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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 707 703
Rank change year-on-year +104 -4 +348
Permanent jobs citing Kong 16 24 12
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.038% 0.038% 0.024%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.12% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 8
10th Percentile £43,775 £66,250 £73,375
25th Percentile £49,813 £79,950 £83,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £112,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.00% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,813 £122,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £76,325 - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £104,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year -42.72% +16.39% +20.00%

All Cloud 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 13,873 20,486 21,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.55% 32.83% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,672 12,558 18,198
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% -3.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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
London +63 14 £80,000 -30.43% 5
West Midlands +53 1 £41,500 -
Midlands +36 1 £41,500 -
North West +12 1 - -
North of England +12 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (56.25%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (56.25%) Apigee
4 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 3 (18.75%) Datadog
6 2 (12.50%) Akamai
6 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 2 (12.50%) Lucidchart
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Law
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 9 (56.25%) Banking
3 9 (56.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) IT Manager
5 3 (18.75%) Software Manager
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior
7 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Manager
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) OpenAPI
1 9 (56.25%) RESTful
1 9 (56.25%) Swagger
2 4 (25.00%) React
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
3 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (18.75%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
1 12 (75.00%) AI
1 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (75.00%) SDLC
1 12 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) DevOps
3 9 (56.25%) API Management
3 9 (56.25%) Architectural Design
3 9 (56.25%) Community of Practice
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Delivery
3 9 (56.25%) Information Architecture
3 9 (56.25%) Machine Learning
3 9 (56.25%) Operational Stability
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) SOLID
5 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Go
1 9 (56.25%) Lua
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) logstash
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) MuleSoft
2 9 (56.25%) MKS
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) IBM