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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 486 563
Rank change year-on-year -104 +77 +138
Contract jobs citing Kong 35 32 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.29% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 15
10th Percentile £350 £435 £318
25th Percentile £358 £480 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £583 £513
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +13.66% -12.54%
75th Percentile £578 £738 £575
90th Percentile £704 £760 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £480 £489
% change year-on-year -25.42% -1.84% -16.55%

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 16,559 11,085 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 38.12% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,284 7,774 10,164
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £495
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.84% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 219 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £61.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.48%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -101 27 £433 -27.92% 3
UK excluding London -104 17 £358 -25.42% 3
North of England -70 12 £374 -22.08% 1
Work from Home -38 9 £354 -44.03% 2
North West - 9 £358 - 1
London -70 5 £550 -25.42% 1
Midlands - 3 £475 -
Yorkshire -64 2 - -
South East - 2 £354 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £406 -
North East -23 1 £538 +15.59%

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 6 (17.14%) nginx
2 5 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (5.71%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (91.43%) AWS
2 18 (51.43%) Apigee
3 13 (37.14%) Azure
4 12 (34.29%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (28.57%) GCP
5 10 (28.57%) Serverless
6 6 (17.14%) Azure API Management
6 6 (17.14%) GitHub
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
10 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
1 4 (11.43%) VPN
2 3 (8.57%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (8.57%) SSL
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) DocumentDB
1 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.57%) Redis
2 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) GitLab
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.57%) Git
4 3 (8.57%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.86%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Mockito
5 1 (2.86%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.86%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Banking
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Senior
4 7 (20.00%) Analyst
4 7 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Integration Architect
9 2 (5.71%) Lead
9 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
9 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) OAuth
2 12 (34.29%) REST
3 11 (31.43%) JWT
3 11 (31.43%) Swagger
4 10 (28.57%) OAuth2
5 9 (25.71%) JSON
5 9 (25.71%) Node.js
5 9 (25.71%) OpenAPI
5 9 (25.71%) SOAP
5 9 (25.71%) XML
6 8 (22.86%) Kafka
6 8 (22.86%) RESTful
7 4 (11.43%) OpenID
7 4 (11.43%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (11.43%) Spring
7 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
8 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (8.57%) SignalR
8 3 (8.57%) YAML
9 2 (5.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (65.71%) Microservices
3 15 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 14 (40.00%) API Management
5 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (31.43%) DevOps
7 8 (22.86%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (22.86%) Observability
7 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (22.86%) Validation
8 7 (20.00%) API Design
8 7 (20.00%) API Testing
8 7 (20.00%) Business Analysis
8 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 7 (20.00%) Use Case
9 6 (17.14%) Business Process Analysis
9 6 (17.14%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (17.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) Bash
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) Bicep
4 2 (5.71%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 3 (8.57%) GIAC
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) CBAP
6 1 (2.86%) CSPO
6 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) NCSC
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (37.14%) Terraform
3 11 (31.43%) Prometheus
4 10 (28.57%) Grafana
5 7 (20.00%) Ansible
6 3 (8.57%) Istio
7 2 (5.71%) linkerd
8 1 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.86%) Kibana
8 1 (2.86%) logstash
8 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) MuleSoft
2 3 (8.57%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) IBM
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft