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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 532 546
Rank change year-on-year -112 +14 +63
Contract jobs citing Consul 15 25 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.076% 0.062%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.21% 0.48% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 23
10th Percentile £446 £395 £502
25th Percentile £469 £554 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £617 - £709
90th Percentile £628 £617 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 -
% change year-on-year +6.71% - -
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 7,106 5,159 5,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.26% 15.68% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,830 3,406 3,662
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £504 £523
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.73% -4.86%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.20
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.91 £23.99
Median hourly rate £63.14 £35.14 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.69% +3.34% -40.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £78.10 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +37.50% -13.38%

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 8 August 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 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Consul in the UK

Consul
Top 8 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 8 August 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 -116 13 £516 -14.08% 14
Work from Home -63 7 £618 +0.41% 6
London -82 5 £519 -13.58% 11
UK excluding London -96 5 £438 +6.71% 3
North of England - 4 £438 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 £438 -
East of England -18 1 - - 1

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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) nginx
3 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (26.67%) GitHub
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (13.33%) Route 53
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) HTTP
4 2 (13.33%) OpenVPN
4 2 (13.33%) SSL
4 2 (13.33%) VPN
5 1 (6.67%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (20.00%) JUnit
3 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (13.33%) Flyway
4 2 (13.33%) Git
4 2 (13.33%) git-flow
4 2 (13.33%) Liquibase
4 2 (13.33%) Mockito
4 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.67%) JMeter
5 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) OpenID
2 3 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) cloud-init
3 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (13.33%) Gherkin
3 2 (13.33%) HATEOAS
3 2 (13.33%) Jasypt
3 2 (13.33%) JDBC
3 2 (13.33%) JWT
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 2 (13.33%) Loki
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
3 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) SAML
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Batch
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) VMS
3 1 (6.67%) Debian
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 7 (46.67%) Observability
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Batch Processing
7 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
7 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
7 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Go
4 3 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Ruby
4 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Groovy
5 2 (13.33%) PromQL
5 2 (13.33%) Scala
6 1 (6.67%) C++
6 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Squid
3 1 (6.67%) GPFS
3 1 (6.67%) Lustre
3 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
1 13 (86.67%) Prometheus
2 12 (80.00%) Ansible
3 8 (53.33%) Grafana
3 8 (53.33%) Terraform
4 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (20.00%) Packer
6 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
6 2 (13.33%) ZABBIX
6 2 (13.33%) Zipkin
7 1 (6.67%) Kibana
7 1 (6.67%) logstash
7 1 (6.67%) Puppet
7 1 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
1 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Solace
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk