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 31 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 378 456
Rank change year-on-year -60 +78 -3
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 245 179 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.16% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 113 73
10th Percentile £350 £388 £428
25th Percentile £422 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -10.75%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £625
90th Percentile £713 £699 £675
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 21,941 15,481 17,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.32% 47.20% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,626 9,492 10,831
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £709 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +4.99% -4.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 777 890
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.60 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.93% -8.55% -33.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.40
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.30
% change year-on-year +52.32% -11.80% -26.67%

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 31 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 31 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 -88 177 £550 +1.85% 58
London -12 108 £578 +3.13% 41
UK excluding London -82 93 £460 -8.00% 22
Work from Home -11 83 £500 -9.09% 30
Scotland +7 25 £336 -36.00% 2
North of England -80 16 £669 +35.05% 4
South East -84 16 £460 -8.00% 9
Midlands -47 15 £475 -17.39% 3
North West -47 14 £669 +21.55% 4
South West -38 9 £550 -15.38% 3
West Midlands -58 9 £538 -23.21% 2
East Midlands -10 6 £443 -20.63% 1
East of England -15 6 £535 +7.00% 1
Northern Ireland 0 4 £550 +15.79%
Wales - 3 £373 -
Yorkshire -67 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 (14.29%) Anypoint
2 23 (9.39%) Mule
3 16 (6.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Drupal
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.08%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.27%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.27%) Revit
3 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.27%) SAP CRM
3 6 (2.45%) SAP MDG
4 5 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.82%) Shopify
6 1 (0.41%) iTrent
6 1 (0.41%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.41%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (27.76%) Azure
2 59 (24.08%) AWS
3 50 (20.41%) Boomi
4 24 (9.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (8.16%) SaaS
6 19 (7.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 18 (7.35%) GCP
8 16 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.53%) iPaaS
9 14 (5.71%) Apigee
10 13 (5.31%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 10 (4.08%) Azure API Management
12 8 (3.27%) Algolia
13 7 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (2.04%) Smartsheet
16 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) HTTP
2 4 (1.63%) LAN
2 4 (1.63%) WAN
3 2 (0.82%) CTI
3 2 (0.82%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) AMQP
4 1 (0.41%) Broadband
4 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) SMS
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.31%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.27%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.82%) Tableau
6 1 (0.41%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.41%) Metadata
6 1 (0.41%) MySQL
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Power BI
6 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (16.73%) Git
2 39 (15.92%) JIRA
3 18 (7.35%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.27%) Maven
5 7 (2.86%) GoCD
5 7 (2.86%) Gradle
6 5 (2.04%) JUnit
6 5 (2.04%) Postman
7 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.63%) Selenium
8 3 (1.22%) JProfiler
8 3 (1.22%) Subversion
9 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.41%) Hudson
General
1 94 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.51%) Finance
3 30 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.76%) Retail
6 18 (7.35%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.49%) Banking
7 11 (4.49%) Marketing
8 7 (2.86%) Publishing
9 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.04%) Automotive
10 5 (2.04%) Billing
10 5 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.22%) Law
13 2 (0.82%) Back Office
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (33.06%) Developer
2 64 (26.12%) Architect
3 26 (10.61%) Lead
3 26 (10.61%) MuleSoft Developer
4 25 (10.20%) Analyst
5 24 (9.80%) Integration Architect
5 24 (9.80%) Salesforce Developer
5 24 (9.80%) Senior
6 19 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (6.94%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.71%) Salesforce Architect
9 13 (5.31%) Cloud Developer
10 12 (4.90%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Integration Specialist
11 11 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.08%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.08%) Transition Analyst
13 9 (3.67%) Business Systems Analyst
13 9 (3.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (29.80%) REST
2 68 (27.76%) Middleware
3 50 (20.41%) JSON
4 44 (17.96%) SOAP
5 32 (13.06%) XML
6 30 (12.24%) Lightning Web Components
7 29 (11.84%) OAuth
8 24 (9.80%) OAuth2
9 21 (8.57%) OpenAPI
9 21 (8.57%) Swagger
10 18 (7.35%) JWT
10 18 (7.35%) React
11 17 (6.94%) Node.js
12 15 (6.12%) JSF
12 15 (6.12%) Kafka
13 14 (5.71%) Web Services
14 12 (4.90%) RAML
14 12 (4.90%) Spring Boot
15 11 (4.49%) RESTful
15 11 (4.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.76%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.04%) SCADA
7 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.22%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.22%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) IoT
11 1 (0.41%) Robotics
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.04%) Windows
2 4 (1.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.51%) CI/CD
2 79 (32.24%) Agile
3 66 (26.94%) Integration Patterns
4 59 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (21.63%) DevOps
7 42 (17.14%) CRM
8 41 (16.73%) Event-Driven
9 38 (15.51%) Migration
10 37 (15.10%) ERP
10 37 (15.10%) Scrum
11 31 (12.65%) Data Modelling
11 31 (12.65%) Data Transformation
12 30 (12.24%) API Management
12 30 (12.24%) Microservices
12 30 (12.24%) Validation
13 29 (11.84%) Test Automation
14 27 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (8.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 19 (7.76%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.47%) Java
1 33 (13.47%) SQL
2 32 (13.06%) Apex Code
3 29 (11.84%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.49%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.67%) PL/SQL
6 8 (3.27%) Python
7 7 (2.86%) SOQL
8 6 (2.45%) C#
9 2 (0.82%) Bicep
9 2 (0.82%) Groovy
9 2 (0.82%) SOSL
10 1 (0.41%) Bash
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.27%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.86%) Degree
5 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.22%) CISSP
7 3 (1.22%) GIAC
7 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.22%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.16%) QA
2 14 (5.71%) GDPR
3 8 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.22%) GMP
5 3 (1.22%) PMO
6 2 (0.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) DICOM
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.27%) Ansible
2 5 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.04%) Terraform
3 3 (1.22%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.82%) Grafana
4 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.41%) CASB
5 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 97 (39.59%) Salesforce
2 42 (17.14%) SAP
3 39 (15.92%) Oracle
4 21 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 16 (6.53%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.53%) Workday
6 15 (6.12%) Informatica
7 12 (4.90%) Dell
8 9 (3.67%) DocuSign
8 9 (3.67%) Google
9 8 (3.27%) Adobe
9 8 (3.27%) Autodesk
9 8 (3.27%) Conga
9 8 (3.27%) Talend
10 6 (2.45%) Capita
11 5 (2.04%) IBM
11 5 (2.04%) Kronos
11 5 (2.04%) Splunk
11 5 (2.04%) TIBCO
12 3 (1.22%) Databricks