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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 618 | 549 | 550 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -69 | +1 | +55 |
| Contract jobs citing Kong | 70 | 17 | 24 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.13% | 0.051% | 0.064% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 0.37% | 0.13% | 0.18% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 50 | 16 | 16 |
| 10th Percentile | £365 | £385 | £300 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £396 | £422 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £425 | £484 | £625 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -12.14% | -22.60% | +2.88% |
| 75th Percentile | £473 | £647 | £646 |
| 90th Percentile | £528 | £675 | £726 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £407 | £400 | £625 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.63% | -36.00% | +4.17% |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 19,083 | 12,808 | 13,039 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 34.72% | 38.47% | 34.83% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 12,688 | 8,553 | 8,611 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £308 | £313 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £409 | £419 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £613 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £715 | £713 | £738 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 652 | 297 | 181 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.50 | £15.17 | £16.30 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.95 | £18.87 | £22.50 |
| Median hourly rate | £30.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +19.28% | -28.14% | +8.29% |
| 75th Percentile | £67.50 | £43.75 | £66.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.75 | £67.00 | £70.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £30.00 | £20.00 | £33.93 |
| % change year-on-year | +50.00% | -41.06% | +50.73% |
Kong Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kong relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.
Kong Daily Rate Trend
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 October 2026.
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 October 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 | -82 | 49 | £450 | -6.98% | 25 |
| UK excluding London | -64 | 42 | £407 | +1.63% | 9 |
| North of England | -38 | 24 | £406 | +2.78% | 4 |
| London | -79 | 22 | £450 | -30.77% | 15 |
| Scotland | - | 17 | £425 | - | 1 |
| Yorkshire | -21 | 11 | £411 | +5.38% | 3 |
| North East | - | 10 | £400 | - | 1 |
| Work from Home | - | 6 | £437 | - | 16 |
| North West | -47 | 3 | - | - | |
| East Midlands | -16 | 1 | £402 | +12.29% | 1 |
| Midlands | -44 | 1 | £402 | -3.48% | 1 |
Kong Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 71.4% | 50 |
| 2 | Amazon EKS | 41.4% | 29 |
| 3 | Amazon ECS | 30.0% | 21 |
| 4 | Serverless | 24.3% | 17 |
| 5 | AWS Lambda | 22.9% | 16 |
| 5 | Azure | 22.9% | 16 |
| 7 | Amazon MSK | 21.4% | 15 |
| 8 | Akamai | 20.0% | 14 |
| 8 | Apigee | 20.0% | 14 |
| 10 | Amazon S3 | 14.3% | 10 |
| 11 | Amazon SQS | 12.9% | 9 |
| 11 | GCP | 12.9% | 9 |
| 13 | Amazon CloudWatch | 11.4% | 8 |
| 13 | AWS KMS | 11.4% | 8 |
| 13 | GitHub | 11.4% | 8 |
| 13 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 11.4% | 8 |
| 17 | Cloudflare | 10.0% | 7 |
| 17 | CloudFront | 10.0% | 7 |
| 19 | Amazon ECR | 8.6% | 6 |
| 19 | GitHub Actions | 8.6% | 6 |