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 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 377 452
Rank change year-on-year -47 +75 +3
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 250 176 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.54% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.13% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 112 70
10th Percentile £350 £381 £425
25th Percentile £425 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.70%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £699 £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 22,380 15,535 16,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.82% 47.31% 43.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,856 9,504 10,556
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £612 £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 1,139 809 815
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -10.18% -32.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.12 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.05 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.28 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -22.62% -21.43%

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 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 20 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 -101 175 £550 +4.76% 27
London -31 104 £600 +9.09% 16
UK excluding London -101 99 £460 -8.00% 17
Work from Home -22 83 £500 - 13
Scotland +7 27 £322 -38.67% 3
South East -71 22 £460 -8.00% 4
North of England -64 16 £669 +36.99% 4
North West -28 14 £669 +21.55% 2
Midlands -50 14 £475 -14.80% 1
West Midlands -51 9 £538 -23.21% 1
South West -34 8 £550 -15.38% 3
East Midlands -15 5 £443 -18.06%
Wales - 5 £513 - 2
Northern Ireland +6 4 £550 +15.79%
East of England -17 4 £519 +3.75%
Yorkshire -56 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 (12.80%) Anypoint
2 22 (8.80%) Mule
3 14 (5.60%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.00%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.20%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.20%) Revit
3 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.00%) SAP CRM
1 10 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.40%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Shopify
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.80%) Azure
2 62 (24.80%) AWS
3 46 (18.40%) Boomi
4 21 (8.40%) GCP
4 21 (8.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 20 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.00%) SaaS
6 18 (7.20%) iPaaS
7 17 (6.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 15 (6.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 14 (5.60%) Apigee
10 10 (4.00%) Algolia
11 9 (3.60%) Azure API Management
11 9 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.20%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.40%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.00%) HTTP
2 4 (1.60%) LAN
2 4 (1.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.80%) CTI
5 1 (0.40%) AMQP
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
5 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) SMS
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.20%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.60%) Power BI
4 4 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.80%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.80%) MySQL
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.80%) Tableau
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (17.20%) Git
2 40 (16.00%) JIRA
3 19 (7.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.60%) Maven
5 7 (2.80%) GoCD
5 7 (2.80%) Gradle
6 6 (2.40%) Postman
7 5 (2.00%) JUnit
8 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.60%) Selenium
9 3 (1.20%) JProfiler
9 3 (1.20%) Subversion
10 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.40%) Hudson
11 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.60%) Finance
3 27 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.00%) Retail
6 19 (7.60%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.20%) Marketing
8 12 (4.80%) Banking
9 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.80%) Publishing
10 5 (2.00%) Billing
10 5 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.60%) Automotive
12 3 (1.20%) Law
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
13 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Front Office
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (36.00%) Developer
2 69 (27.60%) Architect
3 31 (12.40%) MuleSoft Developer
4 27 (10.80%) Integration Architect
5 25 (10.00%) Analyst
5 25 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 25 (10.00%) Senior
6 23 (9.20%) Lead
6 23 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (7.20%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.00%) Cloud Developer
9 14 (5.60%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (4.00%) Integration Specialist
11 10 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
11 10 (4.00%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.00%) Transition Analyst
12 9 (3.60%) Salesforce Support
12 9 (3.60%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (31.20%) REST
2 71 (28.40%) Middleware
3 55 (22.00%) JSON
4 46 (18.40%) SOAP
5 37 (14.80%) XML
6 31 (12.40%) OAuth
7 27 (10.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 24 (9.60%) OpenAPI
8 24 (9.60%) Swagger
9 23 (9.20%) OAuth2
10 21 (8.40%) JWT
10 21 (8.40%) React
11 20 (8.00%) Node.js
12 17 (6.80%) Kafka
13 16 (6.40%) JSF
14 15 (6.00%) Web Services
15 13 (5.20%) Spring Boot
16 12 (4.80%) Spring
17 11 (4.40%) RAML
17 11 (4.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.40%) SCADA
7 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
9 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.20%) TM Forum
10 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.40%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.40%) Windows
2 5 (2.00%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.40%) CI/CD
2 81 (32.40%) Agile
3 67 (26.80%) Integration Patterns
4 57 (22.80%) DevOps
5 54 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (17.60%) Event-Driven
8 42 (16.80%) CRM
9 40 (16.00%) Scrum
10 31 (12.40%) API Management
10 31 (12.40%) Microservices
10 31 (12.40%) Migration
11 30 (12.00%) Data Modelling
11 30 (12.00%) Test Automation
12 29 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (11.20%) ERP
14 24 (9.60%) Data Transformation
15 23 (9.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (8.80%) API Design
16 22 (8.80%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.60%) Java
2 30 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 29 (11.60%) Apex Code
3 29 (11.60%) SQL
4 10 (4.00%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.60%) Python
6 8 (3.20%) C#
6 8 (3.20%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.80%) SOQL
8 2 (0.80%) Bicep
8 2 (0.80%) SOSL
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.20%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.40%) Degree
5 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.20%) CISSP
6 3 (1.20%) GIAC
6 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.20%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.00%) QA
2 11 (4.40%) GDPR
3 8 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) PMO
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) DICOM
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.20%) Ansible
2 6 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.20%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Grafana
4 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) CASB
Vendors
1 103 (41.20%) Salesforce
2 40 (16.00%) SAP
3 37 (14.80%) Oracle
4 23 (9.20%) ServiceNow
5 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 13 (5.20%) Informatica
6 13 (5.20%) Workday
7 12 (4.80%) Google
8 11 (4.40%) Dell
9 9 (3.60%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.20%) Adobe
10 8 (3.20%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.20%) Conga
10 8 (3.20%) IBM
10 8 (3.20%) TIBCO
11 7 (2.80%) Databricks
12 6 (2.40%) Capita
12 6 (2.40%) WSO2
13 5 (2.00%) Kronos
13 5 (2.00%) Splunk