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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 883 887 1158
Rank change year-on-year +4 +271 -247
Permanent jobs citing Kong 26 33 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.035% 0.074%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.071% 0.082% 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% -38.14%
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 36,441 40,322 83,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.19% 48.65%
Number of salaries quoted 27,115 27,151 41,754
10th Percentile £30,190 £34,250 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.45% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kong in the UK

Kong
Top 11 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 8 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 +5 23 £85,000 +6.25% 2
UK excluding London -40 15 £75,000 -16.67% 2
Work from Home +60 13 £75,000 -
North of England - 12 £75,000 -
London +68 10 £115,000 +76.92%
North West - 7 £79,932 -
Yorkshire - 4 £75,000 -
Scotland - 2 £95,000 - 1
West Midlands -8 1 - -
Midlands -42 1 - -
North East - 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Apigee
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) IaaS
3 2 (7.69%) PaaS
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) OLAP
3 2 (7.69%) OLTP
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Retail Banking
3 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Advertising
5 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Lead
2 12 (46.15%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Integration Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Lead Architect
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Digital Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Digital Technical Architect
5 2 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Kafka
1 12 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 6 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Camel
3 2 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (7.69%) J2EE
3 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.69%) SOAP
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Integration
3 2 (7.69%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
1 9 (34.62%) Public Cloud
2 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.69%) DataPower
3 2 (7.69%) PropTech
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) Mentoring
3 13 (50.00%) Microservices
4 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (34.62%) Design Patterns
6 8 (30.77%) Agile
6 8 (30.77%) SDLC
6 8 (30.77%) TDD
7 7 (26.92%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (26.92%) Coaching
8 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (11.54%) API Design
10 3 (11.54%) API Management
10 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven
10 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
10 3 (11.54%) Refactoring
10 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Istio
4 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) MuleSoft
2 2 (7.69%) Ab Initio
2 2 (7.69%) F5
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) IBM
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.69%) TSYS