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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 499 587
Rank change year-on-year -74 +88 +136
Contract jobs citing Kong 27 26 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.085% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.23% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 5
10th Percentile £350 £363 -
25th Percentile £356 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.86% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £450 £738 £738
90th Percentile £542 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £520 -
% change year-on-year -31.15% - -

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 15,384 11,479 14,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.93% 37.42% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 7,701 10,517
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 173 331
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.05 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.93 £45.00 £52.29
90th Percentile £78.83 £76.85 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £20.25
% change year-on-year +65.43% +19.41% -1.89%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -78 21 £374 -37.54% 3
UK excluding London -72 16 £358 -31.15% 3
North of England -60 11 £374 -28.08% 1
Work from Home -21 9 £354 -42.44% 2
North West - 9 £358 -
Midlands - 3 £475 -
South East - 2 £354 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £406 -
North East -19 1 £538 +10.26%
London -41 1 - -
Yorkshire -58 1 - - 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 6 (22.22%) nginx
2 5 (18.52%) Confluence
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) Apigee
2 11 (40.74%) Serverless
3 10 (37.04%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (29.63%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (25.93%) Azure
6 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (14.81%) GCP
8 4 (14.81%) GitHub
9 2 (7.41%) AWS KMS
9 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
9 2 (7.41%) Azure API Management
9 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
9 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) VPN
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (11.11%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) DocumentDB
1 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.11%) Redis
2 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) GitLab
2 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) JUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Business Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Senior
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Technical Business Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Software Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Software Developer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) REST
2 11 (40.74%) OAuth
3 9 (33.33%) Swagger
4 8 (29.63%) JSON
4 8 (29.63%) Kafka
4 8 (29.63%) SOAP
4 8 (29.63%) XML
5 7 (25.93%) Node.js
5 7 (25.93%) OpenAPI
6 6 (22.22%) JWT
6 6 (22.22%) RESTful
7 4 (14.81%) OAuth2
7 4 (14.81%) Spring
7 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
8 3 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (11.11%) React
8 3 (11.11%) SignalR
8 3 (11.11%) YAML
9 2 (7.41%) .NET
9 2 (7.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) EMV
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 19 (70.37%) Microservices
3 12 (44.44%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 12 (44.44%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) API Management
4 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (29.63%) Validation
7 7 (25.93%) API Testing
7 7 (25.93%) Business Analysis
7 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
7 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (25.93%) Use Case
8 6 (22.22%) Business Process Analysis
8 6 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (22.22%) Monetization
8 6 (22.22%) Observability
8 6 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Bicep
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (25.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (25.93%) Degree
3 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CBAP
5 1 (3.70%) CSPO
5 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (44.44%) Terraform
3 11 (40.74%) Prometheus
4 9 (33.33%) Grafana
5 6 (22.22%) Ansible
6 2 (7.41%) Istio
6 2 (7.41%) linkerd
7 1 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.70%) Kibana
7 1 (3.70%) logstash
7 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) MuleSoft
2 3 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft