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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 506 563
Rank change year-on-year -69 +57 +106
Contract jobs citing Kong 46 24 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.082% 0.056%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 21
10th Percentile £350 £458 £250
25th Percentile £361 £485 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £558 £738 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £473 £558
% change year-on-year -24.23% -15.36% -4.74%

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 16,972 10,936 13,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.58% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,497 7,556 9,907
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.36% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 251 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.70%

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 8 May 2026.

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 8 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 -95 32 £525 -9.87% 3
UK excluding London -87 19 £358 -24.23%
Work from Home -21 17 £457 -33.56%
North of England -58 13 £358 -25.42%
North West -32 8 £358 -23.01%
London -59 8 £538 -25.83% 3
Yorkshire - 5 - -
South East - 3 £358 -
Midlands -68 2 £519 +44.90%
West Midlands - 1 £338 -
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 (10.87%) Confluence
1 5 (10.87%) nginx
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (4.35%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) AWS
2 22 (47.83%) Azure
3 20 (43.48%) Apigee
4 15 (32.61%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (28.26%) GCP
6 12 (26.09%) Serverless
7 11 (23.91%) GitHub
8 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (13.04%) Azure API Management
9 6 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (10.87%) AWS KMS
10 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (6.52%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
12 3 (6.52%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
1 4 (8.70%) VPN
2 3 (6.52%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (6.52%) SSL
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 6 (13.04%) Redis
2 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Hive
3 3 (6.52%) Big Data
3 3 (6.52%) DocumentDB
3 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.52%) Hazelcast
3 3 (6.52%) MySQL
3 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) GitLab
2 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.04%) Git
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
5 3 (6.52%) Gradle
5 3 (6.52%) Maven
5 3 (6.52%) Snyk
5 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.35%) Postman
7 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.17%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.17%) Spinnaker
7 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Senior
3 9 (19.57%) Architect
3 9 (19.57%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Business Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Software Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Applications Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) OAuth
2 15 (32.61%) JSON
3 13 (28.26%) JWT
3 13 (28.26%) OAuth2
4 12 (26.09%) REST
5 11 (23.91%) Kafka
5 11 (23.91%) Swagger
6 9 (19.57%) Node.js
7 8 (17.39%) OpenAPI
7 8 (17.39%) XML
8 7 (15.22%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (15.22%) RESTful
8 7 (15.22%) SOAP
9 6 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (13.04%) Spring
9 6 (13.04%) Spring Boot
10 4 (8.70%) OpenID
11 3 (6.52%) JPA
11 3 (6.52%) SignalR
11 3 (6.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (2.17%) EMV
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (50.00%) Microservices
3 22 (47.83%) Containerisation
4 19 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (34.78%) DevOps
6 13 (28.26%) Agile
6 13 (28.26%) API Management
7 12 (26.09%) API Development
8 11 (23.91%) Observability
8 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (21.74%) Validation
10 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (15.22%) API Design
11 7 (15.22%) Integration Patterns
12 6 (13.04%) Business Analysis
12 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
12 6 (13.04%) DevSecOps
12 6 (13.04%) OWASP
12 6 (13.04%) Use Case
13 5 (10.87%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 7 (15.22%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 2 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (13.04%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CISSP
5 3 (6.52%) GIAC
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CBAP
7 1 (2.17%) CSPO
7 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) NCSC
1 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (36.96%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Kubernetes
2 19 (41.30%) Terraform
3 16 (34.78%) Grafana
3 16 (34.78%) Prometheus
4 7 (15.22%) Ansible
5 3 (6.52%) Argo
5 3 (6.52%) Istio
6 2 (4.35%) linkerd
7 1 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.17%) Kibana
7 1 (2.17%) logstash
7 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
1 9 (19.57%) MuleSoft
2 7 (15.22%) webMethods
3 6 (13.04%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) Tenable
5 2 (4.35%) IBM