Consul Contracts

HashiCorp Consul
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Consul skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Consul over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 548 601
Rank change year-on-year +23 +53 +46
Contract jobs citing Consul 25 24 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.062% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.46% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 32
10th Percentile £395 £502 £360
25th Percentile £554 £510 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £709 £688
90th Percentile £617 £710 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 - £501
% change year-on-year - - -16.50%

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 5,198 5,180 8,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.66% 13.35% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,435 3,655 5,595
10th Percentile £300 £302 £331
25th Percentile £408 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.48% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 76 173
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.25 £24.09 £25.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.08 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -38.99% +145.15%
75th Percentile £63.40 £58.13 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.98 £74.22 £79.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £43.09 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.64% -6.69% +130.90%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consul.

Daily rate trend for Consul in the UK

Consul
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Consul over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Consul in the UK

Consul
Top 7 Contract 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 August 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 +23 20 £600 -8.40% 5
London +9 16 £600 -8.40% 5
Work from Home +12 6 £615 -10.87% 2
UK excluding London - 4 £410 -
East of England - 3 £400 -
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 (56.00%) Confluence
1 14 (56.00%) nginx
2 3 (12.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (28.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.00%) Azure
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) Datadog
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Git
2 14 (56.00%) JIRA
3 5 (20.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Lead
1 11 (44.00%) Technical Leader
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Secrets Management
7 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.00%) GitOps
7 3 (12.00%) Observability
7 3 (12.00%) Service Management
7 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (8.00%) High Availability
8 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Load Balancing
8 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 20 (80.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (100.00%) Terraform
2 21 (84.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (60.00%) Packer
4 7 (28.00%) Ansible
4 7 (28.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (20.00%) Grafana
6 4 (16.00%) Argo
7 3 (12.00%) logstash
7 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (4.00%) Istio
8 1 (4.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (12.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) New Relic
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat