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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 519 584
Rank change year-on-year -38 +65 +148
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 33 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.035% 0.027%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.86% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 9
10th Percentile £400 £450 -
25th Percentile £413 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% -17.53%
75th Percentile £531 £549 £575
90th Percentile £575 £590 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -18.18% -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 3,852 3,569 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 11.36% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,185 2,942
10th Percentile £300 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £694 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 71 168
10th Percentile £14.66 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +51.07% +39.18%
75th Percentile £69.19 £63.75 £53.19
90th Percentile £82.30 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.96 £50.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.94% +112.11% +35.44%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -30 32 £425 -17.07% 3
UK excluding London -41 19 £425 -5.56%
Midlands - 15 £425 -
West Midlands - 14 £425 -
London -25 12 £550 +4.76% 3
Work from Home -5 4 £545 +3.81% 1
South East -16 4 £500 +11.11%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

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 11 (33.33%) Mule
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) iPaaS
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Maven
1 2 (6.06%) Postman
2 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Architect
2 12 (36.36%) MuleSoft Architect
3 7 (21.21%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Functional Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Functional Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Integration Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Integration Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (3.03%) SAP Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) SAP Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) SAP Functional Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Senior
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) JSON
1 5 (15.15%) REST
1 5 (15.15%) SOAP
1 5 (15.15%) XML
2 4 (12.12%) RAML
3 3 (9.09%) MUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) API Management
2 16 (48.48%) Microservices
3 11 (33.33%) API Design
4 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
5 8 (24.24%) API Development
5 8 (24.24%) Integration Patterns
5 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (12.12%) Data Privacy
7 4 (12.12%) DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) Validation
8 3 (9.09%) Architectural Design
8 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 3 (9.09%) Scrum
8 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 3 (9.09%) User Experience
8 3 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) DataWeave
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (12.12%) Axway
2 4 (12.12%) IBM
2 4 (12.12%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft