Kong Contract Job Trends in the South East

Kong
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Kong skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kong 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.022% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.069% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
England median daily rate £395 £599 £550
% change year-on-year -34.03% +8.86% -6.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,442 1,045 1,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.44% 32.51% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 708 1,015
10th Percentile £250 £250 £200
25th Percentile £368 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £512 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -0.13% -2.38%
75th Percentile £576 £616 £615
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 20 52
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.23 £16.52
25th Percentile £15.00 £19.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.73 £60.34
90th Percentile £93.20 £75.67 £64.30
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.88% -9.00%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Kong job vacancy trend in the South East

Kong
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kong.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kong

Kong
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kong within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Hampshire - 1 £358 -
Kong
England

Kong
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) EMV
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk