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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 474 545
Rank change year-on-year -139 +71 +71
Contract jobs citing Consul 20 28 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.096% 0.076%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.61% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 30
10th Percentile £468 £418 £466
25th Percentile £514 £506 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £713 £615
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +15.85% -2.90%
75th Percentile £610 £741 £695
90th Percentile £647 £750 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £725 -
% change year-on-year -43.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.50 - -
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,483 4,593 5,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.59% 15.68% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,461 3,145 3,681
10th Percentile £325 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £20.21 £17.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year +107.55% -22.63% -23.68%

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 7 May 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 7 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 7 May 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 -113 19 £550 -24.14% 1
London -57 14 £550 -17.91% 1
Work from Home -33 9 £618 -14.83% 1
UK excluding London -113 2 £413 -43.10%
North East -17 1 £413 -45.00%
East of England -35 1 - -
North of England -64 1 £413 -45.00%

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 15 (75.00%) Confluence
2 13 (65.00%) nginx
3 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (40.00%) Serverless
2 8 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (35.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (35.00%) Route 53
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
1 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (40.00%) DNS
3 7 (35.00%) OpenVPN
3 7 (35.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.00%) InfiniBand
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) JIRA
2 8 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 7 (35.00%) Bitbucket
4 6 (30.00%) Git
5 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (10.00%) GitLab
7 1 (5.00%) JMeter
7 1 (5.00%) JUnit
7 1 (5.00%) Postman
7 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (35.00%) Documentation Skills
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) OpenID
2 7 (35.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) cloud-init
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Debian
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.00%) Budget Management
6 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Observability
6 2 (10.00%) SFIA
6 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.00%) Release Management
7 1 (5.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) Ruby
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Perl
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
2 7 (35.00%) Squid
3 1 (5.00%) GPFS
3 1 (5.00%) Lustre
3 1 (5.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (85.00%) Terraform
3 12 (60.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (50.00%) Grafana
5 8 (40.00%) Packer
5 8 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (35.00%) FortiGate
7 6 (30.00%) Ansible
8 1 (5.00%) Kibana
8 1 (5.00%) logstash
8 1 (5.00%) Puppet
8 1 (5.00%) Salt
8 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (35.00%) Atlassian
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk