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 18 March 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
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 424 473
Rank change year-on-year +9 +49 +49
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 196 107 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 0.77% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 66 76
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £413 £496 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% -1.88% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £630
90th Percentile £740 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -26.09% -2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
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 18,925 13,857 19,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.74% 47.27% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,095 8,657 11,944
10th Percentile £310 £291 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 966 462 1,030
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.05%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.04 £82.91 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.31% +18.68% -29.98%

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 18 March 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 14 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 18 March 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 -9 180 £500 -16.67% 37
UK excluding London -32 93 £425 -26.09% 21
London -2 85 £550 -8.33% 17
Work from Home +2 64 £548 -2.67% 23
Midlands -23 44 £400 -25.93% 1
West Midlands -22 38 £400 -13.51% 1
South East -37 18 £503 +1.01% 7
North of England -58 14 £391 -28.42% 9
North West -34 10 £358 -34.46% 6
South West -23 9 £425 -34.62% 2
East Midlands -35 6 £545 -5.22%
East of England - 6 £550 - 2
Yorkshire -57 4 £563 - 3
Scotland +7 2 £538 -10.33%

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 37 (18.88%) Anypoint
2 15 (7.65%) Confluence
3 12 (6.12%) Mule
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.55%) Sketch
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.51%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.51%) iTrent
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.51%) Azure
2 44 (22.45%) AWS
3 31 (15.82%) Boomi
4 24 (12.24%) iPaaS
5 21 (10.71%) Apigee
6 19 (9.69%) Power Platform
7 17 (8.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 15 (7.65%) GCP
9 11 (5.61%) Snowflake
10 10 (5.10%) SaaS
10 10 (5.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 9 (4.59%) Kong
12 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.06%) GitHub
14 5 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.55%) Figma
15 4 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
16 3 (1.53%) Azure API Management
16 3 (1.53%) dbt
16 3 (1.53%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) LAN
1 7 (3.57%) WAN
2 5 (2.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) AMQP
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.14%) Power BI
2 8 (4.08%) KNIME
2 8 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (3.06%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.02%) Tableau
6 1 (0.51%) Metadata
6 1 (0.51%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (11.22%) Git
2 19 (9.69%) JIRA
3 11 (5.61%) Selenium
4 3 (1.53%) Postman
5 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.02%) Maven
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.51%) ERwin
6 1 (0.51%) GitLab
6 1 (0.51%) Hudson
6 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Finance
3 32 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.08%) Marketing
6 7 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.04%) Law
7 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.53%) Banking
8 3 (1.53%) Billing
8 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.53%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (36.22%) Architect
2 32 (16.33%) Developer
3 28 (14.29%) Lead
4 22 (11.22%) MuleSoft Architect
5 21 (10.71%) Analyst
5 21 (10.71%) Technical Architect
6 18 (9.18%) Salesforce Developer
7 12 (6.12%) Salesforce Architect
7 12 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.61%) Integration Specialist
8 11 (5.61%) MuleSoft Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Data Analyst
10 8 (4.08%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.08%) Senior
10 8 (4.08%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Salesforce Technical Leader
11 7 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.41%) Middleware
2 28 (14.29%) REST
3 26 (13.27%) SOAP
4 25 (12.76%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (9.18%) JSON
5 18 (9.18%) XML
6 14 (7.14%) OpenAPI
7 11 (5.61%) OAuth
7 11 (5.61%) RESTful
8 8 (4.08%) CSS
8 8 (4.08%) HTML
8 8 (4.08%) JWT
9 7 (3.57%) RAML
9 7 (3.57%) Swagger
9 7 (3.57%) Web Services
9 7 (3.57%) XSD
10 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.06%) React
11 5 (2.55%) CSS3
11 5 (2.55%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.59%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.53%) IoT
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) SCADA
10 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.51%) CMDB
10 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.51%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.63%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Windows
3 6 (3.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.00%) Agile
2 47 (23.98%) CI/CD
3 42 (21.43%) API Management
3 42 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (20.92%) Integration Patterns
5 30 (15.31%) Microservices
6 29 (14.80%) DevOps
6 29 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (14.80%) Validation
7 28 (14.29%) ERP
8 25 (12.76%) Data Modelling
8 25 (12.76%) ETL
9 24 (12.24%) Migration
10 21 (10.71%) Roadmaps
11 19 (9.69%) Data Migration
12 17 (8.67%) API Design
12 17 (8.67%) Translating Business Requirements
13 16 (8.16%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.65%) API Development
14 15 (7.65%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 41 (20.92%) SQL
2 25 (12.76%) Apex Code
3 17 (8.67%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.61%) Java
5 9 (4.59%) Python
6 8 (4.08%) DataWeave
7 6 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.02%) SOQL
10 1 (0.51%) C#
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) Korn
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.71%) Degree
4 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.02%) CISSP
7 2 (1.02%) GIAC
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CBAP
8 1 (0.51%) CSPO
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.51%) MBA
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) QA
2 13 (6.63%) GDPR
3 8 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.53%) GMP
5 3 (1.53%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 6 (3.06%) CloudHub
2 3 (1.53%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) SCCM
3 2 (1.02%) SCOrch
3 2 (1.02%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (28.06%) Salesforce
2 17 (8.67%) Oracle
2 17 (8.67%) SAP
3 10 (5.10%) Informatica
3 10 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.10%) Talend
4 8 (4.08%) Dell
4 8 (4.08%) Workday
5 5 (2.55%) Adobe
5 5 (2.55%) Axway
5 5 (2.55%) IBM
5 5 (2.55%) IBM Sterling
5 5 (2.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Google
7 3 (1.53%) BMC
7 3 (1.53%) Jitterbit
7 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) Pega
8 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.51%) Facebook