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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 84 100
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing Kanban 21 32 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 1.83% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.94% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 20
10th Percentile £472 £493 £448
25th Percentile £519 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £775 £661
90th Percentile £715 £862 £713
Central London median daily rate £565 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% +5.50%

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 2,007 1,649 1,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.81% 94.17% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 1,093 1,221
10th Percentile £366 £325 £386
25th Percentile £456 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% -1.82%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +30.84%

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 15 September 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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Databricks
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) Mockito
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Appium
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) HP UFT
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Military
5 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Agile Coach
2 3 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Product Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Head of Delivery
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
1 2 (9.52%) JPA
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) RESTful
1 2 (9.52%) SOAP
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (9.52%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) ADO
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.52%) Life Science
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Agile
2 19 (90.48%) Scrum
3 10 (47.62%) Sprint Planning
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (38.10%) User Stories
6 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) Agile Coaching
7 6 (28.57%) Product Backlog
7 6 (28.57%) Product Management
7 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
8 5 (23.81%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (23.81%) AI
8 5 (23.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
8 5 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (23.81%) Project Management
9 4 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (19.05%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) Korn
2 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Scala
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.52%) CSPO
1 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
1 2 (9.52%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) GxP
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Avaloq
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow