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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 528 542
Rank change year-on-year -92 +14 +98
Contract jobs citing Kong 63 21 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.065% 0.074%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 23
10th Percentile £365 £385 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £473 £622
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -24.04% +3.67%
75th Percentile £525 £647 £645
90th Percentile £578 £678 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £622
% change year-on-year +6.25% -35.69% +3.67%

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 18,848 12,135 12,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.31% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,065 8,872
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 309 212
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £19.78
Median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.08% -3.10% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.56 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.25
% change year-on-year +68.66% -31.79% +4.63%

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 5 September 2026.

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 5 September 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 -111 38 £480 +3.23% 26
UK excluding London -70 36 £425 +6.25% 15
North of England -58 19 £432 +7.94% 3
London -73 16 £503 -22.65% 20
Scotland - 16 £425 - 8
Work from Home -49 11 £495 -34.00% 10
Yorkshire -36 9 £463 +18.59% 2
North East -35 7 £400 -13.98%
North West -61 3 £725 +81.25% 1
South East - 1 £469 - 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 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 41 (65.08%) AWS
2 27 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 22 (34.92%) Azure
4 18 (28.57%) Serverless
5 17 (26.98%) Apigee
5 17 (26.98%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (20.63%) GCP
8 11 (17.46%) Amazon MSK
9 10 (15.87%) Akamai
9 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
9 10 (15.87%) GitHub
9 10 (15.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (14.29%) AWS KMS
11 7 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (11.11%) Cloudflare
11 7 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) DNS
1 6 (9.52%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) HTTP
3 2 (3.17%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.94%) Big Data
4 5 (7.94%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.94%) Hazelcast
4 5 (7.94%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.94%) Redis
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.35%) Apache Hive
5 4 (6.35%) DocumentDB
5 4 (6.35%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) GitLab
2 15 (23.81%) Git
3 12 (19.05%) Jenkins
4 10 (15.87%) Maven
5 8 (12.70%) SonarQube
6 6 (9.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (9.52%) Gradle
7 4 (6.35%) Snyk
8 2 (3.17%) JIRA
8 2 (3.17%) JMeter
9 1 (1.59%) Claude Code
9 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.59%) Postman
9 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.59%) Spinnaker
General
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Lead
2 10 (15.87%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Applications Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Angular Developer
7 3 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (49.21%) Terraform
2 25 (39.68%) Kafka
3 24 (38.10%) OAuth
4 23 (36.51%) OAuth2
5 19 (30.16%) React
6 16 (25.40%) JWT
7 14 (22.22%) Node.js
7 14 (22.22%) OpenID
7 14 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
8 13 (20.63%) RESTful
8 13 (20.63%) Swagger
9 11 (17.46%) JSON
9 11 (17.46%) OpenAPI
10 10 (15.87%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (15.87%) REST
10 10 (15.87%) Spring
10 10 (15.87%) Spring Boot
11 8 (12.70%) Nunjucks
12 7 (11.11%) AngularJS
12 7 (11.11%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.16%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.87%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
6 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
6 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.17%) PKI
7 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (69.84%) CI/CD
2 34 (53.97%) DevOps
3 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (33.33%) Microservices
4 18 (28.57%) Observability
5 17 (26.98%) Agile
5 17 (26.98%) Containerisation
6 16 (25.40%) API Management
7 13 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (20.63%) Software Engineering
8 11 (17.46%) GitOps
9 10 (15.87%) Event-Driven
10 9 (14.29%) Validation
11 8 (12.70%) API Development
11 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
11 8 (12.70%) Code Quality
11 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) Java
3 15 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 14 (22.22%) Go
5 13 (20.63%) SQL
6 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.52%) Lua
8 2 (3.17%) Bash
9 1 (1.59%) C#
9 1 (1.59%) Scala
9 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) SC Cleared
1 22 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) Degree
3 4 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CEH
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) GIAC
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) SANS
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) WCAG
3 2 (3.17%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (34.92%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (63.49%) Kubernetes
2 16 (25.40%) Grafana
3 15 (23.81%) Prometheus
4 13 (20.63%) Argo
5 2 (3.17%) Ansible
5 2 (3.17%) Istio
6 1 (1.59%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Dynatrace
2 11 (17.46%) Splunk
3 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.11%) webMethods
5 6 (9.52%) ForgeRock
5 6 (9.52%) MuleSoft
6 5 (7.94%) Confluent
7 4 (6.35%) Tenable
8 2 (3.17%) Databricks
8 2 (3.17%) Google
8 2 (3.17%) IBM
9 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.59%) Cisco
9 1 (1.59%) F5
9 1 (1.59%) Intel
9 1 (1.59%) Okta