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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 497 567
Rank change year-on-year -115 +70 +85
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 34 29 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.099% 0.053%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.80% 0.88% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 13
10th Percentile - £407 £415
25th Percentile £413 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £525
90th Percentile £588 £645 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -10.53% -11.63% +2.38%

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 4,265 3,285 4,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 11.18% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,169 3,051
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £617
90th Percentile £675 £709 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 64 163
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.42 £15.83
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +70.32% -41.29%
75th Percentile £57.92 £70.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.41 £79.63 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +78.70% -38.14%

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 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Anypoint in the UK

Anypoint
Top 8 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 10 June 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 29 £425 -15.00% 4
London -65 18 £500 -15.61% 3
UK excluding London -100 11 £425 -10.53% 2
Work from Home -44 8 £500 -2.44% 5
Midlands - 8 £425 -
West Midlands - 8 £425 -
South East -80 2 £550 +21.55%
East of England -25 1 £600 +20.00%

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 (44.12%) Mule
2 3 (8.82%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) iPaaS
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (5.88%) Boomi
5 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) AMQP
2 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) GoCD
3 1 (2.94%) Gradle
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Billing
2 4 (11.76%) Publishing
2 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Back Office
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Architect
2 11 (32.35%) Developer
3 10 (29.41%) MuleSoft Architect
3 10 (29.41%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Database Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Integration Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) JSON
1 8 (23.53%) RAML
1 8 (23.53%) REST
1 8 (23.53%) XML
2 5 (14.71%) Middleware
2 5 (14.71%) OpenAPI
2 5 (14.71%) Swagger
3 2 (5.88%) JMS
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (2.94%) JSF
4 1 (2.94%) JWT
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.94%) Spring
4 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.94%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) API Management
2 14 (41.18%) Microservices
3 10 (29.41%) API Design
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) API Development
5 7 (20.59%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
7 4 (11.76%) Data Transformation
7 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Webhook
8 3 (8.82%) Agile
8 3 (8.82%) Benchmarking
8 3 (8.82%) Budgeting
8 3 (8.82%) DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) Matrix Organization
8 3 (8.82%) Performance Management
8 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.82%) Project Management
8 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) DataWeave
2 4 (11.76%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (2.94%) Groovy
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
1 1 (2.94%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) Nokia
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Axway
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Planon
4 1 (2.94%) SAP