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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 522 550
Rank change year-on-year -97 +28 +99
Contract jobs citing Kong 37 21 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.069% 0.078%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 28
10th Percentile £375 £457 £324
25th Percentile £440 £469 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -9.57% -3.04%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £645
90th Percentile £707 £750 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £465 £624
% change year-on-year +6.45% -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 18,069 11,478 14,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.85% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,038 7,704 9,991
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 287 360
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +26.84% -36.93%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £71.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%

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 27 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 27 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 -125 28 £526 -12.42% 9
UK excluding London -100 17 £495 +6.45% 5
Work from Home -54 12 £498 -31.38% 4
North of England -63 11 £606 +30.32% 1
London -72 9 £538 -25.83% 6
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 1
North West -46 4 £719 +54.52%
South East - 3 £358 - 3
Scotland - 2 £495 -
North East -39 1 £400 -13.98%
Midlands -61 1 £700 +95.53% 1

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 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (5.41%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 21 (56.76%) Azure
3 15 (40.54%) Apigee
4 13 (35.14%) GCP
5 10 (27.03%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (27.03%) GitHub
5 10 (27.03%) Serverless
6 8 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (21.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (16.22%) AWS KMS
7 6 (16.22%) Azure API Management
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (10.81%) Cloud Run
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) MongoDB
1 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.81%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.81%) Hazelcast
2 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.81%) Redis
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (8.11%) Apache Hive
3 3 (8.11%) Big Data
3 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.11%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.70%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) GitLab
2 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) Git
4 4 (10.81%) Gradle
4 4 (10.81%) Maven
4 4 (10.81%) Snyk
5 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.70%) Claude Code
6 1 (2.70%) Postman
6 1 (2.70%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Applications Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Python Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Integration Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) OAuth
2 16 (43.24%) OAuth2
3 11 (29.73%) JWT
3 11 (29.73%) Kafka
4 10 (27.03%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (24.32%) JSON
6 7 (18.92%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (18.92%) REST
6 7 (18.92%) Swagger
7 5 (13.51%) OpenID
8 4 (10.81%) Apache Avro
8 4 (10.81%) JPA
8 4 (10.81%) Node.js
8 4 (10.81%) OpenAPI
8 4 (10.81%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (10.81%) Spring
8 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
8 4 (10.81%) Spring WebFlux
8 4 (10.81%) WireMock
9 3 (8.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.70%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (2.70%) EMV
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (48.65%) Microservices
3 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
5 13 (35.14%) DevOps
6 12 (32.43%) Observability
7 10 (27.03%) API Development
8 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) OWASP
8 7 (18.92%) Validation
9 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 5 (13.51%) API Management
10 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps
10 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
11 4 (10.81%) Functional Programming
11 4 (10.81%) Storage Management
11 4 (10.81%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Java
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) Bicep
5 2 (5.41%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.11%) CISSP
3 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 3 (8.11%) GIAC
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) NCSC
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (45.95%) Terraform
3 13 (35.14%) Grafana
4 12 (32.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (13.51%) Argo
6 3 (8.11%) Istio
7 2 (5.41%) linkerd
8 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) webMethods
3 6 (16.22%) Splunk
4 4 (10.81%) MuleSoft
5 3 (8.11%) Tenable
6 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.41%) IBM
7 1 (2.70%) Confluent
7 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.70%) Okta