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 24 July 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 375 459
Rank change year-on-year -64 +84 -2
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 233 182 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.56% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 1.17% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 114 78
10th Percentile £350 £388 £434
25th Percentile £422 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £629
90th Percentile £713 £694 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.98% -6.52%
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 21,793 15,510 17,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.29% 47.45% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,545 9,496 11,147
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,079 767 959
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.73 £13.17
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £15.56
Median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +40.04% -6.75% -35.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.19 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.94% -10.00% -22.60%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -82 172 £550 - 58
London -26 106 £553 -7.83% 43
UK excluding London -114 87 £460 -8.00% 22
Work from Home -28 75 £500 -9.09% 25
Scotland +4 22 £336 -36.00% 4
North of England -72 16 £669 +36.99% 6
Midlands -48 15 £475 -14.80% 3
South East -85 15 £460 -8.00% 7
North West -36 14 £669 +21.55% 6
West Midlands -59 9 £538 -6.52% 3
South West -41 8 £488 -25.00% 1
East Midlands -9 6 £443 -20.63%
East of England -15 6 £535 +7.00%
Northern Ireland +3 3 £450 -5.26% 1
Wales - 3 £373 -
Yorkshire -60 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 (13.73%) Anypoint
2 19 (8.15%) Mule
3 16 (6.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Drupal
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.29%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.43%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.43%) Revit
3 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.43%) SAP CRM
3 6 (2.58%) SAP MDG
4 5 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.86%) Shopify
6 1 (0.43%) iTrent
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.43%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.18%) Azure
2 59 (25.32%) AWS
3 49 (21.03%) Boomi
4 24 (10.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (8.58%) SaaS
6 19 (8.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 17 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.30%) GCP
8 14 (6.01%) Apigee
8 14 (6.01%) iPaaS
9 13 (5.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 10 (4.29%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.43%) Algolia
11 8 (3.43%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.15%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.15%) Smartsheet
14 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.29%) HTTP
2 4 (1.72%) LAN
2 4 (1.72%) WAN
3 2 (0.86%) CTI
3 2 (0.86%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) AMQP
4 1 (0.43%) Broadband
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SMS
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.58%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (3.43%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.86%) Power BI
6 2 (0.86%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.43%) KNIME
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (17.60%) Git
2 38 (16.31%) JIRA
3 18 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.00%) GoCD
4 7 (3.00%) Gradle
4 7 (3.00%) Maven
5 5 (2.15%) JUnit
5 5 (2.15%) Postman
6 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.72%) Selenium
7 3 (1.29%) JProfiler
7 3 (1.29%) Subversion
8 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.43%) Hudson
General
1 88 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.31%) Finance
3 29 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.15%) Retail
6 16 (6.87%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.72%) Banking
8 10 (4.29%) Marketing
9 7 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Publishing
10 5 (2.15%) Automotive
10 5 (2.15%) Billing
10 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.29%) Law
13 2 (0.86%) Back Office
13 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 73 (31.33%) Developer
2 62 (26.61%) Architect
3 26 (11.16%) Lead
4 24 (10.30%) Analyst
4 24 (10.30%) Salesforce Developer
5 23 (9.87%) Senior
6 22 (9.44%) Integration Architect
7 19 (8.15%) MuleSoft Developer
8 17 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.87%) Java Developer
10 13 (5.58%) Cloud Developer
10 13 (5.58%) Salesforce Architect
11 11 (4.72%) Integration Specialist
11 11 (4.72%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.72%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (4.29%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.29%) Transition Analyst
13 9 (3.86%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.76%) REST
2 64 (27.47%) Middleware
3 46 (19.74%) JSON
4 39 (16.74%) SOAP
5 30 (12.88%) Lightning Web Components
6 28 (12.02%) XML
7 23 (9.87%) OAuth
8 20 (8.58%) OpenAPI
8 20 (8.58%) Swagger
9 19 (8.15%) OAuth2
10 17 (7.30%) React
11 16 (6.87%) Node.js
12 15 (6.44%) Kafka
13 14 (6.01%) JSF
14 13 (5.58%) Web Services
15 12 (5.15%) JWT
15 12 (5.15%) RAML
16 11 (4.72%) RESTful
16 11 (4.72%) Spring Boot
17 10 (4.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.15%) SCADA
6 5 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.29%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.43%) IoT
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.15%) Windows
2 4 (1.72%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.05%) CI/CD
2 77 (33.05%) Agile
3 60 (25.75%) Integration Patterns
4 57 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (21.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 49 (21.03%) DevOps
7 41 (17.60%) CRM
8 38 (16.31%) Event-Driven
9 36 (15.45%) ERP
9 36 (15.45%) Migration
9 36 (15.45%) Scrum
10 31 (13.30%) Data Modelling
10 31 (13.30%) Microservices
11 30 (12.88%) API Management
12 28 (12.02%) Test Automation
12 28 (12.02%) Validation
13 26 (11.16%) Data Transformation
14 25 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (8.15%) Release Management
16 18 (7.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.16%) SQL
2 32 (13.73%) Apex Code
3 28 (12.02%) JavaScript
4 26 (11.16%) Java
5 10 (4.29%) DataWeave
6 9 (3.86%) PL/SQL
7 8 (3.43%) Python
8 7 (3.00%) SOQL
9 6 (2.58%) C#
10 2 (0.86%) Bicep
10 2 (0.86%) Groovy
10 2 (0.86%) SOSL
11 1 (0.43%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.43%) Degree
4 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.29%) CISSP
8 3 (1.29%) GIAC
8 3 (1.29%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.58%) QA
2 12 (5.15%) GDPR
3 7 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.29%) GMP
5 2 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) DICOM
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.43%) Ansible
2 5 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
4 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) CASB
5 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (37.34%) Salesforce
2 42 (18.03%) SAP
3 39 (16.74%) Oracle
4 21 (9.01%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.87%) Workday
6 15 (6.44%) Microsoft
7 14 (6.01%) Informatica
8 13 (5.58%) Dell
9 9 (3.86%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.43%) Adobe
10 8 (3.43%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.43%) Conga
10 8 (3.43%) Google
10 8 (3.43%) Talend
11 6 (2.58%) Capita
12 5 (2.15%) Kronos
12 5 (2.15%) Splunk
13 4 (1.72%) IBM
14 3 (1.29%) Databricks
14 3 (1.29%) OutSystems