Kong Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kong
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 326 386 450
Rank change year-on-year +60 +64 +44
Contract jobs citing Kong 10 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.063% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 7
10th Percentile £445 £476 £546
25th Percentile £458 £489 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £558 £586
Median % change year-on-year -15.36% -4.74% +1.03%
75th Percentile £534 £640 -
90th Percentile £580 £646 £601
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £601
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.41% +4.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kong as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kong in the UK excluding London

Kong
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kong in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kong in the UK excluding London

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK excluding London

Kong
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London 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 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Apigee
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) GitLab
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 5 (50.00%) Git
3 5 (50.00%) gulp
3 5 (50.00%) Maven
3 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (50.00%) Apache CXF
2 5 (50.00%) Dropwizard
2 5 (50.00%) Express.js
2 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (50.00%) JAX-RS
2 5 (50.00%) MEAN Stack
2 5 (50.00%) MERN Stack
2 5 (50.00%) Mongoose
2 5 (50.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (50.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) Sequelize
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Open Source
2 5 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) logstash
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk