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 25 February 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
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 434 483
Rank change year-on-year +15 +49 +49
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 184 104 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 0.73% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 59 72
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £413 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% - -
75th Percentile £587 £684 £638
90th Percentile £686 £782 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -29.17% - +9.09%

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 18,450 14,178 19,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.67% 46.54% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,594 11,979
10th Percentile £304 £280 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.87% -1.80%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 420 944
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.09 £21.25 £15.48
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -21.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.52
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £27.24 £25.75
% change year-on-year -17.15% +5.78% -16.94%

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 25 February 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 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 25 February 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 +9 167 £475 -20.83% 39
UK excluding London -22 87 £425 -29.17% 25
London -20 79 £550 -10.57% 16
Work from Home +19 59 £545 -3.11% 21
Midlands -20 42 £400 -15.79% 2
West Midlands -21 36 £400 -13.51% 1
South East -23 17 £488 +8.33% 9
North of England -60 12 £390 -34.18% 7
South West -25 8 £425 -34.62% 3
North West -37 8 £358 -39.58% 3
East Midlands -23 6 £545 -12.80% 1
East of England - 5 £550 - 4
Yorkshire -58 4 £563 - 3
Scotland +8 2 £538 -10.33%
Wales -2 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 (18.48%) Anypoint
2 13 (7.07%) Confluence
3 12 (6.52%) Mule
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.72%) Sketch
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.54%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.54%) iTrent
3 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.46%) Azure
2 41 (22.28%) AWS
3 28 (15.22%) Boomi
4 22 (11.96%) iPaaS
5 17 (9.24%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.70%) Apigee
7 14 (7.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 12 (6.52%) GCP
9 11 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.98%) SaaS
9 11 (5.98%) Snowflake
10 10 (5.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 7 (3.80%) Kong
12 6 (3.26%) GitHub
13 5 (2.72%) Figma
14 4 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
15 3 (1.63%) dbt
16 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
16 2 (1.09%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) HTTPS
1 4 (2.17%) LAN
1 4 (2.17%) WAN
2 2 (1.09%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) Firewall
3 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.61%) Power BI
2 8 (4.35%) KNIME
3 7 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.09%) Tableau
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Metadata
7 1 (0.54%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (9.24%) Git
2 16 (8.70%) JIRA
3 11 (5.98%) Selenium
4 3 (1.63%) Postman
5 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.54%) ERwin
6 1 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Hudson
6 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.39%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.35%) Marketing
7 7 (3.80%) Billing
8 5 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Retail
10 3 (1.63%) Banking
10 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Law
11 2 (1.09%) Automotive
11 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.54%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (34.78%) Architect
2 27 (14.67%) Developer
3 25 (13.59%) Analyst
4 24 (13.04%) Lead
5 22 (11.96%) MuleSoft Architect
6 17 (9.24%) Technical Architect
7 15 (8.15%) Business Analyst
7 15 (8.15%) Salesforce Developer
8 13 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (6.52%) Salesforce Architect
10 10 (5.43%) Integration Specialist
11 9 (4.89%) Data Analyst
11 9 (4.89%) MuleSoft Developer
11 9 (4.89%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.89%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (4.35%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.80%) Senior
14 6 (3.26%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.26%) Data Migration Engineer
14 6 (3.26%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.57%) Middleware
2 26 (14.13%) REST
2 26 (14.13%) SOAP
3 19 (10.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (9.78%) JSON
5 17 (9.24%) XML
6 14 (7.61%) OpenAPI
7 10 (5.43%) RESTful
8 9 (4.89%) OAuth
9 8 (4.35%) CSS
9 8 (4.35%) HTML
10 7 (3.80%) Swagger
10 7 (3.80%) XSD
11 6 (3.26%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.26%) JWT
11 6 (3.26%) Web Services
12 5 (2.72%) ADO
12 5 (2.72%) EDI
12 5 (2.72%) RAML
12 5 (2.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.26%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.26%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.63%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.54%) CMDB
8 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.54%) SCADA
8 1 (0.54%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.43%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Unix
3 4 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.00%) Agile
2 40 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.65%) CI/CD
4 36 (19.57%) API Management
5 33 (17.93%) Integration Patterns
6 28 (15.22%) DevOps
6 28 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (15.22%) Validation
7 27 (14.67%) Microservices
8 23 (12.50%) ERP
8 23 (12.50%) ETL
8 23 (12.50%) Migration
9 19 (10.33%) Data Modelling
10 18 (9.78%) API Design
10 18 (9.78%) Data Migration
10 18 (9.78%) Roadmaps
11 17 (9.24%) Test Automation
12 16 (8.70%) CRM
12 16 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
13 14 (7.61%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.74%) SQL
2 19 (10.33%) Apex Code
3 16 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.43%) Java
5 9 (4.89%) Python
6 7 (3.80%) DataWeave
7 6 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.09%) SOQL
10 1 (0.54%) C#
10 1 (0.54%) Groovy
10 1 (0.54%) Korn
10 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 26 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.50%) Degree
3 21 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CBAP
8 1 (0.54%) CSPO
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) MBA
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.61%) QA
2 11 (5.98%) GDPR
3 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.63%) GMP
4 3 (1.63%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) COBIT
5 1 (0.54%) HL7
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 6 (3.26%) CloudHub
2 3 (1.63%) Ansible
3 2 (1.09%) SCCM
3 2 (1.09%) SCOrch
3 2 (1.09%) Terraform
4 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (29.89%) Salesforce
2 16 (8.70%) SAP
3 15 (8.15%) Oracle
4 11 (5.98%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.89%) Informatica
5 9 (4.89%) Talend
6 8 (4.35%) Dell
6 8 (4.35%) Workday
7 5 (2.72%) Adobe
7 5 (2.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (2.17%) Axway
8 4 (2.17%) Google
8 4 (2.17%) IBM
8 4 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
9 3 (1.63%) BMC
9 3 (1.63%) Jitterbit
9 3 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.63%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.09%) Pega
11 1 (0.54%) Alteryx