DataWeave Contract Job Trends

MuleSoft DataWeave
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DataWeave skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 540 604
Rank change year-on-year -42 +64 +187
Contract jobs citing DataWeave 13 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.012% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.036% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £402 £436 -
25th Percentile £463 £481 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -24.07% +8.00%
75th Percentile £525 £539 £688
90th Percentile £555 £576 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £413 -
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
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 Programming Languages
UK

DataWeave falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,432 11,108 13,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.25% 32.49% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,539 7,147 9,647
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 258 414
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £33.12
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% -1.93% -

DataWeave
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataWeave relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DataWeave job vacancy trend in the UK

DataWeave
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DataWeave.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DataWeave

DataWeave
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataWeave over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DataWeave in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataWeave within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -34 8 £505 -1.46% 10
UK excluding London -44 5 £424 +2.73% 12
London 0 3 £505 -1.46% 1
South East - 3 £475 - 2
Scotland - 2 £373 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - -

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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 13 (100.00%) Anypoint
2 10 (76.92%) Mule
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) AMQP
1 7 (53.85%) DSL
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
1 7 (53.85%) GitLab
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Integration Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) MuleSoft Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) SOAP
2 9 (69.23%) XML
3 7 (53.85%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (53.85%) Apache Camel
3 7 (53.85%) JWT
3 7 (53.85%) Kafka
3 7 (53.85%) OAuth
3 7 (53.85%) OAuth2
3 7 (53.85%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (53.85%) REST
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) JSON
5 2 (15.38%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
1 10 (76.92%) Integration Patterns
2 7 (53.85%) API Design
2 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven
2 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 7 (53.85%) Scrum
3 6 (46.15%) API Management
4 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Data Enrichment
5 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft