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 20 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 393 451
Rank change year-on-year -37 +58 -16
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 257 171 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.52% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.09% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 104 62
10th Percentile £350 £367 £438
25th Percentile £425 £449 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -7.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £656 £626 £675
90th Percentile £693 £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 22,804 15,620 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.78% 47.47% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,936 9,589 10,237
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £403 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 794 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.71 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.68 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -16.17% -32.58%
75th Percentile £61.54 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.30 £29.77
% change year-on-year +20.89% -28.45% -29.95%

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 20 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 20 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 -86 174 £550 +7.84% 153
UK excluding London -79 109 £460 -8.00% 44
London -41 100 £580 +5.45% 110
Work from Home -22 86 £533 -3.18% 49
Scotland +5 33 £361 -31.24% 5
South East -69 29 £460 -0.54% 14
North of England -74 15 £569 +18.24% 12
Midlands -46 12 £500 +39.66% 6
North West -41 11 £569 +3.41% 3
South West -30 9 £550 - 2
West Midlands -47 7 £583 +10.95% 2
Wales -7 5 £513 -18.00% 1
East Midlands -14 5 £443 +23.60% 4
Yorkshire -59 4 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 1
East of England -26 3 £519 +3.75% 3

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 29 (11.28%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.56%) Mule
3 12 (4.67%) 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 (3.89%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.11%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.11%) Revit
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.89%) SAP CRM
2 10 (3.89%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.78%) Shopify
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.30%) Azure
2 64 (24.90%) AWS
3 50 (19.46%) Boomi
4 26 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.56%) GCP
6 21 (8.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 19 (7.39%) SaaS
8 18 (7.00%) iPaaS
9 17 (6.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 16 (6.23%) Apigee
11 15 (5.84%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 12 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (3.89%) Algolia
14 9 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.50%) Smartsheet
15 8 (3.11%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.72%) Azure API Management
16 7 (2.72%) Kong
17 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.61%) HTTP
2 5 (1.95%) Firewall
3 2 (0.78%) CTI
4 1 (0.39%) Broadband
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 (5.06%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.11%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.56%) Power BI
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 42 (16.34%) Git
2 40 (15.56%) JIRA
3 20 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.89%) Postman
5 9 (3.50%) Maven
6 7 (2.72%) GoCD
6 7 (2.72%) Gradle
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 98 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.79%) Finance
3 30 (11.67%) Retail
4 22 (8.56%) Marketing
5 21 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (7.39%) Telecoms
7 17 (6.61%) Public Sector
8 14 (5.45%) Banking
9 9 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.72%) Publishing
11 5 (1.95%) Billing
12 4 (1.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.78%) Back Office
13 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Law
14 1 (0.39%) Front Office
14 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (34.24%) Developer
2 80 (31.13%) Architect
3 37 (14.40%) Solutions Architect
4 32 (12.45%) Integration Architect
5 31 (12.06%) MuleSoft Developer
6 26 (10.12%) Analyst
7 25 (9.73%) Lead
7 25 (9.73%) Senior
8 23 (8.95%) Salesforce Architect
9 22 (8.56%) Salesforce Developer
10 18 (7.00%) Java Developer
11 15 (5.84%) Cloud Developer
12 14 (5.45%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 12 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
15 10 (3.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
15 10 (3.89%) Transition Analyst
16 9 (3.50%) Business Systems Analyst
16 9 (3.50%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (33.07%) REST
2 76 (29.57%) Middleware
3 61 (23.74%) JSON
4 51 (19.84%) SOAP
5 39 (15.18%) XML
6 37 (14.40%) OAuth
6 37 (14.40%) OpenAPI
6 37 (14.40%) Swagger
7 26 (10.12%) OAuth2
8 23 (8.95%) Lightning Web Components
9 22 (8.56%) JWT
10 21 (8.17%) Kafka
10 21 (8.17%) Node.js
11 20 (7.78%) React
12 16 (6.23%) JSF
12 16 (6.23%) RESTful
13 15 (5.84%) Terraform
13 15 (5.84%) Web Services
14 14 (5.45%) Spring Boot
15 13 (5.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.51%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.17%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (7.78%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.95%) SCADA
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%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.39%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.39%) IoT
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 95 (36.96%) CI/CD
2 80 (31.13%) Agile
3 65 (25.29%) Integration Patterns
3 65 (25.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (24.90%) DevOps
5 52 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (17.51%) Event-Driven
7 42 (16.34%) CRM
8 36 (14.01%) Scrum
9 34 (13.23%) API Management
9 34 (13.23%) Test Automation
10 32 (12.45%) Migration
11 29 (11.28%) Microservices
12 27 (10.51%) Data Modelling
12 27 (10.51%) Enterprise Architecture
12 27 (10.51%) ERP
12 27 (10.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (10.12%) API Design
14 23 (8.95%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.23%) Java
2 30 (11.67%) JavaScript
2 30 (11.67%) SQL
3 25 (9.73%) Apex Code
4 9 (3.50%) DataWeave
4 9 (3.50%) Python
5 8 (3.11%) C#
5 8 (3.11%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.33%) Go
6 6 (2.33%) Lua
6 6 (2.33%) SOQL
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
7 2 (0.78%) SOSL
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) C++
8 1 (0.39%) Groovy
8 1 (0.39%) PHP
8 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 54 (21.01%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.11%) Degree
5 7 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.17%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
10 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) GIAC
10 1 (0.39%) IIBA
10 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.06%) QA
2 8 (3.11%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.11%) 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%) GRC
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 (2.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.11%) 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
1 105 (40.86%) Salesforce
2 43 (16.73%) SAP
3 41 (15.95%) Oracle
4 27 (10.51%) ServiceNow
5 20 (7.78%) Microsoft
6 16 (6.23%) Google
7 15 (5.84%) Informatica
8 14 (5.45%) Dell
8 14 (5.45%) Workday
9 11 (4.28%) TIBCO
10 10 (3.89%) IBM
11 9 (3.50%) DocuSign
11 9 (3.50%) Splunk
11 9 (3.50%) WSO2
12 8 (3.11%) Adobe
12 8 (3.11%) Autodesk
12 8 (3.11%) Conga
12 8 (3.11%) Databricks
13 6 (2.33%) Capita
14 5 (1.95%) Kronos