Consul Contract Job Trends

HashiCorp Consul
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Consul skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 493 560
Rank change year-on-year -94 +67 +38
Contract jobs citing Consul 28 28 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.095% 0.066%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.44% 0.60% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 25
10th Percentile £484 £420 £478
25th Percentile £519 £506 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £655
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.87% +2.62%
75th Percentile £695 £738 £700
90th Percentile £721 £750 £847
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £725 -
% change year-on-year -43.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.50 £72.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% - -
75th Percentile £31.50 £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,427 4,663 5,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 15.79% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 3,204 3,704
10th Percentile £325 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -8.77%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 51 129
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.86 £20.65 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £72.50 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -31.43%

Consul
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Consul job vacancy trend in the UK

Consul
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Consul
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consul over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Consul in the UK

Consul
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Consul.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Consul

Consul
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 April 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 -97 27 £600 -17.24% 5
London -38 21 £601 -10.30% 4
Work from Home -28 14 £671 -4.14% 5
UK excluding London -117 2 £413 -43.10% 2
North East -20 1 £413 -45.00%
East of England -28 1 - - 1
North of England -72 1 £413 -45.00%

Consul
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 23 (82.14%) Confluence
2 20 (71.43%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 25 (89.29%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 8 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (28.57%) Serverless
3 8 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (25.00%) Route 53
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.57%) Azure
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Firewall
1 9 (32.14%) TCP/IP
2 8 (28.57%) DNS
3 7 (25.00%) OpenVPN
3 7 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) HTTP
4 1 (3.57%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (82.14%) JIRA
2 14 (50.00%) Git
3 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 7 (25.00%) Bitbucket
5 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (7.14%) GitLab
7 1 (3.57%) JMeter
7 1 (3.57%) JUnit
7 1 (3.57%) Postman
7 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 7 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (17.86%) Technical Architect
4 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Scrum Master
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Architect
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) DevOps Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) OpenID
2 7 (25.00%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) cloud-init
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) SAML
3 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Grid Computing
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Debian
2 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Agile
1 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.29%) Business Transformation
4 4 (14.29%) Kanban
4 4 (14.29%) Project Management
4 4 (14.29%) Scrum
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.14%) Budget Management
6 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
6 2 (7.14%) Observability
6 2 (7.14%) SFIA
6 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) Go
3 2 (7.14%) Ruby
3 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) C++
4 1 (3.57%) Groovy
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) Perl
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (89.29%) SC Cleared
1 25 (89.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Docker
2 7 (25.00%) Squid
3 1 (3.57%) GPFS
3 1 (3.57%) Lustre
3 1 (3.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (96.43%) Kubernetes
2 24 (85.71%) Terraform
3 16 (57.14%) Packer
4 12 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 10 (35.71%) Grafana
6 8 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (25.00%) FortiGate
8 6 (21.43%) Ansible
9 1 (3.57%) Kibana
9 1 (3.57%) logstash
9 1 (3.57%) Puppet
9 1 (3.57%) Salt
9 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 7 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk