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 12 June 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 369 460
Rank change year-on-year -62 +91 +46
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 219 158 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.08% 1.13% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 101 92
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.96%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £713 £725 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.50 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £68.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - -

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 20,335 14,012 18,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.69% 47.61% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,789 8,619 11,469
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -2.43% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,043 627 1,137
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.33 £14.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% +12.00% -44.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.37 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £23.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% +4.55% -44.37%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -72 177 £509 -5.79% 34
London -18 99 £550 -7.17% 21
UK excluding London -81 87 £425 -15.00% 24
Work from Home -32 66 £500 -4.76% 22
Midlands -42 32 £425 -21.30% 3
West Midlands -41 24 £425 -10.53% 2
North of England -80 16 £513 +3.02% 7
North West -27 14 £513 -2.38% 5
South East -87 11 £505 +1.51% 4
Scotland -1 10 £350 -41.67% 6
East Midlands -18 8 £475 -14.80% 1
South West -24 7 £488 -25.00% 2
East of England -18 6 £535 +7.00% 1
Wales - 3 £373 -
Northern Ireland 0 2 £450 -5.26% 2
Yorkshire -65 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 (15.98%) Anypoint
2 17 (7.76%) Confluence
3 16 (7.31%) Mule
4 1 (0.46%) Camunda
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.20%) AutoCAD
1 7 (3.20%) Revit
2 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.28%) SAP CRM
3 5 (2.28%) SAP MDG
4 4 (1.83%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.46%) iTrent
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.46%) Shopify
5 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.40%) Azure
2 48 (21.92%) AWS
2 48 (21.92%) Boomi
3 21 (9.59%) iPaaS
4 19 (8.68%) SaaS
4 19 (8.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 18 (8.22%) Apigee
6 16 (7.31%) GCP
7 13 (5.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 11 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.57%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.57%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.20%) Kong
11 6 (2.74%) Azure API Management
11 6 (2.74%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 5 (2.28%) Algolia
12 5 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.83%) Heroku
13 4 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) HTTP
2 5 (2.28%) LAN
2 5 (2.28%) WAN
3 2 (0.91%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) AMQP
4 1 (0.46%) Broadband
4 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SMS
4 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.11%) MongoDB
1 9 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (2.74%) Power BI
3 5 (2.28%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.28%) KNIME
4 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.37%) Tableau
6 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.46%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.46%) Metadata
7 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (14.61%) Git
1 32 (14.61%) JIRA
2 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.20%) Selenium
4 5 (2.28%) Postman
5 4 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.83%) GoCD
5 4 (1.83%) Gradle
6 2 (0.91%) JProfiler
6 2 (0.91%) JUnit
6 2 (0.91%) Maven
6 2 (0.91%) Subversion
7 1 (0.46%) Hudson
General
1 72 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.89%) Finance
3 27 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.02%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.57%) Marketing
6 10 (4.57%) Retail
7 6 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.28%) Banking
8 5 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.83%) Billing
9 4 (1.83%) Publishing
10 3 (1.37%) Automotive
10 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.37%) Law
10 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.91%) Back Office
11 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (33.79%) Architect
2 48 (21.92%) Developer
3 25 (11.42%) Analyst
4 24 (10.96%) Lead
5 21 (9.59%) Salesforce Developer
6 19 (8.68%) Integration Architect
7 18 (8.22%) MuleSoft Architect
8 16 (7.31%) Integration Specialist
9 15 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (6.85%) Technical Architect
10 11 (5.02%) MuleSoft Developer
11 10 (4.57%) Senior
11 10 (4.57%) Technical Leader
12 9 (4.11%) Salesforce Architect
13 8 (3.65%) Cloud Developer
13 8 (3.65%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.65%) Java Developer
13 8 (3.65%) Release Manager
13 8 (3.65%) Salesforce Support
14 7 (3.20%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (21.46%) Middleware
2 43 (19.63%) REST
3 37 (16.89%) JSON
4 26 (11.87%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (10.96%) XML
6 22 (10.05%) SOAP
7 16 (7.31%) OAuth
8 13 (5.94%) OpenAPI
8 13 (5.94%) Swagger
9 11 (5.02%) OAuth2
10 10 (4.57%) Web Services
11 9 (4.11%) Kafka
11 9 (4.11%) RAML
12 8 (3.65%) React
13 7 (3.20%) JSF
13 7 (3.20%) JWT
13 7 (3.20%) Node.js
13 7 (3.20%) RESTful
14 6 (2.74%) BAPI
14 6 (2.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.37%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.37%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.91%) SCADA
10 1 (0.46%) Life Science
10 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.46%) Robotics
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.74%) Windows
2 5 (2.28%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.31%) CI/CD
2 56 (25.57%) Agile
3 48 (21.92%) Integration Patterns
4 46 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (18.26%) API Management
6 36 (16.44%) DevOps
7 35 (15.98%) CRM
8 34 (15.53%) ERP
8 34 (15.53%) Microservices
9 30 (13.70%) Migration
10 29 (13.24%) Event-Driven
11 27 (12.33%) Validation
12 24 (10.96%) Data Modelling
13 23 (10.50%) ETL
14 22 (10.05%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.59%) Data Transformation
16 20 (9.13%) Scrum
16 20 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 17 (7.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.07%) SQL
2 27 (12.33%) Apex Code
3 20 (9.13%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.94%) Java
5 7 (3.20%) Python
6 6 (2.74%) DataWeave
6 6 (2.74%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.74%) SOQL
7 4 (1.83%) C#
8 2 (0.91%) Groovy
9 1 (0.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.46%) Bicep
9 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.46%) SOSL
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.94%) Degree
4 9 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.37%) CISSP
9 3 (1.37%) GIAC
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CBAP
11 1 (0.46%) CSPO
11 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.76%) QA
2 11 (5.02%) GDPR
3 6 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.37%) GMP
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) COBIT
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.46%) DICOM
5 1 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.28%) Ansible
2 2 (0.91%) Grafana
2 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) CASB
3 1 (0.46%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 34 (15.53%) SAP
3 27 (12.33%) Oracle
4 17 (7.76%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.94%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.48%) Dell
6 12 (5.48%) Workday
7 11 (5.02%) Informatica
8 8 (3.65%) DocuSign
8 8 (3.65%) Talend
9 7 (3.20%) Adobe
9 7 (3.20%) Autodesk
9 7 (3.20%) Conga
10 6 (2.74%) Capita
11 4 (1.83%) Kronos
12 3 (1.37%) Databricks
12 3 (1.37%) Google
12 3 (1.37%) OutSystems
12 3 (1.37%) Quadient
12 3 (1.37%) Splunk