Consul Contract Job Trends

HashiCorp Consul
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Consul skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 535 597
Rank change year-on-year -6 +62 +44
Contract jobs citing Consul 21 22 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.057% 0.094%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.40% 0.42% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 32
10th Percentile £554 £500 £514
25th Percentile £559 £508 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -14.72% +10.42%
75th Percentile £608 £708 £713
90th Percentile £618 £710 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 - £626
% change year-on-year - - +4.25%

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 5,226 5,254 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 13.64% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,430 3,543 5,214
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £688 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.03% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 180
10th Percentile £13.75 £19.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.97% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £75.13
90th Percentile £67.20 £74.35 £78.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £47.83
% change year-on-year -45.50% -17.94% +122.47%

Consul
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Consul as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Consul 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 20 September 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 6 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 20 September 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 +11 17 £600 -3.61% 1
London +12 16 £600 -3.61% 1
Work from Home +26 5 £615 -3.91%
UK excluding London - 1 £558 -
Midlands - 1 £558 -
West Midlands - 1 £558 -

Consul
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (66.67%) Confluence
1 14 (66.67%) nginx
2 3 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) AWS
2 14 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.76%) Azure
6 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Route 53
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Git
2 14 (66.67%) JIRA
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Lead
1 11 (52.38%) Technical Leader
2 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Secrets Management
7 3 (14.29%) Service Management
8 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
8 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
8 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
9 1 (4.76%) Commercial Awareness
9 1 (4.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) SC Cleared
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Terraform
2 19 (90.48%) Kubernetes
3 15 (71.43%) Packer
4 4 (19.05%) Ansible
5 3 (14.29%) Argo
5 3 (14.29%) Grafana
5 3 (14.29%) logstash
5 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
5 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI