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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 542 534
Rank change year-on-year -55 -8 +89
Contract jobs citing Kong 77 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.061% 0.060%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 19 17
10th Percentile £365 £385 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £465 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -25.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £645
90th Percentile £575 £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 18,909 12,423 13,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 37.76% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,539 8,291 8,880
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 293 195
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -35.77% +14.29%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -88 49 £465 - 27
UK excluding London -76 43 £425 +6.25% 14
North of England -52 24 £437 +9.19% 4
London -65 21 £473 -27.31% 18
Scotland - 18 £425 - 3
Work from Home - 12 £488 - 16
Yorkshire -35 11 £411 +5.38% 3
North East -36 9 £450 -3.23%
North West -49 4 £725 +81.25% 1
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 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 51 (66.23%) AWS
2 29 (37.66%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (33.77%) Azure
4 19 (24.68%) Serverless
5 18 (23.38%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (23.38%) Apigee
5 18 (23.38%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (18.18%) Akamai
6 14 (18.18%) GCP
7 13 (16.88%) Amazon MSK
8 12 (15.58%) Amazon S3
9 10 (12.99%) AWS KMS
9 10 (12.99%) GitHub
9 10 (12.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (11.69%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (9.09%) Cloudflare
11 7 (9.09%) CloudFront
11 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) DNS
2 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 5 (6.49%) HTTP
4 2 (2.60%) Network Security
5 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
2 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.79%) Big Data
3 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.49%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.49%) Hazelcast
4 5 (6.49%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.49%) Redis
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.19%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.19%) DocumentDB
5 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.19%) MySQL
6 2 (2.60%) Metadata
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) GitLab
2 15 (19.48%) Git
3 12 (15.58%) Jenkins
4 10 (12.99%) Maven
5 8 (10.39%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.79%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.79%) Gradle
7 4 (5.19%) Snyk
8 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.60%) JIRA
8 2 (2.60%) JMeter
9 1 (1.30%) Claude Code
9 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.30%) Postman
9 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 19 (24.68%) Finance
2 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.29%) Banking
4 9 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (14.29%) Lead
3 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Architect
4 8 (10.39%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Applications Developer
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Angular Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (50.65%) Terraform
2 28 (36.36%) OAuth
3 27 (35.06%) OAuth2
4 25 (32.47%) Kafka
5 23 (29.87%) React
6 20 (25.97%) JWT
6 20 (25.97%) Swagger
7 18 (23.38%) OpenAPI
8 16 (20.78%) OpenID
8 16 (20.78%) RESTful
9 15 (19.48%) JSON
10 14 (18.18%) Node.js
10 14 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (14.29%) REST
11 11 (14.29%) Spring
11 11 (14.29%) Spring Boot
12 10 (12.99%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (10.39%) AngularJS
13 8 (10.39%) Nunjucks
14 7 (9.09%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (10.39%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
6 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) PKI
8 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) CI/CD
2 42 (54.55%) DevOps
3 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (31.17%) Microservices
5 23 (29.87%) Observability
6 20 (25.97%) Agile
6 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
7 19 (24.68%) API Management
8 17 (22.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
10 15 (19.48%) GitOps
10 15 (19.48%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
12 12 (15.58%) Validation
13 10 (12.99%) Event-Driven
14 9 (11.69%) Code Quality
14 9 (11.69%) SOLID
15 8 (10.39%) API Development
15 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Python
2 26 (33.77%) Java
3 22 (28.57%) Go
4 20 (25.97%) TypeScript
5 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
6 13 (16.88%) SQL
7 8 (10.39%) Lua
8 4 (5.19%) C#
9 3 (3.90%) Bash
10 1 (1.30%) Scala
10 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) SC Cleared
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) Degree
3 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CEH
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CISSP
6 1 (1.30%) GIAC
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) SANS
6 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 7 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.90%) WCAG
4 2 (2.60%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (31.17%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (58.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.38%) Grafana
3 17 (22.08%) Prometheus
4 13 (16.88%) Argo
5 3 (3.90%) Ansible
6 2 (2.60%) Istio
7 1 (1.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Dynatrace
2 12 (15.58%) Splunk
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 7 (9.09%) webMethods
5 6 (7.79%) ForgeRock
6 5 (6.49%) Confluent
7 4 (5.19%) Databricks
7 4 (5.19%) Tenable
8 2 (2.60%) Google
8 2 (2.60%) IBM
9 1 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco
9 1 (1.30%) F5
9 1 (1.30%) Intel
9 1 (1.30%) Okta