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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 520 586
Rank change year-on-year -39 +66 +142
Contract jobs citing Kong 23 23 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.064% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 10
10th Percentile £358 £300 £575
25th Percentile £385 £357 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -22.40% +10.23%
75th Percentile £614 £634 £722
90th Percentile £675 £793 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £435 £600
% change year-on-year -10.34% -27.50% +9.09%

All Cloud 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 13,800 12,832 15,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 35.93% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,381 8,507 11,432
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 179 296
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.44 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%
75th Percentile £51.38 £46.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
% change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +9.27%

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 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 11 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 9 December 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
England -39 21 £400 -17.53% 5
UK excluding London -43 14 £390 -10.34% 3
North of England -43 11 £390 -28.93% 2
North West - 8 £390 -
London -3 6 £650 -15.53% 2
Work from Home -9 2 £361 -18.69% 9
Yorkshire -47 2 £390 -36.59% 1
Midlands - 2 £406 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £406 - 1
North East -7 1 £538 +29.52% 1
South West - 1 £510 -

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 7 (30.43%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Serverless
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) Apigee
6 3 (13.04%) Datadog
6 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) VPN
2 3 (13.04%) SSL
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) HTTP
3 1 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) DocumentDB
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.04%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) GitLab
1 7 (30.43%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
3 3 (13.04%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 6 (26.09%) RESTful
3 5 (21.74%) REST
4 4 (17.39%) JSON
4 4 (17.39%) React
4 4 (17.39%) SOAP
4 4 (17.39%) Spring
4 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
4 4 (17.39%) XML
5 3 (13.04%) JWT
5 3 (13.04%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) OAuth
5 3 (13.04%) OpenAPI
5 3 (13.04%) SignalR
5 3 (13.04%) Swagger
6 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.70%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) Middleware
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
7 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
1 16 (69.57%) DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) Microservices
3 10 (43.48%) Agile
4 9 (39.13%) API Management
4 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (26.09%) API Design
6 6 (26.09%) Observability
7 5 (21.74%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) API Testing
8 4 (17.39%) Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (17.39%) Use Case
9 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
9 3 (13.04%) GAP Analysis
9 3 (13.04%) Validation
9 3 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Terraform
2 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
5 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.35%) Kibana
5 1 (4.35%) logstash
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Dynatrace
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) MuleSoft
2 3 (13.04%) Splunk