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 11 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 394 459
Rank change year-on-year -23 +65 -26
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 262 174 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.53% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 1.12% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 111 64
10th Percentile £350 £380 £429
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.62% -12.40%
75th Percentile £656 £628 £656
90th Percentile £694 £700 £726
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 22,870 15,568 17,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.89% 47.15% 44.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,024 9,532 10,291
10th Percentile £313 £278 £288
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 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 788 698
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.22
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -27.54%
75th Percentile £61.52 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.18% -29.07% -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 11 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 11 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 -87 180 £550 +4.76% 74
UK excluding London -73 110 £460 -8.00% 15
London -34 104 £580 +5.45% 63
Work from Home -33 83 £500 -9.09% 17
Scotland +12 33 £361 -31.24% 3
South East -70 27 £460 -7.77% 4
North of England -77 15 £569 +18.24% 3
Midlands -43 14 £475 -12.04%
North West -34 11 £569 +3.41% 3
South West -42 9 £550 -15.38% 2
West Midlands -44 9 £538 +2.38%
Wales -10 5 £513 -18.00% 1
East Midlands -11 5 £443 -18.06%
East of England -30 4 £519 +3.75% 2
Yorkshire -52 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 -

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 (11.83%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.40%) Mule
3 13 (4.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.82%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.05%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.05%) Revit
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.82%) SAP CRM
2 9 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.29%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.76%) Shopify
6 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.38%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.15%) Azure
2 67 (25.57%) AWS
3 47 (17.94%) Boomi
4 23 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.02%) GCP
5 21 (8.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 20 (7.63%) SaaS
7 19 (7.25%) iPaaS
8 18 (6.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 17 (6.49%) Apigee
10 15 (5.73%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 11 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (3.82%) Algolia
13 8 (3.05%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.67%) Azure API Management
14 7 (2.67%) Kong
15 6 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.29%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (2.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.11%) HTTP
2 5 (1.91%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) CTI
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) Broadband
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
4 1 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.96%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.05%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.91%) Power BI
4 5 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.15%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.76%) Metadata
7 2 (0.76%) MySQL
7 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.76%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.76%) Tableau
8 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (14.89%) Git
2 38 (14.50%) JIRA
3 20 (7.63%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.44%) Maven
5 7 (2.67%) GoCD
5 7 (2.67%) Gradle
6 6 (2.29%) Postman
7 5 (1.91%) JUnit
8 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.15%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.15%) Selenium
9 3 (1.15%) Subversion
10 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.27%) Finance
3 27 (10.31%) Retail
4 24 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.25%) Telecoms
7 18 (6.87%) Marketing
8 14 (5.34%) Banking
9 9 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.67%) Publishing
11 5 (1.91%) Billing
12 4 (1.53%) Automotive
13 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.15%) Law
14 2 (0.76%) Back Office
14 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Front Office
15 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (34.73%) Developer
2 78 (29.77%) Architect
3 33 (12.60%) Solutions Architect
4 32 (12.21%) MuleSoft Developer
5 30 (11.45%) Integration Architect
6 26 (9.92%) Analyst
6 26 (9.92%) Lead
6 26 (9.92%) Senior
7 23 (8.78%) Salesforce Developer
8 21 (8.02%) Salesforce Architect
9 18 (6.87%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.73%) Cloud Developer
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (3.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
13 10 (3.82%) Technical Architect
13 10 (3.82%) Transition Analyst
14 9 (3.44%) Integration Specialist
14 9 (3.44%) Salesforce Solution Architect
14 9 (3.44%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.06%) REST
2 74 (28.24%) Middleware
3 56 (21.37%) JSON
4 51 (19.47%) SOAP
5 38 (14.50%) XML
6 32 (12.21%) OAuth
6 32 (12.21%) OpenAPI
6 32 (12.21%) Swagger
7 25 (9.54%) Lightning Web Components
8 22 (8.40%) OAuth2
9 21 (8.02%) JWT
9 21 (8.02%) Node.js
10 20 (7.63%) Kafka
10 20 (7.63%) React
11 16 (6.11%) JSF
11 16 (6.11%) RESTful
11 16 (6.11%) Web Services
12 15 (5.73%) Terraform
13 14 (5.34%) Spring Boot
14 13 (4.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.07%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.02%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.29%) SCADA
7 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.15%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.38%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.53%) Windows
2 3 (1.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 80 (30.53%) Agile
3 68 (25.95%) Integration Patterns
4 63 (24.05%) DevOps
5 58 (22.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (17.56%) Event-Driven
8 43 (16.41%) CRM
9 37 (14.12%) Scrum
10 35 (13.36%) API Management
11 33 (12.60%) Migration
12 31 (11.83%) Data Modelling
12 31 (11.83%) Test Automation
13 30 (11.45%) Microservices
14 28 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (9.92%) Enterprise Architecture
15 26 (9.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 25 (9.54%) API Design
16 25 (9.54%) ERP
17 24 (9.16%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.36%) Java
2 31 (11.83%) JavaScript
2 31 (11.83%) SQL
3 27 (10.31%) Apex Code
4 9 (3.44%) DataWeave
4 9 (3.44%) Python
5 8 (3.05%) C#
5 8 (3.05%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.67%) SOQL
7 6 (2.29%) Go
7 6 (2.29%) Lua
8 2 (0.76%) Bicep
8 2 (0.76%) SOSL
9 1 (0.38%) Bash
9 1 (0.38%) C++
9 1 (0.38%) Groovy
9 1 (0.38%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 55 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.05%) Degree
4 7 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.15%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) GIAC
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.73%) QA
2 8 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.05%) GDPR
3 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.15%) PMO
4 2 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) DICOM
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) HL7
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) PSD2
5 1 (0.38%) SEPA
5 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.05%) Ansible
3 3 (1.15%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.76%) Grafana
4 2 (0.76%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.38%) CASB
Vendors
1 105 (40.08%) Salesforce
2 42 (16.03%) Oracle
3 41 (15.65%) SAP
4 23 (8.78%) ServiceNow
5 22 (8.40%) Microsoft
6 15 (5.73%) Google
6 15 (5.73%) Informatica
7 14 (5.34%) Workday
8 10 (3.82%) Dell
8 10 (3.82%) IBM
8 10 (3.82%) TIBCO
9 9 (3.44%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.05%) Adobe
10 8 (3.05%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.05%) Conga
10 8 (3.05%) Databricks
10 8 (3.05%) WSO2
11 6 (2.29%) Capita
12 5 (1.91%) Kronos
12 5 (1.91%) Splunk