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 16 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
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 448 486
Rank change year-on-year +29 +38 +34
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 172 87 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 0.60% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 52 64
10th Percentile £396 £476 £475
25th Percentile £400 £511 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £582 £700 £703
90th Percentile £668 £804 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -19.05% -16.00% +14.98%
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 17,128 14,609 18,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.06% 45.86% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,046 8,663 11,892
10th Percentile £300 £281 £255
25th Percentile £410 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 427 690
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.75 £27.35 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -36.40% +39.84%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.06 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.50 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.00% -43.82% +74.44%

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 16 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 16 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 +32 154 £475 -20.83% 40
UK excluding London -1 81 £425 -19.05% 26
London +16 73 £538 -17.31% 17
Work from Home +24 52 £548 -0.45% 32
Midlands -11 37 £400 -20.00% 1
West Midlands -7 32 £400 -15.79% 1
South East -11 15 £463 +2.78% 11
North of England -47 14 £390 -35.00% 7
North West -20 8 £358 -40.33% 5
South West -10 7 £538 -23.21% 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £563 - 1
East Midlands -22 5 £545 +3.81%
Scotland +5 4 £488 -15.22% 1
East of England - 3 £550 - 5
Wales +1 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 30 (17.44%) Anypoint
2 11 (6.40%) Confluence
3 9 (5.23%) Mule
4 3 (1.74%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.91%) Sketch
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.58%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.58%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.74%) Azure
2 39 (22.67%) AWS
3 24 (13.95%) Apigee
4 15 (8.72%) GCP
4 15 (8.72%) iPaaS
5 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.56%) Boomi
5 13 (7.56%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.40%) SaaS
7 10 (5.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (5.23%) GitHub
8 9 (5.23%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.07%) Kong
10 6 (3.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.91%) Figma
11 5 (2.91%) PaaS
12 3 (1.74%) dbt
12 3 (1.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) HTTP
1 4 (2.33%) HTTPS
1 4 (2.33%) LAN
1 4 (2.33%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.33%) WAN
2 3 (1.74%) Firewall
3 2 (1.16%) DHCP
3 2 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) SSL
4 1 (0.58%) AMQP
4 1 (0.58%) DSL
4 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) Power BI
2 8 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.49%) KNIME
4 4 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.16%) Tableau
6 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) Metadata
6 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (12.21%) Git
2 14 (8.14%) JIRA
3 10 (5.81%) Selenium
4 7 (4.07%) Postman
5 6 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.91%) GitLab
7 3 (1.74%) Maven
8 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.58%) ERwin
9 1 (0.58%) Gatling
9 1 (0.58%) Gradle
9 1 (0.58%) JUnit
9 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.19%) Finance
3 32 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.07%) Billing
5 7 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.07%) Marketing
6 6 (3.49%) Banking
7 5 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Law
9 3 (1.74%) Retail
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (31.40%) Architect
2 34 (19.77%) Developer
3 27 (15.70%) Analyst
4 21 (12.21%) Lead
5 18 (10.47%) Business Analyst
5 18 (10.47%) MuleSoft Architect
5 18 (10.47%) Technical Architect
6 14 (8.14%) Salesforce Developer
7 11 (6.40%) Salesforce Architect
7 11 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.81%) MuleSoft Developer
9 9 (5.23%) Technical Analyst
9 9 (5.23%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (4.07%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.07%) Senior
11 6 (3.49%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Integration Specialist
13 4 (2.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.86%) Middleware
2 25 (14.53%) REST
2 25 (14.53%) SOAP
3 17 (9.88%) JSON
3 17 (9.88%) RESTful
4 16 (9.30%) Lightning Web Components
4 16 (9.30%) OpenAPI
4 16 (9.30%) XML
5 14 (8.14%) OAuth
6 9 (5.23%) Swagger
7 8 (4.65%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.65%) HTML
8 7 (4.07%) CSS
8 7 (4.07%) JWT
8 7 (4.07%) Web Services
9 6 (3.49%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.49%) XSD
10 5 (2.91%) ADO
10 5 (2.91%) CSS3
10 5 (2.91%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.91%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.74%) IoT
4 3 (1.74%) SCADA
4 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Clustering
6 1 (0.58%) CMDB
6 1 (0.58%) IVR
6 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.98%) Linux
2 8 (4.65%) Unix
3 6 (3.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.72%) Agile
2 42 (24.42%) CI/CD
2 42 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.93%) DevOps
4 32 (18.60%) Integration Patterns
5 29 (16.86%) API Management
5 29 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (14.53%) Microservices
7 20 (11.63%) Validation
8 18 (10.47%) API Design
9 17 (9.88%) ETL
9 17 (9.88%) Migration
9 17 (9.88%) Test Automation
10 16 (9.30%) Data Modelling
10 16 (9.30%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.72%) ERP
11 15 (8.72%) Translating Business Requirements
12 14 (8.14%) API Integration
12 14 (8.14%) Scrum
13 13 (7.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.35%) SQL
2 18 (10.47%) Python
3 16 (9.30%) Apex Code
3 16 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.72%) Java
5 10 (5.81%) Shell Script
6 7 (4.07%) DataWeave
7 3 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.74%) SOQL
8 2 (1.16%) Bash
8 2 (1.16%) Perl
9 1 (0.58%) C#
9 1 (0.58%) Korn
9 1 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.37%) Degree
3 22 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.16%) MCP
6 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CBAP
7 1 (0.58%) CSPO
7 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.58%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.14%) QA
2 7 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.49%) GDPR
4 4 (2.33%) WCAG
5 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) COBIT
6 1 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.23%) Ansible
2 7 (4.07%) CloudHub
3 6 (3.49%) Terraform
4 5 (2.91%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.33%) Puppet
5 4 (2.33%) SCCM
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.16%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.58%) Istio
7 1 (0.58%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (27.91%) Salesforce
2 17 (9.88%) SAP
3 12 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.98%) Oracle
4 9 (5.23%) Google
4 9 (5.23%) Workday
5 6 (3.49%) VMware
6 5 (2.91%) Adobe
6 5 (2.91%) Dell
6 5 (2.91%) Informatica
6 5 (2.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (2.33%) Anaplan
7 4 (2.33%) Axway
7 4 (2.33%) Broadcom
7 4 (2.33%) Globalscape
7 4 (2.33%) Hyperion
7 4 (2.33%) IBM
7 4 (2.33%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (2.33%) Splunk
8 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace