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 23 August 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
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 379 455
Rank change year-on-year -57 +76 -2
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 254 177 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.54% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.14% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 111 66
10th Percentile £350 £380 £425
25th Percentile £425 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £634
90th Percentile £713 £700 £700
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 2
10th Percentile - £63.63 £41.40
25th Percentile £64.50 £67.19 £49.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £76.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +21.03% -
75th Percentile £68.50 £87.19 £76.50
90th Percentile - £91.88 £84.60
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 22,507 15,584 16,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.25% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 9,525 10,489
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 810 793
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.69 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% -8.55% -35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.96 £21.24 £25.60
% change year-on-year +41.05% -17.03% -28.39%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -95 176 £550 +4.76% 23
London -45 105 £600 +9.09% 15
UK excluding London -88 102 £460 -8.00% 14
Work from Home -15 83 £500 -2.44% 11
Scotland +11 30 £350 -33.33% 3
South East -82 22 £460 -8.00% 2
North of England -67 16 £669 +36.99% 3
North West -34 14 £669 +21.55% 1
Midlands -42 14 £475 -12.04% 1
West Midlands -49 9 £538 +2.38% 1
South West -36 8 £550 -15.38% 3
East Midlands -13 5 £443 -18.06%
Wales - 5 £513 - 2
Northern Ireland +2 4 £550 +15.79%
East of England -16 4 £519 +3.75%
Yorkshire -55 2 - - 2

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 32 (12.60%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.66%) Mule
3 14 (5.51%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.94%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.15%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.15%) Revit
3 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.94%) SAP CRM
1 10 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.36%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.79%) 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
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.35%) Azure
2 65 (25.59%) AWS
3 46 (18.11%) Boomi
4 21 (8.27%) GCP
4 21 (8.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.87%) SaaS
6 18 (7.09%) iPaaS
7 17 (6.69%) Apigee
7 17 (6.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 15 (5.91%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 10 (3.94%) Algolia
10 9 (3.54%) Azure API Management
10 9 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.15%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.36%) Kong
12 6 (2.36%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.97%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.91%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) LAN
2 4 (1.57%) WAN
3 3 (1.18%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) CTI
5 1 (0.39%) AMQP
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.12%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.15%) DynamoDB
3 5 (1.97%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.57%) Power BI
4 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.79%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.79%) MySQL
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.79%) Tableau
7 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.39%) Metadata
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (16.93%) Git
2 40 (15.75%) JIRA
3 19 (7.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.54%) Maven
5 7 (2.76%) GoCD
5 7 (2.76%) Gradle
6 6 (2.36%) Postman
7 5 (1.97%) JUnit
8 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.57%) Selenium
9 3 (1.18%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.18%) Subversion
10 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.39%) Hudson
11 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.57%) Finance
3 27 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.87%) Retail
6 19 (7.48%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.12%) Banking
7 13 (5.12%) Marketing
8 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.76%) Publishing
9 5 (1.97%) Billing
9 5 (1.97%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.57%) Automotive
11 3 (1.18%) Law
12 2 (0.79%) Back Office
12 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Front Office
13 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (35.43%) Developer
2 70 (27.56%) Architect
3 31 (12.20%) MuleSoft Developer
4 28 (11.02%) Integration Architect
5 26 (10.24%) Lead
6 25 (9.84%) Analyst
6 25 (9.84%) Salesforce Developer
6 25 (9.84%) Senior
7 23 (9.06%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (7.09%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.91%) Cloud Developer
10 14 (5.51%) Salesforce Architect
10 14 (5.51%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.33%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.94%) Integration Specialist
13 10 (3.94%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
13 10 (3.94%) Technical Architect
13 10 (3.94%) Transition Analyst
14 9 (3.54%) Salesforce Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (30.71%) REST
2 71 (27.95%) Middleware
3 55 (21.65%) JSON
4 46 (18.11%) SOAP
5 37 (14.57%) XML
6 31 (12.20%) OAuth
7 27 (10.63%) Lightning Web Components
7 27 (10.63%) OpenAPI
7 27 (10.63%) Swagger
8 23 (9.06%) OAuth2
9 21 (8.27%) JWT
9 21 (8.27%) React
10 20 (7.87%) Node.js
11 17 (6.69%) Kafka
12 16 (6.30%) JSF
13 15 (5.91%) Web Services
14 14 (5.51%) RESTful
15 13 (5.12%) Spring Boot
16 12 (4.72%) Spring
17 11 (4.33%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.81%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.12%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.36%) SCADA
7 5 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.18%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.18%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) IoT
11 1 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.36%) Windows
2 5 (1.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.01%) CI/CD
2 81 (31.89%) Agile
3 67 (26.38%) Integration Patterns
4 60 (23.62%) DevOps
5 54 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (17.32%) Event-Driven
8 42 (16.54%) CRM
9 40 (15.75%) Scrum
10 34 (13.39%) API Management
11 31 (12.20%) Microservices
11 31 (12.20%) Migration
12 30 (11.81%) Data Modelling
12 30 (11.81%) Test Automation
13 29 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (11.02%) ERP
15 24 (9.45%) Data Transformation
16 23 (9.06%) API Design
16 23 (9.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 23 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.39%) Java
2 30 (11.81%) JavaScript
3 29 (11.42%) Apex Code
3 29 (11.42%) SQL
4 10 (3.94%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.54%) Python
6 8 (3.15%) C#
6 8 (3.15%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.76%) SOQL
8 3 (1.18%) Go
8 3 (1.18%) Lua
9 2 (0.79%) Bicep
9 2 (0.79%) SOSL
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.15%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.36%) Degree
5 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.18%) CISSP
6 3 (1.18%) GIAC
6 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.18%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) IIBA
8 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.91%) QA
2 11 (4.33%) GDPR
3 8 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) DICOM
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.15%) Ansible
3 3 (1.18%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.79%) Grafana
4 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) CASB
Vendors
1 103 (40.55%) Salesforce
2 40 (15.75%) SAP
3 37 (14.57%) Oracle
4 23 (9.06%) ServiceNow
5 20 (7.87%) Microsoft
6 13 (5.12%) Informatica
6 13 (5.12%) Workday
7 12 (4.72%) Google
8 11 (4.33%) Dell
9 9 (3.54%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.15%) Adobe
10 8 (3.15%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.15%) Conga
10 8 (3.15%) IBM
10 8 (3.15%) TIBCO
11 7 (2.76%) Databricks
12 6 (2.36%) Capita
12 6 (2.36%) WSO2
13 5 (1.97%) Kronos
13 5 (1.97%) Splunk