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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 90 99
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Kanban 36 30 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.82% 1.63% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.78% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 19
10th Percentile £405 £441 £481
25th Percentile £463 £491 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £664 £644
90th Percentile £899 £800 £683
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -

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 1,765 1,689 2,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.01% 91.64% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 1,038 1,488
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 26 February 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 (2.78%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (8.33%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.56%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) Datadog
4 1 (2.78%) Figma
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) Miro
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) Vite
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Front Office
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Developer
2 13 (36.11%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Angular Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) CRM Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Payments Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Payments Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Product Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) React Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) React
3 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.11%) Web Services
4 4 (11.11%) ZK
5 3 (8.33%) .NET
5 3 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (5.56%) CSS
6 2 (5.56%) HTML
6 2 (5.56%) Playwright
7 1 (2.78%) JSON
7 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (2.78%) Node.js
7 1 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.78%) Sass
7 1 (2.78%) Swing
7 1 (2.78%) Vitest
7 1 (2.78%) XML
7 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.56%) PMI
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Derivative
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) Scrum
2 33 (91.67%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Project Delivery
4 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 9 (25.00%) BDD
5 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (25.00%) TDD
6 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (16.67%) Microservices
8 6 (16.67%) Project Management
8 6 (16.67%) Waterfall
9 5 (13.89%) Business Analysis
9 5 (13.89%) Product Backlog
9 5 (13.89%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 4 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Python
4 7 (19.44%) C#
5 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.78%) Bicep
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Korn
8 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) CBAP
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.56%) ISEB
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
4 1 (2.78%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) PSD2
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk