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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 521 579
Rank change year-on-year -40 +58 +150
Contract jobs citing Kong 30 20 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.060% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.17% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 4
10th Percentile £350 £300 £581
25th Percentile £376 £343 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £725
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -28.28% +21.04%
75th Percentile £522 £623 £750
90th Percentile £675 £742 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £485 -
% change year-on-year -19.59% - -

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 14,137 12,097 14,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.17% 36.23% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,689 8,069 10,642
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 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 176 265
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £56.69 £44.71 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.86 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +11.06% +15.14% +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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -37 24 £400 -23.08% 5
UK excluding London -44 16 £390 -19.59% 5
North of England -49 13 £390 -25.71% 4
North West - 10 £390 - 2
London -6 6 £650 -17.62%
Work from Home -6 5 £354 -22.62% 5
Yorkshire -51 2 £390 -34.86% 1
Midlands - 2 £406 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £406 - 1
North East -14 1 £538 +4.37% 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 28 (93.33%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Serverless
3 9 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (23.33%) Apigee
6 6 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (20.00%) Azure
7 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (16.67%) GitHub
8 3 (10.00%) Datadog
8 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
9 2 (6.67%) GCP
10 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
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 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) GitLab
2 8 (26.67%) JIRA
3 4 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.00%) Git
5 2 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.33%) JUnit
6 1 (3.33%) Mockito
6 1 (3.33%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Senior
2 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Architect
8 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) REST
2 7 (23.33%) JSON
2 7 (23.33%) Kafka
2 7 (23.33%) Node.js
2 7 (23.33%) RESTful
2 7 (23.33%) SOAP
2 7 (23.33%) XML
3 6 (20.00%) OAuth
4 5 (16.67%) JWT
4 5 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 5 (16.67%) Swagger
5 4 (13.33%) React
5 4 (13.33%) Spring
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (10.00%) SignalR
7 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (6.67%) HTML
7 2 (6.67%) Middleware
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
8 1 (3.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (63.33%) DevOps
3 17 (56.67%) Microservices
4 14 (46.67%) Agile
5 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
6 12 (40.00%) API Management
6 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (23.33%) API Design
8 7 (23.33%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (20.00%) API Testing
9 6 (20.00%) Business Analysis
9 6 (20.00%) Observability
9 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (20.00%) Use Case
10 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 5 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
10 5 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (16.67%) Validation
10 5 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Bash
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) CBAP
3 1 (3.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (60.00%) Terraform
2 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (30.00%) 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 6 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk