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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 520 605
Rank change year-on-year -39 +85 +128
Contract jobs citing Kong 18 27 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.074% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 10
10th Percentile £385 £300 £575
25th Percentile £400 £357 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £599 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% -4.20% +11.61%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £722
90th Percentile £675 £781 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £519 £600
% change year-on-year -22.89% -13.54% +14.29%

All Cloud 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 13,503 12,891 16,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.59% 35.23% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,102 8,497 11,960
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 165 323
10th Percentile £15.14 £18.82 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.78 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.27 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.88% +47.87% +15.38%

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 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -28 18 £493 -17.75% 19
UK excluding London -43 10 £400 -22.89% 14
North of England -41 8 £395 -35.77%
London +12 7 £650 -15.53% 8
North West -13 6 £395 -45.59%
North East -11 1 £538 +43.33%
Yorkshire -44 1 £390 -36.59%
Midlands - 1 £475 - 6
South West - 1 £510 -
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Serverless
3 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (16.67%) Datadog
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Apigee
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.56%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 3 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.56%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) git-flow
4 1 (5.56%) Jaeger
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Mockito
4 1 (5.56%) Postman
4 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) React
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Camel
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) JWT
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) Swagger
4 1 (5.56%) WireMock
4 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Microservices
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
5 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 5 (27.78%) Migration
7 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (22.22%) API Management
8 4 (22.22%) Observability
9 3 (16.67%) AI
9 3 (16.67%) API Design
9 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (11.11%) API Testing
10 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Istio
4 1 (5.56%) Kiali
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI