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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 502 552
Rank change year-on-year -126 +50 +86
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 35 49 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.15% 0.051%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.75% 1.36% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 10
10th Percentile £376 £395 £397
25th Percentile £463 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £655 £606 £556
90th Percentile £656 £675 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -13.04%
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 4,648 3,595 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.74% 10.93% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,064 2,367 2,848
10th Percentile £305 £281 £279
25th Percentile £405 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +0.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £458
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.64% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 89 113
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.27 £13.93
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +40.33% -39.60%
75th Percentile £62.25 £65.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.93 £79.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.75 £47.12 £31.00
% change year-on-year -28.37% +52.00% -27.06%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -137 26 £575 +15.00% 11
London -46 20 £553 -7.83% 8
Work from Home -53 17 £588 +20.51% 4
UK excluding London -124 6 £600 +26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 £650 +36.84%
East of England -16 1 £600 +20.00% 1
North West -51 1 - - 1
North of England -60 1 - - 1
South East -84 1 £575 +19.79%
Midlands - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

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 21 (60.00%) Mule
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
3 2 (5.71%) Boomi
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
4 1 (2.86%) Fivetran
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) AMQP
2 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) GoCD
2 2 (5.71%) Gradle
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Billing
3 4 (11.43%) Publishing
3 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Back Office
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (62.86%) Developer
2 20 (57.14%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Lead
3 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Architect
4 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Integration Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.86%) Database Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (62.86%) REST
2 19 (54.29%) JSON
3 18 (51.43%) XML
4 14 (40.00%) SOAP
5 11 (31.43%) RAML
6 10 (28.57%) OAuth
6 10 (28.57%) OAuth2
7 9 (25.71%) JWT
7 9 (25.71%) Middleware
7 9 (25.71%) OpenAPI
7 9 (25.71%) Swagger
8 4 (11.43%) JMS
8 4 (11.43%) RESTful
9 3 (8.57%) Kafka
10 2 (5.71%) JSF
10 2 (5.71%) Spring
10 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
11 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (2.86%) Node.js
11 1 (2.86%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
1 17 (48.57%) Integration Patterns
2 13 (37.14%) Data Transformation
2 13 (37.14%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) API Management
4 10 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) API Design
6 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) Data Management
8 5 (14.29%) API Development
8 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
9 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.43%) ERP
9 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.43%) Webhook
10 3 (8.57%) E-Commerce
10 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) DataWeave
3 3 (8.57%) C#
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) Groovy
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) SQL
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) CloudHub
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 13 (37.14%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Nokia
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Axway
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.86%) Planon
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Workday