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 28 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 480 455
Rank change year-on-year +55 -25 +59
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 172 86 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 0.52% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 52 101
10th Percentile £380 £451 £446
25th Percentile £450 £505 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £618
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -6.88% +2.92%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £795 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -16.28% -4.44% -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 17,140 16,485 20,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.48% 45.03% 45.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,833 9,701 13,240
10th Percentile £288 £295 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £613 £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 867 524 675
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.49 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.63 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +51 144 £525 -12.50% 29
London +42 74 £550 -15.38% 14
UK excluding London +6 74 £450 -16.28% 26
Work from Home +46 51 £558 +1.36% 19
South East +21 26 £450 -10.00% 8
North of England -38 19 £450 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire -32 13 £475 -24.00% 3
Scotland -1 8 £525 +2.44% 7
Midlands -19 8 £400 -20.00% 3
South West - 8 £538 - 1
North West -24 6 £391 -32.09%
West Midlands - 6 £400 - 2
East of England - 4 £525 - 3
East Midlands -12 2 - - 1
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 35 (20.35%) Anypoint
2 18 (10.47%) Mule
3 9 (5.23%) Confluence
4 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 2 (1.16%) Mule ESB
5 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) 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 (5.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.16%) 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 46 (26.74%) Azure
2 27 (15.70%) AWS
3 21 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.47%) Apigee
5 15 (8.72%) GCP
6 13 (7.56%) Boomi
7 11 (6.40%) SaaS
8 10 (5.81%) GitHub
8 10 (5.81%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (4.65%) iPaaS
10 6 (3.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.91%) PaaS
12 4 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.33%) Stackdriver
13 3 (1.74%) Kong
13 3 (1.74%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.74%) Snowflake
14 2 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.56%) TCP/IP
2 11 (6.40%) Firewall
3 7 (4.07%) AMQP
3 7 (4.07%) DSL
4 6 (3.49%) HTTP
5 5 (2.91%) SSL
6 4 (2.33%) DHCP
6 4 (2.33%) DNS
7 2 (1.16%) VPN
8 1 (0.58%) LAN
8 1 (0.58%) VSAN
8 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.23%) Power BI
2 7 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.16%) KNIME
5 2 (1.16%) Tableau
6 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) Metadata
6 1 (0.58%) MySQL
6 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (14.53%) Git
2 23 (13.37%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.56%) GitLab
3 13 (7.56%) Postman
4 12 (6.98%) JIRA
5 5 (2.91%) Maven
5 5 (2.91%) Selenium
6 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.16%) Gradle
6 2 (1.16%) TestPartner
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
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 59 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.09%) Finance
3 31 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.40%) Banking
6 8 (4.65%) Billing
6 8 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.07%) Marketing
8 4 (2.33%) Retail
9 3 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.74%) Law
9 3 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.16%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.58%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (23.84%) Architect
2 39 (22.67%) Developer
3 25 (14.53%) Analyst
3 25 (14.53%) Lead
4 18 (10.47%) Senior
5 16 (9.30%) Business Analyst
6 13 (7.56%) Salesforce Developer
7 11 (6.40%) MuleSoft Developer
7 11 (6.40%) Salesforce Architect
8 9 (5.23%) Integration Architect
8 9 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.65%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Integration Analyst
10 7 (4.07%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.49%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) MuleSoft Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.51%) REST
2 34 (19.77%) SOAP
3 29 (16.86%) Middleware
4 19 (11.05%) XML
5 18 (10.47%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (10.47%) OAuth
6 16 (9.30%) Kafka
7 14 (8.14%) JSON
7 14 (8.14%) RESTful
8 12 (6.98%) OAuth2
8 12 (6.98%) OpenAPI
9 11 (6.40%) JWT
10 10 (5.81%) RAML
11 9 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.65%) Apache Camel
13 7 (4.07%) ActiveMQ
14 6 (3.49%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.49%) Swagger
15 5 (2.91%) FHIR
15 5 (2.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.91%) SCADA
6 4 (2.33%) Clustering
6 4 (2.33%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.33%) NHS
7 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) IoT
8 2 (1.16%) IVR
9 1 (0.58%) CMDB
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Linux
2 12 (6.98%) Unix
3 8 (4.65%) Windows
4 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.74%) CentOS
5 3 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) AIX
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Solaris
6 1 (0.58%) SUSE
6 1 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (38.37%) Agile
2 52 (30.23%) DevOps
3 44 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 37 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (17.44%) Integration Patterns
5 30 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (13.95%) Microservices
7 23 (13.37%) Migration
7 23 (13.37%) Scrum
8 21 (12.21%) API Design
9 18 (10.47%) Translating Business Requirements
10 17 (9.88%) Roadmaps
11 16 (9.30%) API Management
11 16 (9.30%) Data Modelling
11 16 (9.30%) Event-Driven
11 16 (9.30%) Validation
12 14 (8.14%) ERP
12 14 (8.14%) Test Automation
13 13 (7.56%) Design Patterns
13 13 (7.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.28%) Python
2 27 (15.70%) Java
3 23 (13.37%) SQL
4 18 (10.47%) Apex Code
5 14 (8.14%) DataWeave
6 9 (5.23%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.23%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.91%) Bash
8 4 (2.33%) Perl
9 3 (1.74%) SOQL
10 2 (1.16%) 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 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.14%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.33%) 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 (9.88%) QA
2 8 (4.65%) GDPR
3 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.33%) SLA
4 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.74%) HL7
4 3 (1.74%) WCAG
5 2 (1.16%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.16%) Section 508
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (6.40%) Docker
2 10 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (1.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (13.95%) Ansible
2 14 (8.14%) Terraform
3 12 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.98%) Puppet
4 8 (4.65%) CloudHub
5 6 (3.49%) SCCM
6 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.16%) Istio
7 2 (1.16%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.58%) SCOM
8 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (31.98%) Salesforce
2 22 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.21%) SAP
4 18 (10.47%) Oracle
5 15 (8.72%) VMware
6 12 (6.98%) Google
7 8 (4.65%) Workday
8 7 (4.07%) Dell
9 5 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.91%) Splunk
10 4 (2.33%) Anaplan
10 4 (2.33%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.33%) F5
10 4 (2.33%) Globalscape
10 4 (2.33%) Hyperion
10 4 (2.33%) Infoblox
10 4 (2.33%) Informatica
11 3 (1.74%) BMC
11 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud