Kong Job Trends in England

Kong
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Kong skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 648 811
Rank change year-on-year -43 +163 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kong 16 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.019% 0.036% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.068% 0.11% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 16
10th Percentile - £55,850 £69,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £74,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.43% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £101,250 £122,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £111,750 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £92,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -32.43% +8.82% +6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,525 14,069 30,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.39% 33.43% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15,714 10,076 24,113
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,042 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

Kong
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kong relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Kong job vacancy trend in England

Kong
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kong.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kong

Kong
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kong in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kong in England

Kong
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kong within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. 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
London -34 7 £80,000 -15.79% 8
South East - 5 £62,500 - 3
North of England - 3 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
North East - 1 £62,500 -
Kong
UK

Kong
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Apigee
3 8 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Cloudflare
7 2 (12.50%) Serverless
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) DocumentDB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Automation Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Automation Specialist
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Network Specialist
1 6 (37.50%) Telecoms Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Telecoms Specialist
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) REST
2 8 (50.00%) JSON
3 6 (37.50%) Jinja
3 6 (37.50%) XML
3 6 (37.50%) YAML
3 6 (37.50%) YANG
4 4 (25.00%) JWT
5 3 (18.75%) RESTful
6 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (12.50%) Express.js
6 2 (12.50%) FastAPI
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js
6 2 (12.50%) OAuth
6 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
6 2 (12.50%) SAML
6 2 (12.50%) Swagger
6 2 (12.50%) Web Services
7 1 (6.25%) Kafka
7 1 (6.25%) NestJS
7 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
4 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (62.50%) Microservices
4 9 (56.25%) DevOps
5 8 (50.00%) API Management
5 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (43.75%) Secrets Management
6 7 (43.75%) Task Automation
7 6 (37.50%) Webhook
8 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (18.75%) Agile
10 3 (18.75%) AI
10 3 (18.75%) API Development
10 3 (18.75%) LLM
10 3 (18.75%) Observability
10 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
10 3 (18.75%) Validation
11 2 (12.50%) Red Team
11 2 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Groovy
3 2 (12.50%) Lua
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
1 6 (37.50%) F5
1 6 (37.50%) Juniper
1 6 (37.50%) Palo Alto
1 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Confluent
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace