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 29 November 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
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 477 461
Rank change year-on-year +64 -16 +60
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 171 84 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 0.51% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 50 101
10th Percentile £380 £450 £446
25th Percentile £450 £502 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £618
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -4.86% +2.92%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £67.19 - -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +111.81% - -
75th Percentile £87.19 - -
90th Percentile £91.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 17,118 16,435 20,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.49% 45.09% 45.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,841 9,661 13,305
10th Percentile £288 £295 £256
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 857 523 675
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.52 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.95 £75.00 £76.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.04 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -19.85% -38.20% +96.97%

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 29 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MuleSoft over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MuleSoft in the UK

MuleSoft
Top 15 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 29 November 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 +50 142 £525 -14.29% 25
London +50 73 £550 -15.38% 12
UK excluding London +13 73 £450 -14.29% 24
Work from Home +41 51 £565 +2.73% 17
South East +25 27 £450 -10.00% 8
North of England -40 17 £450 -26.53% 2
Yorkshire -22 11 £475 -24.00% 2
Midlands -27 9 £450 -10.00% 3
Scotland +5 8 £525 +2.44% 6
South West - 8 £538 - 1
North West -29 6 £391 -34.92%
West Midlands - 6 £400 - 2
East Midlands -12 3 £500 +6.67% 1
East of England - 3 £550 - 3
Wales +1 1 £625 -

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 (19.88%) Anypoint
2 16 (9.36%) Mule
3 9 (5.26%) Confluence
4 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.75%) Apache
6 2 (1.17%) Mule ESB
6 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.58%) JBoss
7 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.58%) Notion
4 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.58%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.07%) Azure
2 29 (16.96%) AWS
3 21 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.53%) Apigee
5 16 (9.36%) GCP
6 13 (7.60%) Boomi
7 11 (6.43%) GitHub
7 11 (6.43%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.43%) SaaS
8 10 (5.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (4.68%) iPaaS
10 6 (3.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.92%) PaaS
12 4 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.34%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.34%) Stackdriver
13 3 (1.75%) Kong
13 3 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.43%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.26%) Firewall
3 7 (4.09%) AMQP
3 7 (4.09%) DSL
4 6 (3.51%) HTTP
5 5 (2.92%) SSL
6 4 (2.34%) DHCP
6 4 (2.34%) DNS
7 2 (1.17%) LAN
7 2 (1.17%) VPN
7 2 (1.17%) WAN
8 1 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.85%) Power BI
2 8 (4.68%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.34%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (1.75%) Tableau
6 2 (1.17%) KNIME
7 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) Metadata
7 1 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (13.45%) Git
2 20 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.02%) GitLab
3 12 (7.02%) JIRA
4 11 (6.43%) Postman
5 5 (2.92%) Maven
5 5 (2.92%) Selenium
6 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.17%) Gradle
6 2 (1.17%) TestPartner
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.58%) ERwin
7 1 (0.58%) Gatling
7 1 (0.58%) JUnit
7 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.05%) Finance
3 30 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.43%) Banking
6 8 (4.68%) Billing
6 8 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.09%) Marketing
8 4 (2.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.75%) Law
9 3 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.17%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.58%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (24.56%) Architect
2 40 (23.39%) Developer
3 25 (14.62%) Analyst
3 25 (14.62%) Lead
4 16 (9.36%) Business Analyst
5 15 (8.77%) Senior
6 14 (8.19%) Salesforce Developer
7 12 (7.02%) MuleSoft Developer
7 12 (7.02%) Salesforce Architect
8 9 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.68%) Integration Architect
9 8 (4.68%) Technical Architect
10 7 (4.09%) Integration Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.51%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Technical Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (21.05%) REST
2 33 (19.30%) SOAP
3 29 (16.96%) Middleware
4 19 (11.11%) XML
5 18 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
6 17 (9.94%) OAuth
7 15 (8.77%) Kafka
8 14 (8.19%) JSON
8 14 (8.19%) RESTful
9 13 (7.60%) OpenAPI
10 12 (7.02%) OAuth2
11 10 (5.85%) JWT
11 10 (5.85%) RAML
12 9 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (4.68%) Apache Camel
14 7 (4.09%) ActiveMQ
15 6 (3.51%) AngularJS
15 6 (3.51%) Swagger
15 6 (3.51%) XSD
16 5 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.92%) SCADA
6 4 (2.34%) Clustering
6 4 (2.34%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.34%) NHS
7 3 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) IoT
8 2 (1.17%) IVR
8 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) CMDB
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.36%) Linux
2 11 (6.43%) Unix
3 7 (4.09%) Windows
4 3 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.17%) CentOS
5 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.58%) SUSE
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.84%) Agile
2 50 (29.24%) DevOps
3 43 (25.15%) CI/CD
4 38 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (18.13%) Integration Patterns
6 30 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (14.04%) Microservices
8 23 (13.45%) Scrum
9 22 (12.87%) Migration
10 21 (12.28%) API Design
11 18 (10.53%) Data Modelling
12 17 (9.94%) API Management
12 17 (9.94%) Roadmaps
13 16 (9.36%) Event-Driven
13 16 (9.36%) Translating Business Requirements
13 16 (9.36%) Validation
14 14 (8.19%) ERP
14 14 (8.19%) ETL
15 13 (7.60%) Test Automation
15 13 (7.60%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.79%) Java
1 27 (15.79%) Python
2 24 (14.04%) SQL
3 18 (10.53%) Apex Code
4 13 (7.60%) DataWeave
5 10 (5.85%) Shell Script
6 9 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.92%) Bash
8 4 (2.34%) Perl
9 3 (1.75%) SOQL
10 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) C#
11 1 (0.58%) Korn
11 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.19%) Degree
4 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) MBA
6 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.94%) QA
2 8 (4.68%) GDPR
3 4 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.34%) SLA
4 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.75%) HL7
4 3 (1.75%) WCAG
5 2 (1.17%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.17%) Section 508
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (6.43%) Docker
2 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (12.87%) Ansible
2 14 (8.19%) Terraform
3 12 (7.02%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.85%) Puppet
5 7 (4.09%) CloudHub
6 5 (2.92%) SCCM
7 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.17%) Istio
8 2 (1.17%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.58%) SCOM
9 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (32.75%) Salesforce
2 22 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.28%) SAP
4 18 (10.53%) Oracle
5 13 (7.60%) Google
6 12 (7.02%) VMware
7 8 (4.68%) Workday
8 7 (4.09%) Dell
9 5 (2.92%) Informatica
9 5 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.92%) Splunk
10 4 (2.34%) Anaplan
10 4 (2.34%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.34%) F5
10 4 (2.34%) Globalscape
10 4 (2.34%) Hyperion
10 4 (2.34%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (1.75%) Talend