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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 550 624
Rank change year-on-year +19 +74 +174
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 34 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.035% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.95% 0.32% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £402 £378 £378
25th Percentile £462 £411 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £509 £666
90th Percentile £754 £545 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -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 3,581 4,078 4,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 10.84% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,360 2,570 3,261
10th Percentile £277 £263 £255
25th Percentile £382 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 74 148
10th Percentile £16.81 £18.00 £15.94
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.81
Median hourly rate £33.33 £36.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +17.07% +43.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -37.58% +75.00% +62.38%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +36 25 £550 +10.00% 23
UK excluding London -14 14 £500 - 18
London +32 12 £575 - 9
South East +16 8 £550 +10.00% 10
Work from Home +23 6 £475 +2.70% 18
East of England - 2 £500 -
Scotland - 2 £373 -
South West +12 1 - - 4
North West -17 1 - - 2
North of England -24 1 - - 4

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 18 (52.94%) Mule
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.88%) Mule ESB
4 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Boomi
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) AMQP
1 7 (20.59%) DSL
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) SSL
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) Git
2 9 (26.47%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Lead
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Integration Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 5 (14.71%) MuleSoft Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Functional Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) MuleSoft Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Applications Architect
7 2 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) SAP Functional Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.94%) Business Integration Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) SOAP
1 13 (38.24%) XML
2 11 (32.35%) OAuth
3 10 (29.41%) JWT
3 10 (29.41%) Kafka
3 10 (29.41%) REST
4 9 (26.47%) RAML
5 8 (23.53%) OAuth2
6 7 (20.59%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (20.59%) Apache Camel
6 7 (20.59%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (17.65%) JSON
8 5 (14.71%) RESTful
8 5 (14.71%) Web Services
9 4 (11.76%) MUnit
10 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
10 2 (5.88%) Swagger
11 1 (2.94%) .NET
11 1 (2.94%) J2EE
11 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 7 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (11.76%) Clustering
5 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) CentOS
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (44.12%) Agile
3 14 (41.18%) DevOps
4 13 (38.24%) API Design
5 12 (35.29%) Scrum
6 10 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
6 10 (29.41%) Microservices
7 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (20.59%) API Management
8 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
8 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (17.65%) API Development
9 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (17.65%) Data Mapping
9 6 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
10 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) DataWeave
1 11 (32.35%) Java
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) OCP
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 6 (17.65%) CloudHub
4 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (97.06%) MuleSoft
2 8 (23.53%) SAP
3 7 (20.59%) Salesforce
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.82%) Oracle
6 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) Virgin Media
7 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.94%) Dell
7 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.94%) IBM
7 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (2.94%) VMware