MuleSoft Contracts

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 30 April 2025, 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 478 519
Rank change year-on-year +84 +41 +21
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 125 122 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 0.66% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 80 132
10th Percentile £450 £448 £455
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £653
90th Percentile £716 £700 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -8.57% +3.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
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 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MuleSoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MuleSoft in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MuleSoft.

Daily rate trend for MuleSoft in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MuleSoft over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MuleSoft in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MuleSoft.

Hourly rate trend for MuleSoft in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +70 102 £593 -1.25% 69
UK excluding London +88 59 £520 -8.57% 40
London +9 47 £620 +3.33% 33
Work from Home +40 36 £525 - 49
South East +59 18 £480 +104.26% 16
North of England +35 13 £525 -10.64% 7
North West +20 12 £550 - 3
South West +53 10 £650 +6.12% 1
Midlands +26 10 £540 -10.00% 9
West Midlands +18 6 £475 -18.28% 2
East Midlands +13 4 £558 +11.50% 7
Scotland +7 4 £600 +11.63% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +13 1 £447 -25.50% 4

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (22.40%) Anypoint
2 13 (10.40%) Mule
3 6 (4.80%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (4.00%) Confluence
4 5 (4.00%) Mule ESB
5 3 (2.40%) JBoss
5 3 (2.40%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.60%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.80%) CMS
7 1 (0.80%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (7.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.20%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.60%) Magento
3 2 (1.60%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (1.60%) SAP CX
3 2 (1.60%) Shopify
4 1 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.80%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.80%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.80%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.40%) AWS
2 34 (27.20%) Azure
3 20 (16.00%) Boomi
4 16 (12.80%) Serverless
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.00%) GCP
7 7 (5.60%) iPaaS
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Storage
9 5 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (3.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.40%) PaaS
11 3 (2.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) LAN
1 4 (3.20%) WAN
2 2 (1.60%) Firewall
2 2 (1.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.80%) Converged Networks
3 1 (0.80%) FTP
3 1 (0.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.40%) MySQL
3 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.80%) Power BI
5 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.40%) Big Data
7 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.40%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.60%) DB2
8 2 (1.60%) IMS/DB
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (9.60%) JIRA
2 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.40%) Maven
3 3 (2.40%) Postman
4 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.60%) Git
5 1 (0.80%) Appium
5 1 (0.80%) GitLab
5 1 (0.80%) Mockito
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) Toad
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Finance
3 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.40%) Banking
6 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 5 (4.00%) Retail
8 4 (3.20%) Law
9 3 (2.40%) Billing
9 3 (2.40%) Front Office
9 3 (2.40%) Military
9 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.60%) Police
11 1 (0.80%) Automotive
11 1 (0.80%) Aviation
11 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Architect
2 36 (28.80%) Developer
3 28 (22.40%) MuleSoft Developer
4 18 (14.40%) Lead
5 10 (8.00%) Integration Architect
5 10 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.40%) Consultant
6 8 (6.40%) Senior
7 7 (5.60%) SAP Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Tester
9 4 (3.20%) Data Migration Lead
9 4 (3.20%) Integration Consultant
9 4 (3.20%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.40%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.40%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.40%) MuleSoft Architect
10 3 (2.40%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.20%) Middleware
2 25 (20.00%) SOAP
3 23 (18.40%) RAML
3 23 (18.40%) REST
4 21 (16.80%) XML
5 20 (16.00%) JSON
6 17 (13.60%) RESTful
7 15 (12.00%) Swagger
8 13 (10.40%) OpenAPI
9 11 (8.80%) Kafka
10 9 (7.20%) OAuth
11 8 (6.40%) .NET
11 8 (6.40%) Web Services
12 6 (4.80%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.80%) Blazor
12 6 (4.80%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (4.00%) SAML
14 4 (3.20%) EDI
14 4 (3.20%) OAuth2
14 4 (3.20%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.80%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.00%) SCADA
6 4 (3.20%) Genomics
6 4 (3.20%) LIMS
6 4 (3.20%) TWAP
6 4 (3.20%) VWAP
7 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Windows
2 4 (3.20%) Linux
3 2 (1.60%) Android
3 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Agile
2 31 (24.80%) API Management
3 29 (23.20%) Microservices
4 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.40%) DevOps
6 21 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.60%) API Development
8 16 (12.80%) Integration Patterns
8 16 (12.80%) Migration
8 16 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (10.40%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (9.60%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (8.80%) ETL
11 11 (8.80%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (8.80%) SDLC
12 10 (8.00%) API Integration
12 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (8.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.40%) SQL
2 21 (16.80%) Java
3 17 (13.60%) Python
4 14 (11.20%) DataWeave
5 12 (9.60%) PL/SQL
6 9 (7.20%) C#
6 9 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.80%) Apex Code
7 6 (4.80%) C++
7 6 (4.80%) Go
7 6 (4.80%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.20%) Ruby
9 2 (1.60%) ABAP
9 2 (1.60%) R
9 2 (1.60%) REXX
10 1 (0.80%) COBOL
10 1 (0.80%) SOQL
10 1 (0.80%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) Degree
2 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) OCP
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.00%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) GDPR
2 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.80%) CloudHub
3 6 (4.80%) Terraform
4 5 (4.00%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.60%) MOM
5 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (27.20%) Oracle
2 29 (23.20%) Salesforce
3 14 (11.20%) Microsoft
4 13 (10.40%) SAP
5 9 (7.20%) Dell
6 6 (4.80%) SnapLogic
7 5 (4.00%) HP
7 5 (4.00%) Virgin Media
8 4 (3.20%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.20%) Google
8 4 (3.20%) IBM
8 4 (3.20%) LabVantage
9 3 (2.40%) Concur
9 3 (2.40%) Jitterbit
9 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.40%) Talend
10 2 (1.60%) Adobe
10 2 (1.60%) Ariba
10 2 (1.60%) NCR
10 2 (1.60%) VeriFone