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 14 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 380 434
Rank change year-on-year -38 +54 +12
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 250 174 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.12% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 110 71
10th Percentile £339 £380 £425
25th Percentile £425 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £625
90th Percentile £712 £701 £700
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 2 2
10th Percentile - £63.63 £41.40
25th Percentile £64.50 £67.19 £49.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £76.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +21.03% -
75th Percentile £68.50 £87.19 £76.50
90th Percentile - £91.88 £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 22,262 15,561 17,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.70% 47.27% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,777 9,523 10,618
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.21% -0.57%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £702 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,140 803 837
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.56 £13.67
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.88 £67.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £21.35 £28.00
% change year-on-year +50.97% -23.77% -17.57%

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 14 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 14 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 -73 179 £550 +5.01% 72
London -25 107 £578 +4.90% 51
UK excluding London -85 98 £460 -8.00% 30
Work from Home -4 86 £500 -2.44% 25
Scotland +13 26 £322 -38.67% 6
South East -85 21 £460 -8.00% 8
North of England -72 16 £669 +36.99% 4
North West -34 14 £669 +21.55% 4
Midlands -43 14 £475 -14.80% 4
West Midlands -50 9 £538 -23.21% 1
South West -43 8 £550 -15.38% 2
East of England -16 5 £550 +10.00% 3
East Midlands -18 5 £443 -18.06% 3
Wales - 5 £513 - 3
Northern Ireland +6 4 £550 +15.79%
Yorkshire -55 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 34 (13.60%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.80%) Mule
3 16 (6.40%) 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%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.00%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.20%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.20%) Revit
3 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.60%) SAP CRM
3 6 (2.40%) SAP MDG
4 4 (1.60%) 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 ERP
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 71 (28.40%) Azure
2 60 (24.00%) AWS
3 49 (19.60%) Boomi
4 21 (8.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.00%) GCP
6 19 (7.60%) SaaS
7 17 (6.80%) iPaaS
7 17 (6.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 14 (5.60%) Apigee
8 14 (5.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 9 (3.60%) Algolia
9 9 (3.60%) Azure API Management
10 8 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.80%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.60%) HTTP
2 4 (1.60%) LAN
2 4 (1.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.80%) CTI
5 1 (0.40%) AMQP
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
5 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) SMS
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.20%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.60%) Power BI
4 4 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.80%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.80%) MySQL
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.80%) Tableau
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (16.80%) Git
2 41 (16.40%) JIRA
3 19 (7.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.60%) Maven
5 7 (2.80%) GoCD
5 7 (2.80%) Gradle
6 6 (2.40%) Postman
7 5 (2.00%) JUnit
8 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.60%) Selenium
9 3 (1.20%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.20%) Subversion
10 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.40%) Hudson
11 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.60%) Finance
3 30 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.60%) Retail
6 18 (7.20%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.20%) Marketing
8 11 (4.40%) Banking
9 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.80%) Publishing
10 5 (2.00%) Billing
10 5 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.60%) Automotive
12 3 (1.20%) Law
12 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
13 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (34.40%) Developer
2 68 (27.20%) Architect
3 29 (11.60%) MuleSoft Developer
4 27 (10.80%) Integration Architect
5 25 (10.00%) Analyst
5 25 (10.00%) Senior
6 24 (9.60%) Lead
6 24 (9.60%) Salesforce Developer
7 22 (8.80%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (7.20%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.60%) Cloud Developer
9 14 (5.60%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (4.00%) Integration Specialist
11 10 (4.00%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.00%) Transition Analyst
12 9 (3.60%) Business Systems Analyst
12 9 (3.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
12 9 (3.60%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.00%) REST
2 70 (28.00%) Middleware
3 53 (21.20%) JSON
4 44 (17.60%) SOAP
5 35 (14.00%) XML
6 30 (12.00%) OAuth
7 27 (10.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 23 (9.20%) OAuth2
8 23 (9.20%) OpenAPI
8 23 (9.20%) Swagger
9 20 (8.00%) JWT
9 20 (8.00%) React
10 19 (7.60%) Node.js
11 16 (6.40%) JSF
11 16 (6.40%) Kafka
12 15 (6.00%) Web Services
13 13 (5.20%) Spring Boot
14 12 (4.80%) Spring
15 11 (4.40%) RAML
15 11 (4.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.40%) SCADA
7 5 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.40%) Life Science
11 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.40%) Windows
2 5 (2.00%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (35.60%) CI/CD
2 79 (31.60%) Agile
3 66 (26.40%) Integration Patterns
4 58 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (22.80%) DevOps
6 51 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (16.80%) CRM
7 42 (16.80%) Event-Driven
8 38 (15.20%) Scrum
9 36 (14.40%) Migration
10 32 (12.80%) ERP
11 31 (12.40%) Data Modelling
11 31 (12.40%) Microservices
12 30 (12.00%) API Management
13 29 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (11.60%) Test Automation
14 28 (11.20%) Data Transformation
15 26 (10.40%) Validation
16 22 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (8.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.60%) Java
1 34 (13.60%) SQL
2 29 (11.60%) Apex Code
3 28 (11.20%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.00%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.60%) Python
6 8 (3.20%) C#
6 8 (3.20%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.80%) SOQL
8 2 (0.80%) Bicep
8 2 (0.80%) SOSL
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.20%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.40%) Degree
5 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.20%) CISSP
6 3 (1.20%) GIAC
6 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.80%) 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 (7.60%) QA
2 11 (4.40%) GDPR
3 8 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.20%) PMO
6 2 (0.80%) GMP
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 6 (2.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.20%) Ansible
1 8 (3.20%) Terraform
2 6 (2.40%) Kubernetes
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
1 100 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 44 (17.60%) SAP
3 41 (16.40%) Oracle
4 22 (8.80%) ServiceNow
5 21 (8.40%) Microsoft
6 16 (6.40%) Informatica
7 13 (5.20%) Dell
7 13 (5.20%) Workday
8 11 (4.40%) Google
9 9 (3.60%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.20%) Adobe
10 8 (3.20%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.20%) Conga
11 7 (2.80%) Databricks
11 7 (2.80%) IBM
11 7 (2.80%) TIBCO
12 6 (2.40%) Capita
12 6 (2.40%) Talend
13 5 (2.00%) Kronos
13 5 (2.00%) WSO2