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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 400 459
Rank change year-on-year -38 +59 +66
Contract jobs citing MuleSoft 196 125 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 0.90% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 84 81
10th Percentile £400 £450 £450
25th Percentile £413 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £630
90th Percentile £712 £716 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £520 £569
% change year-on-year -18.27% -8.57% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 19,812 13,893 18,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.93% 47.48% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,650 8,712 11,457
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.04% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 562 1,086
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.86 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.11 £14.43
Median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -49.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -46.25%

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 1 May 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 14 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 1 May 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 -27 174 £500 -15.61% 29
UK excluding London -64 91 £425 -18.27% 12
London -20 80 £550 -11.29% 22
Work from Home -11 58 £500 -4.76% 17
Midlands -42 44 £400 -25.93% 2
West Midlands -31 37 £400 -15.79% 1
North of England -60 19 £513 -2.38% 1
North West -38 15 £451 -17.95%
South East -61 13 £503 +4.69% 6
East Midlands -27 7 £523 -6.28% 1
East of England - 7 £535 - 1
South West -34 6 £425 -34.62% 1
Yorkshire -49 4 £563 +25.84% 1
Scotland -6 2 £538 -10.33%

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 37 (18.88%) Anypoint
2 14 (7.14%) Confluence
3 10 (5.10%) Mule
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Adobe XD
1 5 (2.55%) Sketch
2 2 (1.02%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.02%) Revit
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.53%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.51%) iTrent
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (27.04%) Azure
2 50 (25.51%) AWS
3 33 (16.84%) Boomi
4 24 (12.24%) Apigee
5 21 (10.71%) iPaaS
6 17 (8.67%) GCP
7 15 (7.65%) Power Platform
8 13 (6.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 12 (6.12%) SaaS
10 10 (5.10%) Kong
11 9 (4.59%) Snowflake
12 8 (4.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.55%) Figma
13 5 (2.55%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (2.04%) Azure API Management
14 4 (2.04%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 3 (1.53%) dbt
15 3 (1.53%) GitHub
15 3 (1.53%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.08%) LAN
1 8 (4.08%) WAN
2 7 (3.57%) HTTP
3 5 (2.55%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.02%) Firewall
5 1 (0.51%) AMQP
5 1 (0.51%) Broadband
5 1 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.51%) SMS
5 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.61%) Power BI
2 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (3.06%) KNIME
4 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.02%) Metadata
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.02%) Tableau
6 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.51%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (14.29%) Git
2 20 (10.20%) JIRA
3 10 (5.10%) Selenium
4 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.51%) ERwin
5 1 (0.51%) Hudson
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 58 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Finance
3 32 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.78%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.55%) Law
9 4 (2.04%) Banking
9 4 (2.04%) Billing
9 4 (2.04%) Marketing
9 4 (2.04%) Publishing
9 4 (2.04%) Retail
10 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.02%) Automotive
11 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (35.20%) Architect
2 32 (16.33%) Developer
3 22 (11.22%) Lead
3 22 (11.22%) MuleSoft Architect
4 21 (10.71%) Analyst
4 21 (10.71%) Technical Architect
5 19 (9.69%) Salesforce Developer
6 12 (6.12%) Integration Specialist
6 12 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.10%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.59%) MuleSoft Developer
8 9 (4.59%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (4.08%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.08%) Salesforce Architect
9 8 (4.08%) Senior
9 8 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
9 8 (4.08%) Technical Leader
10 7 (3.57%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.57%) Data Migration Engineer
10 7 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.88%) Middleware
2 31 (15.82%) REST
3 27 (13.78%) Lightning Web Components
4 24 (12.24%) JSON
5 23 (11.73%) XML
6 21 (10.71%) SOAP
7 15 (7.65%) OpenAPI
8 13 (6.63%) OAuth
9 12 (6.12%) Swagger
10 11 (5.61%) RAML
11 10 (5.10%) JWT
12 9 (4.59%) React
12 9 (4.59%) RESTful
13 8 (4.08%) CSS
13 8 (4.08%) HTML
14 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.06%) Web Services
15 5 (2.55%) CSS3
15 5 (2.55%) Kafka
15 5 (2.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.10%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.04%) IoT
8 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.53%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) SCADA
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.51%) PACS
10 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.51%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.61%) Linux
2 9 (4.59%) Windows
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (27.55%) CI/CD
2 46 (23.47%) Agile
3 44 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.94%) API Management
5 41 (20.92%) Integration Patterns
6 34 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (16.33%) ERP
8 30 (15.31%) Microservices
9 27 (13.78%) Data Modelling
9 27 (13.78%) Validation
10 25 (12.76%) DevOps
10 25 (12.76%) ETL
11 24 (12.24%) CRM
12 23 (11.73%) Event-Driven
12 23 (11.73%) Migration
13 22 (11.22%) Translating Business Requirements
14 19 (9.69%) API Design
14 19 (9.69%) Data Transformation
15 16 (8.16%) Data Migration
15 16 (8.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.35%) SQL
2 27 (13.78%) Apex Code
3 21 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.10%) Java
5 9 (4.59%) Python
6 8 (4.08%) DataWeave
7 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.53%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.02%) C#
8 2 (1.02%) SOQL
9 1 (0.51%) Bash
9 1 (0.51%) Groovy
9 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.20%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.53%) CISSP
6 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.53%) GIAC
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CBAP
8 1 (0.51%) CSPO
8 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.14%) GDPR
1 14 (7.14%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.53%) GMP
4 3 (1.53%) WCAG
5 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.51%) COBIT
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) DICOM
5 1 (0.51%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
1 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.02%) CloudHub
2 1 (0.51%) Ansible
2 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (32.65%) Salesforce
2 22 (11.22%) SAP
3 15 (7.65%) Oracle
4 11 (5.61%) Informatica
5 10 (5.10%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.10%) Talend
6 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.57%) Adobe
7 7 (3.57%) Workday
8 6 (3.06%) IBM
9 5 (2.55%) Axway
9 5 (2.55%) IBM Sterling
10 4 (2.04%) Dell
10 4 (2.04%) Google
11 3 (1.53%) DocuSign
11 3 (1.53%) Jitterbit
11 3 (1.53%) Pega
12 2 (1.02%) Conga
12 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (1.02%) Sitecore