Consul Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HashiCorp Consul
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Consul skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 362 416
Rank change year-on-year -16 +54 +47
Contract jobs citing Consul 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.006% 0.024%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.044% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £559 - -
25th Percentile £567 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £604 - £644
90th Percentile £613 - £656
UK median daily rate £606 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -2.92% -0.08% +1.21%
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,702 2,274 2,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 13.67% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,828 1,471 1,981
10th Percentile £243 £250 £263
25th Percentile £381 £381 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -2.72% -2.10%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £638 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 36 121
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.51 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -24.03% +109.91%
75th Percentile £67.00 £50.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £84.35 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £35.08 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.63% -29.84% +100.00%

Consul
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Consul job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Consul
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Consul.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Consul

Consul
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consul within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
East of England - 4 £613 -
Midlands - 1 £558 -
West Midlands - 1 £558 -
Consul
UK

Consul
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) GPFS
2 1 (20.00%) Lustre
2 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk