Kanban Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Kanban
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 91 100
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Kanban 21 32 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.82% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.95% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 17
10th Percentile £416 £434 £450
25th Percentile £517 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +23.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £711 £747 £625
90th Percentile £748 £826 £660
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,962 1,638 1,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.19% 93.28% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,037 1,404
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the City of London

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kanban

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the City of London

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (4.76%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.76%) Datadog
3 1 (4.76%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Front Office
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) CRM Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Payments Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Product Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) Web Services
2 3 (14.29%) ZK
3 2 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (9.52%) Playwright
3 2 (9.52%) React
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.76%) Sass
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Vitest
4 1 (4.76%) XML
4 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) PMI
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Scrum
2 17 (80.95%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 5 (23.81%) Waterfall
6 4 (19.05%) BDD
6 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) TDD
6 4 (19.05%) User Stories
7 3 (14.29%) Business Case
7 3 (14.29%) Line Management
7 3 (14.29%) Low Latency
7 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CBAP
3 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) ISO 8583
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) PSD2
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco