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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 94 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing Kanban 38 28 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.12% 1.48% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.61% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £406 £459 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £720 £684 £644
90th Percentile £899 £800 £683
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 1,608 1,738 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.53% 92.01% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,056 1,550
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

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 12 January 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 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) GitHub
2 3 (7.89%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.63%) Figma
4 1 (2.63%) Miro
4 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Git
2 7 (18.42%) Bitbucket
3 4 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (10.53%) JIRA
4 2 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.63%) Vite
General
1 17 (44.74%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Front Office
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Developer
2 17 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Angular Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) CRM Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) REST
2 9 (23.68%) React
3 8 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
5 5 (13.16%) Web Services
5 5 (13.16%) ZK
6 3 (7.89%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (5.26%) .NET
7 2 (5.26%) CSS
7 2 (5.26%) HTML
8 1 (2.63%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (2.63%) Node.js
8 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (2.63%) Playwright
8 1 (2.63%) RESTful
8 1 (2.63%) Sass
8 1 (2.63%) Spring
8 1 (2.63%) Swing
8 1 (2.63%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.26%) PMI
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.63%) Derivative
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Scrum
2 36 (94.74%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) TDD
4 12 (31.58%) BDD
4 12 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (28.95%) Project Delivery
5 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
6 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (21.05%) Microservices
8 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.16%) Low Latency
10 5 (13.16%) Product Backlog
10 5 (13.16%) SDLC
10 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 4 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
11 4 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
11 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Java
2 9 (23.68%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
2 9 (23.68%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.79%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) CBAP
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ISEB
3 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) PSD2
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) UiPath