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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 500 581
Rank change year-on-year -56 +81 +142
Contract jobs citing Kong 30 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.064% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.17% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 5
10th Percentile £350 £323 -
25th Percentile £363 £408 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% +2.73% -6.14%
75th Percentile £522 £636 £738
90th Percentile £675 £800 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £520 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

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 14,050 11,532 14,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.00% 36.63% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,672 7,661 10,469
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.35% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 173 276
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +7.69%

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

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 19 January 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 -51 24 £400 -29.20% 1
UK excluding London -48 16 £390 -25.00% 1
North of England -46 13 £390 -25.71%
North West - 11 £390 -
Work from Home 0 7 £354 -42.44% 1
London -20 5 £650 -17.62%
Midlands - 2 £406 -
West Midlands - 2 £406 -
North East -19 1 £538 +4.37%
Yorkshire -50 1 - -
South West - 1 £510 -

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 8 (26.67%) Confluence
2 6 (20.00%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Serverless
3 9 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (26.67%) Apigee
5 6 (20.00%) Azure
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (16.67%) GitHub
7 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (10.00%) Datadog
8 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.67%) GCP
10 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
10 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) VPN
2 3 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) DocumentDB
1 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (10.00%) Redis
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) GitLab
2 8 (26.67%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.67%) Postman
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) JUnit
5 1 (3.33%) Mockito
5 1 (3.33%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
1 9 (30.00%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Business Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) REST
2 8 (26.67%) JSON
2 8 (26.67%) SOAP
2 8 (26.67%) XML
3 7 (23.33%) Node.js
3 7 (23.33%) OAuth
3 7 (23.33%) Swagger
4 6 (20.00%) JWT
4 6 (20.00%) Kafka
4 6 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 6 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (13.33%) Spring
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (10.00%) React
6 3 (10.00%) SignalR
7 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (6.67%) HTML
7 2 (6.67%) YAML
8 1 (3.33%) .NET
8 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 18 (60.00%) DevOps
3 16 (53.33%) Microservices
4 14 (46.67%) Agile
5 13 (43.33%) API Management
5 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
6 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (23.33%) API Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Business Analysis
8 7 (23.33%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (23.33%) Use Case
9 6 (20.00%) Business Process Analysis
9 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (20.00%) Monetization
9 6 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) Bash
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) CBAP
5 1 (3.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (20.00%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.33%) Kibana
5 1 (3.33%) logstash
5 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) MuleSoft
2 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft