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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 531 603
Rank change year-on-year -18 +72 +171
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 33 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.034% 0.011%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.87% 0.30% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 4
10th Percentile £402 £433 -
25th Percentile £464 £469 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% -16.07%
75th Percentile £583 £519 £650
90th Percentile £666 £536 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -25.17%
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 3,812 3,971 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.51% 11.12% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,445 3,058
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £393 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £626
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 90 137
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%
75th Percentile £65.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -26.32% +98.33% +36.00%

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 December 2025.

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 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
England -22 25 £550 +10.00% 9
UK excluding London -34 13 £525 +5.00% 8
London +6 12 £538 +4.88% 1
South East -8 8 £568 +19.47%
Work from Home +2 6 £508 - 2
Scotland - 2 £373 -
North West -16 1 - -
East Midlands -19 1 £500 +6.67%
Midlands -35 1 £500 - 8
North of England -41 1 - -
South West - 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 15 (45.45%) Mule
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.06%) Mule ESB
4 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) AMQP
1 7 (21.21%) DSL
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) HTTP
3 1 (3.03%) SSL
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) GitLab
3 3 (9.09%) Maven
4 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.06%) Postman
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Lead
2 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) MuleSoft Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
6 4 (12.12%) Functional Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) Integration Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) Integration Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Applications Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Consultant
8 2 (6.06%) MuleSoft Architect
8 2 (6.06%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) SAP Functional Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
9 1 (3.03%) Integration Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Consultant
9 1 (3.03%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) XML
2 13 (39.39%) SOAP
3 11 (33.33%) REST
4 8 (24.24%) Kafka
4 8 (24.24%) OAuth
4 8 (24.24%) RAML
5 7 (21.21%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (21.21%) Apache Camel
5 7 (21.21%) JSON
5 7 (21.21%) JWT
5 7 (21.21%) OAuth2
5 7 (21.21%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (12.12%) RESTful
7 3 (9.09%) MUnit
8 2 (6.06%) Web Services
9 1 (3.03%) J2EE
9 1 (3.03%) Spring
9 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (12.12%) Clustering
5 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) DevOps
3 14 (42.42%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) Integration Patterns
4 12 (36.36%) API Design
4 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (36.36%) Scrum
5 11 (33.33%) Microservices
6 10 (30.30%) API Management
7 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (21.21%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (21.21%) Event-Driven
8 7 (21.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (18.18%) Data Mapping
9 6 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Modelling
11 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) DataWeave
2 9 (27.27%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) CloudHub
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (96.97%) MuleSoft
2 8 (24.24%) SAP
3 6 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.09%) Oracle
6 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.03%) Splunk