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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 536 545
Rank change year-on-year -88 +9 +77
Contract jobs citing Kong 78 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.051% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 16 17
10th Percentile £366 £385 £300
25th Percentile £400 £396 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £479 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -23.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £503 £647 £645
90th Percentile £545 £675 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +6.25% -36.00% +4.17%

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 19,011 12,605 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 38.03% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,612 8,423 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 295 189
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £49.13 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -91 51 £450 -6.01% 51
UK excluding London -86 43 £425 +6.25% 42
North of England -57 24 £411 +2.75% 9
London -58 23 £458 -29.62% 29
Scotland - 18 £425 - 12
Work from Home - 12 £488 - 43
Yorkshire -27 11 £431 +10.38% 6
North East - 10 £400 - 2
North West -53 3 - - 2
South East - 1 £469 - 5

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 5 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (66.67%) AWS
2 32 (41.03%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (30.77%) Azure
4 21 (26.92%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (25.64%) Serverless
6 19 (24.36%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (19.23%) Amazon MSK
8 14 (17.95%) Akamai
8 14 (17.95%) Apigee
9 13 (16.67%) Amazon S3
10 11 (14.10%) AWS KMS
11 10 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (12.82%) GCP
11 10 (12.82%) GitHub
12 9 (11.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (8.97%) Cloudflare
14 7 (8.97%) CloudFront
14 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) DNS
2 5 (6.41%) Firewall
2 5 (6.41%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) Network Security
3 1 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.69%) Big Data
3 6 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
4 5 (6.41%) DocumentDB
4 5 (6.41%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.41%) Hazelcast
4 5 (6.41%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.41%) Redis
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.13%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.13%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.13%) MySQL
6 2 (2.56%) Metadata
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (28.21%) GitLab
2 16 (20.51%) Git
3 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.82%) Maven
4 8 (10.26%) SonarQube
5 6 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.69%) Gradle
6 4 (5.13%) Snyk
7 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.56%) JIRA
7 2 (2.56%) JMeter
8 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (25.64%) Finance
2 14 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.10%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.41%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (32.05%) Developer
2 12 (15.38%) Lead
3 10 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Senior
6 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Applications Developer
7 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Angular Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Architect
8 4 (5.13%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (50.00%) Terraform
2 26 (33.33%) OAuth
3 25 (32.05%) Kafka
3 25 (32.05%) OAuth2
4 24 (30.77%) React
5 21 (26.92%) Swagger
6 20 (25.64%) OpenAPI
7 19 (24.36%) JWT
8 17 (21.79%) OpenID
8 17 (21.79%) RESTful
9 14 (17.95%) JSON
10 13 (16.67%) Node.js
10 13 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (15.38%) REST
12 11 (14.10%) Spring
12 11 (14.10%) Spring Boot
13 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
13 9 (11.54%) Nunjucks
13 9 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (10.26%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (10.26%) Onboarding
4 7 (8.97%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.41%) Data Structures
5 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.56%) PKI
8 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (70.51%) CI/CD
2 43 (55.13%) DevOps
3 23 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (28.21%) Observability
5 21 (26.92%) Microservices
6 20 (25.64%) Agile
6 20 (25.64%) API Management
7 19 (24.36%) Containerisation
8 18 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
10 15 (19.23%) GitOps
10 15 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (17.95%) Test Automation
11 14 (17.95%) Validation
12 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (12.82%) Event-Driven
13 10 (12.82%) SOLID
14 9 (11.54%) Clean Code
14 9 (11.54%) Code Quality
14 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) Java
2 24 (30.77%) Go
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 21 (26.92%) TypeScript
4 17 (21.79%) JavaScript
5 13 (16.67%) SQL
6 10 (12.82%) Lua
7 5 (6.41%) C#
8 1 (1.28%) Bash
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
8 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 26 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) Degree
3 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) CEH
5 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) SANS
5 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) QA
2 7 (8.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.85%) WCAG
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (29.49%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (55.13%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.79%) Grafana
3 16 (20.51%) Prometheus
4 13 (16.67%) Argo
5 2 (2.56%) Ansible
5 2 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (1.28%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Dynatrace
2 12 (15.38%) Splunk
3 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.97%) MuleSoft
3 7 (8.97%) webMethods
4 6 (7.69%) Confluent
4 6 (7.69%) ForgeRock
5 5 (6.41%) Databricks
6 4 (5.13%) Tenable
7 2 (2.56%) Google
7 2 (2.56%) IBM
8 1 (1.28%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco
8 1 (1.28%) F5
8 1 (1.28%) Intel
8 1 (1.28%) Okta
8 1 (1.28%) WSO2