Kong
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Kong skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kong over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 912 1135
Rank change year-on-year +25 +223 -234
Permanent jobs citing Kong 20 35 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.037% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.055% 0.086% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 24
10th Percentile £72,500 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +20.30% -36.67%
75th Percentile £122,500 £92,500 £74,750
90th Percentile - £102,500 £93,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Kong is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 8 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 1 June 2024. 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 +24 18 £85,000 +6.25% 6
London +107 10 £115,000 +76.92% 2
Work from Home +49 9 £75,000 - 5
UK excluding London -40 9 £75,000 -16.67% 5
North of England - 8 £75,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £75,000 -
North West - 4 £79,932 - 2
Scotland - 1 £95,000 - 1

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
2 2 (10.00%) nginx
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) IaaS
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Apigee
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) OLAP
3 1 (5.00%) OLTP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (35.00%) Retail Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Lead
2 7 (35.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Kafka
1 10 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (5.00%) J2EE
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (10.00%) PropTech
4 1 (5.00%) DataPower
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Microservices
3 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) SDLC
5 7 (35.00%) TDD
6 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (15.00%) API Design
8 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (15.00%) Coaching
8 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) Refactoring
8 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (10.00%) Line Management
9 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Istio
5 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (10.00%) Ab Initio
2 2 (10.00%) F5
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) TSYS