Consul Contract Job Trends in England

HashiCorp Consul
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Consul skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 479 550
Rank change year-on-year -18 +71 +14
Contract jobs citing Consul 21 22 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.074% 0.071% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.50% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 37
10th Percentile £555 £461 £513
25th Percentile £581 £496 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +6.12%
75th Percentile £615 £709 £710
90th Percentile £620 £710 £743
UK median daily rate £600 £535 £625
% change year-on-year +12.15% -14.40% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Consul falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,625 4,400 5,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.19% 14.12% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,049 2,877 4,297
10th Percentile £300 £317 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 50 158
10th Percentile £18.65 £19.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% -22.48% +94.80%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.88 £74.84
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.25 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £49.87
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +99.46%

Consul
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Consul relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Consul job vacancy trend in England

Consul
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Consul.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Consul

Consul
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consul in England over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consul in England

Consul
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consul within the England region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
London -4 16 £600 +14.29% 3
East of England - 4 £613 -
Midlands - 1 £558 -
West Midlands - 1 £558 -
Consul
UK

Consul
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 14 (66.67%) Confluence
1 14 (66.67%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 14 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Git
2 14 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Lead
1 11 (52.38%) Technical Leader
2 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) Data Management
7 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
7 2 (9.52%) Secrets Management
7 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Bash
1 3 (14.29%) Java
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
3 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) SC Cleared
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) GPFS
2 1 (4.76%) Lustre
2 1 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Terraform
2 16 (76.19%) Kubernetes
3 14 (66.67%) Packer
4 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) Grafana
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk