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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 481 555
Rank change year-on-year -105 +74 +34
Contract jobs citing Consul 26 37 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.41% 0.78% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 41
10th Percentile £513 £417 £463
25th Percentile £519 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £624 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +8.52% -9.21%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £724 £750 £844
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -15.52% +38.10% -18.60%
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 6,299 4,745 5,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 16.05% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,357 3,147 3,820
10th Percentile £314 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 53 152
10th Percentile £18.74 £15.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -32.00% -28.07%
75th Percentile £64.20 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.85 £76.89 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +128.31% -39.78% -13.14%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -91 26 £601 -14.14% 2
London -31 19 £601 +4.52%
Work from Home -33 10 £683 +9.37% 2
East of England -30 4 £613 +53.13% 1
UK excluding London -95 4 £613 -15.52% 2

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 21 (80.77%) Confluence
2 20 (76.92%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 13 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (26.92%) Route 53
3 7 (26.92%) Serverless
3 7 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) OpenVPN
2 7 (26.92%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (80.77%) JIRA
2 16 (61.54%) Git
3 7 (26.92%) Bitbucket
3 7 (26.92%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 7 (26.92%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum Master
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Architect
5 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) LDAP
1 7 (26.92%) OpenID
2 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Grid Computing
2 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) DevOps
2 16 (61.54%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 4 (15.38%) Business Transformation
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Kanban
5 4 (15.38%) Project Management
5 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 2 (7.69%) Budget Management
7 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.69%) Data Management
7 2 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.69%) SFIA
7 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Java
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) C++
3 1 (3.85%) Perl
3 1 (3.85%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) SC Cleared
1 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Docker
2 7 (26.92%) Squid
3 1 (3.85%) GPFS
3 1 (3.85%) Lustre
3 1 (3.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) Kubernetes
2 21 (80.77%) Terraform
3 15 (57.69%) Packer
4 7 (26.92%) FortiGate
4 7 (26.92%) Grafana
4 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
4 7 (26.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.85%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Atlassian
1 7 (26.92%) Dynatrace
1 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft