axway
2 4 (12.50%) IBM
2 4 (12.50%) IBM Sterling
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk