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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 487 567
Rank change year-on-year -90 +80 +126
Contract jobs citing Kong 45 33 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.11% 0.046%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.30% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 16
10th Percentile £350 £363 £250
25th Percentile £363 £458 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £565 £504
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +12.21% -14.08%
75th Percentile £552 £738 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £374 £465 £489
% change year-on-year -19.57% -4.91% -16.34%

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 16,779 11,161 14,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.33% 37.93% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 7,775 10,031
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 248 340
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.63 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +47.09% +31.67% -33.17%
75th Percentile £67.58 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £75.15 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%

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 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 12 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 19 April 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 -96 31 £497 -14.72% 1
UK excluding London -105 19 £374 -19.57%
Work from Home -28 16 £445 -29.64%
North of England -78 13 £374 -20.85%
North West -35 9 £358 -23.01%
London -50 7 £550 -25.42% 1
Yorkshire -57 3 - -
South East - 3 £358 -
Midlands -66 2 £519 +44.90%
North East -25 1 £538 +15.59%
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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 5 (11.11%) nginx
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (4.44%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (75.56%) AWS
2 21 (46.67%) Azure
3 19 (42.22%) Apigee
4 15 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (26.67%) Serverless
6 11 (24.44%) GCP
7 9 (20.00%) GitHub
8 8 (17.78%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (17.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (13.33%) Azure API Management
10 5 (11.11%) AWS KMS
11 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (8.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
12 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
1 4 (8.89%) VPN
2 3 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (6.67%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.89%) Redis
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 3 (6.67%) Big Data
2 3 (6.67%) DocumentDB
2 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.67%) MySQL
2 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) JIRA
3 4 (8.89%) Git
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.44%) Postman
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.22%) Claude Code
6 1 (2.22%) Gradle
6 1 (2.22%) Maven
6 1 (2.22%) Snyk
6 1 (2.22%) Spinnaker
6 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
3 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Architect
2 9 (20.00%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Business Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Applications Developer
6 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) OAuth
2 15 (33.33%) JSON
3 13 (28.89%) REST
4 12 (26.67%) JWT
4 12 (26.67%) Swagger
5 11 (24.44%) OAuth2
6 9 (20.00%) Kafka
6 9 (20.00%) Node.js
6 9 (20.00%) OpenAPI
6 9 (20.00%) XML
7 8 (17.78%) SOAP
8 7 (15.56%) RESTful
9 5 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (8.89%) OpenID
10 4 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (8.89%) Spring
10 4 (8.89%) Spring Boot
11 3 (6.67%) SignalR
11 3 (6.67%) YAML
12 2 (4.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (2.22%) EMV
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
2 23 (51.11%) Microservices
3 21 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 17 (37.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (33.33%) DevOps
6 14 (31.11%) Agile
6 14 (31.11%) API Management
7 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (24.44%) API Development
9 9 (20.00%) Observability
9 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (20.00%) Validation
10 8 (17.78%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (15.56%) API Design
11 7 (15.56%) Business Analysis
11 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
11 7 (15.56%) Use Case
12 6 (13.33%) DevSecOps
12 6 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
12 6 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 15 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) Bash
4 5 (11.11%) Java
5 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.44%) Bicep
6 2 (4.44%) C#
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (15.56%) Degree
5 3 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.67%) CISSP
5 3 (6.67%) GIAC
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CBAP
7 1 (2.22%) CSPO
7 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) NCSC
1 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 17 (37.78%) Terraform
3 14 (31.11%) Grafana
3 14 (31.11%) Prometheus
4 7 (15.56%) Ansible
5 3 (6.67%) Istio
6 2 (4.44%) linkerd
7 1 (2.22%) Argo
7 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.22%) Kibana
7 1 (2.22%) logstash
7 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) MuleSoft
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Splunk
3 6 (13.33%) webMethods
4 3 (6.67%) Tenable
5 2 (4.44%) IBM