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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 -42
Contract jobs citing Kanban 39 30 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.27% 1.41% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.54% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 19
10th Percentile £428 £495 £405
25th Percentile £525 £517 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £775 £684 £609
90th Percentile £880 £766 £698
Central London median daily rate £638 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +10.87% +9.52% -4.55%

All Process and 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 1,621 1,951 2,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.98% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 1,209 1,788
10th Percentile £328 £363 £371
25th Percentile £422 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £591
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.75% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £23.13 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +36.00% -27.73%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.05%

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 17 October 2025.

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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) GitHub
3 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.13%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.56%) Figma
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Miro
5 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Tableau
2 2 (5.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) JIRA
3 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.56%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (2.56%) Storybook
6 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.56%) Vite
6 1 (2.56%) webpack
6 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 16 (41.03%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
3 5 (12.82%) Front Office
4 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Angular Developer
4 4 (10.26%) OpenLink Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (2.56%) SAP Project Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Security Manager
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) REST
2 6 (15.38%) .NET
2 6 (15.38%) React
3 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.82%) CSS
3 5 (12.82%) HTML
4 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
4 4 (10.26%) Web Services
4 4 (10.26%) ZK
5 3 (7.69%) Flask
5 3 (7.69%) Pandas
6 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (5.13%) RESTful
7 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.56%) Kafka
7 1 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (2.56%) Redux
7 1 (2.56%) Spring
7 1 (2.56%) Swing
7 1 (2.56%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (97.44%) Agile
2 35 (89.74%) Scrum
3 12 (30.77%) BDD
4 10 (25.64%) DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) TDD
5 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.51%) Microservices
6 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.51%) Project Delivery
6 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (12.82%) Asset Management
8 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (12.82%) SDLC
9 4 (10.26%) AI
9 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Java
2 17 (43.59%) Python
3 15 (38.46%) SQL
4 7 (17.95%) C#
5 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) CBAP
3 2 (5.13%) ISEB
3 2 (5.13%) PMP
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.56%) PhD
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) OpenLink
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 3 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.56%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath