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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 90 101
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Kanban 39 30 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.09% 1.61% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.75% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 20
10th Percentile £406 £441 £461
25th Percentile £475 £491 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £720 £666 £641
90th Percentile £899 £800 £679
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 1,657 1,713 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.90% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,043 1,572
10th Percentile £350 £364 £355
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 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 (2.56%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) GitHub
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.56%) Figma
4 1 (2.56%) Miro
4 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
4 4 (10.26%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) GitLab
6 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.56%) Vite
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Front Office
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 17 (43.59%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Angular Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) Business Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
6 4 (10.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) CRM Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Payments Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Payments Business Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Product Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) REST
2 8 (20.51%) React
3 7 (17.95%) AngularJS
4 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.38%) Web Services
4 6 (15.38%) ZK
5 3 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (5.13%) .NET
6 2 (5.13%) CSS
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
7 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (2.56%) Node.js
7 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.56%) Playwright
7 1 (2.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.56%) Sass
7 1 (2.56%) Spring
7 1 (2.56%) Swing
7 1 (2.56%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.13%) PMI
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (97.44%) Scrum
2 37 (94.87%) Agile
3 13 (33.33%) TDD
4 12 (30.77%) BDD
4 12 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (30.77%) Project Delivery
5 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
6 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.95%) Microservices
7 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.38%) SDLC
9 5 (12.82%) Business Analysis
9 5 (12.82%) Low Latency
9 5 (12.82%) Product Backlog
9 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (10.26%) Project Management
10 4 (10.26%) Unit Testing
10 4 (10.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) CBAP
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) ISEB
3 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.13%) PSD2
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath