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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 502 553
Rank change year-on-year -129 +51 +105
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 32 43 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.13% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.70% 1.21% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 10
10th Percentile £354 £393 £397
25th Percentile £431 £452 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £556
90th Percentile £652 £670 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +23.68% -7.32% -10.87%
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 4,601 3,567 4,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.93% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 2,328 3,009
10th Percentile £306 £288 £263
25th Percentile £404 £395 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.57% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 87 137
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.79
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.02 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +42.09% -38.10%
75th Percentile £62.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.70 £78.72 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £30.91
% change year-on-year -25.72% +52.43% -22.72%

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 22 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 22 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 -108 25 £552 +10.30% 13
London -60 20 £500 -16.67% 11
Work from Home -52 13 £500 - 7
UK excluding London -132 5 £588 +23.68% 3
Northern Ireland +1 1 £650 +36.84% 1
East of England -21 1 £600 +20.00%
South East -77 1 £575 +19.79% 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
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 19 (59.38%) Mule
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
3 2 (6.25%) Boomi
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.13%) dbt
4 1 (3.13%) Fivetran
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.13%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) AMQP
2 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) GoCD
2 2 (6.25%) Gradle
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Billing
3 4 (12.50%) Publishing
3 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Retail
5 2 (6.25%) Back Office
5 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 16 (50.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) MuleSoft Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.13%) Database Specialist
5 1 (3.13%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) REST
2 15 (46.88%) JSON
3 14 (43.75%) XML
4 11 (34.38%) RAML
5 9 (28.13%) OpenAPI
5 9 (28.13%) SOAP
5 9 (28.13%) Swagger
6 6 (18.75%) Middleware
7 5 (15.63%) OAuth
7 5 (15.63%) OAuth2
8 4 (12.50%) JMS
8 4 (12.50%) JWT
8 4 (12.50%) RESTful
9 3 (9.38%) Kafka
10 2 (6.25%) JSF
10 2 (6.25%) Spring
10 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
11 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (3.13%) MUnit
11 1 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) API Management
1 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 13 (40.63%) Integration Patterns
3 9 (28.13%) Event-Driven
4 8 (25.00%) Agile
4 8 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 8 (25.00%) DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) API Design
5 7 (21.88%) API Development
6 5 (15.63%) Microservices
6 5 (15.63%) Scrum
7 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Webhook
8 3 (9.38%) E-Commerce
8 3 (9.38%) ERP
8 3 (9.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) DataWeave
2 8 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) Groovy
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) CloudHub
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 8 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Nokia
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Axway
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (3.13%) Planon
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Workday