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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 486 530
Rank change year-on-year -84 +44 +94
Contract jobs citing Consul 18 30 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.094% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.64% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 52
10th Percentile £590 £493 £500
25th Percentile £601 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £700 £628
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.51% +0.44%
75th Percentile £716 £744 £688
90th Percentile £745 £750 £834
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -18.33% +30.43% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - £72.50 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.00
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 5,719 4,716 5,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 14.84% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,044 4,046
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £643
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 66 158
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.36 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £21.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +123.33% -47.64% +23.15%

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 11 January 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 5 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 11 January 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 -49 17 £648 -10.59%
London -8 11 £708 +0.71%
Work from Home -15 9 £667 +6.89%
UK excluding London -62 4 £613 -18.33%
East of England - 4 £613 -

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 12 (66.67%) Confluence
2 11 (61.11%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 11 (61.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Route 53
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (83.33%) Git
2 12 (66.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Scrum Master
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Loki
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Business Transformation
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Kanban
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Budget Management
6 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) GPFS
2 1 (5.56%) Lustre
2 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 14 (77.78%) Terraform
2 13 (72.22%) Packer
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) Salt