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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 537 546
Rank change year-on-year -123 +9 +60
Contract jobs citing Consul 14 21 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.064% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.46% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 22
10th Percentile £433 £554 £501
25th Percentile £453 £559 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.00% -12.08%
75th Percentile £626 £608 £708
90th Percentile £632 £618 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £558 -
% change year-on-year -21.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £33.08 - -
25th Percentile £36.94 - -
Median hourly rate £44.25 - -
75th Percentile £51.94 - -
90th Percentile £56.03 - -
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 5,985 4,583 4,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 13.92% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,970 2,976 3,140
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 84 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £64.24 £28.25 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +127.40% -26.14% -32.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.40 £60.63
90th Percentile £88.98 £70.93 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £24.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +157.06% -35.86% -18.09%

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 13 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Consul over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Consul in the UK

Consul
Top 9 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 13 September 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 -115 12 £500 -16.67% 14
Work from Home -64 8 £618 +0.41% 10
UK excluding London -91 6 £438 -21.52% 5
North of England - 5 £438 -
London -101 4 £618 +2.92% 10
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 £438 -
North West - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 4

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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) HTTP
3 2 (14.29%) SSL
4 1 (7.14%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) JUnit
4 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 2 (14.29%) Flyway
4 2 (14.29%) Git
4 2 (14.29%) git-flow
4 2 (14.29%) Liquibase
4 2 (14.29%) Mockito
4 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (7.14%) JMeter
5 1 (7.14%) Postman
5 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
3 3 (21.43%) cloud-init
3 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (21.43%) Swagger
4 2 (14.29%) HATEOAS
4 2 (14.29%) Jasypt
4 2 (14.29%) JDBC
4 2 (14.29%) JPA
4 2 (14.29%) JWT
4 2 (14.29%) Loki
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 2 (14.29%) SAML
4 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Grid Computing
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) VMS
4 1 (7.14%) CentOS
4 1 (7.14%) Debian
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) Observability
4 8 (57.14%) Agile
5 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Validation
7 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
7 3 (21.43%) Secrets Management
8 2 (14.29%) Batch Processing
8 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 2 (14.29%) Inventory Management
8 2 (14.29%) Log Aggregation
8 2 (14.29%) OWASP
8 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) Bash
3 6 (42.86%) Go
4 4 (28.57%) Ruby
5 3 (21.43%) Java
5 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Groovy
6 2 (14.29%) PromQL
6 2 (14.29%) Scala
7 1 (7.14%) C++
7 1 (7.14%) Perl
7 1 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) FedRAMP
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) GPFS
2 1 (7.14%) Lustre
2 1 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Ansible
1 13 (92.86%) Prometheus
2 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
3 8 (57.14%) Grafana
4 3 (21.43%) Packer
4 3 (21.43%) ZABBIX
5 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (14.29%) Zipkin
6 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
6 1 (7.14%) Istio
6 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (7.14%) Kibana
6 1 (7.14%) linkerd
6 1 (7.14%) logstash
6 1 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (7.14%) Rancher
6 1 (7.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Solace
3 1 (7.14%) Apple
3 1 (7.14%) ESET
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Okta