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 3 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 364 452
Rank change year-on-year -56 +88 +22
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 228 177 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.57% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 1.08% 1.19% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 112 88
10th Percentile £400 £391 £448
25th Percentile £421 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -4.35% -4.96%
75th Percentile £652 £638 £630
90th Percentile £713 £694 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -
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 21,123 14,842 18,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.00% 47.46% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,162 9,096 11,591
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,094 703 1,150
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.33 £14.90
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.08 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year +43.61% -5.71% -25.70%

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 3 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 3 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 -88 174 £550 - 66
London -16 106 £569 -5.13% 39
UK excluding London -109 85 £450 -10.00% 35
Work from Home -29 69 £538 +2.38% 30
Midlands -53 21 £425 -21.30% 14
Scotland +6 18 £350 -37.78% 2
North of England -79 16 £669 +35.05% 5
North West -36 14 £669 +27.33% 5
West Midlands -57 14 £425 -10.53% 11
South East -83 11 £480 -4.00% 9
East Midlands -11 7 £459 -17.71% 3
South West -27 7 £488 -25.00% 3
East of England -18 6 £535 +7.00% 1
Northern Ireland +2 3 £450 -5.26% 1
Wales - 3 £373 -
Yorkshire -66 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 (14.91%) Anypoint
2 19 (8.33%) Mule
3 16 (7.02%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Camunda
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.39%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.51%) Revit
3 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.63%) SAP MDG
3 5 (2.19%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.88%) Shopify
6 1 (0.44%) iTrent
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.44%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.44%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.51%) Azure
2 56 (24.56%) AWS
3 51 (22.37%) Boomi
4 23 (10.09%) SaaS
4 23 (10.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 18 (7.89%) iPaaS
5 18 (7.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 16 (7.02%) GCP
7 15 (6.58%) Apigee
7 15 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.95%) Azure API Management
8 9 (3.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 9 (3.95%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.07%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.19%) Algolia
11 5 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.19%) Smartsheet
11 5 (2.19%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.63%) HTTP
2 4 (1.75%) LAN
2 4 (1.75%) WAN
3 2 (0.88%) Firewall
4 1 (0.44%) AMQP
4 1 (0.44%) Broadband
4 1 (0.44%) CTI
4 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) SMS
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.70%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (3.51%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.32%) Power BI
5 3 (1.32%) Tableau
6 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.88%) KNIME
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.44%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (15.79%) Git
2 35 (15.35%) JIRA
3 12 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.63%) GoCD
4 6 (2.63%) Gradle
5 5 (2.19%) Postman
5 5 (2.19%) Selenium
6 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.75%) JUnit
6 4 (1.75%) Maven
7 3 (1.32%) JProfiler
7 3 (1.32%) Subversion
8 1 (0.44%) Hudson
General
1 85 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.11%) Finance
3 30 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.14%) Retail
5 14 (6.14%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.82%) Marketing
7 9 (3.95%) Banking
8 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.63%) Publishing
9 5 (2.19%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.75%) Automotive
10 4 (1.75%) Billing
10 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Law
11 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.88%) Back Office
12 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (30.70%) Architect
2 58 (25.44%) Developer
3 26 (11.40%) Analyst
4 24 (10.53%) Lead
5 21 (9.21%) Integration Architect
5 21 (9.21%) Salesforce Developer
6 17 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (7.02%) Senior
8 15 (6.58%) Integration Specialist
9 13 (5.70%) MuleSoft Developer
10 12 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 12 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
11 10 (4.39%) MuleSoft Architect
11 10 (4.39%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.39%) Technical Leader
11 10 (4.39%) Transition Analyst
12 9 (3.95%) Business Systems Analyst
12 9 (3.95%) Cloud Developer
12 9 (3.95%) Salesforce Support
12 9 (3.95%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.00%) Middleware
2 53 (23.25%) REST
3 44 (19.30%) JSON
4 28 (12.28%) Lightning Web Components
4 28 (12.28%) SOAP
5 26 (11.40%) XML
6 21 (9.21%) OAuth
7 18 (7.89%) OAuth2
8 15 (6.58%) OpenAPI
8 15 (6.58%) Swagger
9 13 (5.70%) Web Services
10 11 (4.82%) JSF
11 10 (4.39%) JWT
11 10 (4.39%) Kafka
11 10 (4.39%) Node.js
11 10 (4.39%) React
12 9 (3.95%) RAML
13 8 (3.51%) RESTful
13 8 (3.51%) Spring Boot
14 7 (3.07%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.09%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.32%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.88%) SCADA
10 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.44%) Robotics
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.19%) Windows
2 4 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.14%) CI/CD
2 70 (30.70%) Agile
3 55 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (23.68%) Integration Patterns
5 49 (21.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (18.42%) DevOps
7 40 (17.54%) CRM
8 37 (16.23%) Migration
9 35 (15.35%) ERP
10 34 (14.91%) API Management
10 34 (14.91%) Event-Driven
11 32 (14.04%) Microservices
12 29 (12.72%) Data Modelling
12 29 (12.72%) Scrum
13 27 (11.84%) Validation
14 25 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (10.53%) Data Transformation
15 24 (10.53%) Test Automation
16 19 (8.33%) ETL
17 17 (7.46%) AI
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.47%) SQL
2 29 (12.72%) Apex Code
3 22 (9.65%) JavaScript
4 21 (9.21%) Java
5 9 (3.95%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.07%) Python
7 6 (2.63%) DataWeave
7 6 (2.63%) SOQL
8 5 (2.19%) C#
9 2 (0.88%) Bicep
9 2 (0.88%) Groovy
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.44%) SOSL
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.39%) Degree
4 7 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.32%) CISSP
7 3 (1.32%) GIAC
7 3 (1.32%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.89%) QA
2 12 (5.26%) GDPR
3 6 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.32%) GMP
6 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) DICOM
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) HL7
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.07%) Ansible
2 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.75%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) Grafana
3 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.44%) CASB
4 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (36.40%) Salesforce
2 38 (16.67%) SAP
3 33 (14.47%) Oracle
4 21 (9.21%) ServiceNow
5 16 (7.02%) Workday
6 15 (6.58%) Microsoft
7 13 (5.70%) Dell
8 12 (5.26%) Informatica
9 9 (3.95%) DocuSign
10 8 (3.51%) Adobe
10 8 (3.51%) Autodesk
10 8 (3.51%) Conga
10 8 (3.51%) Talend
11 6 (2.63%) Capita
12 5 (2.19%) Google
12 5 (2.19%) Kronos
13 4 (1.75%) Splunk
14 3 (1.32%) Databricks
14 3 (1.32%) OutSystems
14 3 (1.32%) Quadient