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 31 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 438 499
Rank change year-on-year +21 +61 +26
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 175 102 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 0.70% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 61 66
10th Percentile £397 £463 £475
25th Percentile £413 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £604
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -0.62% +0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £690 £676
90th Percentile £650 £797 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -29.17% +2.13% +6.82%
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 17,661 14,540 19,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.58% 46.24% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,354 8,598 12,385
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £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 837 425 889
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.91% -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £51.02 £61.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.06 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% -16.67% +16.37%

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 31 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 31 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 +16 161 £465 -25.08% 30
UK excluding London -9 83 £425 -29.17% 18
London -9 78 £550 -12.00% 17
Work from Home +26 50 £535 -0.47% 17
Midlands -3 43 £400 -13.51% 1
West Midlands -7 38 £400 -13.51% 1
South East -15 16 £475 +5.56% 9
North of England -54 12 £374 -37.67% 2
North West -32 7 £358 -40.33% 2
South West -19 6 £538 -17.31%
Yorkshire -45 5 £563 -
East Midlands - 5 £545 -
East of England - 3 £550 - 5
Scotland +5 2 £538 -6.43% 1
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 33 (18.86%) Anypoint
2 11 (6.29%) Confluence
2 11 (6.29%) Mule
3 1 (0.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.86%) Sketch
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) 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 (26.86%) Azure
2 40 (22.86%) AWS
3 21 (12.00%) Apigee
4 20 (11.43%) iPaaS
5 17 (9.71%) Boomi
6 16 (9.14%) Power Platform
7 15 (8.57%) GCP
8 14 (8.00%) SaaS
9 13 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (6.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 11 (6.29%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.00%) GitHub
11 7 (4.00%) Kong
11 7 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 5 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.86%) Figma
12 5 (2.86%) PaaS
13 3 (1.71%) dbt
13 3 (1.71%) Serverless
13 3 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
1 4 (2.29%) LAN
1 4 (2.29%) WAN
2 2 (1.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.00%) Power BI
2 8 (4.57%) KNIME
3 7 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.14%) Tableau
5 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.57%) Metadata
5 1 (0.57%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (10.86%) Git
2 14 (8.00%) JIRA
3 11 (6.29%) Selenium
4 5 (2.86%) Postman
5 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.14%) GitLab
6 2 (1.14%) Maven
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.57%) ERwin
7 1 (0.57%) Gatling
7 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.71%) Finance
3 29 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.14%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.57%) Marketing
6 7 (4.00%) Billing
7 5 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Banking
8 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Retail
9 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Law
10 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (33.71%) Architect
2 31 (17.71%) Developer
3 27 (15.43%) Analyst
4 22 (12.57%) MuleSoft Architect
5 20 (11.43%) Lead
6 17 (9.71%) Business Analyst
6 17 (9.71%) Technical Architect
7 14 (8.00%) Salesforce Developer
8 12 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.29%) MuleSoft Developer
10 10 (5.71%) Salesforce Architect
11 9 (5.14%) Data Analyst
11 9 (5.14%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (5.14%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (4.57%) Integration Specialist
13 6 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 6 (3.43%) Senior
14 5 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.14%) Middleware
2 22 (12.57%) REST
2 22 (12.57%) SOAP
3 17 (9.71%) JSON
4 16 (9.14%) Lightning Web Components
4 16 (9.14%) XML
5 15 (8.57%) OpenAPI
6 14 (8.00%) RESTful
7 12 (6.86%) OAuth
8 8 (4.57%) HTML
8 8 (4.57%) Swagger
9 7 (4.00%) CSS
9 7 (4.00%) XSD
10 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.43%) JWT
10 6 (3.43%) Web Services
11 5 (2.86%) CSS3
11 5 (2.86%) HTML5
11 5 (2.86%) Kafka
11 5 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.29%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.71%) IoT
5 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.57%) CMDB
7 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.57%) SCADA
7 1 (0.57%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.71%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Unix
3 5 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.29%) Agile
2 40 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.71%) CI/CD
4 34 (19.43%) API Management
4 34 (19.43%) DevOps
5 30 (17.14%) Integration Patterns
6 27 (15.43%) Microservices
6 27 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (10.86%) Roadmaps
7 19 (10.86%) Validation
8 18 (10.29%) API Design
8 18 (10.29%) ETL
9 17 (9.71%) Migration
9 17 (9.71%) Test Automation
10 16 (9.14%) Data Modelling
10 16 (9.14%) ERP
11 15 (8.57%) Translating Business Requirements
12 14 (8.00%) API Development
12 14 (8.00%) API Integration
12 14 (8.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.43%) SQL
2 16 (9.14%) Apex Code
3 14 (8.00%) Python
4 13 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.71%) Java
6 9 (5.14%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.43%) DataWeave
8 3 (1.71%) SOQL
9 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) C#
10 1 (0.57%) Korn
10 1 (0.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.14%) Degree
3 20 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.43%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CBAP
8 1 (0.57%) CSPO
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) MBA
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.29%) QA
2 7 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.29%) WCAG
4 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) COBIT
5 1 (0.57%) HL7
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Docker
1 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.43%) CloudHub
2 5 (2.86%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) SCCM
3 3 (1.71%) Terraform
4 2 (1.14%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.57%) Puppet
5 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 15 (8.57%) SAP
3 12 (6.86%) Oracle
4 11 (6.29%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.14%) Workday
6 7 (4.00%) Google
7 5 (2.86%) Adobe
7 5 (2.86%) Dell
7 5 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (2.29%) Anaplan
8 4 (2.29%) Axway
8 4 (2.29%) Hyperion
8 4 (2.29%) IBM
8 4 (2.29%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (2.29%) Informatica
9 3 (1.71%) BMC
9 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.71%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.71%) Talend
10 2 (1.14%) Pega