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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 443 498
Rank change year-on-year +28 +55 +7
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 174 94 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 0.65% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 55 67
10th Percentile £399 £485 £475
25th Percentile £413 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £651 £802 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -28.27% -1.25% +9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 17,258 14,374 19,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.75% 45.95% 43.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,131 8,482 12,254
10th Percentile £300 £284 £250
25th Percentile £412 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% -0.36% -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 424 854
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.08
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -15.15% +11.76%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -14.16% -18.03% +20.74%

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 January 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 15 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 January 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 +9 159 £475 -20.83% 35
UK excluding London +3 85 £425 -28.27% 20
London +18 75 £550 -15.38% 19
Work from Home +24 49 £545 -0.91% 20
Midlands -5 43 £400 -17.95% 2
West Midlands -2 38 £400 -15.79% 2
South East -22 16 £475 +5.56% 10
North of England -50 13 £390 -35.00% 3
North West -23 8 £358 -40.33% 3
South West -15 6 £538 -20.37%
Yorkshire -43 5 £563 -
East Midlands - 5 £545 -
Scotland +8 3 £525 -8.70% 1
East of England - 3 £550 - 4
Wales -3 1 £625 -

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 31 (17.82%) Anypoint
2 11 (6.32%) Confluence
3 10 (5.75%) Mule
4 3 (1.72%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.87%) Sketch
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.57%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.57%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (27.01%) Azure
2 40 (22.99%) AWS
3 23 (13.22%) Apigee
4 21 (12.07%) iPaaS
5 16 (9.20%) Boomi
5 16 (9.20%) GCP
6 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
7 14 (8.05%) SaaS
8 12 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 10 (5.75%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.60%) GitHub
12 7 (4.02%) Kong
12 7 (4.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 5 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.87%) Figma
13 5 (2.87%) PaaS
14 3 (1.72%) dbt
14 3 (1.72%) Serverless
14 3 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) HTTPS
1 4 (2.30%) LAN
1 4 (2.30%) WAN
2 2 (1.15%) Firewall
2 2 (1.15%) HTTP
2 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) Power BI
2 7 (4.02%) KNIME
2 7 (4.02%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.15%) Tableau
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) Metadata
4 1 (0.57%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (10.92%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) JIRA
3 11 (6.32%) Selenium
4 5 (2.87%) Postman
5 3 (1.72%) GitLab
5 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.57%) ERwin
6 1 (0.57%) Gatling
6 1 (0.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.39%) Finance
3 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.60%) Marketing
6 7 (4.02%) Billing
6 7 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Banking
8 5 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.30%) Retail
10 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.72%) Law
11 2 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
12 1 (0.57%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (32.76%) Architect
2 31 (17.82%) Developer
3 26 (14.94%) Analyst
4 22 (12.64%) MuleSoft Architect
5 21 (12.07%) Lead
6 17 (9.77%) Business Analyst
6 17 (9.77%) Technical Architect
7 14 (8.05%) Salesforce Developer
8 12 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.75%) MuleSoft Developer
9 10 (5.75%) Salesforce Architect
10 9 (5.17%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (5.17%) Technical Business Analyst
11 8 (4.60%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.60%) Integration Specialist
12 6 (3.45%) Project Manager
12 6 (3.45%) Senior
13 5 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.24%) Middleware
2 22 (12.64%) SOAP
3 21 (12.07%) REST
4 17 (9.77%) JSON
5 16 (9.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (9.20%) RESTful
5 16 (9.20%) XML
6 15 (8.62%) OpenAPI
7 12 (6.90%) OAuth
8 8 (4.60%) HTML
8 8 (4.60%) Swagger
9 7 (4.02%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.02%) CSS
9 7 (4.02%) Web Services
10 6 (3.45%) JWT
10 6 (3.45%) XSD
11 5 (2.87%) ADO
11 5 (2.87%) CSS3
11 5 (2.87%) EDI
11 5 (2.87%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.30%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.72%) IoT
5 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.57%) CMDB
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) IVR
7 1 (0.57%) SCADA
7 1 (0.57%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.32%) Linux
2 7 (4.02%) Unix
3 5 (2.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.61%) Agile
2 40 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.84%) CI/CD
4 34 (19.54%) DevOps
5 33 (18.97%) API Management
6 30 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
7 27 (15.52%) Microservices
7 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (10.92%) API Design
8 19 (10.92%) Roadmaps
8 19 (10.92%) Validation
9 18 (10.34%) Migration
10 17 (9.77%) ETL
10 17 (9.77%) Test Automation
11 16 (9.20%) Data Modelling
11 16 (9.20%) ERP
12 15 (8.62%) Translating Business Requirements
13 14 (8.05%) API Integration
13 14 (8.05%) CRM
14 13 (7.47%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.54%) SQL
2 16 (9.20%) Apex Code
3 15 (8.62%) Python
4 14 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.47%) Java
6 9 (5.17%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.45%) DataWeave
8 3 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.72%) SOQL
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) C#
9 1 (0.57%) Korn
9 1 (0.57%) Perl
9 1 (0.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.22%) Degree
3 20 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.15%) MCP
7 2 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CBAP
8 1 (0.57%) CSPO
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) QA
2 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.02%) GDPR
3 4 (2.30%) WCAG
4 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) COBIT
5 1 (0.57%) HL7
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.02%) CloudHub
2 6 (3.45%) Ansible
3 4 (2.30%) Terraform
4 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.72%) SCCM
5 2 (1.15%) Puppet
5 2 (1.15%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.57%) Istio
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (28.74%) Salesforce
2 15 (8.62%) SAP
3 12 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.90%) Oracle
4 9 (5.17%) Workday
5 8 (4.60%) Google
6 5 (2.87%) Adobe
6 5 (2.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Anaplan
7 4 (2.30%) Axway
7 4 (2.30%) Dell
7 4 (2.30%) Hyperion
7 4 (2.30%) IBM
7 4 (2.30%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (2.30%) Informatica
8 3 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.72%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.72%) Splunk
8 3 (1.72%) Talend