Kong Contracts

Kong
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kong skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kong over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 562 657
Rank change year-on-year +32 +95 +120
Contract jobs citing Kong 21 33 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.076% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 13
10th Percentile £457 £314 -
25th Percentile £469 £486 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.91%
75th Percentile £738 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £705 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £624 £586
% change year-on-year -25.42% +6.40% +15.47%

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 11,904 14,286 20,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.67% 32.89% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,969 10,033 14,785
10th Percentile £313 £304 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 355 339
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.97 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £26.48
% change year-on-year -10.08% -20.75% +37.58%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kong as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kong in the UK

Kong
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kong.

Daily rate trend for Kong in the UK

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kong over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 9 Contract 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 4 July 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 +49 16 £600 +9.09% 40
London +33 9 £725 +41.46% 35
Work from Home +35 8 £725 +41.46% 11
UK excluding London +21 6 £465 -25.42% 5
North of England -6 5 £465 -25.60% 2
North East - 4 £465 - 1
North West -1 1 £465 -4.91% 1
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 1
Midlands - 1 £358 - 3

Kong
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Apigee
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (52.38%) MongoDB
3 7 (33.33%) MySQL
3 7 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (28.57%) Hazelcast
5 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (14.29%) Redis
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 11 (52.38%) Git
2 11 (52.38%) GitLab
3 10 (47.62%) Maven
4 7 (33.33%) Artifactory
4 7 (33.33%) gulp
4 7 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 7 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (9.52%) JIRA
6 1 (4.76%) git-flow
6 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
6 1 (4.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Integration Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Kafka
1 11 (52.38%) Spring
2 10 (47.62%) AngularJS
3 8 (38.10%) Spring Boot
4 7 (33.33%) Apache CXF
4 7 (33.33%) Dropwizard
4 7 (33.33%) Express.js
4 7 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 7 (33.33%) JAX-RS
4 7 (33.33%) MEAN Stack
4 7 (33.33%) MERN Stack
4 7 (33.33%) Mongoose
4 7 (33.33%) Node.js
4 7 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (33.33%) React
4 7 (33.33%) Sequelize
5 3 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (14.29%) J2EE
5 3 (14.29%) REST
5 3 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Microservices
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 7 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (33.33%) Open Source
3 7 (33.33%) Operational Stability
4 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Batch Management
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Validation
6 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
7 2 (9.52%) API Integration
7 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) Perl
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
3 4 (19.05%) Istio
3 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
3 4 (19.05%) Puppet
4 3 (14.29%) Control-M
4 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (14.29%) Rundeck
5 1 (4.76%) Argo
5 1 (4.76%) Kiali
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Murex
1 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 3 (14.29%) Solace
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI