MuleSoft Contract Job Trends

MuleSoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of MuleSoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MuleSoft over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within MuleSoft, Inc.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 466 475
Rank change year-on-year +51 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 179 84 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.03% 0.55% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 52 82
10th Percentile £394 £458 £449
25th Percentile £413 £511 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £589 £700 £709
90th Percentile £693 £804 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -23.94% +1.59% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 - -
Median hourly rate £76.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.19 - -
90th Percentile £91.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

MuleSoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,448 15,405 19,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.93% 45.79% 44.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,130 9,195 12,403
10th Percentile £297 £285 £252
25th Percentile £408 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 452 675
10th Percentile £15.02 £15.51 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.51 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.55%
75th Percentile £44.69 £61.31 £64.70
90th Percentile £74.21 £75.23 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.60 £45.21
% change year-on-year -16.02% -43.38% +100.93%

MuleSoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MuleSoft job vacancy trend in the UK

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

MuleSoft
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft in the UK

MuleSoft
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MuleSoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MuleSoft

MuleSoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MuleSoft over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MuleSoft in the UK

MuleSoft
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +44 155 £495 -17.50% 134
UK excluding London 0 81 £425 -23.94% 105
London +23 76 £525 -19.23% 32
Work from Home +39 50 £545 -9.17% 40
Midlands -11 32 £400 -20.00% 26
West Midlands - 28 £400 - 20
South East -4 18 £463 -2.63% 23
North of England -47 13 £391 -34.92% 29
Scotland +10 7 £488 -15.22% 4
South West 0 7 £538 -23.21% 9
North West -21 7 £358 -40.33% 17
Yorkshire -38 6 £563 - 11
East Midlands -19 4 £523 +11.47% 6
East of England - 3 £550 - 13
Wales -1 1 £625 - 3

MuleSoft
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 37 (20.67%) Anypoint
2 14 (7.82%) Mule
3 12 (6.70%) Confluence
4 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.68%) Mule ESB
6 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) Apache
7 1 (0.56%) JBoss
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.79%) Sketch
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) Notion
3 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.56%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.05%) Azure
2 37 (20.67%) AWS
3 24 (13.41%) Apigee
4 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.38%) GCP
6 14 (7.82%) iPaaS
7 13 (7.26%) Boomi
7 13 (7.26%) Power Platform
8 11 (6.15%) SaaS
9 9 (5.03%) GitHub
10 8 (4.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 8 (4.47%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.35%) Kong
12 5 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.79%) Figma
12 5 (2.79%) PaaS
12 5 (2.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (1.68%) dbt
13 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.68%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) AMQP
1 7 (3.91%) DSL
2 5 (2.79%) HTTP
2 5 (2.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.23%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.23%) LAN
3 4 (2.23%) SSL
3 4 (2.23%) WAN
4 3 (1.68%) DHCP
4 3 (1.68%) DNS
4 3 (1.68%) Firewall
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.70%) Power BI
2 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.79%) KNIME
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.12%) Tableau
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) Metadata
6 1 (0.56%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.64%) Git
2 17 (9.50%) JIRA
3 13 (7.26%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.15%) GitLab
5 10 (5.59%) Selenium
6 7 (3.91%) Postman
7 3 (1.68%) Maven
8 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.12%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.56%) ERwin
9 1 (0.56%) Gatling
9 1 (0.56%) Gradle
9 1 (0.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.55%) Finance
3 32 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.03%) Banking
5 9 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Billing
7 6 (3.35%) Marketing
8 5 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Law
10 3 (1.68%) Retail
11 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.56%) Front Office
12 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (30.17%) Architect
2 36 (20.11%) Developer
3 30 (16.76%) Analyst
4 23 (12.85%) Lead
5 18 (10.06%) Business Analyst
6 15 (8.38%) MuleSoft Architect
6 15 (8.38%) Technical Architect
7 14 (7.82%) Salesforce Developer
8 11 (6.15%) MuleSoft Developer
8 11 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.59%) Salesforce Architect
10 9 (5.03%) Senior
11 8 (4.47%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (4.47%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (3.91%) Integration Architect
13 6 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Data Analyst
13 6 (3.35%) Integration Analyst
13 6 (3.35%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.88%) Middleware
1 32 (17.88%) SOAP
2 29 (16.20%) REST
3 21 (11.73%) RESTful
3 21 (11.73%) XML
4 20 (11.17%) OAuth
5 17 (9.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (8.94%) JSON
7 15 (8.38%) OpenAPI
8 12 (6.70%) JWT
8 12 (6.70%) OAuth2
9 10 (5.59%) Kafka
10 9 (5.03%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.47%) Apache Camel
11 8 (4.47%) Swagger
12 7 (3.91%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (3.91%) HTML
12 7 (3.91%) Web Services
13 6 (3.35%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.79%) SCADA
5 4 (2.23%) Clustering
5 4 (2.23%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.68%) IoT
6 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) CMDB
8 1 (0.56%) IVR
8 1 (0.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.26%) Linux
2 9 (5.03%) Unix
3 6 (3.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.75%) Agile
2 49 (27.37%) CI/CD
3 43 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (22.91%) DevOps
5 36 (20.11%) Integration Patterns
6 30 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (15.64%) Microservices
8 26 (14.53%) API Management
9 24 (13.41%) Scrum
10 23 (12.85%) API Design
11 19 (10.61%) Migration
11 19 (10.61%) Validation
12 17 (9.50%) Roadmaps
12 17 (9.50%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.94%) Data Modelling
13 16 (8.94%) ERP
13 16 (8.94%) ETL
14 14 (7.82%) Translating Business Requirements
14 14 (7.82%) User Stories
15 13 (7.26%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.88%) SQL
2 22 (12.29%) Java
3 19 (10.61%) Python
4 17 (9.50%) Apex Code
5 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.26%) DataWeave
7 10 (5.59%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.68%) Bash
8 3 (1.68%) Perl
8 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.68%) SOQL
9 1 (0.56%) C#
9 1 (0.56%) Korn
9 1 (0.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 30 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.73%) Degree
4 10 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) CSPO
8 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) MBA
8 1 (0.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.50%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.35%) GDPR
4 4 (2.23%) WCAG
5 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) COBIT
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.38%) Ansible
2 12 (6.70%) Terraform
3 11 (6.15%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.91%) CloudHub
5 4 (2.23%) Puppet
5 4 (2.23%) SCCM
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.12%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.56%) Istio
7 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 47 (26.26%) Salesforce
2 19 (10.61%) SAP
3 16 (8.94%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.82%) Oracle
5 9 (5.03%) Google
5 9 (5.03%) Workday
6 6 (3.35%) VMware
7 5 (2.79%) Adobe
7 5 (2.79%) Dell
7 5 (2.79%) Informatica
8 4 (2.23%) Anaplan
8 4 (2.23%) Axway
8 4 (2.23%) Broadcom
8 4 (2.23%) Globalscape
8 4 (2.23%) Hyperion
8 4 (2.23%) IBM
8 4 (2.23%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (2.23%) Splunk
9 3 (1.68%) Dynatrace