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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 501 554
Rank change year-on-year -101 +53 +124
Contract jobs citing Kong 39 23 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.078% 0.069%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 25
10th Percentile £350 £457 £318
25th Percentile £436 £474 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -6.14%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £645
90th Percentile £705 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £465 £624
% change year-on-year +0.75% -25.42% +6.40%

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 17,740 11,169 14,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.85% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,861 7,555 9,988
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 270 359
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.65% -26.87%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -110 31 £526 -9.79% 7
UK excluding London -96 18 £469 +0.75% 9
Work from Home -58 15 £482 -33.55% 3
North of England -53 13 £450 -3.23% 2
London -62 9 £538 -25.83% 3
North West -31 6 £531 +14.19%
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 2
South East - 3 £358 - 3
North East -38 1 £400 -13.98%
Midlands -57 1 £700 +95.53% 2
Scotland - 1 £495 - 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (5.13%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 22 (56.41%) Azure
3 18 (46.15%) Apigee
4 14 (35.90%) GCP
5 10 (25.64%) GitHub
6 9 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (23.08%) Serverless
7 8 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (20.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (15.38%) AWS KMS
9 6 (15.38%) Azure API Management
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (12.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (10.26%) Cloud Run
12 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.26%) Hazelcast
2 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.26%) Redis
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.69%) Apache Hive
3 3 (7.69%) Big Data
3 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.56%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) GitLab
2 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.82%) Git
4 4 (10.26%) Gradle
4 4 (10.26%) Maven
4 4 (10.26%) Snyk
5 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.13%) Postman
7 1 (2.56%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.56%) JIRA
7 1 (2.56%) Spinnaker
General
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Applications Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) OAuth
2 15 (38.46%) OAuth2
3 13 (33.33%) JWT
4 12 (30.77%) JSON
5 10 (25.64%) Kafka
5 10 (25.64%) REST
6 9 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (23.08%) Swagger
7 7 (17.95%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (15.38%) OpenAPI
9 5 (12.82%) SOAP
9 5 (12.82%) XML
10 4 (10.26%) Apache Avro
10 4 (10.26%) JPA
10 4 (10.26%) Node.js
10 4 (10.26%) OpenID
10 4 (10.26%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (10.26%) RESTful
10 4 (10.26%) Spring
10 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) EMV
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) CI/CD
2 21 (53.85%) Microservices
3 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (41.03%) DevOps
5 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 11 (28.21%) API Development
6 11 (28.21%) Observability
7 10 (25.64%) Agile
8 9 (23.08%) Validation
9 8 (20.51%) API Management
9 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (17.95%) OWASP
11 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
11 5 (12.82%) DevSecOps
11 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
11 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
11 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
12 4 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
12 4 (10.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) SQL
2 15 (38.46%) Python
3 9 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) Bicep
4 2 (5.13%) C#
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) Go
5 1 (2.56%) Scala
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.69%) CISSP
4 3 (7.69%) GIAC
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.56%) CBAP
6 1 (2.56%) CSPO
6 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) NCSC
1 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
1 17 (43.59%) Terraform
2 13 (33.33%) Grafana
3 12 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.26%) Argo
5 3 (7.69%) Istio
6 2 (5.13%) linkerd
7 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) MuleSoft
2 7 (17.95%) webMethods
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
4 3 (7.69%) Tenable
5 2 (5.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) Confluent
6 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.56%) Okta