Consul Contracts

HashiCorp Consul
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Consul skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Consul over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 546 612
Rank change year-on-year +23 +66 +39
Contract jobs citing Consul 27 28 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.065% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 0.52% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 43
10th Percentile £395 £479 £363
25th Percentile £506 £508 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £565 £633
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -10.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £663
90th Percentile £622 £710 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 - £633
% change year-on-year - - +5.42%

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 4,998 5,430 8,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.53% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 3,860 6,174
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.80
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.04% +130.00%

Consul
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Consul as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Consul in the UK

Consul
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consul.

Daily rate trend for Consul in the UK

Consul
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consul over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consul in the UK

Consul
Top 7 Contract 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 5 July 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
England +51 23 £588 -1.67% 45
London +38 18 £600 +0.42% 40
Work from Home +19 5 £623 -8.46% 15
UK excluding London - 4 £410 - 7
East of England - 3 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £558 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £558 - 1

Consul
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (51.85%) Confluence
1 14 (51.85%) nginx
2 3 (11.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) AWS
2 16 (59.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Datadog
7 1 (3.70%) IaaS
7 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.11%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (55.56%) Git
1 15 (55.56%) JIRA
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (25.93%) GitLab
4 3 (11.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.70%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Lead
1 11 (40.74%) Technical Leader
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (40.74%) DevOps
5 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 6 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (11.11%) GitOps
10 3 (11.11%) Observability
10 3 (11.11%) Service Management
11 2 (7.41%) High Availability
11 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
11 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
11 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) SC Cleared
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 23 (85.19%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (100.00%) Terraform
2 24 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 15 (55.56%) Packer
4 11 (40.74%) Ansible
5 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (14.81%) Argo
7 3 (11.11%) Grafana
7 3 (11.11%) logstash
7 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.70%) Istio
8 1 (3.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) New Relic
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat