MuleSoft Architect Contract Job Trends

MuleSoft Architect
UK

The median MuleSoft Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 544 607
Rank change year-on-year -38 +63 +206
Contract jobs requiring a MuleSoft Architect 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.014% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.015% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £613 - -
25th Percentile £631 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £731 - £638
90th Percentile £758 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
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 Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,203 33,385 41,795
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.79% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,069 20,333 28,157
10th Percentile £285 £300 £292
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,921 1,159 1,498
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.46 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.75 £19.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

MuleSoft Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'MuleSoft Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MuleSoft Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

MuleSoft Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for MuleSoft Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for MuleSoft Architect job vacancies in the UK

MuleSoft Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft Architect over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft Architect in the UK

MuleSoft Architect
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MuleSoft Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Work from Home +8 2 £600 -
England -31 2 £750 +15.38% 11
London -9 1 £750 +15.38%

MuleSoft Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, MuleSoft Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring MuleSoft Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (75.00%) Anypoint
2 3 (75.00%) Mule
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) AMQP
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) CloudHub
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Enrichment
4 1 (25.00%) DataWeave
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) DSL
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns

MuleSoft Architect Skill Set
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 3 (75.00%) Anypoint
1 3 (75.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) AMQP
1 1 (25.00%) DSL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Dutch Language
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) MUnit
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Enrichment
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) DataWeave
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CloudHub
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media