Kong Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Kong
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Kong skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kong over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 335 466
Rank change year-on-year +40 +131 +99
Contract jobs citing Kong 9 10 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.065% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £514 £482 -
25th Percentile £520 £489 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £513 £606
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -15.36% +10.59%
75th Percentile £738 £624 £638
90th Percentile £756 £700 £797
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £601
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.41% +4.43%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Kong falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Kong
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kong as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kong trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kong
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kong.

Kong daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kong
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kong over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Kong daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kong
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (22.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (33.33%) Hazelcast
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Git
2 5 (55.56%) Maven
3 4 (44.44%) GitLab
4 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
4 2 (22.22%) gulp
4 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) Apache CXF
3 2 (22.22%) Dropwizard
3 2 (22.22%) Express.js
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) JAX-RS
3 2 (22.22%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (22.22%) MERN Stack
3 2 (22.22%) Mongoose
3 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (22.22%) React
3 2 (22.22%) Sequelize
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Batch Management
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) API Management
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Operational Stability
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Bash
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
2 4 (44.44%) Puppet
3 3 (33.33%) Control-M
3 3 (33.33%) Istio
3 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 3 (33.33%) Rundeck
4 1 (11.11%) Kibana
4 1 (11.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk