Kong Contracts in England

Kong
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kong skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kong over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 519 632
Rank change year-on-year +54 +113 +67
Contract jobs citing Kong 20 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.062% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 12
10th Percentile £457 £250 £537
25th Percentile £469 £486 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £586
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -12.54% -0.68%
75th Percentile £738 £611 £756
90th Percentile £750 £645 £850
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £601
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.41% +4.43%

All Cloud Skills
England

Kong falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kong as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kong in England

Kong
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kong in England

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kong in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in England

Kong
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kong within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +39 10 £725 +36.47% 2
North of England +15 9 £480 -14.02%
North East - 8 £498 -
North West +11 1 £465 -4.91%
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 1
Midlands - 1 £358 - 1
Kong
UK

Kong
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Apigee
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (40.00%) Hazelcast
4 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (15.00%) Redis
6 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) GitLab
1 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) Git
2 8 (40.00%) Maven
3 5 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 5 (25.00%) gulp
3 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (30.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Electronics
6 2 (10.00%) Front Office
6 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (10.00%) Marketing
6 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Kafka
1 9 (45.00%) Spring
2 8 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (25.00%) Apache CXF
4 5 (25.00%) Dropwizard
4 5 (25.00%) Express.js
4 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 5 (25.00%) MEAN Stack
4 5 (25.00%) MERN Stack
4 5 (25.00%) Mongoose
4 5 (25.00%) Node.js
4 5 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (25.00%) React
4 5 (25.00%) Sequelize
5 4 (20.00%) REST
6 3 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (15.00%) J2EE
6 3 (15.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Microservices
3 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (25.00%) Open Source
4 5 (25.00%) Operational Stability
4 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Validation
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Batch Management
6 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (10.00%) Kanban
7 2 (10.00%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) Grafana
3 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) Control-M
4 3 (15.00%) Istio
4 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (15.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Rundeck
5 1 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (5.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Murex
1 4 (20.00%) Solace
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk