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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 738 620 727
Rank change year-on-year -118 +107 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kong 22 16 24
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.021% 0.037% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.093% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile £57,750 £43,775 £66,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £49,813 £79,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,750 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -46.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,813 £122,500
90th Percentile - £76,325 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,750 £104,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -42.00% +16.39%

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 23,664 13,897 21,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.78% 32.25% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,629 9,672 12,961
10th Percentile £31,681 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,478 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,710 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,674 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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
North of England -48 11 £67,500 - 3
London -51 11 £80,000 - 20
North East - 9 £67,500 -
Yorkshire - 5 £57,500 - 3
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 (13.64%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (77.27%) Amazon S3
3 14 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (45.45%) Serverless
5 9 (40.91%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (40.91%) Amazon ECR
5 9 (40.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (40.91%) AWS KMS
6 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (27.27%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (27.27%) Azure
6 6 (27.27%) GitHub
6 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (18.18%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (18.18%) CloudFront
8 3 (13.64%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) DynamoDB
1 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (27.27%) DocumentDB
2 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (18.18%) MySQL
3 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git
1 9 (40.91%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Node.js Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Angular Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Software Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Gen AI Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (90.91%) Terraform
2 13 (59.09%) RESTful
3 10 (45.45%) Express.js
3 10 (45.45%) Node.js
4 8 (36.36%) AngularJS
4 8 (36.36%) Jest
4 8 (36.36%) REST
5 6 (27.27%) JWT
5 6 (27.27%) Kafka
5 6 (27.27%) MEAN Stack
5 6 (27.27%) Nunjucks
5 6 (27.27%) OAuth
5 6 (27.27%) OAuth2
6 4 (18.18%) FastAPI
6 4 (18.18%) NestJS
6 4 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
7 2 (9.09%) Middleware
7 2 (9.09%) OpenAPI
7 2 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (18.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (59.09%) Observability
4 13 (59.09%) Test Automation
5 11 (50.00%) Agile
5 11 (50.00%) Microservices
6 10 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (36.36%) Software Delivery
8 7 (31.82%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (27.27%) API Development
9 6 (27.27%) Clean Code
9 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (27.27%) Monorepo
9 6 (27.27%) Service Delivery
10 5 (22.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) TypeScript
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Bash
6 2 (9.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Grafana
3 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Dynatrace
2 6 (27.27%) Confluent
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk