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 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
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 393 457
Rank change year-on-year -28 +64 -7
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 256 167 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.08% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 104 63
10th Percentile £350 £367 £428
25th Percentile £423 £449 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -11.42%
75th Percentile £656 £630 £675
90th Percentile £695 £709 £738
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 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 22,611 15,412 16,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.15% 44.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,874 9,444 10,224
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 781 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.54 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -28.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.21 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.01 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.00%

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 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 14 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 -83 175 £550 +5.52% 161
UK excluding London -71 109 £460 -8.00% 33
London -45 100 £595 +8.18% 135
Work from Home -20 81 £500 -9.09% 168
Scotland +6 33 £361 -31.24% 6
South East -64 27 £460 -4.42% 7
North of England -83 15 £569 +18.24% 7
Midlands -40 14 £475 +32.68% 3
North West -46 11 £569 +3.41% 4
South West -40 9 £550 - 2
West Midlands -43 9 £538 +2.38% 1
Wales -8 5 £513 -18.00% 2
East Midlands -12 5 £443 +23.60% 2
Yorkshire -48 4 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 2
East of England -29 3 £519 +3.75% 4

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 30 (11.72%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.59%) Mule
3 12 (4.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.91%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.13%) Revit
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.91%) SAP CRM
2 9 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.34%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.78%) Shopify
6 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.08%) Azure
2 66 (25.78%) AWS
3 45 (17.58%) Boomi
4 22 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.20%) GCP
5 21 (8.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 19 (7.42%) SaaS
7 18 (7.03%) iPaaS
7 18 (7.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 16 (6.25%) Apigee
9 15 (5.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 11 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (3.91%) Algolia
12 8 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.73%) Azure API Management
13 7 (2.73%) Kong
14 6 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.34%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.25%) HTTP
2 5 (1.95%) Firewall
3 2 (0.78%) CTI
4 1 (0.39%) Broadband
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) Network Security
4 1 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
4 1 (0.39%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.08%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.95%) Power BI
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.17%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.78%) Metadata
7 2 (0.78%) MySQL
7 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.78%) Tableau
8 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (14.84%) Git
2 37 (14.45%) JIRA
3 20 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.52%) Maven
5 7 (2.73%) GoCD
5 7 (2.73%) Gradle
6 6 (2.34%) Postman
7 5 (1.95%) JUnit
8 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.17%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.17%) Subversion
10 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.78%) Selenium
11 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.84%) Finance
3 28 (10.94%) Retail
4 23 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.42%) Marketing
5 19 (7.42%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.42%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.47%) Banking
7 9 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.73%) Publishing
9 5 (1.95%) Billing
10 4 (1.56%) Automotive
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Front Office
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (34.77%) Developer
2 76 (29.69%) Architect
3 34 (13.28%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (12.11%) MuleSoft Developer
5 29 (11.33%) Integration Architect
6 26 (10.16%) Analyst
6 26 (10.16%) Lead
7 25 (9.77%) Senior
8 22 (8.59%) Salesforce Architect
8 22 (8.59%) Salesforce Developer
9 18 (7.03%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.86%) Cloud Developer
11 14 (5.47%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (3.91%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
13 10 (3.91%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 10 (3.91%) Transition Analyst
14 9 (3.52%) Business Systems Analyst
14 9 (3.52%) Integration Specialist
14 9 (3.52%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (32.42%) REST
2 73 (28.52%) Middleware
3 56 (21.88%) JSON
4 51 (19.92%) SOAP
5 38 (14.84%) XML
6 32 (12.50%) OAuth
6 32 (12.50%) OpenAPI
6 32 (12.50%) Swagger
7 24 (9.38%) Lightning Web Components
8 22 (8.59%) OAuth2
9 21 (8.20%) JWT
9 21 (8.20%) Node.js
10 20 (7.81%) Kafka
10 20 (7.81%) React
11 16 (6.25%) JSF
11 16 (6.25%) RESTful
12 15 (5.86%) Terraform
12 15 (5.86%) Web Services
13 14 (5.47%) Spring Boot
14 13 (5.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.94%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (7.42%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.34%) SCADA
7 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.17%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.39%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.17%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.33%) CI/CD
2 79 (30.86%) Agile
3 67 (26.17%) Integration Patterns
4 62 (24.22%) DevOps
5 59 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (17.58%) Event-Driven
8 42 (16.41%) CRM
9 37 (14.45%) Scrum
10 34 (13.28%) API Management
11 32 (12.50%) Migration
12 30 (11.72%) Data Modelling
12 30 (11.72%) Microservices
12 30 (11.72%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (10.16%) Enterprise Architecture
14 26 (10.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 25 (9.77%) API Design
16 23 (8.98%) Data Transformation
16 23 (8.98%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.67%) Java
2 30 (11.72%) JavaScript
2 30 (11.72%) SQL
3 26 (10.16%) Apex Code
4 9 (3.52%) DataWeave
4 9 (3.52%) Python
5 8 (3.13%) C#
5 8 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.73%) SOQL
7 6 (2.34%) Go
7 6 (2.34%) Lua
8 2 (0.78%) Bicep
8 2 (0.78%) SOSL
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) C++
9 1 (0.39%) Groovy
9 1 (0.39%) PHP
9 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 53 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.13%) Degree
4 7 (2.73%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.17%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) GIAC
9 1 (0.39%) IIBA
9 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.47%) QA
2 8 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.13%) GDPR
3 3 (1.17%) PMO
4 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.39%) DICOM
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
5 1 (0.39%) HL7
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) PSD2
5 1 (0.39%) SEPA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (1.17%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) CASB
Vendors
1 104 (40.63%) Salesforce
2 41 (16.02%) Oracle
3 39 (15.23%) SAP
4 23 (8.98%) ServiceNow
5 21 (8.20%) Microsoft
6 15 (5.86%) Google
7 14 (5.47%) Informatica
7 14 (5.47%) Workday
8 10 (3.91%) Dell
8 10 (3.91%) IBM
8 10 (3.91%) TIBCO
9 9 (3.52%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.13%) Adobe
10 8 (3.13%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.13%) Conga
10 8 (3.13%) Databricks
10 8 (3.13%) WSO2
11 6 (2.34%) Capita
12 5 (1.95%) Kronos
12 5 (1.95%) Splunk