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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 457 508
Rank change year-on-year -123 +51 +51
Contract jobs citing Consul 15 12 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.037% 0.049% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.32% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 28
10th Percentile £455 £398 £465
25th Percentile £506 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £571 £630
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% -9.33% -0.53%
75th Percentile £550 £738 £696
90th Percentile £680 £749 £710
UK median daily rate £522 £571 £600
% change year-on-year -8.66% -4.79% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.50 - -
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.00 - -

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 5,476 3,792 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.60% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,790 2,617 3,177
10th Percentile £313 £313 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 39 106
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £41.64 £22.60 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.00 £28.00 £25.74
Median % change year-on-year +103.57% +8.79% -53.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.33 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.30 £79.55 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.75 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +110.38% +2.85% -55.19%

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 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consul in England

Consul
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Consul

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 12 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
London -48 11 £519 +1.18%
East of England -30 1 - - 1
North of England -69 1 £413 -45.00%
North East - 1 £413 -
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 11 (73.33%) Confluence
2 9 (60.00%) nginx
3 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
2 8 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (53.33%) Serverless
2 8 (53.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (46.67%) Route 53
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
1 9 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (53.33%) DNS
3 7 (46.67%) OpenVPN
3 7 (46.67%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) HTTP
4 1 (6.67%) InfiniBand
4 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) JIRA
2 7 (46.67%) Bitbucket
2 7 (46.67%) SonarQube
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (13.33%) Git
5 1 (6.67%) GitLab
5 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (46.67%) Documentation Skills
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) OpenID
2 7 (46.67%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) cloud-init
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Debian
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Decision-Making
3 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
7 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
7 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
7 1 (6.67%) Release Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Release Management
7 1 (6.67%) SFIA
7 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Squid
2 5 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) GPFS
3 1 (6.67%) Lustre
3 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (80.00%) Terraform
3 11 (73.33%) Prometheus
4 9 (60.00%) Grafana
5 8 (53.33%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (46.67%) FortiGate
7 5 (33.33%) Ansible
8 4 (26.67%) Packer
9 1 (6.67%) Kibana
9 1 (6.67%) logstash
9 1 (6.67%) Puppet
9 1 (6.67%) Salt
9 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Dynatrace
2 7 (46.67%) Atlassian
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk