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 21 June 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
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 365 454
Rank change year-on-year -62 +89 +42
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 226 170 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.57% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.20% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 109 91
10th Percentile £400 £390 £450
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £630
90th Percentile £713 £694 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.40
25th Percentile £64.50 - £49.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £63.00
75th Percentile £68.50 - £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 20,634 14,225 18,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.71% 47.56% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,937 8,760 11,546
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,056 653 1,170
10th Percentile £15.53 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.51
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.50 £24.14
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +5.63% -43.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £59.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.11 £23.00 £22.56
% change year-on-year +39.62% +1.95% -42.99%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -70 176 £523 -4.13% 45
London -16 104 £553 -6.67% 23
UK excluding London -93 89 £425 -15.00% 36
Work from Home -34 65 £500 -4.76% 23
Midlands -43 26 £425 -21.30% 9
West Midlands -45 19 £425 -10.53% 5
Scotland +8 17 £350 -41.67% 6
North of England -81 17 £569 +14.32% 8
North West -36 15 £569 +3.41% 7
South East -88 10 £503 +0.50% 8
East Midlands -14 7 £459 -17.71% 4
South West -29 7 £488 -25.00% 2
East of England -22 6 £535 +7.00% 2
Northern Ireland -2 3 £450 -5.26% 2
Wales - 3 £373 -
Yorkshire -69 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 36 (15.93%) Anypoint
2 19 (8.41%) Mule
3 16 (7.08%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Camunda
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.98%) AutoCAD
2 8 (3.54%) Revit
3 7 (3.10%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.21%) SAP CRM
3 5 (2.21%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.88%) Shopify
6 1 (0.44%) iTrent
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Business ByDesign
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 60 (26.55%) Azure
2 52 (23.01%) AWS
3 50 (22.12%) Boomi
4 22 (9.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 21 (9.29%) iPaaS
5 21 (9.29%) SaaS
6 16 (7.08%) Apigee
7 15 (6.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 14 (6.19%) GCP
9 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.98%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.98%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 6 (2.65%) Azure API Management
12 6 (2.65%) Kong
13 5 (2.21%) Algolia
13 5 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (1.77%) Heroku
14 4 (1.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) HTTP
2 5 (2.21%) LAN
2 5 (2.21%) 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 12 (5.31%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (3.10%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.21%) Power BI
5 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.77%) KNIME
6 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.33%) Tableau
7 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.44%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.44%) Metadata
8 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (15.49%) Git
2 33 (14.60%) JIRA
3 10 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.65%) GoCD
4 6 (2.65%) Gradle
4 6 (2.65%) Selenium
5 4 (1.77%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.77%) JUnit
5 4 (1.77%) Maven
5 4 (1.77%) Postman
6 3 (1.33%) JProfiler
6 3 (1.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) Hudson
General
1 78 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.14%) Finance
3 29 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 28 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.87%) Marketing
5 11 (4.87%) Retail
5 11 (4.87%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.98%) Banking
7 6 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.77%) Billing
9 4 (1.77%) Publishing
10 3 (1.33%) Automotive
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.88%) Back Office
11 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (30.97%) Architect
2 55 (24.34%) Developer
3 28 (12.39%) Analyst
4 24 (10.62%) Lead
5 22 (9.73%) Salesforce Developer
6 20 (8.85%) Integration Architect
7 17 (7.52%) Integration Specialist
8 16 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (6.19%) MuleSoft Architect
9 14 (6.19%) Senior
10 13 (5.75%) MuleSoft Developer
11 12 (5.31%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.31%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.42%) Technical Leader
13 9 (3.98%) Cloud Developer
13 9 (3.98%) Salesforce Architect
13 9 (3.98%) Salesforce Support
13 9 (3.98%) Transition Analyst
14 8 (3.54%) CAD Support
14 8 (3.54%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.01%) Middleware
2 48 (21.24%) REST
3 42 (18.58%) JSON
4 27 (11.95%) Lightning Web Components
4 27 (11.95%) XML
5 25 (11.06%) SOAP
6 18 (7.96%) OAuth
7 14 (6.19%) OAuth2
8 13 (5.75%) OpenAPI
8 13 (5.75%) Swagger
8 13 (5.75%) Web Services
9 11 (4.87%) JSF
10 10 (4.42%) JWT
10 10 (4.42%) Kafka
10 10 (4.42%) React
11 9 (3.98%) Node.js
11 9 (3.98%) RAML
12 8 (3.54%) Spring Boot
13 7 (3.10%) Spring
14 6 (2.65%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.33%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.33%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.88%) SCADA
10 1 (0.44%) Life Science
10 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.44%) Robotics
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.65%) Windows
2 5 (2.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.53%) CI/CD
2 64 (28.32%) Agile
3 53 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (22.57%) Integration Patterns
5 48 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (17.70%) DevOps
7 38 (16.81%) API Management
7 38 (16.81%) CRM
8 35 (15.49%) Microservices
9 33 (14.60%) ERP
9 33 (14.60%) Migration
10 29 (12.83%) Event-Driven
11 28 (12.39%) Validation
12 25 (11.06%) Data Modelling
12 25 (11.06%) Scrum
13 24 (10.62%) Data Transformation
13 24 (10.62%) Test Automation
14 21 (9.29%) ETL
14 21 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (7.52%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.04%) SQL
2 28 (12.39%) Apex Code
3 21 (9.29%) Java
3 21 (9.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.54%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.10%) Python
6 6 (2.65%) DataWeave
6 6 (2.65%) SOQL
7 4 (1.77%) C#
8 2 (0.88%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) Bash
9 1 (0.44%) Bicep
9 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.44%) SOSL
9 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.87%) Degree
4 8 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.33%) CISSP
8 3 (1.33%) GIAC
8 3 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.88%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.96%) QA
2 11 (4.87%) GDPR
3 6 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.33%) GMP
6 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) DICOM
6 1 (0.44%) HL7
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.10%) Ansible
2 2 (0.88%) Grafana
2 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.44%) CASB
3 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (34.96%) Salesforce
2 35 (15.49%) SAP
3 32 (14.16%) Oracle
4 19 (8.41%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.19%) Microsoft
5 14 (6.19%) Workday
6 12 (5.31%) Dell
7 11 (4.87%) Informatica
8 9 (3.98%) DocuSign
9 8 (3.54%) Adobe
9 8 (3.54%) Autodesk
9 8 (3.54%) Conga
9 8 (3.54%) Talend
10 6 (2.65%) Capita
11 5 (2.21%) Kronos
12 3 (1.33%) Databricks
12 3 (1.33%) Google
12 3 (1.33%) OutSystems
12 3 (1.33%) Quadient
12 3 (1.33%) Splunk