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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 531 557
Rank change year-on-year -91 +26 +96
Contract jobs citing Kong 40 22 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.068% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 27
10th Percentile £390 £457 £314
25th Percentile £444 £474 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £591 £738 £645
90th Percentile £704 £750 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £465 £624
% change year-on-year +6.99% -25.42% +3.92%

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 18,736 12,182 14,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.42% 37.54% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,435 8,156 10,012
10th Percentile £328 £313 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 354
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.63 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% +24.32% -36.50%
75th Percentile £69.10 £47.63 £49.69
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -20.75%

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 11 July 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 11 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 -91 30 £526 -14.20% 8
UK excluding London -91 16 £498 +6.99% 3
London -51 12 £526 -27.52% 4
Work from Home -49 11 £500 -31.03% 2
North of England -68 10 £712 +53.12% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 1
North West -49 3 £725 +55.91%
South East - 3 £358 -
Scotland - 2 £495 -
North East -35 1 £400 -13.98% 1
Midlands -58 1 £700 +95.53% 1

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 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (5.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 21 (52.50%) Azure
3 14 (35.00%) Apigee
4 13 (32.50%) GCP
5 12 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (25.00%) GitHub
6 10 (25.00%) Serverless
7 9 (22.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (15.00%) AWS KMS
9 6 (15.00%) Azure API Management
10 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 5 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (10.00%) Cloud Run
12 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.00%) Hazelcast
2 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.00%) Redis
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.50%) Apache Hive
3 3 (7.50%) Big Data
3 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.50%) MySQL
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.50%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) GitLab
2 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.50%) Git
4 6 (15.00%) Maven
5 5 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 4 (10.00%) Gradle
6 4 (10.00%) Snyk
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.50%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.50%) Postman
7 1 (2.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Banking
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Integration Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) OAuth
2 16 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 13 (32.50%) Kafka
4 10 (25.00%) JWT
4 10 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (22.50%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (20.00%) JSON
7 7 (17.50%) Node.js
8 6 (15.00%) REST
8 6 (15.00%) Spring
8 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
8 6 (15.00%) Swagger
9 5 (12.50%) OpenID
9 5 (12.50%) React
10 4 (10.00%) Apache Avro
10 4 (10.00%) JPA
10 4 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (10.00%) Spring WebFlux
10 4 (10.00%) WireMock
11 3 (7.50%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.50%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (2.50%) EMV
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) PKI
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (47.50%) Microservices
3 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (35.00%) DevOps
6 13 (32.50%) Observability
7 10 (25.00%) API Development
8 9 (22.50%) Agile
9 7 (17.50%) OWASP
9 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) API Management
10 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) Validation
11 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
11 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven
11 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) SQL
3 11 (27.50%) Java
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) Bicep
6 2 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Scala
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.50%) CISSP
3 3 (7.50%) GIAC
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) NCSC
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (42.50%) Terraform
3 13 (32.50%) Grafana
4 12 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (15.00%) Argo
6 3 (7.50%) Istio
7 2 (5.00%) linkerd
8 1 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) webMethods
3 6 (15.00%) Splunk
4 3 (7.50%) MuleSoft
4 3 (7.50%) Tenable
5 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Confluent
6 1 (2.50%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.50%) Okta