Kong Contract Job Trends

Kong
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kong skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 539 611
Rank change year-on-year +2 +72 +117
Contract jobs citing Kong 20 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.060% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 12
10th Percentile £385 £300 -
25th Percentile £400 £356 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £675 £723 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -36.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Cloud 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 12,372 13,215 17,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 34.30% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,253 8,897 12,770
10th Percentile £312 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 194 337
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £14.97
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.28 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -36.67% +15.38% +35.06%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kong as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kong 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 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 10 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 September 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 +4 20 £465 -25.60% 11
UK excluding London +3 12 £400 -36.00% 7
North of England -31 10 £400 -37.01% 7
London +7 7 £650 +46.40% 4
North West -4 6 £400 -44.90% 4
North East - 3 £465 - 3
Yorkshire -28 1 £390 -37.60%
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Midlands - 1 £358 -
South West - 1 £510 -

Kong
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.00%) Datadog
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Apigee
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) GitLab
2 8 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (20.00%) gulp
4 4 (20.00%) Maven
4 4 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (15.00%) JIRA
6 1 (5.00%) git-flow
6 1 (5.00%) Jaeger
6 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Kafka
2 8 (40.00%) React
3 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (20.00%) Apache CXF
4 4 (20.00%) Dropwizard
4 4 (20.00%) Express.js
4 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (20.00%) JAX-RS
4 4 (20.00%) MEAN Stack
4 4 (20.00%) MERN Stack
4 4 (20.00%) Mongoose
4 4 (20.00%) Node.js
4 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (20.00%) Sequelize
5 2 (10.00%) Middleware
5 2 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) OAuth
6 1 (5.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) Microservices
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Observability
6 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) API Management
7 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (20.00%) Open Source
7 4 (20.00%) Operational Stability
8 3 (15.00%) API Design
8 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
9 2 (10.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Istio
4 1 (5.00%) Kiali
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI