Kanban Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kanban
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Kanban skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kanban over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 146 165
Rank change year-on-year -71 +19 -25
Contract jobs citing Kanban 191 402 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.71% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.91% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 302 307
10th Percentile £394 £410 £389
25th Percentile £450 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £565
90th Percentile £603 £637 £650
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 14
10th Percentile - £69.00 £22.05
25th Percentile £45.88 £72.50 £28.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £85.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +83.78% -20.26%
75th Percentile £74.75 - £63.25
90th Percentile £77.00 - £79.69
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.25% +79.78% -21.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Kanban is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +1 68 £544 +8.80% 35
North of England -1 41 £550 - 38
Scotland -48 41 £463 -6.75% 7
North West -3 20 £311 -37.80% 26
Yorkshire +7 19 £550 -2.22% 10
South West +6 14 £585 +17.00% 28
Midlands +25 13 £513 -4.65% 24
West Midlands +11 8 £550 -8.33% 16
Wales +24 7 £503 +21.82% 10
East of England -13 6 £550 +5.26% 14
East Midlands +25 5 £363 -19.44% 8
North East +13 2 £533 +1.43% 2
Northern Ireland +1 1 £640 +60.00%
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (10.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) CMS
2 3 (1.57%) Drupal
3 2 (1.05%) Mule
3 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Primavera
1 3 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.05%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.52%) Maximo
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.23%) AWS
2 33 (17.28%) Serverless
3 29 (15.18%) Azure
4 28 (14.66%) Amazon S3
4 28 (14.66%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (12.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (9.42%) OpenShift
8 16 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (7.33%) GitHub
10 10 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.19%) AWS CodePipeline
11 8 (4.19%) PaaS
12 7 (3.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (3.66%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (3.66%) IaaS
13 6 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.14%) SaaS
13 6 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) Firewall
1 6 (3.14%) SSL
1 6 (3.14%) VSAN
2 5 (2.62%) DNS
3 4 (2.09%) PPP
4 3 (1.57%) HTTP
4 3 (1.57%) VPN
5 2 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.05%) FabricPath
5 2 (1.05%) Internet
5 2 (1.05%) Junos
5 2 (1.05%) LAN
5 2 (1.05%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.05%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.52%) NFC
6 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.85%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.33%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.81%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (6.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.14%) Informix
7 5 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.62%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.09%) Power BI
9 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.57%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.05%) CouchDB
10 2 (1.05%) MySQL
10 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.52%) Flink
11 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 44 (23.04%) JIRA
2 37 (19.37%) Git
3 34 (17.80%) Jenkins
4 22 (11.52%) GitLab
5 10 (5.24%) Postman
6 9 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.19%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.19%) Subversion
8 7 (3.66%) JUnit
8 7 (3.66%) Visual Studio
9 6 (3.14%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.14%) NUnit
10 5 (2.62%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.62%) Selenium
11 4 (2.09%) ClearCase
11 4 (2.09%) ClearQuest
11 4 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (2.09%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.57%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.61%) Finance
3 23 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Marketing
6 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Banking
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Billing
9 2 (1.05%) Electronics
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
9 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (17.80%) Senior
2 31 (16.23%) Developer
3 22 (11.52%) Software Engineer
4 20 (10.47%) Analyst
5 15 (7.85%) Scrum Master
6 14 (7.33%) Lead
7 13 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.76%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) Test Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Consultant
9 9 (4.71%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.14%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Product Analyst
12 6 (3.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.66%) AWS CDK
2 17 (8.90%) REST
3 14 (7.33%) AngularJS
3 14 (7.33%) React
4 12 (6.28%) Spring
4 12 (6.28%) Web Services
5 11 (5.76%) Node.js
6 10 (5.24%) .NET
6 10 (5.24%) GraphQL
7 9 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (4.71%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.19%) HTML
8 8 (4.19%) OAuth
9 7 (3.66%) Playwright
10 6 (3.14%) CSS
10 6 (3.14%) Kafka
11 5 (2.62%) LDAP
12 4 (2.09%) Gherkin
12 4 (2.09%) JSON
12 4 (2.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.57%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.76%) Replication
3 9 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.71%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.62%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.09%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.09%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 3 (1.57%) CMDB
9 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) Clustering
10 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.52%) CSOC
11 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.71%) Linux
2 10 (5.24%) Windows
3 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.05%) Android
7 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (88.48%) Agile
2 161 (84.29%) Scrum
3 55 (28.80%) DevOps
4 45 (23.56%) CI/CD
5 40 (20.94%) Software Engineering
6 32 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (16.23%) Test Automation
8 30 (15.71%) TDD
9 26 (13.61%) Mentoring
9 26 (13.61%) Roadmaps
10 25 (13.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 24 (12.57%) Migration
11 24 (12.57%) Waterfall
12 21 (10.99%) Project Management
13 19 (9.95%) Microservices
14 18 (9.42%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (8.90%) BDD
15 17 (8.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.56%) Python
2 39 (20.42%) Java
3 31 (16.23%) TypeScript
4 28 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 26 (13.61%) SQL
6 19 (9.95%) C++
7 15 (7.85%) Bash
7 15 (7.85%) C
8 11 (5.76%) C#
9 6 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.09%) Perl
12 3 (1.57%) Go
12 3 (1.57%) Scala
13 2 (1.05%) Groovy
13 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.05%) VBA
13 2 (1.05%) VBScript
14 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (24.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.28%) Degree
4 14 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) ISEB
7 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.05%) PMP
8 1 (0.52%) APMP
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) CSPO
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.90%) QA
2 12 (6.28%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.62%) PMO
4 4 (2.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.05%) IFRS
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) GxP
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (16.23%) Docker
2 10 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.66%) vSphere
4 5 (2.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.05%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (13.61%) Ansible
2 25 (13.09%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.52%) Grafana
4 17 (8.90%) Terraform
5 7 (3.66%) Kibana
6 5 (2.62%) VxRail
7 4 (2.09%) HP ALM
7 4 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.09%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.05%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.52%) SCCM
9 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (8.90%) Oracle
2 15 (7.85%) VMware
3 13 (6.81%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.66%) Cisco
7 6 (3.14%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.14%) SAP
8 5 (2.62%) Dell
9 4 (2.09%) Commvault
9 4 (2.09%) Google
9 4 (2.09%) HP
10 3 (1.57%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.57%) Juniper
10 3 (1.57%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.57%) Sparx
11 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (1.05%) Splunk