Kong Contracts in the North of England

Kong
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 146 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Kong 8 19 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.45% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 1.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 0
10th Percentile £385 £485 -
25th Percentile £396 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.80% - -
75th Percentile £473 £645 -
90th Percentile £475 £687 -
England median daily rate £493 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -17.92% - +7.14%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,367 1,288 1,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.13% 30.56% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 872 1,298
10th Percentile £300 £288 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £485 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -4.90% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 61
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.10 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -22.79% +20.89%
75th Percentile £69.35 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £88.75 £61.53 £52.99
England median hourly rate £26.00 £26.97 £33.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% -18.27% +53.49%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kong in the North of England

Kong
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kong.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kong

Kong
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -11 4 £400 -18.20% 4
North East - 3 £465 - 4
Yorkshire -20 1 £390 -37.60%
Kong
England

Kong
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
3 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 4 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (50.00%) gulp
3 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (50.00%) Maven
3 4 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
1 6 (75.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (50.00%) Apache CXF
2 4 (50.00%) Dropwizard
2 4 (50.00%) Express.js
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) JAX-RS
2 4 (50.00%) MEAN Stack
2 4 (50.00%) MERN Stack
2 4 (50.00%) Mongoose
2 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (50.00%) Sequelize
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Open Source
2 4 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk