Kong Contract Job Trends

Kong
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kong skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 535 532
Rank change year-on-year -94 -3 +108
Contract jobs citing Kong 54 23 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.070% 0.088%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 28
10th Percentile £400 £387 £285
25th Percentile £432 £458 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £555 £556
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -0.22% -7.29%
75th Percentile £543 £675 £645
90th Percentile £699 £734 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £433 £622
% change year-on-year +8.32% -30.47% +3.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,903 12,206 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.20% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,514 8,148 9,060
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 320 244
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £18.87 £21.46
% change year-on-year +77.53% -12.07% -18.25%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kong job vacancy trend in the UK

Kong
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kong

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kong over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 August 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
England -101 34 £500 -1.96% 3
UK excluding London -85 29 £469 +8.32% 11
North of England -57 17 £500 +15.61% 1
London -75 14 £526 -19.15%
Work from Home -44 11 £495 -31.72% 2
Scotland - 11 £425 - 8
Yorkshire -32 7 £500 +28.21% 1
North East -40 6 £400 -13.98%
North West -48 4 £725 +81.25%
South East - 1 £469 - 1

Kong
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 34 (62.96%) AWS
2 22 (40.74%) Amazon EKS
2 22 (40.74%) Azure
3 17 (31.48%) Apigee
4 15 (27.78%) GCP
4 15 (27.78%) Serverless
5 14 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (18.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (16.67%) GitHub
8 8 (14.81%) Akamai
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon MSK
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (12.96%) Amazon S3
9 7 (12.96%) AWS KMS
9 7 (12.96%) Cloudflare
9 7 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (11.11%) Azure API Management
11 5 (9.26%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (9.26%) DNS
2 5 (9.26%) HTTP
3 2 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
1 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.26%) Hazelcast
3 5 (9.26%) RDBMS
3 5 (9.26%) Redis
4 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.56%) Apache Hive
5 3 (5.56%) Big Data
5 3 (5.56%) DocumentDB
5 3 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.56%) MySQL
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) GitLab
2 12 (22.22%) Git
3 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
4 9 (16.67%) Maven
5 6 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 6 (11.11%) Gradle
5 6 (11.11%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.41%) Snyk
7 2 (3.70%) JIRA
7 2 (3.70%) JMeter
8 1 (1.85%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.85%) Postman
8 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.85%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
2 7 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Architect
3 8 (14.81%) Lead
3 8 (14.81%) Senior
4 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Applications Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Backend Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) Terraform
2 23 (42.59%) Kafka
2 23 (42.59%) OAuth
3 22 (40.74%) OAuth2
4 16 (29.63%) React
5 15 (27.78%) JWT
6 14 (25.93%) OpenID
6 14 (25.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (22.22%) Node.js
8 9 (16.67%) JSON
8 9 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (16.67%) RESTful
9 8 (14.81%) Spring
9 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
10 7 (12.96%) REST
10 7 (12.96%) Swagger
11 6 (11.11%) Express.js
11 6 (11.11%) Jest
11 6 (11.11%) Nunjucks
11 6 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (9.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
5 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.70%) PKI
8 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 27 (50.00%) DevOps
3 22 (40.74%) Microservices
4 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (31.48%) Observability
6 16 (29.63%) Containerisation
7 15 (27.78%) Agile
8 14 (25.93%) API Management
9 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 10 (18.52%) API Development
11 9 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (14.81%) GitOps
12 8 (14.81%) OWASP
12 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (14.81%) SIEM
13 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (11.11%) Clean Code
14 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Python
2 13 (24.07%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) Java
4 11 (20.37%) TypeScript
5 8 (14.81%) Go
6 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.56%) Lua
8 2 (3.70%) Bash
9 1 (1.85%) Scala
9 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
1 19 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CISSP
4 3 (5.56%) GIAC
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CEH
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) SANS
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.26%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) WCAG
4 2 (3.70%) NIST
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (37.04%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.78%) Grafana
3 14 (25.93%) Prometheus
4 13 (24.07%) Argo
5 2 (3.70%) Ansible
5 2 (3.70%) Istio
6 1 (1.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Dynatrace
2 10 (18.52%) Splunk
3 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.96%) webMethods
5 6 (11.11%) ForgeRock
5 6 (11.11%) MuleSoft
6 4 (7.41%) Confluent
7 3 (5.56%) Tenable
8 2 (3.70%) Google
8 2 (3.70%) IBM
9 1 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.85%) Cisco
9 1 (1.85%) Databricks
9 1 (1.85%) F5
9 1 (1.85%) Intel
9 1 (1.85%) Okta