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 5 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 371 453
Rank change year-on-year -52 +82 -2
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 249 181 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.17% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 114 75
10th Percentile £350 £383 £430
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £625
90th Percentile £713 £698 £690
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 1 2
10th Percentile - - £41.40
25th Percentile £64.50 £61.25 £49.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £68.50 £63.75 £76.50
90th Percentile - - £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 22,028 15,518 17,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.41% 47.16% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,643 9,508 10,703
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,126 786 855
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.48 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.97 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.05% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.25
% change year-on-year +52.32% -18.11% -23.24%

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 5 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 5 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 -90 181 £550 +3.77% 89
London 0 111 £585 +5.31% 60
UK excluding London -100 94 £460 -8.00% 39
Work from Home -23 83 £500 -9.09% 40
Scotland +5 25 £336 -36.00% 6
South East -86 18 £460 -8.00% 7
North of England -69 16 £669 +36.99% 7
Midlands -51 15 £475 -17.39% 8
North West -44 14 £669 +21.55% 5
West Midlands -54 9 £538 -23.21% 5
South West -43 8 £550 -15.38% 4
East Midlands -7 6 £443 -20.63% 3
East of England -11 6 £535 +7.00% 3
Northern Ireland +5 4 £550 +15.79%
Wales - 3 £373 - 4
Yorkshire -62 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 35 (14.06%) Anypoint
2 23 (9.24%) Mule
3 16 (6.43%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.21%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.21%) Revit
3 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.21%) SAP CRM
3 6 (2.41%) SAP MDG
4 5 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.80%) Shopify
6 1 (0.40%) iTrent
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.71%) Azure
2 60 (24.10%) AWS
3 51 (20.48%) Boomi
4 24 (9.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (8.03%) SaaS
6 19 (7.63%) GCP
6 19 (7.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 17 (6.83%) iPaaS
8 16 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.62%) Apigee
10 13 (5.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 10 (4.02%) Azure API Management
12 8 (3.21%) Algolia
12 8 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.81%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (2.01%) Smartsheet
16 4 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.62%) HTTP
2 4 (1.61%) LAN
2 4 (1.61%) WAN
3 2 (0.80%) CTI
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) AMQP
4 1 (0.40%) Broadband
4 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) SMS
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.22%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.21%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.80%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.40%) MySQL
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Power BI
6 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (16.47%) Git
2 39 (15.66%) JIRA
3 18 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.21%) Maven
5 7 (2.81%) GoCD
5 7 (2.81%) Gradle
6 5 (2.01%) JUnit
6 5 (2.01%) Postman
7 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.61%) Selenium
8 3 (1.20%) JProfiler
8 3 (1.20%) Subversion
9 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.40%) Hudson
General
1 94 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.66%) Finance
3 30 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.63%) Retail
6 18 (7.23%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.82%) Marketing
8 11 (4.42%) Banking
9 7 (2.81%) Publishing
10 6 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.01%) Billing
11 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.61%) Automotive
12 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.20%) Law
14 2 (0.80%) Back Office
14 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 83 (33.33%) Developer
2 67 (26.91%) Architect
3 28 (11.24%) MuleSoft Developer
4 26 (10.44%) Integration Architect
4 26 (10.44%) Lead
5 25 (10.04%) Analyst
6 24 (9.64%) Salesforce Developer
7 23 (9.24%) Senior
8 21 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (6.83%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.02%) Salesforce Architect
11 13 (5.22%) Cloud Developer
12 12 (4.82%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.42%) Integration Specialist
13 11 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.42%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.02%) Technical Architect
14 10 (4.02%) Transition Analyst
15 9 (3.61%) Business Systems Analyst
15 9 (3.61%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (29.72%) REST
2 70 (28.11%) Middleware
3 51 (20.48%) JSON
4 45 (18.07%) SOAP
5 33 (13.25%) XML
6 30 (12.05%) Lightning Web Components
6 30 (12.05%) OAuth
7 24 (9.64%) OAuth2
8 22 (8.84%) OpenAPI
8 22 (8.84%) Swagger
9 19 (7.63%) JWT
10 18 (7.23%) React
11 17 (6.83%) Node.js
12 16 (6.43%) Kafka
13 15 (6.02%) JSF
14 14 (5.62%) Web Services
15 12 (4.82%) RAML
15 12 (4.82%) Spring Boot
16 11 (4.42%) RESTful
16 11 (4.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.65%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.01%) SCADA
6 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.20%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.40%) Life Science
10 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.01%) Windows
2 4 (1.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.94%) CI/CD
2 79 (31.73%) Agile
3 68 (27.31%) Integration Patterns
4 59 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (21.29%) DevOps
7 42 (16.87%) CRM
7 42 (16.87%) Event-Driven
8 38 (15.26%) Migration
9 36 (14.46%) ERP
9 36 (14.46%) Scrum
10 32 (12.85%) Data Transformation
11 31 (12.45%) API Management
11 31 (12.45%) Data Modelling
12 30 (12.05%) Microservices
12 30 (12.05%) Validation
13 28 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (11.24%) Test Automation
14 21 (8.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 20 (8.03%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.25%) Java
1 33 (13.25%) SQL
2 32 (12.85%) Apex Code
3 29 (11.65%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.42%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.61%) PL/SQL
6 8 (3.21%) Python
7 7 (2.81%) SOQL
8 6 (2.41%) C#
9 2 (0.80%) Bicep
9 2 (0.80%) Groovy
9 2 (0.80%) SOSL
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.21%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.81%) Degree
5 5 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CISSP
7 3 (1.20%) GIAC
7 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.63%) QA
2 14 (5.62%) GDPR
3 7 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.20%) GMP
5 3 (1.20%) PMO
6 2 (0.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) DICOM
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Ansible
2 5 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.01%) Terraform
3 3 (1.20%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Grafana
4 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) CASB
5 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 100 (40.16%) Salesforce
2 42 (16.87%) SAP
3 40 (16.06%) Oracle
4 21 (8.43%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.43%) Informatica
5 16 (6.43%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.43%) Workday
6 12 (4.82%) Dell
7 10 (4.02%) Google
8 9 (3.61%) DocuSign
9 8 (3.21%) Adobe
9 8 (3.21%) Autodesk
9 8 (3.21%) Conga
10 7 (2.81%) Talend
11 6 (2.41%) Capita
11 6 (2.41%) IBM
11 6 (2.41%) TIBCO
12 5 (2.01%) Kronos
12 5 (2.01%) Splunk
13 4 (1.61%) WSO2