Kong
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Kong skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kong over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 892 925
Rank change year-on-year +190 +33 +190
Permanent jobs citing Kong 7 20 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.019% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.046% 0.056% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 19
10th Percentile £89,750 £72,500 -
25th Percentile £91,250 £75,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +6.25% +20.30%
75th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,250 - £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kong.

Salary trend for Kong in the UK

Kong
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kong over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kong within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +147 7 £97,500 +14.71% 77
London +110 6 £97,500 -15.22% 9
UK excluding London +186 1 - - 78
Work from Home +111 1 £112,500 +50.00% 77
North of England +45 1 - - 16
North West +6 1 - - 7

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (42.86%) Apigee
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (42.86%) Law
3 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 2 (28.57%) Local Government
5 1 (14.29%) Electronics
5 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 1 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) OpenAPI
2 3 (42.86%) Swagger
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) API Management
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
4 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Information Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Operational Stability
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Go
1 3 (42.86%) Lua
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) MKS
1 3 (42.86%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Ping Identity
2 1 (14.29%) SAP