Kanban Contracts in the City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Kanban skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kanban over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Kanban London / City of London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	75	95	136
Rank change year-on-year	+20	+41
Contract jobs citing Kanban	103	71	70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	3.10%	2.14%	1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	3.52%	2.49%	1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	96	67	61
Median daily rate	£500	£525	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.85%	+16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£425	£400	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£650	£585
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£438	£400
% change year-on-year	+2.85%	+9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£55.73	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-	+59.23%

Kanban is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills City of London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	2925	2856	4712
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	88.16%	85.89%	81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	2250	2341	3708
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£468
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+1.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£335	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	23	23	56
Median hourly rate	£20.00	£19.00	£24.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-22.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£15.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£41.00	£35.20	£55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London citing Kanban as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the City of London

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Kanban in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Kanban in the City of London

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Kanban in the City of London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Kanban in the City of London

Kanban
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Kanban also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Kanban.

1	162 (95.86%)	Agile Software Development
2	133 (78.70%)	Scrum
3	91 (53.85%)	TDD
4	73 (43.20%)	Java
5	66 (39.05%)	BDD
6	64 (37.87%)	AngularJS
7	56 (33.14%)	Test Automation
8	54 (31.95%)	JavaScript
8	54 (31.95%)	MVC
9	53 (31.36%)	React
10	50 (29.59%)	Mentoring
11	48 (28.40%)	JIRA
12	47 (27.81%)	SQL
13	46 (27.22%)	Continuous Integration
14	43 (25.44%)	Selenium

15	42 (24.85%)	Node.js
16	41 (24.26%)	HTML
16	41 (24.26%)	CSS
17	38 (22.49%)	Retail
18	36 (21.30%)	Stakeholder Management
19	35 (20.71%)	Git (software)
20	34 (20.12%)	Amazon AWS
20	34 (20.12%)	C#
20	34 (20.12%)	.NET
20	34 (20.12%)	MongoDB
21	33 (19.53%)	Pair Programming
22	32 (18.93%)	ASP.NET MVC
22	32 (18.93%)	ASP.NET
23	31 (18.34%)	DevOps
24	30 (17.75%)	Front End Development

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	12 (7.10%)	Confluence
2	8 (4.73%)	Tomcat
3	5 (2.96%)	Apache Spark
4	3 (1.78%)	JBoss
5	2 (1.18%)	Apache
6	1 (0.59%)	Apache Qpid
6	1 (0.59%)	Apache TomEE
6	1 (0.59%)	Cloud Foundry
6	1 (0.59%)	CMS
6	1 (0.59%)	Mule
6	1 (0.59%)	nginx
6	1 (0.59%)	OpenStack
6	1 (0.59%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	1 (0.59%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	1 (0.59%)	Microsoft Office
1	1 (0.59%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	1 (0.59%)	ION MarketView
1	1 (0.59%)	SAP Hybris

Cloud Services
1	34 (20.12%)	Amazon AWS
2	7 (4.14%)	AWS CloudFormation
3	3 (1.78%)	Google Play
3	3 (1.78%)	Microsoft Azure
3	3 (1.78%)	PaaS
3	3 (1.78%)	Slack
4	2 (1.18%)	GitHub
4	2 (1.18%)	IaaS
5	1 (0.59%)	Amazon CloudWatch
5	1 (0.59%)	Amazon EC2
5	1 (0.59%)	Amazon S3
5	1 (0.59%)	CloudBees
5	1 (0.59%)	OpenShift
5	1 (0.59%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	4 (2.37%)	TCP/IP
2	2 (1.18%)	HTTP
2	2 (1.18%)	Kerberos
2	2 (1.18%)	LDAP
3	1 (0.59%)	DSL
3	1 (0.59%)	Internet
3	1 (0.59%)	Intranet
3	1 (0.59%)	LAN
3	1 (0.59%)	RTP
3	1 (0.59%)	RTSP
3	1 (0.59%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	34 (20.12%)	MongoDB
2	17 (10.06%)	NoSQL
3	13 (7.69%)	MySQL
4	9 (5.33%)	Big Data
5	7 (4.14%)	SQL Server
6	6 (3.55%)	Apache Cassandra
6	6 (3.55%)	Hazelcast
7	5 (2.96%)	Hadoop
8	4 (2.37%)	MariaDB
8	4 (2.37%)	Relational Database
9	3 (1.78%)	Couchbase
9	3 (1.78%)	PostgreSQL
10	2 (1.18%)	BusinessObjects
10	2 (1.18%)	HBase
11	1 (0.59%)	Amazon RDS
11	1 (0.59%)	Apache Accumulo
11	1 (0.59%)	Apache Hive
11	1 (0.59%)	Cloudera CDH
11	1 (0.59%)	Impala
11	1 (0.59%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	48 (28.40%)	JIRA
2	43 (25.44%)	Selenium
3	35 (20.71%)	Git (software)
4	26 (15.38%)	JIRA Agile
5	22 (13.02%)	IntelliJ
6	21 (12.43%)	Grunt
6	21 (12.43%)	gulp
7	17 (10.06%)	Cucumber
8	14 (8.28%)	Jenkins
9	11 (6.51%)	JUnit
10	5 (2.96%)	Capybara
11	4 (2.37%)	Gradle
11	4 (2.37%)	Jasmine
11	4 (2.37%)	Maven
11	4 (2.37%)	Subversion
12	3 (1.78%)	Android Studio
12	3 (1.78%)	Moq
12	3 (1.78%)	Rhino Mocks
13	2 (1.18%)	Ant
13	2 (1.18%)	Mocha

General
1	38 (22.49%)	Retail
2	30 (17.75%)	Finance
3	20 (11.83%)	Banking
4	8 (4.73%)	Advertising
5	7 (4.14%)	Games
6	5 (2.96%)	Financial Institution
7	3 (1.78%)	Law
8	2 (1.18%)	Legal
8	2 (1.18%)	Marketing
9	1 (0.59%)	Corporate Banking
9	1 (0.59%)	Dutch Language
9	1 (0.59%)	French Language
9	1 (0.59%)	German Language
9	1 (0.59%)	Italian Language
9	1 (0.59%)	Publishing
9	1 (0.59%)	Retail Banking
9	1 (0.59%)	Spanish Language
9	1 (0.59%)	Telecoms
9	1 (0.59%)	Wholesale Banking

Job Titles
1	110 (65.09%)	Developer
2	48 (28.40%)	Java Developer
3	30 (17.75%)	Angular Developer
4	27 (15.98%)	Senior Developer
5	15 (8.88%)	Agile Developer
6	12 (7.10%)	Analyst
6	12 (7.10%)	Full Stack Developer
7	11 (6.51%)	Agile Java Developer
7	11 (6.51%)	Business Analyst
8	10 (5.92%)	Node.js Developer
8	10 (5.92%)	Scrum Master
9	9 (5.33%)	Agile Coach
9	9 (5.33%)	C# Developer
10	8 (4.73%)	JavaScript Developer
10	8 (4.73%)	Project Manager
10	8 (4.73%)	Scala Developer
10	8 (4.73%)	SQL Developer
11	6 (3.55%)	.NET Developer
11	6 (3.55%)	Agile Business Analyst
11	6 (3.55%)	Senior Scala Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	64 (37.87%)	AngularJS
2	53 (31.36%)	React
3	42 (24.85%)	Node.js
4	41 (24.26%)	CSS
4	41 (24.26%)	HTML
5	34 (20.12%)	.NET
6	32 (18.93%)	ASP.NET
6	32 (18.93%)	ASP.NET MVC
7	30 (17.75%)	HTML5
8	28 (16.57%)	ASP.NET MVC 4
8	28 (16.57%)	ASP.NET MVC 5
9	26 (15.38%)	Web Services
10	23 (13.61%)	REST
10	23 (13.61%)	Spring
11	20 (11.83%)	Dropwizard
11	20 (11.83%)	Hystrix
11	20 (11.83%)	Play Framework
11	20 (11.83%)	Scalatra
12	19 (11.24%)	jQuery
13	15 (8.88%)	JSON

Miscellaneous
1	13 (7.69%)	Virtual Team
2	11 (6.51%)	Analytical Skills
3	10 (5.92%)	User Experience
4	9 (5.33%)	Equities
5	8 (4.73%)	Fintech
5	8 (4.73%)	Mobile App
6	7 (4.14%)	Greenfield Project
7	6 (3.55%)	Fixed Income
8	5 (2.96%)	Computer Science
9	3 (1.78%)	Data Structures
10	1 (0.59%)	Algorithms
10	1 (0.59%)	Blog
10	1 (0.59%)	Data Centre
10	1 (0.59%)	Enterprise Software
10	1 (0.59%)	Management Information System
10	1 (0.59%)	Mobile Banking
10	1 (0.59%)	MPEG
10	1 (0.59%)	Private Cloud
10	1 (0.59%)	Streaming Video
10	1 (0.59%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	8 (4.73%)	Linux
2	6 (3.55%)	Android
2	6 (3.55%)	Apple iOS
3	5 (2.96%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	4 (2.37%)	Windows
5	3 (1.78%)	Unix
6	1 (0.59%)	Mac OS X
6	1 (0.59%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	162 (95.86%)	Agile Software Development
2	133 (78.70%)	Scrum
3	91 (53.85%)	TDD
4	66 (39.05%)	BDD
5	56 (33.14%)	Test Automation
6	54 (31.95%)	MVC
7	50 (29.59%)	Mentoring
8	46 (27.22%)	Continuous Integration
9	36 (21.30%)	Stakeholder Management
10	33 (19.53%)	Pair Programming
11	31 (18.34%)	DevOps
12	30 (17.75%)	Front End Development
12	30 (17.75%)	SOA
12	30 (17.75%)	Web Development
13	28 (16.57%)	Refactoring
13	28 (16.57%)	Software Engineering
14	27 (15.98%)	SOLID
15	24 (14.20%)	Web Application Development
16	23 (13.61%)	Digital Transformation Programme
17	20 (11.83%)	Domain-Driven Design

Programming Languages
1	73 (43.20%)	Java
2	54 (31.95%)	JavaScript
3	47 (27.81%)	SQL
4	34 (20.12%)	C#
5	23 (13.61%)	Groovy
6	16 (9.47%)	Scala
7	7 (4.14%)	Python
8	3 (1.78%)	Apple Swift
8	3 (1.78%)	Objective-C
9	2 (1.18%)	Bash Shell
9	2 (1.18%)	ES6
10	1 (0.59%)	R
10	1 (0.59%)	VB

Qualifications
1	6 (3.55%)	Degree
2	4 (2.37%)	PMP
3	3 (1.78%)	Computer Science Degree
3	3 (1.78%)	Security Cleared
4	2 (1.18%)	BPSS Clearance
4	2 (1.18%)	PMI Certification
5	1 (0.59%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
5	1 (0.59%)	SC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	28 (16.57%)	QA
2	4 (2.37%)	MiFID
3	1 (0.59%)	Data Quality

System Software
1	3 (1.78%)	Docker
2	1 (0.59%)	Active Directory
2	1 (0.59%)	vCloud
2	1 (0.59%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	6 (3.55%)	Kubernetes
2	4 (2.37%)	Puppet
3	1 (0.59%)	Ansible
3	1 (0.59%)	Graphite
3	1 (0.59%)	HockeyApp
3	1 (0.59%)	OpenIDM
3	1 (0.59%)	Opscode Chef
3	1 (0.59%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	20 (11.83%)	New Relic
2	6 (3.55%)	Apple
3	5 (2.96%)	Red Hat
3	5 (2.96%)	Telerik
3	5 (2.96%)	Xamarin
4	3 (1.78%)	CA Agile Central
4	3 (1.78%)	Google
4	3 (1.78%)	Microsoft
4	3 (1.78%)	Oracle
5	2 (1.18%)	Atlassian
5	2 (1.18%)	Cloudera
5	2 (1.18%)	SAP
6	1 (0.59%)	Brightcove
6	1 (0.59%)	Cisco
6	1 (0.59%)	ForgeRock
6	1 (0.59%)	hybris
6	1 (0.59%)	ION Trading
6	1 (0.59%)	SaltStack
6	1 (0.59%)	Sybase
6	1 (0.59%)	Tableau