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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 377 466
Rank change year-on-year -57 +89 +3
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 233 175 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 1.13% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 109 80
10th Percentile £350 £386 £436
25th Percentile £414 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £630
90th Percentile £713 £694 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.98% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £41.40
25th Percentile £64.50 £61.25 £49.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £68.50 £63.75 £76.50
90th Percentile - - £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 21,832 15,477 18,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.27% 47.55% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,569 9,473 11,390
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 758 1,041
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.22
Median hourly rate £34.86 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.61% -3.27% -36.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.24 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.73% -10.00% -22.60%

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 July 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 18 July 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 -87 172 £550 - 33
London 0 110 £552 -8.08% 19
UK excluding London -121 82 £460 -8.00% 18
Work from Home -34 73 £500 -9.09% 13
Scotland +3 21 £350 -33.33% 2
Midlands -50 15 £446 -19.96% 5
North of England -87 15 £712 +45.90% 3
North West -45 13 £712 +29.45% 3
South East -81 11 £460 -8.00% 6
West Midlands -57 9 £450 -21.74% 5
South West -37 8 £488 -25.00%
East Midlands -10 6 £443 -20.63%
East of England -15 6 £535 +7.00% 2
Northern Ireland 0 3 £450 -5.26%
Wales - 3 £373 -
Yorkshire -56 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 34 (14.59%) Anypoint
2 21 (9.01%) Mule
3 17 (7.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.29%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.43%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.43%) Revit
3 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.43%) SAP CRM
3 6 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.58%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.86%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) iTrent
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.43%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.61%) Azure
2 59 (25.32%) AWS
3 52 (22.32%) Boomi
4 23 (9.87%) SaaS
5 22 (9.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 18 (7.73%) GCP
7 17 (7.30%) iPaaS
7 17 (7.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 16 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (6.01%) Apigee
10 13 (5.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 9 (3.86%) Azure API Management
11 9 (3.86%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.43%) Algolia
13 7 (3.00%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (2.15%) Smartsheet
15 5 (2.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.86%) HTTP
2 4 (1.72%) LAN
2 4 (1.72%) WAN
3 2 (0.86%) CTI
3 2 (0.86%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) AMQP
4 1 (0.43%) Broadband
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) Network Security
4 1 (0.43%) SMS
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.58%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (3.43%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.29%) Power BI
6 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.86%) KNIME
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.86%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (16.74%) Git
2 37 (15.88%) JIRA
3 14 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.00%) GoCD
4 7 (3.00%) Gradle
5 6 (2.58%) Maven
6 5 (2.15%) JUnit
6 5 (2.15%) Postman
6 5 (2.15%) Selenium
7 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.29%) JProfiler
8 3 (1.29%) Subversion
9 1 (0.43%) Hudson
General
1 88 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.17%) Finance
3 29 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.58%) Retail
6 15 (6.44%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.72%) Banking
8 10 (4.29%) Marketing
9 7 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.58%) Publishing
11 5 (2.15%) Automotive
11 5 (2.15%) Billing
11 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.29%) Law
14 2 (0.86%) Back Office
14 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (30.47%) Developer
2 65 (27.90%) Architect
3 25 (10.73%) Analyst
3 25 (10.73%) Lead
3 25 (10.73%) Salesforce Developer
4 22 (9.44%) Integration Architect
5 20 (8.58%) Senior
6 19 (8.15%) MuleSoft Developer
7 16 (6.87%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.44%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.58%) Cloud Developer
10 12 (5.15%) Integration Specialist
11 11 (4.72%) Salesforce Architect
12 10 (4.29%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.29%) Transition Analyst
13 9 (3.86%) Business Systems Analyst
13 9 (3.86%) Salesforce Support
13 9 (3.86%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.86%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.86%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.75%) Middleware
2 59 (25.32%) REST
3 46 (19.74%) JSON
4 32 (13.73%) SOAP
5 29 (12.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 28 (12.02%) XML
7 21 (9.01%) OAuth
8 18 (7.73%) OAuth2
8 18 (7.73%) OpenAPI
8 18 (7.73%) Swagger
9 16 (6.87%) React
10 15 (6.44%) Kafka
10 15 (6.44%) Node.js
11 13 (5.58%) JSF
11 13 (5.58%) Web Services
12 12 (5.15%) RAML
13 10 (4.29%) JWT
13 10 (4.29%) RESTful
13 10 (4.29%) Spring Boot
14 9 (3.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.16%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.29%) SCADA
8 3 (1.29%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.43%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.15%) Windows
2 4 (1.72%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.91%) CI/CD
2 76 (32.62%) Agile
3 57 (24.46%) Integration Patterns
3 57 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (18.88%) DevOps
6 42 (18.03%) CRM
7 38 (16.31%) Event-Driven
8 37 (15.88%) Migration
9 36 (15.45%) ERP
10 35 (15.02%) Scrum
11 31 (13.30%) API Management
11 31 (13.30%) Microservices
12 28 (12.02%) Data Modelling
13 27 (11.59%) Test Automation
13 27 (11.59%) Validation
14 25 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (10.30%) Data Transformation
16 18 (7.73%) API Integration
16 18 (7.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.16%) SQL
2 31 (13.30%) Apex Code
3 26 (11.16%) JavaScript
4 25 (10.73%) Java
5 9 (3.86%) DataWeave
5 9 (3.86%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.00%) Python
7 6 (2.58%) SOQL
8 5 (2.15%) C#
9 2 (0.86%) Bicep
9 2 (0.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.43%) SOSL
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.43%) Degree
4 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.29%) CISSP
8 3 (1.29%) GIAC
8 3 (1.29%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.73%) QA
2 13 (5.58%) GDPR
3 6 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.29%) GMP
6 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) DICOM
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.43%) Ansible
2 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
4 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) CASB
5 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (36.91%) Salesforce
2 42 (18.03%) SAP
3 36 (15.45%) Oracle
4 21 (9.01%) ServiceNow
5 17 (7.30%) Microsoft
6 16 (6.87%) Workday
7 13 (5.58%) Dell
7 13 (5.58%) Informatica
8 9 (3.86%) DocuSign
9 8 (3.43%) Adobe
9 8 (3.43%) Autodesk
9 8 (3.43%) Conga
9 8 (3.43%) Talend
10 6 (2.58%) Capita
10 6 (2.58%) Google
11 5 (2.15%) Kronos
11 5 (2.15%) Splunk
12 3 (1.29%) Databricks
12 3 (1.29%) IBM
12 3 (1.29%) OutSystems