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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 466 513
Rank change year-on-year -51 +47 +55
Contract jobs citing Consul 23 26 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.097% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.66% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 39
10th Percentile £519 £487 £513
25th Percentile £559 £582 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £715 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% +10.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £712 £750 £703
90th Percentile £732 - £956
UK median daily rate £620 £665 £625
% change year-on-year -6.84% +6.40% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -

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 5,099 3,920 4,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 14.63% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,546 2,537 3,467
10th Percentile £311 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £526 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -0.75% -9.79%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 52 157
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.55
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.03 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +78.60% -41.80% +13.81%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £77.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.40% -42.62% +19.95%

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 23 January 2026.

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 23 January 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 -24 17 £627 -4.71% 2
East of England - 4 £613 -
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 19 (82.61%) Confluence
2 18 (78.26%) nginx
3 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (21.74%) Route 53
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
3 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (21.74%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) OpenVPN
2 5 (21.74%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (82.61%) JIRA
2 16 (69.57%) Git
3 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket
3 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum Master
3 4 (17.39%) Technical Architect
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Architect
4 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Portal Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) LDAP
1 5 (21.74%) OpenID
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
1 15 (65.22%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
3 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
4 4 (17.39%) Business Transformation
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Kanban
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Budget Management
6 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.70%) Data Management
6 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.70%) SFIA
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) Perl
3 1 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) SC Cleared
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) Squid
3 1 (4.35%) GPFS
3 1 (4.35%) Lustre
3 1 (4.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (86.96%) Kubernetes
2 19 (82.61%) Terraform
3 14 (60.87%) Packer
4 5 (21.74%) FortiGate
4 5 (21.74%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
4 5 (21.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (4.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Atlassian
1 5 (21.74%) Dynatrace
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft