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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 385 467
Rank change year-on-year -48 +82 -27
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 252 168 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.07% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 102 59
10th Percentile £350 £363 £449
25th Percentile £422 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £656 £636 £675
90th Percentile £688 £724 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% -4.35%
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 22,863 15,724 17,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.54% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,925 9,673 10,099
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £705 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,314 807 652
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.41 £17.79 £15.70
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.87%
75th Percentile £57.88 £43.21 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.69 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.30 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.76% -29.00% -29.41%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -86 167 £550 +5.26% 157
UK excluding London -70 107 £460 -8.00% 55
London -48 97 £572 +3.95% 104
Work from Home -6 84 £500 -9.09% 56
Scotland +6 35 £372 -29.14% 4
South East -77 28 £460 -8.00% 12
North of England -78 14 £513 +7.89% 20
Midlands -40 12 £500 +39.66% 13
North West -37 10 £513 -13.50% 5
South West -36 7 £613 -5.77% 2
West Midlands -44 7 £583 +10.95% 6
Wales -6 5 £513 -18.00% 1
East Midlands -11 5 £443 +23.60% 7
Yorkshire -55 4 - - 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 1
East of England -33 3 £519 +3.75% 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 28 (11.11%) Anypoint
2 24 (9.52%) Mule
3 12 (4.76%) Confluence
4 4 (1.59%) 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 10 (3.97%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.17%) Revit
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.97%) SAP CRM
2 10 (3.97%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Shopify
4 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
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 79 (31.35%) Azure
2 62 (24.60%) AWS
3 49 (19.44%) Boomi
4 26 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 20 (7.94%) GCP
7 19 (7.54%) iPaaS
7 19 (7.54%) SaaS
8 17 (6.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 15 (5.95%) Apigee
9 15 (5.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 12 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (3.97%) Algolia
12 9 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.57%) Smartsheet
13 7 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.78%) Kong
13 7 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.54%) HTTP
2 5 (1.98%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) CTI
3 2 (0.79%) X.509
4 1 (0.40%) Broadband
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) SMS
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.16%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.17%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.59%) Power BI
5 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.19%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.79%) Metadata
7 2 (0.79%) MySQL
7 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.79%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.79%) Tableau
8 1 (0.40%) Big Data
8 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (16.67%) Git
2 39 (15.48%) JIRA
3 20 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.97%) Postman
5 9 (3.57%) Maven
6 7 (2.78%) GoCD
6 7 (2.78%) Gradle
7 5 (1.98%) JUnit
8 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.19%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.19%) Subversion
10 2 (0.79%) Selenium
11 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.49%) Finance
3 30 (11.90%) Retail
4 22 (8.73%) Marketing
5 19 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.35%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.16%) Banking
9 9 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.78%) Publishing
11 5 (1.98%) Billing
12 4 (1.59%) Automotive
13 2 (0.79%) Back Office
13 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.79%) Law
14 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Front Office
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (34.52%) Developer
2 77 (30.56%) Architect
3 37 (14.68%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (12.30%) Integration Architect
4 31 (12.30%) MuleSoft Developer
5 26 (10.32%) Senior
6 24 (9.52%) Analyst
6 24 (9.52%) Lead
7 23 (9.13%) Salesforce Architect
8 22 (8.73%) Salesforce Developer
9 18 (7.14%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.95%) Cloud Developer
11 14 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 12 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
14 10 (3.97%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
14 10 (3.97%) Transition Analyst
15 9 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
15 9 (3.57%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (33.73%) REST
2 73 (28.97%) Middleware
3 61 (24.21%) JSON
4 52 (20.63%) SOAP
5 39 (15.48%) XML
6 37 (14.68%) OAuth
6 37 (14.68%) OpenAPI
6 37 (14.68%) Swagger
7 26 (10.32%) OAuth2
8 22 (8.73%) Lightning Web Components
9 21 (8.33%) JWT
9 21 (8.33%) Node.js
10 20 (7.94%) Kafka
10 20 (7.94%) React
11 18 (7.14%) Web Services
12 17 (6.75%) RESTful
13 16 (6.35%) JSF
13 16 (6.35%) Terraform
14 13 (5.16%) SAML
14 13 (5.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (7.54%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.59%) SCADA
8 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.19%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.19%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.40%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.40%) IoT
10 1 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (37.70%) CI/CD
2 79 (31.35%) Agile
3 65 (25.79%) DevOps
3 65 (25.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (24.60%) Integration Patterns
5 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (16.67%) CRM
6 42 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 36 (14.29%) Scrum
8 34 (13.49%) Test Automation
9 32 (12.70%) API Management
10 31 (12.30%) Migration
11 28 (11.11%) Microservices
12 27 (10.71%) API Design
12 27 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
12 27 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (10.32%) Data Modelling
14 25 (9.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 24 (9.52%) ERP
16 23 (9.13%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.10%) Java
2 31 (12.30%) JavaScript
3 29 (11.51%) SQL
4 24 (9.52%) Apex Code
5 9 (3.57%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.57%) Python
6 8 (3.17%) C#
6 8 (3.17%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.78%) Go
7 7 (2.78%) Lua
8 6 (2.38%) SOQL
9 2 (0.79%) Bicep
9 2 (0.79%) SOSL
9 2 (0.79%) XPath
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) C++
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.17%) Degree
5 7 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.19%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.40%) IIBA
10 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) QA
2 8 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.17%) GDPR
3 3 (1.19%) PMO
4 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) PSD2
5 1 (0.40%) SEPA
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Ansible
3 3 (1.19%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.79%) Grafana
4 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) CASB
Vendors
1 104 (41.27%) Salesforce
2 42 (16.67%) SAP
3 40 (15.87%) Oracle
4 27 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 20 (7.94%) Microsoft
6 16 (6.35%) Google
7 15 (5.95%) Informatica
7 15 (5.95%) Workday
8 14 (5.56%) Dell
9 13 (5.16%) TIBCO
10 9 (3.57%) DocuSign
10 9 (3.57%) IBM
10 9 (3.57%) Splunk
10 9 (3.57%) WSO2
11 8 (3.17%) Adobe
11 8 (3.17%) Autodesk
11 8 (3.17%) Conga
11 8 (3.17%) Databricks
12 6 (2.38%) Capita
13 5 (1.98%) Kronos