# Companies using Kong

We found 24,567 companies that use Kong. 3,057 of them name it in their own job posts, and the rest through employees' public profiles. Its share of job posts held steady in the three months to August 2026; 3,486 job posts named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Software Engineer roles mention it most.

Data as of November 9, 2026. Source: Sumble.

## Which companies name Kong in the most job posts?

HSBC, EPAM Systems and Capgemini mention Kong in the most job posts. Three of these five companies are in Professional Services.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [HSBC](https://sumble.com/orgs/hsbc) | 310 | 440 | "Develop world-class high-quality APIs in Spring boot and Kong." (senior consultant specialist, Nov 7, 2026) |
| [EPAM Systems](https://sumble.com/orgs/epam-systems) | 223 | 45 | "Build and maintain REST APIs and API management solutions using Kong API Gateway and Kong Konnect" (Senior Software Engineer (Kong API Gateway), Sep 22, 2026) |
| [Capgemini](https://sumble.com/orgs/capgemini) | 217 | 98 | "Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and adoption of Kong API Gateway solutions for enterprise customers." (my dear engineer, Nov 3, 2026) |
| [Techtouch, Inc](https://sumble.com/orgs/techtouch) | 175 | 1 | "Go, gorm, gin, kong, ECS／Fargate, Kinesis, CloudFormation, Open API, Snowflake etc…" ([Tokyo: Remote] Backend Engineer, Apr 7, 2026) |
| [Tata Consultancy Services](https://sumble.com/orgs/tata-consultancy-services-tcs) | 155 | 169 | "Implement API lifecycle management using API Management platforms such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, IBM API Connect, or Azure API Management." (Java API Management & Microservices Lead, Oct 21, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Kong growing?

Demand for Kong is steady: 2.0 in every 10,000 job posts from June to August 2026, close to the 1.8 of March to May. Its busiest month was November 2025, at 2.1.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 198 | 1,413,673 | 1.4 |
| Nov 2025 | 380 | 1,822,119 | 2.1 |
| Dec 2025 | 224 | 1,236,103 | 1.8 |
| Jan 2026 | 300 | 1,828,002 | 1.6 |
| Feb 2026 | 314 | 1,856,647 | 1.7 |
| Mar 2026 | 349 | 1,850,711 | 1.9 |
| Apr 2026 | 295 | 1,728,886 | 1.7 |
| May 2026 | 335 | 1,821,509 | 1.8 |
| Jun 2026 | 346 | 1,909,496 | 1.8 |
| Jul 2026 | 370 | 1,815,180 | 2.0 |
| Aug 2026 | 375 | 1,835,698 | 2.0 |

## How many companies named Kong in a job post for the first time in recent months?

From June to August 2026, 215 companies posted their first job naming Kong; 185 did from March to May. Of the 3,057 companies whose job posts name it, 7% first named it from June to August.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 185 |
| June to August 2026 | 215 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 669 |

Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.

## How do we know which companies use Kong?

Employees' profiles account for 88% of the companies here. 3,057 companies name Kong in job posts they wrote. 987 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Kong | 3,057 | 12% |
| Employees' profiles list Kong | 21,510 | 88% |

## What size are the companies that use Kong?

Kong skews toward smaller firms. 28% of its users are companies with fewer than 50 employees, against 22% on the typical tech page. 2,608 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 28% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 44% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 17% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 11% | 23% |

## Where are Kong companies based?

Hong Kong is 37 times as common among Kong companies as on the typical tech page, at 7.7%. The United States leads overall with 27%. India is less common than usual, at 4.3% against 6.9% on the typical tech page.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 6,273 | 27% | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 2,540 | 11% | 6.4% |
| Hong Kong | 1,795 | 7.7% | 0.21% |
| Australia | 1,088 | 4.6% | 2.2% |
| India | 1,019 | 4.3% | 6.9% |
| Singapore | 912 | 3.9% | 0.92% |

## Which teams work with Kong?

Kong turns up most in job posts for IT, DevOps and technology teams. Platform engineering and platform teams follow.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| IT | 30 |
| DevOps | 28 |
| Technology | 28 |
| Platform engineering | 24 |
| Platform | 18 |
| Engineering | 16 |

## Which roles mention Kong most?

Software Engineer and DevOps Engineer roles account for 34% of the job posts that name Kong. The top four roles cover 47% of these job posts.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Software Engineer | 26% | 908 | 266 | 215 |
| DevOps Engineer | 8.3% | 290 | 68 | 80 |
| Software Architect | 6.7% | 234 | 59 | 79 |
| Integration Engineer | 6% | 210 | 62 | 54 |
| Solutions Architect | 5.3% | 186 | 70 | 38 |
| Platform Engineer | 5.2% | 182 | 52 | 74 |

## Which companies started naming Kong in job posts recently?

251 companies with 50 or more employees started naming Kong in job posts between April and August 2026. 51 of them have more than 5,000 employees. Marriott Tech Accelerator has the most job posts of the new commercial companies, 7 from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [SpaceXAI](https://sumble.com/orgs/xai) | 1 |
| AI native | [Concentric AI](https://sumble.com/orgs/concentric-ai) | 1 |
| AI native | [Lasso](https://sumble.com/orgs/lasso-security) | 1 |
| Commercial | [Marriott Tech Accelerator](https://sumble.com/orgs/marriott-tech-accelerator) | 7 |
| Commercial | [鼎捷软件股份有限公司](https://sumble.com/orgs/鼎捷软件股份有限公司) | 6 |
| Commercial | [Acuity, Inc.](https://sumble.com/orgs/acuity-inc) | 5 |
| Commercial | [Die Haftpflichtkasse VVaG](https://sumble.com/orgs/haftpflichtkasse-darmstadt) | 4 |
| Commercial | [DIGI-TEXX VIETNAM](https://sumble.com/orgs/digi-texx-vietnam) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [EnerSys](https://sumble.com/orgs/enersys) | 3 |
| Mid-market | [Lazard](https://sumble.com/orgs/lazard) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [AmBank Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/ambankgroup) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [SentinelOne](https://sumble.com/orgs/sentinelone) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Guidepoint](https://sumble.com/orgs/guidepoint) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Viasat](https://sumble.com/orgs/viasat) | 5 |
| Enterprise | [Happiest Minds Technologies](https://sumble.com/orgs/happiest-solutions) | 5 |
| Enterprise | [Indra Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/indra) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [Palo Alto Networks](https://sumble.com/orgs/palo-alto-networks) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [FPT Corporation](https://sumble.com/orgs/fpt) | 4 |

Companies that named Kong in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.

## What else do Kong companies use?

19% of Kong companies also use AWS API Gateway, against 0.64% of similar companies. Among the tools listed here, Google Apigee is the most widely used, at 38% of Kong companies.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| AWS API Gateway | 368 | 19% | 0.64% | 30 times |
| Google Apigee | 743 | 38% | 1.3% | 29 times |
| WSO2 | 197 | 10% | 0.41% | 25 times |
| Linkerd | 199 | 10% | 0.58% | 18 times |
| Newman | 102 | 5.3% | 0.32% | 16 times |
| Istio | 491 | 25% | 1.7% | 15 times |
| Jaeger | 169 | 8.7% | 0.57% | 15 times |
| Trivy | 134 | 6.9% | 0.47% | 15 times |

Shares are out of the 1,936 companies whose job posts name Kong, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## Which project themes come up in Kong job posts?

Digital transformation is the broadest theme in Kong job posts (2,204); the most common specific one is Microservices Migration, at 952. After that comes Data Infrastructure Migration, with 423.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 2,204 |
| Microservices Migration | 952 |
| Data Infrastructure Migration | 423 |
| Cloud Cost Optimization | 395 |

## About this data

Sumble built this page. Sumble gives sales, marketing and other GTM teams technographics and hiring signals for the companies they sell to: the technologies each company uses, which teams are hiring and for what, and who reports to whom. That helps a team know who to contact, why now, and what to say.

Sumble covers more than 3.6 million companies, 93 million job posts collected since 2022 and 194 million employee profiles, and tracks more than 37,000 technologies. It finds which technologies a company uses by reading its job posts and its employees' public profiles.

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A company counts when its own job posts or its employees' public profiles name the technology. Hiring is that technology's share of all job posts collected each month. Quotes are copied word for word from the companies' job posts.

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