Kong
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Kong skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kong over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 675 748
Rank change year-on-year +110 +73 -63
Contract jobs citing Kong 25 24 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.042% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.11% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 62
10th Percentile £284 £559 £469
25th Percentile £489 £577 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.65% +15.00%
75th Percentile £631 £703 £638
90th Percentile £649 £850 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £586 £575
% change year-on-year +6.14% +1.91% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Kong is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,933 21,254 33,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.77% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,370 24,584
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 348 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.63
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kong as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kong in the UK

Kong
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kong.

Daily rate trend for Kong in the UK

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kong over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 7 Contract 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 11 May 2024. 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 +108 23 £550 -7.25% 13
UK excluding London +54 13 £622 +6.14% 7
North of England +40 13 £622 +6.14% 5
Work from Home +118 11 £513 -15.36% 8
London +100 9 £531 -33.59% 7
Yorkshire - 8 £625 - 1
North West +16 5 £489 -16.55% 3

Kong
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (48.00%) Confluence
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (12.00%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (92.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Apigee
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) GitHub
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (20.00%) Serverless
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) DNS
2 8 (32.00%) HTTP
2 8 (32.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (32.00%) VPN
3 2 (8.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (8.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (8.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (8.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (20.00%) OLAP
2 5 (20.00%) OLTP
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) JIRA
2 11 (44.00%) GitLab
3 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (32.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (32.00%) CircleCI
4 8 (32.00%) Git
4 8 (32.00%) Travis CI
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Banking
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Architect
2 8 (32.00%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) AWS Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Lead
6 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (32.00%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (32.00%) JSON
2 8 (32.00%) Spring
2 8 (32.00%) XML
2 8 (32.00%) YAML
3 6 (24.00%) Kafka
4 5 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
4 5 (20.00%) J2EE
4 5 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (20.00%) SOAP
4 5 (20.00%) Web Services
5 4 (16.00%) Apache Camel
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (8.00%) OAuth
8 1 (4.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (20.00%) DataPower
3 3 (12.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) Microservices
2 13 (52.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (40.00%) API Integration
6 9 (36.00%) Agile
6 9 (36.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 9 (36.00%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (36.00%) Task Automation
7 8 (32.00%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps
7 8 (32.00%) Project Management
7 8 (32.00%) Scrum
7 8 (32.00%) Secure Coding
7 8 (32.00%) Use Case
7 8 (32.00%) Workflow
8 7 (28.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Bash
3 10 (40.00%) Java
4 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) ActionScript
6 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Ansible
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (32.00%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (32.00%) Grafana
4 8 (32.00%) Kibana
4 8 (32.00%) logstash
4 8 (32.00%) Progress Chef
4 8 (32.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (32.00%) Puppet
5 4 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.00%) IBM
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) TSYS
3 2 (8.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint