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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 574 608
Rank change year-on-year +84 +34 +44
Contract jobs citing Consul 29 26 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.060% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 0.51% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 80
10th Percentile £420 £470 £500
25th Percentile £506 £554 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £655 £633
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +3.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £738 £705 £675
90th Percentile £750 £892 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consul in the UK

Consul
Top 9 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 30 April 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 +62 23 £725 +10.69% 12
Work from Home +46 13 £700 +2.94% 6
UK excluding London +64 12 £725 - 3
North of England +35 9 £750 - 1
London +22 9 £670 +2.29% 9
Yorkshire - 6 £725 -
East of England - 3 £400 -
North East - 2 £750 - 1
North West +10 1 £750 -

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 16 (55.17%) nginx
2 12 (41.38%) Traefik
3 6 (20.69%) Confluence
4 3 (10.34%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (89.66%) AWS
2 20 (68.97%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (62.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (62.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (48.28%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (48.28%) AWS Fargate
4 14 (48.28%) Entra ID
5 5 (17.24%) Azure
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.45%) Datadog
8 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) DNS
1 14 (48.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.34%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (89.66%) Jenkins
2 21 (72.41%) GitLab
3 7 (24.14%) JIRA
4 5 (17.24%) Git
5 3 (10.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.45%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (17.24%) Military
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (55.17%) Senior
2 16 (55.17%) Senior DevOps
3 12 (41.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) cloud-init
1 14 (48.28%) Kafka
1 14 (48.28%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) PKI
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (86.21%) Linux
2 19 (65.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (48.28%) CentOS
3 14 (48.28%) Unix
4 3 (10.34%) Rocky
5 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) DevOps
2 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
3 20 (68.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (58.62%) Observability
5 16 (55.17%) Cloud Security
6 15 (51.72%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (51.72%) Secrets Management
7 14 (48.28%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 14 (48.28%) Identity Management
7 14 (48.28%) Static Application Security Testing
8 12 (41.38%) Mobile Device Management
9 11 (37.93%) Agile
10 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
11 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
12 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
13 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
13 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 3 (10.34%) GitOps
13 3 (10.34%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 16 (55.17%) Bash
2 16 (55.17%) Go
3 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 15 (51.72%) AWS Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) RHCA
4 3 (10.34%) RHCE
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (100.00%) Terraform
2 27 (93.10%) Kubernetes
3 19 (65.52%) Packer
4 18 (62.07%) Prometheus
5 16 (55.17%) Grafana
6 15 (51.72%) Istio
6 15 (51.72%) linkerd
7 14 (48.28%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (48.28%) Rancher
7 14 (48.28%) ZABBIX
8 12 (41.38%) HAProxy
9 10 (34.48%) Ansible
10 4 (13.79%) Argo
11 3 (10.34%) logstash
11 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
12 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Splunk
2 14 (48.28%) Okta
3 12 (41.38%) Apple
3 12 (41.38%) ESET
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
5 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.34%) Google
5 3 (10.34%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) New Relic