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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 533 545
Rank change year-on-year -83 +12 +89
Contract jobs citing Kong 47 21 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.064% 0.086%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 29
10th Percentile £364 £399 £290
25th Percentile £438 £458 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% -14.58%
75th Percentile £566 £663 £645
90th Percentile £701 £739 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £463 £622
% change year-on-year +4.16% -25.64% +3.67%

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 18,750 12,222 13,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.39% 37.35% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,376 8,174 9,529
10th Percentile £327 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 314 305
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.35% -10.14% -20.00%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -97 32 £525 +7.97% 16
UK excluding London -77 22 £482 +4.16% 11
London -60 13 £526 -22.72% 6
North of England -72 13 £500 +7.53% 5
Work from Home -60 12 £495 -31.72% 3
Yorkshire -45 6 £500 +28.21% 2
Scotland - 6 £398 - 3
North East -42 4 £400 -13.98% 3
North West -51 3 £725 +67.63%
South East - 3 £358 - 2

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 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (4.26%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (61.70%) AWS
2 22 (46.81%) Azure
3 19 (40.43%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (31.91%) Apigee
5 14 (29.79%) GCP
5 14 (29.79%) Serverless
6 13 (27.66%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (21.28%) GitHub
7 10 (21.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (14.89%) AWS KMS
9 7 (14.89%) Azure API Management
10 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
10 6 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (10.64%) Akamai
11 5 (10.64%) Cloudflare
12 4 (8.51%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) HTTP
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
1 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.51%) Hazelcast
3 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
3 4 (8.51%) Redis
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Hive
4 3 (6.38%) Big Data
4 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.38%) MySQL
5 2 (4.26%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) GitLab
2 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.02%) Git
4 6 (12.77%) Maven
5 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket
5 5 (10.64%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.51%) Gradle
6 4 (8.51%) Snyk
7 1 (2.13%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.13%) Postman
7 1 (2.13%) Spinnaker
General
1 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Applications Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Backend Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (44.68%) OAuth
2 20 (42.55%) Kafka
2 20 (42.55%) OAuth2
3 14 (29.79%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (23.40%) JWT
4 11 (23.40%) React
5 9 (19.15%) Node.js
5 9 (19.15%) OpenID
5 9 (19.15%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (17.02%) JSON
7 6 (12.77%) REST
7 6 (12.77%) Spring
7 6 (12.77%) Spring Boot
8 5 (10.64%) Express.js
8 5 (10.64%) Jest
8 5 (10.64%) SAML
8 5 (10.64%) Swagger
9 4 (8.51%) JPA
9 4 (8.51%) Nunjucks
9 4 (8.51%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.13%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (2.13%) EMV
7 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) PKI
7 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) CI/CD
2 22 (46.81%) Microservices
3 21 (44.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (40.43%) Containerisation
5 18 (38.30%) DevOps
6 17 (36.17%) Observability
7 13 (27.66%) Agile
8 10 (21.28%) API Development
8 10 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
10 8 (17.02%) API Management
11 7 (14.89%) Event-Driven
11 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (14.89%) OWASP
11 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.77%) Cloud Security
12 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
12 6 (12.77%) GitOps
12 6 (12.77%) SIEM
12 6 (12.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) Java
4 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.51%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (2.13%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.38%) CISSP
4 3 (6.38%) GIAC
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) NCSC
3 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.26%) WCAG
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.13%) ISO 8583
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 20 (42.55%) Terraform
3 15 (31.91%) Grafana
4 14 (29.79%) Prometheus
5 10 (21.28%) Argo
6 3 (6.38%) Istio
7 2 (4.26%) Ansible
7 2 (4.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Splunk
2 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.89%) Dynatrace
3 7 (14.89%) webMethods
4 5 (10.64%) ForgeRock
5 3 (6.38%) IBM
5 3 (6.38%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.38%) Tenable
6 2 (4.26%) Confluent
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Okta