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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 97 112
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 -28
Contract jobs citing Kanban 41 31 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.28% 1.45% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.58% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 18
10th Percentile £407 £493 £428
25th Percentile £463 £550 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £706 £713 £617
90th Percentile £899 £800 £686
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -3.93%

All Process and 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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 13 December 2025.

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 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) GitHub
2 3 (7.32%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) AWS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.44%) Figma
4 1 (2.44%) Miro
4 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Tableau
2 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) Git
2 7 (17.07%) Bitbucket
3 5 (12.20%) JIRA
4 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.44%) GitLab
6 1 (2.44%) Vite
General
1 17 (41.46%) Finance
2 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Front Office
4 6 (14.63%) Banking
5 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
6 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Developer
2 16 (39.02%) Java Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Angular Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Project Manager
7 3 (7.32%) Senior
8 2 (4.88%) Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) Payments Business Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) IT Manager
9 1 (2.44%) Programme Manager
9 1 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Systems Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) REST
2 9 (21.95%) React
3 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.07%) Spring Boot
5 5 (12.20%) CSS
5 5 (12.20%) HTML
6 4 (9.76%) Web Services
6 4 (9.76%) ZK
7 3 (7.32%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (7.32%) Flask
7 3 (7.32%) Pandas
8 2 (4.88%) .NET
8 2 (4.88%) RESTful
9 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
9 1 (2.44%) Node.js
9 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (2.44%) Playwright
9 1 (2.44%) Sass
9 1 (2.44%) Spring
9 1 (2.44%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
4 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
5 3 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.88%) PMI
7 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.44%) Derivative
7 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Scrum
2 40 (97.56%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) TDD
4 12 (29.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (26.83%) BDD
6 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (24.39%) Test Automation
7 9 (21.95%) Project Delivery
8 8 (19.51%) Microservices
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (12.20%) Business Analysis
11 5 (12.20%) Low Latency
11 5 (12.20%) SDLC
11 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (12.20%) Unit Testing
11 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (9.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 4 (9.76%) Sprint Planning
12 4 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Java
2 12 (29.27%) Python
3 11 (26.83%) SQL
4 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
5 6 (14.63%) C#
6 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) CBAP
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) ISEB
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.44%) PMP
5 1 (2.44%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) ISO 8583
3 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.88%) PSD2
4 1 (2.44%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
2 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.44%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.44%) HP
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) UiPath