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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 532 570
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +58
Contract jobs citing Consul 30 21 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.058% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% 0.41% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 47
10th Percentile £555 £476 £495
25th Percentile £600 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -0.08% +1.21%
75th Percentile £679 £709 £688
90th Percentile £723 £710 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £585 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%
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 5,657 5,155 6,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.38% 14.20% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 3,332 4,804
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £650
90th Percentile £680 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.55% -2.72% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 56 167
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £28.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £35.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% -29.84% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.63 £76.25 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -32.20% -24.03% +109.91%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 -17 29 £613 -12.50% 12
London +7 23 £608 -13.21% 10
Work from Home +3 8 £708 +13.38% 4
UK excluding London -16 5 £585 - 10
East of England - 4 £613 -
Midlands - 1 £558 -
West Midlands - 1 £558 -

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 22 (73.33%) Confluence
2 21 (70.00%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) AWS
2 21 (70.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Route 53
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (83.33%) Git
2 22 (73.33%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Lead
1 11 (36.67%) Technical Leader
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Scrum Master
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Portal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) Loki
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) React
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Grid Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.33%) Business Transformation
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (13.33%) Kanban
6 4 (13.33%) Microservices
6 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Project Management
6 4 (13.33%) Scrum
7 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (10.00%) Secrets Management
7 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (6.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Bash
1 4 (13.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) C++
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 27 (90.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) GPFS
2 1 (3.33%) Lustre
2 1 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (86.67%) Terraform
2 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 23 (76.67%) Packer
4 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.67%) Ansible
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
6 1 (3.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
1 1 (3.33%) Splunk