Kanban Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Kanban
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Kanban 9 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.59% 2.48% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.33% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £421 £436 £486
25th Percentile £440 £470 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +0.24% -11.85%
75th Percentile £509 £530 £532
90th Percentile £521 £535 £534
South Wales median daily rate £475 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -7.32% +0.24% -11.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Kanban falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 180 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 84.46% 74.38% 91.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 125 173
10th Percentile £213 £140 £180
25th Percentile £290 £209 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £611 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £405 £406 £450
% change year-on-year -0.31% -9.72% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 7
10th Percentile - - £17.60
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £23.30 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.32% -10.40% +44.44%
75th Percentile £20.50 £25.60 £34.50
90th Percentile £22.24 £27.50 £47.00
South Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £23.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.64% -9.62% +30.29%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kanban relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Kanban job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Kanban

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Asana
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
1 4 (44.44%) Postman
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Playwright
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Regression Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
5 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
5 4 (44.44%) SDLC
6 3 (33.33%) API Design
6 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Microservices
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Migration
8 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 3 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft