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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 518 552
Rank change year-on-year -137 +34 +87
Contract jobs citing Anypoint 28 35 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.11% 0.040%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.59% 0.99% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 9
10th Percentile £370 £403 £388
25th Percentile £481 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £538
90th Percentile £659 £749 £568
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -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 4,725 3,532 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 10.76% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,064 2,282 2,629
10th Percentile £285 £276 £265
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £649
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +2.78% -0.88% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 76
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.98 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -0.06% -24.06%
75th Percentile £55.50 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.12 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £33.33 £48.56
% change year-on-year -15.23% -31.37% +5.57%

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 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Anypoint in the UK

Anypoint
Top 7 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 30 September 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 -131 20 £638 +27.50% 12
London -79 17 £544 -5.43% 6
Work from Home -64 14 £569 +26.39% 6
UK excluding London -114 3 £650 +30.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £650 -
North West -49 1 - - 1
North of England -81 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 20 (71.43%) Mule
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (7.14%) Boomi
4 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.57%) dbt
4 1 (3.57%) Fivetran
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) GoCD
2 2 (7.14%) Gradle
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Billing
3 4 (14.29%) Publishing
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.71%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Back Office
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 18 (64.29%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (71.43%) REST
2 17 (60.71%) JSON
3 16 (57.14%) XML
4 13 (46.43%) SOAP
5 9 (32.14%) OAuth
5 9 (32.14%) OAuth2
6 8 (28.57%) JWT
6 8 (28.57%) OpenAPI
6 8 (28.57%) RAML
6 8 (28.57%) Swagger
7 7 (25.00%) Middleware
8 3 (10.71%) JMS
8 3 (10.71%) Kafka
8 3 (10.71%) RESTful
9 2 (7.14%) JSF
9 2 (7.14%) Spring
9 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
10 1 (3.57%) MUnit
10 1 (3.57%) Node.js
10 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 13 (46.43%) Data Transformation
4 12 (42.86%) DevOps
5 10 (35.71%) API Management
6 9 (32.14%) Event-Driven
7 7 (25.00%) Agile
7 7 (25.00%) API Design
8 6 (21.43%) Data Management
8 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.86%) API Development
9 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (17.86%) Scrum
10 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 4 (14.29%) Webhook
11 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
11 3 (10.71%) Microservices
12 2 (7.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) DataWeave
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) CloudHub
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 13 (46.43%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.14%) Nokia
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Workday