Kanban Contracts in England

Kanban
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kanban skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kanban over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 227 220
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -90
Contract jobs citing Kanban 287 397 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 1.07% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.25% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 273 366
10th Percentile £358 £363 £425
25th Percentile £413 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £723 £688 £722
UK median daily rate £488 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -9.30% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £28.55 - £63.00
25th Percentile £39.38 £45.88 £68.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.88% -16.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £74.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £77.00 £91.70
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -23.88% -16.25% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,167 31,837 43,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.91% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,531 20,664 30,398
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,219 2,286 1,564
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.50% +55.43%
75th Percentile £54.88 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.70 £72.50 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
% change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in England

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban in England.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in England

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in England

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban in England.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in England

Kanban
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in England

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the England region over the 6 months to 7 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 171 £525 -4.55% 252
North of England +3 45 £410 -25.45% 104
South East +8 32 £494 -9.07% 73
Yorkshire +8 28 £450 -18.18% 34
Midlands +18 22 £483 -3.50% 38
North West +4 16 £400 +8.11% 64
West Midlands +9 14 £500 -21.57% 23
East Midlands +3 8 £393 +8.65% 15
South West +33 6 £538 -7.33% 41
East of England +14 1 £475 -13.64% 25
North East -4 1 £563 +19.36% 7
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 43 (14.98%) Confluence
2 9 (3.14%) CMS
3 5 (1.74%) Apache
4 4 (1.39%) Drupal
4 4 (1.39%) WordPress
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.05%) Trello
5 1 (0.35%) CATIA
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Endur
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.70%) Shopify
3 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.44%) Azure
2 71 (24.74%) AWS
3 26 (9.06%) GCP
4 25 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.36%) GitHub
6 20 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 16 (5.57%) Serverless
8 12 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.48%) Route 53
11 9 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.79%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.44%) Datadog
13 7 (2.44%) SaaS
14 6 (2.09%) Apigee
15 5 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) DNS
1 5 (1.74%) Firewall
1 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.39%) Internet
2 4 (1.39%) NAS
2 4 (1.39%) SAN
2 4 (1.39%) SSL
3 3 (1.05%) Broadband
4 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.70%) VPN
4 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) GPON
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.35%) Wireless
5 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.62%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.92%) Power BI
4 13 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.18%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.48%) Tableau
7 9 (3.14%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.79%) MySQL
9 5 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (1.74%) Spotfire
10 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.05%) Big Data
11 3 (1.05%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 99 (34.49%) JIRA
2 69 (24.04%) Git
3 55 (19.16%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.53%) GitLab
5 12 (4.18%) Bitbucket Server
5 12 (4.18%) Postman
6 10 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.48%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.14%) JUnit
7 9 (3.14%) Maven
7 9 (3.14%) Selenium
8 8 (2.79%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (2.79%) DbUnit
8 8 (2.79%) jMock
8 8 (2.79%) Mockito
8 8 (2.79%) SoapUI
9 7 (2.44%) JMeter
9 7 (2.44%) SpecFlow
9 7 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 128 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 73 (25.44%) Finance
3 37 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.76%) Banking
5 22 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.83%) Front Office
7 10 (3.48%) Legal
8 9 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.14%) Retail
8 9 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.44%) Marketing
10 6 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Advertising
13 2 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (25.09%) Developer
2 43 (14.98%) Analyst
3 30 (10.45%) Senior
4 29 (10.10%) Project Manager
5 26 (9.06%) Business Analyst
6 19 (6.62%) Lead
7 16 (5.57%) Delivery Manager
8 14 (4.88%) Python Developer
9 12 (4.18%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.18%) Scrum Master
9 12 (4.18%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.83%) Architect
10 11 (3.83%) Technical Manager
11 10 (3.48%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.14%) Software Developer
13 8 (2.79%) Consultant
13 8 (2.79%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.79%) IT Project Manager
13 8 (2.79%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.45%) REST
2 25 (8.71%) AngularJS
3 24 (8.36%) CSS
4 22 (7.67%) SOAP
5 21 (7.32%) RESTful
5 21 (7.32%) Spring
6 20 (6.97%) .NET
6 20 (6.97%) HTML
7 19 (6.62%) Kafka
8 17 (5.92%) Web Services
9 16 (5.57%) React
10 13 (4.53%) Middleware
10 13 (4.53%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.83%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.48%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.79%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (2.79%) JPA
13 8 (2.79%) PowerMock
13 8 (2.79%) Spring Batch
13 8 (2.79%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.42%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.57%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.79%) Derivative
5 8 (2.79%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.74%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.10%) Linux
2 11 (3.83%) Windows
3 7 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.74%) Android
4 5 (1.74%) Unix
5 3 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (94.08%) Agile
2 247 (86.06%) Scrum
3 89 (31.01%) CI/CD
4 83 (28.92%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (27.18%) DevOps
6 61 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (17.07%) Microservices
9 48 (16.72%) TDD
10 47 (16.38%) Project Management
11 41 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 40 (13.94%) Test Automation
13 37 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (12.54%) BDD
15 35 (12.20%) Roadmaps
16 34 (11.85%) Decision-Making
17 31 (10.80%) Software Engineering
18 29 (10.10%) Risk Management
19 28 (9.76%) Project Delivery
20 27 (9.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (21.95%) Java
1 63 (21.95%) Python
2 57 (19.86%) SQL
3 45 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 30 (10.45%) C#
5 19 (6.62%) C++
5 19 (6.62%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.92%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.57%) Go
8 13 (4.53%) Groovy
9 9 (3.14%) PHP
10 7 (2.44%) Scala
11 6 (2.09%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.39%) Ruby
12 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.05%) Bash
14 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.70%) RPG
15 1 (0.35%) ABAP
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (14.98%) Degree
2 29 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.88%) CISSP
6 13 (4.53%) CISM
7 10 (3.48%) PMP
8 8 (2.79%) PMI Certification
9 7 (2.44%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.44%) ISTQB
10 6 (2.09%) CISA
10 6 (2.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.70%) CSPO
13 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.70%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.35%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.71%) QA
2 12 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.83%) NIST
4 10 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.44%) GDPR
6 6 (2.09%) COBIT
6 6 (2.09%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.05%) PMO
8 3 (1.05%) WCAG
9 2 (0.70%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.35%) PSD2
10 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (12.54%) Docker
2 9 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.79%) Postfix
4 5 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.67%) Terraform
3 18 (6.27%) Ansible
4 11 (3.83%) Grafana
4 11 (3.83%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.79%) Puppet
6 6 (2.09%) RSA Archer
7 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.39%) vRealize
8 2 (0.70%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.70%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Control-M
9 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.88%) Oracle
3 12 (4.18%) Google
3 12 (4.18%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.83%) Splunk
5 10 (3.48%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.48%) SAP
6 8 (2.79%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (2.44%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.44%) Databricks
7 7 (2.44%) Thycotic
8 6 (2.09%) Alteryx
8 6 (2.09%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.74%) IBM
9 5 (1.74%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.74%) VMware
10 4 (1.39%) OpenLink
10 4 (1.39%) Zend