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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 500 559
Rank change year-on-year -104 +59 +113
Contract jobs citing Kong 44 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.083% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 25
10th Percentile £350 £458 £318
25th Percentile £421 £480 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -4.55% -9.47%
75th Percentile £578 £738 £645
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £465 £624
% change year-on-year +3.60% -25.42% +6.40%

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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -114 31 £526 -6.99% 2
UK excluding London -84 18 £482 +3.60% 2
Work from Home -55 15 £482 -33.55%
North of England -71 13 £500 +7.53% 2
London -68 8 £538 -25.83%
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 2
North West -41 6 £531 +14.19%
South East - 3 £358 -
Midlands -60 1 £700 +95.53%
Scotland - 1 £495 -

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 (11.36%) nginx
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.82%) Confluence
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (4.55%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.55%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) AWS
2 23 (52.27%) Azure
3 19 (43.18%) Apigee
4 15 (34.09%) GCP
5 14 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (27.27%) Serverless
7 11 (25.00%) GitHub
8 9 (20.45%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (13.64%) Azure API Management
11 6 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (11.36%) AWS KMS
13 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (9.09%) Cloud Run
14 3 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
14 3 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) DNS
4 1 (2.27%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
4 1 (2.27%) SSL
4 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
1 5 (11.36%) Redis
1 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 4 (9.09%) Hazelcast
2 4 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.82%) Apache Hive
3 3 (6.82%) Big Data
3 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.82%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) GitLab
2 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.64%) Git
4 4 (9.09%) Gradle
4 4 (9.09%) Maven
4 4 (9.09%) Snyk
5 3 (6.82%) JIRA
5 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.55%) Postman
7 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.27%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.27%) Spinnaker
7 1 (2.27%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (20.45%) Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Applications Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Backend Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) OAuth
2 14 (31.82%) OAuth2
3 13 (29.55%) JSON
4 12 (27.27%) JWT
5 10 (22.73%) Kafka
6 9 (20.45%) REST
6 9 (20.45%) Swagger
7 8 (18.18%) Node.js
7 8 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (15.91%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (13.64%) OpenAPI
9 6 (13.64%) XML
10 5 (11.36%) RESTful
10 5 (11.36%) SOAP
10 5 (11.36%) Spring
10 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
11 4 (9.09%) Apache Avro
11 4 (9.09%) JPA
11 4 (9.09%) OpenID
11 4 (9.09%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (2.27%) EMV
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 21 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 20 (45.45%) Microservices
4 16 (36.36%) DevOps
5 12 (27.27%) API Development
5 12 (27.27%) Observability
6 11 (25.00%) Agile
7 9 (20.45%) API Management
7 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.45%) Validation
8 7 (15.91%) OWASP
9 6 (13.64%) DevSecOps
9 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.36%) API Design
10 5 (11.36%) API Integration
10 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
10 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
10 5 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
11 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Python
2 16 (36.36%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Java
4 8 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (9.09%) Degree
5 3 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.82%) CISSP
5 3 (6.82%) GIAC
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CBAP
7 1 (2.27%) CSPO
7 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) NCSC
1 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
1 21 (47.73%) Terraform
2 18 (40.91%) Grafana
2 18 (40.91%) Prometheus
3 7 (15.91%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Argo
5 3 (6.82%) Istio
6 2 (4.55%) linkerd
7 1 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.27%) Kibana
7 1 (2.27%) logstash
7 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) MuleSoft
2 7 (15.91%) webMethods
3 6 (13.64%) Splunk
4 3 (6.82%) Tenable
5 2 (4.55%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) Okta