MuleSoft Developer Contracts

MuleSoft Developer
UK

The median MuleSoft Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 567 694
Rank change year-on-year +76 +127 +148
Contract jobs requiring a MuleSoft Developer 28 33 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.076% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.082% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 17
10th Percentile £390 £445 £460
25th Percentile £450 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £638
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

MuleSoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured MuleSoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MuleSoft Developer in the UK

MuleSoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MuleSoft Developer.

Daily rate trend for MuleSoft Developer in the UK

MuleSoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft Developer in the UK

MuleSoft Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MuleSoft Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +55 20 £499 -13.26% 6
UK excluding London +69 18 £475 -13.64% 6
South East - 12 £450 - 2
Work from Home +48 9 £465 -7.00% 5
London +14 6 £585 -2.50%
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
South West - 2 - -

MuleSoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, MuleSoft Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring MuleSoft Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 22 (78.57%) Anypoint
3 16 (57.14%) RAML
3 16 (57.14%) API Management
4 14 (50.00%) JSON
5 13 (46.43%) XML
5 13 (46.43%) API Development
5 13 (46.43%) DataWeave
6 12 (42.86%) Mule
7 11 (39.29%) Azure
7 11 (39.29%) AWS
7 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
7 11 (39.29%) CloudHub
8 10 (35.71%) RESTful
8 10 (35.71%) SOAP
9 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
9 8 (28.57%) Swagger
9 8 (28.57%) OpenAPI
9 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
10 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
10 7 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 7 (25.00%) Agile
11 6 (21.43%) DevOps
11 6 (21.43%) iPaaS
11 6 (21.43%) Microservices
11 6 (21.43%) GCP
11 6 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
12 5 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (17.86%) Digital Transformation Programme

MuleSoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (78.57%) Anypoint
2 12 (42.86%) Mule
3 5 (17.86%) Mule ESB
4 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) GCP
2 6 (21.43%) iPaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Boomi
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) RAML
2 14 (50.00%) JSON
3 13 (46.43%) XML
4 10 (35.71%) RESTful
4 10 (35.71%) SOAP
5 8 (28.57%) OpenAPI
5 8 (28.57%) Swagger
6 4 (14.29%) REST
6 4 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (7.14%) JWT
7 2 (7.14%) MUnit
7 2 (7.14%) OAuth
7 2 (7.14%) SAML
8 1 (3.57%) .NET
8 1 (3.57%) JMS
8 1 (3.57%) Kafka
8 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
8 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) API Management
2 13 (46.43%) API Development
3 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (21.43%) Microservices
6 5 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (17.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) API Design
7 4 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
9 2 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (7.14%) High Availability
9 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
9 2 (7.14%) User Stories
9 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) DataWeave
2 5 (17.86%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) OCP
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) CloudHub
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 5 (17.86%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow