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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 643 725
Rank change year-on-year -86 +82 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kong 20 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.021% 0.032% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.081% 0.097% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 13
10th Percentile - £43,775 £67,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £49,813 £74,901
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,750 £97,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -37.37% +7.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,813 £122,500
90th Percentile - £76,325 -
UK median annual salary £73,750 £60,750 £95,000
% change year-on-year +21.40% -36.05% +5.56%

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 24,557 14,441 22,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.37% 32.93% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 16,930 10,143 15,944
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -51 12 £80,000 - 22
North of England - 5 £67,500 - 8
North East - 3 £67,500 - 1
South East - 3 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
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 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (35.00%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (35.00%) Azure
4 7 (35.00%) Serverless
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (30.00%) Apigee
5 6 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (30.00%) GitHub
5 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) CloudFront
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (15.00%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.00%) DocumentDB
3 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Gen AI Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Network Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Angular Developer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) REST
3 9 (45.00%) RESTful
4 7 (35.00%) Express.js
4 7 (35.00%) JWT
4 7 (35.00%) Node.js
5 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (25.00%) Jest
5 5 (25.00%) JSON
5 5 (25.00%) OAuth
5 5 (25.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (20.00%) FastAPI
6 4 (20.00%) NestJS
6 4 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (15.00%) Kafka
7 3 (15.00%) MEAN Stack
7 3 (15.00%) Nunjucks
7 3 (15.00%) XML
7 3 (15.00%) YAML
7 3 (15.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (60.00%) Microservices
4 10 (50.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) Observability
6 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) Secrets Management
6 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (30.00%) API Development
7 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
8 5 (25.00%) Agile
8 5 (25.00%) AI
8 5 (25.00%) API Management
8 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (25.00%) LLM
8 5 (25.00%) Software Delivery
8 5 (25.00%) Validation
9 4 (20.00%) Benchmarking
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Groovy
5 2 (10.00%) Lua
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Confluent
1 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (15.00%) F5
1 3 (15.00%) Juniper
1 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (15.00%) Red Hat