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 11 October 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
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 386 469
Rank change year-on-year -65 +83 -33
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 250 169 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.07% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 98 57
10th Percentile £350 £380 £441
25th Percentile £424 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -7.44%
75th Percentile £656 £622 £675
90th Percentile £688 £704 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.98% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £63.63 -
25th Percentile £64.50 £67.19 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £76.25 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +111.81% -
75th Percentile £68.50 £87.19 -
90th Percentile - £91.88 -
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 22,760 15,799 16,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,723 9,736 9,928
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,409 806 598
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.84 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.11 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -23.66% -25.14%
75th Percentile £57.00 £38.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.30 £30.21
% change year-on-year +8.83% -29.48% -28.93%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -93 165 £561 +7.84% 130
UK excluding London -66 104 £460 -8.00% 32
London -51 98 £580 +8.41% 93
Work from Home -23 83 £500 -9.09% 48
Scotland +5 35 £372 -29.14% 1
South East -69 28 £460 -9.36% 12
Midlands -39 12 £500 +39.66% 9
North of England -82 12 £569 +16.67% 6
South West -26 8 £580 -10.77%
North West -43 8 £569 -10.78% 2
West Midlands -48 7 £583 +45.63% 5
East Midlands -5 5 £443 +23.60% 4
Wales -8 5 £513 -18.00%
Yorkshire -42 4 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 1
East of England -28 1 £488 -2.50% 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 28 (11.20%) Anypoint
2 24 (9.60%) Mule
3 12 (4.80%) Confluence
4 4 (1.60%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) AutoCAD
1 8 (3.20%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.40%) Revit
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (5.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.00%) SAP CRM
2 10 (4.00%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.20%) Shopify
4 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.20%) Azure
2 59 (23.60%) AWS
3 47 (18.80%) Boomi
4 29 (11.60%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 20 (8.00%) iPaaS
7 19 (7.60%) GCP
8 17 (6.80%) SaaS
8 17 (6.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 15 (6.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 14 (5.60%) Apigee
11 12 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (4.00%) Algolia
13 9 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.60%) Smartsheet
14 7 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.80%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (2.80%) Kong
14 7 (2.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.60%) HTTP
2 5 (2.00%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) CTI
3 2 (0.80%) X.509
4 1 (0.40%) Broadband
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.20%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.60%) Power BI
5 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.20%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.80%) MySQL
7 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.80%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.80%) Tableau
8 1 (0.40%) Big Data
8 1 (0.40%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (16.80%) Git
2 39 (15.60%) JIRA
3 22 (8.80%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.00%) Postman
5 9 (3.60%) Maven
6 7 (2.80%) GoCD
6 7 (2.80%) Gradle
7 5 (2.00%) JUnit
8 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.60%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.20%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.20%) Subversion
10 2 (0.80%) Selenium
11 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.00%) Finance
3 31 (12.40%) Retail
4 22 (8.80%) Marketing
5 18 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.20%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.20%) Banking
8 9 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.20%) Publishing
10 5 (2.00%) Billing
11 4 (1.60%) Automotive
12 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
14 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Front Office
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.40%) Law
14 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (34.40%) Developer
2 76 (30.40%) Architect
3 36 (14.40%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (12.40%) MuleSoft Developer
5 30 (12.00%) Integration Architect
6 27 (10.80%) Lead
7 26 (10.40%) Senior
8 22 (8.80%) Analyst
8 22 (8.80%) Salesforce Architect
8 22 (8.80%) Salesforce Developer
9 18 (7.20%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.00%) Cloud Developer
11 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.40%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 11 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
14 10 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
15 9 (3.60%) Business Systems Analyst
15 9 (3.60%) Systems Analyst
16 8 (3.20%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (33.20%) REST
2 74 (29.60%) Middleware
3 60 (24.00%) JSON
4 52 (20.80%) SOAP
5 39 (15.60%) XML
6 37 (14.80%) OAuth
6 37 (14.80%) OpenAPI
6 37 (14.80%) Swagger
7 26 (10.40%) OAuth2
8 22 (8.80%) Lightning Web Components
9 21 (8.40%) JWT
9 21 (8.40%) Node.js
10 20 (8.00%) Kafka
10 20 (8.00%) React
11 18 (7.20%) RESTful
11 18 (7.20%) Web Services
12 16 (6.40%) JSF
12 16 (6.40%) Terraform
13 13 (5.20%) SAML
13 13 (5.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (7.20%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.60%) SCADA
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.20%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (39.60%) CI/CD
2 79 (31.60%) Agile
3 70 (28.00%) DevOps
4 61 (24.40%) Integration Patterns
5 60 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (16.00%) Event-Driven
8 37 (14.80%) Scrum
8 37 (14.80%) Test Automation
9 36 (14.40%) CRM
10 32 (12.80%) API Management
11 28 (11.20%) Microservices
11 28 (11.20%) Migration
11 28 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (10.80%) Enterprise Architecture
13 26 (10.40%) API Design
14 25 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 24 (9.60%) Data Modelling
16 23 (9.20%) ERP
17 22 (8.80%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.60%) Java
2 31 (12.40%) JavaScript
3 30 (12.00%) SQL
4 24 (9.60%) Apex Code
5 10 (4.00%) C#
6 9 (3.60%) DataWeave
6 9 (3.60%) Python
7 8 (3.20%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.80%) Go
8 7 (2.80%) Lua
9 6 (2.40%) SOQL
10 2 (0.80%) Bicep
10 2 (0.80%) SOSL
10 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.80%) XPath
11 1 (0.40%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
11 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (3.60%) Degree
4 7 (2.80%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.00%) QA
2 8 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.80%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) PMO
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) PSD2
6 1 (0.40%) SEPA
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.20%) Ansible
3 3 (1.20%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Grafana
4 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) CASB
Vendors
1 101 (40.40%) Salesforce
2 43 (17.20%) SAP
3 40 (16.00%) Oracle
4 25 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 21 (8.40%) Microsoft
6 16 (6.40%) Google
7 15 (6.00%) Workday
8 14 (5.60%) Dell
8 14 (5.60%) TIBCO
9 13 (5.20%) Informatica
10 10 (4.00%) IBM
10 10 (4.00%) WSO2
11 9 (3.60%) Databricks
11 9 (3.60%) Splunk
12 7 (2.80%) DocuSign
13 6 (2.40%) Adobe
13 6 (2.40%) Autodesk
13 6 (2.40%) Capita
13 6 (2.40%) Conga
14 5 (2.00%) Kronos