Anypoint Contract Job Trends

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Anypoint skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 545 632
Rank change year-on-year +27 +87 +198
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 39 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.042% 0.040%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.10% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 13
10th Percentile £376 £388 £378
25th Percentile £420 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £615 £538 £666
90th Percentile £712 £568 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -8.25% -13.04% +4.55%
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 3,551 4,086 5,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.94% 10.71% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 2,695 3,539
10th Percentile £277 £267 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +3.75% -3.62%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £703 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 165
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -29.63% +140.00%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.18
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.15% +132.64%

Anypoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Anypoint 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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Anypoint in the UK

Anypoint
Top 10 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 15 September 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 +35 31 £500 - 6
UK excluding London +14 20 £459 -8.25% 2
South East +39 14 £455 -9.00% 2
London +27 12 £600 - 4
Work from Home +32 9 £453 -9.50% 4
East of England +7 2 £500 -13.04%
Scotland - 2 £373 -
South West +27 1 - -
North West -13 1 - -
North of England -17 1 - -

Anypoint
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 19 (48.72%) Mule
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.26%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) AWS
4 3 (7.69%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Boomi
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) AMQP
1 7 (17.95%) DSL
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 10 (25.64%) MuleSoft Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Integration Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Functional Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) MuleSoft Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Applications Architect
7 2 (5.13%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) SAP Functional Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.56%) Banking Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) SOAP
1 15 (38.46%) XML
2 12 (30.77%) RAML
3 11 (28.21%) OAuth
3 11 (28.21%) REST
4 10 (25.64%) JWT
4 10 (25.64%) Kafka
5 8 (20.51%) JSON
5 8 (20.51%) OAuth2
6 7 (17.95%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (17.95%) Apache Camel
6 7 (17.95%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (17.95%) RESTful
7 6 (15.38%) Web Services
8 4 (10.26%) MUnit
8 4 (10.26%) OpenAPI
8 4 (10.26%) Swagger
9 1 (2.56%) .NET
9 1 (2.56%) J2EE
9 1 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (10.26%) Clustering
5 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
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 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 17 (43.59%) Agile
3 16 (41.03%) DevOps
4 14 (35.90%) API Design
5 12 (30.77%) Scrum
6 11 (28.21%) API Management
7 10 (25.64%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
7 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (23.08%) API Development
9 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven
10 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (15.38%) Data Mapping
11 6 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
11 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
12 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) DataWeave
3 4 (10.26%) C#
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) 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 6 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) 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 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Ansible
2 7 (17.95%) CloudHub
2 7 (17.95%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (97.44%) MuleSoft
2 9 (23.08%) Salesforce
3 8 (20.51%) SAP
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.13%) Virgin Media
7 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.56%) Dell
7 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.56%) IBM
7 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.56%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) VMware