Kong Contract Job Trends in London

Kong
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Kong skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 376 420
Rank change year-on-year +7 +44 +94
Contract jobs citing Kong 7 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.032% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.077% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £561 £528 £583
25th Percentile £613 £655 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £770 £663
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +16.15% +18.30%
75th Percentile £675 £834 £738
90th Percentile £685 - £763
England median daily rate £475 £485 £600
% change year-on-year -2.06% -19.17% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,273 6,454 7,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.81% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,247 4,391 5,668
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 35 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.04 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.88 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -11.67% +48.56%
75th Percentile £42.96 £57.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £76.88 £72.15 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.27 £27.25
% change year-on-year -23.44% +22.09% +21.11%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kong relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Kong job vacancy trend in London

Kong
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kong.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kong

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kong in London over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in London

Kong
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kong within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Central London - 1 £493 - 1
Kong
England

Kong
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) git-flow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) AI
5 3 (42.86%) API Management
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 3 (42.86%) Observability
6 2 (28.57%) API Design
6 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
6 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI