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 August 2026, 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 383 464
Rank change year-on-year -42 +81 -17
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 255 175 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.53% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 1.14% 1.13% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 112 62
10th Percentile £350 £380 £426
25th Percentile £425 £452 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -11.47%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £63.63 £41.40
25th Percentile £64.50 £67.19 £49.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £76.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +21.03% -
75th Percentile £68.50 £87.19 £76.50
90th Percentile - £91.88 £84.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £36.00

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 22,410 15,468 16,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.22% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,815 9,456 10,461
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,156 806 773
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.59 £13.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -10.18% -36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.28 £26.08
% change year-on-year +31.58% -18.40% -34.48%

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 August 2026.

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
Top 16 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 August 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 -71 177 £553 +5.33% 25
London -28 106 £625 +13.64% 15
UK excluding London -81 102 £460 -8.00% 15
Work from Home -15 85 £500 -6.98% 8
Scotland +9 30 £350 -33.33% 3
South East -69 23 £460 -8.00% 1
Midlands -49 14 £475 -12.04% 2
North of England -78 14 £625 +29.94% 4
North West -38 12 £625 +13.64% 2
South West -37 9 £613 -5.77% 3
West Midlands -47 9 £538 +2.38%
East Midlands -13 5 £443 -18.06% 2
Wales - 5 £513 - 2
Northern Ireland +1 4 £550 +15.79%
East of England -20 4 £519 +3.75%
Yorkshire -65 2 - - 2

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 32 (12.55%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.63%) Mule
3 14 (5.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.92%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.14%) Revit
3 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.92%) SAP CRM
2 9 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.35%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.78%) Shopify
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.02%) Azure
2 65 (25.49%) AWS
3 45 (17.65%) Boomi
4 21 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.24%) SaaS
4 21 (8.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (7.84%) GCP
6 17 (6.67%) iPaaS
6 17 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 16 (6.27%) Apigee
8 15 (5.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 10 (3.92%) Algolia
10 9 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.14%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.14%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.75%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.96%) Kong
14 5 (1.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) HTTP
2 5 (1.96%) Firewall
3 4 (1.57%) LAN
3 4 (1.57%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) CTI
5 1 (0.39%) AMQP
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.10%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.14%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.96%) Power BI
3 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.18%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.78%) Metadata
6 2 (0.78%) MySQL
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.78%) Tableau
7 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (16.86%) Git
2 40 (15.69%) JIRA
3 19 (7.45%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.53%) Maven
5 7 (2.75%) GoCD
5 7 (2.75%) Gradle
6 6 (2.35%) Postman
7 5 (1.96%) JUnit
8 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.57%) Selenium
9 3 (1.18%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.18%) Subversion
10 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.51%) Finance
3 26 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.63%) Retail
6 19 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.49%) Marketing
8 13 (5.10%) Banking
9 7 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Publishing
10 5 (1.96%) Billing
10 5 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.57%) Automotive
12 3 (1.18%) Law
13 2 (0.78%) Back Office
13 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Front Office
14 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (35.69%) Developer
2 72 (28.24%) Architect
3 31 (12.16%) MuleSoft Developer
4 29 (11.37%) Integration Architect
5 26 (10.20%) Lead
5 26 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.80%) Analyst
6 25 (9.80%) Salesforce Developer
6 25 (9.80%) Senior
7 18 (7.06%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
8 15 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (4.31%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.92%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
12 10 (3.92%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.92%) Transition Analyst
13 9 (3.53%) Integration Specialist
13 9 (3.53%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (30.59%) REST
2 70 (27.45%) Middleware
3 54 (21.18%) JSON
4 45 (17.65%) SOAP
5 36 (14.12%) XML
6 30 (11.76%) OAuth
7 27 (10.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 27 (10.59%) OpenAPI
7 27 (10.59%) Swagger
8 22 (8.63%) OAuth2
9 21 (8.24%) React
10 20 (7.84%) JWT
10 20 (7.84%) Node.js
11 17 (6.67%) Kafka
12 16 (6.27%) JSF
13 15 (5.88%) Web Services
14 14 (5.49%) RESTful
15 13 (5.10%) Spring Boot
16 12 (4.71%) Spring
17 11 (4.31%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.37%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.24%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.35%) SCADA
7 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.18%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.18%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.35%) Windows
2 5 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.86%) CI/CD
2 83 (32.55%) Agile
3 67 (26.27%) Integration Patterns
4 61 (23.92%) DevOps
5 55 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.25%) Event-Driven
8 42 (16.47%) CRM
9 40 (15.69%) Scrum
10 33 (12.94%) API Management
11 32 (12.55%) Migration
12 30 (11.76%) Data Modelling
12 30 (11.76%) Microservices
12 30 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.98%) ERP
14 24 (9.41%) Data Transformation
15 23 (9.02%) API Design
15 23 (9.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.33%) Java
2 30 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 30 (11.76%) SQL
3 29 (11.37%) Apex Code
4 10 (3.92%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.53%) Python
6 8 (3.14%) C#
6 8 (3.14%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.75%) SOQL
8 3 (1.18%) Go
8 3 (1.18%) Lua
9 2 (0.78%) Bicep
9 2 (0.78%) SOSL
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.14%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.75%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.18%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CISSP
9 2 (0.78%) GIAC
9 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) IIBA
10 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.88%) QA
2 10 (3.92%) GDPR
3 8 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) DICOM
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.14%) Ansible
3 3 (1.18%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) CASB
Vendors
1 103 (40.39%) Salesforce
2 40 (15.69%) SAP
3 39 (15.29%) Oracle
4 23 (9.02%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.63%) Microsoft
6 13 (5.10%) Informatica
6 13 (5.10%) Workday
7 12 (4.71%) Google
8 10 (3.92%) Dell
9 9 (3.53%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.14%) Adobe
10 8 (3.14%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.14%) Conga
10 8 (3.14%) Databricks
10 8 (3.14%) IBM
10 8 (3.14%) TIBCO
11 6 (2.35%) Capita
11 6 (2.35%) WSO2
12 5 (1.96%) Kronos
12 5 (1.96%) Splunk