Kanban Contract Job Trends in London

Kanban
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 193 197
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Kanban 229 180 223
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.33% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.44% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 114 150
10th Percentile £393 £386 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £775 £750
England median daily rate £512 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.45% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £30.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £31.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +112.70% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £32.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £51.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +42.16% -23.88% -18.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kanban relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Kanban job vacancy trend in London

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kanban

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in London

Kanban
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kanban.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kanban

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the London region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Central London -30 19 £575 -8.00% 8
South London -4 14 £550 -25.42% 1
East London - 3 £585 - 7
West London -17 2 £377 -5.68% 1
Kanban
England

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 37 (16.16%) Confluence
2 22 (9.61%) CMS
3 10 (4.37%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.75%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.31%) Notion
5 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Magento
2 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.87%) SAP Retail
2 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (34.50%) Azure
2 54 (23.58%) AWS
3 32 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.30%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.99%) GCP
6 14 (6.11%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.93%) GitHub
8 7 (3.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (3.06%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.75%) dbt
11 4 (1.75%) Route 53
11 4 (1.75%) SaaS
11 4 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) FTP
1 2 (0.87%) Network Security
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.17%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.24%) Power BI
4 11 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.49%) Big Data
6 8 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.06%) Tableau
8 6 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.75%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.75%) Data Hub
10 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 63 (27.51%) JIRA
2 32 (13.97%) Jenkins
3 27 (11.79%) Git
4 22 (9.61%) Postman
5 10 (4.37%) Selenium
6 8 (3.49%) Subversion
7 5 (2.18%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.18%) GitLab
8 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.75%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.75%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.75%) jMock
8 4 (1.75%) JUnit
8 4 (1.75%) Maven
8 4 (1.75%) Mockito
8 4 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.31%) Xcode
General
1 98 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 76 (33.19%) Finance
3 45 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (17.90%) Public Sector
5 36 (15.72%) Marketing
6 26 (11.35%) Banking
7 22 (9.61%) Retail
8 15 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.06%) Front Office
11 6 (2.62%) Local Government
12 5 (2.18%) Automotive
12 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.75%) Legal
13 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.31%) Aviation
14 3 (1.31%) Games
14 3 (1.31%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (18.78%) Analyst
2 27 (11.79%) Delivery Manager
3 24 (10.48%) Senior
4 21 (9.17%) Scrum Master
5 20 (8.73%) Lead
6 17 (7.42%) Data Engineer
6 17 (7.42%) Developer
7 16 (6.99%) Project Manager
8 15 (6.55%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (5.68%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.68%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (3.93%) Architect
10 9 (3.93%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.93%) Product Owner
10 9 (3.93%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.49%) Technical Manager
12 7 (3.06%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Test Leader
13 6 (2.62%) Senior Project Manager
13 6 (2.62%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.11%) REST
1 14 (6.11%) RESTful
2 10 (4.37%) Spring
3 9 (3.93%) JSON
3 9 (3.93%) VML
4 8 (3.49%) CSS
4 8 (3.49%) HTML
4 8 (3.49%) Node.js
4 8 (3.49%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.06%) Kafka
6 6 (2.62%) Web Services
6 6 (2.62%) YAML
7 5 (2.18%) .NET
7 5 (2.18%) ADO
7 5 (2.18%) SOAP
8 4 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (1.75%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.75%) J2EE
8 4 (1.75%) JPA
8 4 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.20%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.73%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Replication
7 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.75%) NHS
7 4 (1.75%) Wiki
8 3 (1.31%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.31%) Life Science
8 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.31%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.37%) Linux
2 8 (3.49%) Android
3 5 (2.18%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.75%) Windows
5 3 (1.31%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.31%) Unix
6 2 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (95.63%) Agile
2 199 (86.90%) Scrum
3 97 (42.36%) DevOps
4 74 (32.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (22.27%) CI/CD
6 50 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (21.40%) Sprint Planning
8 48 (20.96%) User Stories
9 47 (20.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (19.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 40 (17.47%) Migration
12 37 (16.16%) Microservices
13 34 (14.85%) Acceptance Criteria
14 32 (13.97%) Decision-Making
14 32 (13.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (13.54%) Roadmaps
15 31 (13.54%) Test Automation
16 30 (13.10%) Waterfall
17 29 (12.66%) Project Management
18 28 (12.23%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.71%) SQL
2 45 (19.65%) Java
3 40 (17.47%) Python
4 14 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.49%) C#
5 8 (3.49%) Scala
6 6 (2.62%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.18%) R
7 5 (2.18%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.31%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.31%) Swift
10 2 (0.87%) Bicep
10 2 (0.87%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.44%) Go
11 1 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 50 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.61%) Degree
4 9 (3.93%) PMP
5 8 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.62%) CISSP
7 5 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.18%) CISM
7 5 (2.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.31%) CSPO
9 3 (1.31%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.54%) QA
2 8 (3.49%) PMO
3 7 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.06%) GDPR
4 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.18%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (1.31%) GxP
7 3 (1.31%) NCSC
8 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.87%) NIST
8 2 (0.87%) SEPA
8 2 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.87%) WCAG
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (7.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.31%) Postfix
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.11%) Terraform
3 8 (3.49%) Grafana
4 4 (1.75%) Kibana
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) Rancher
6 1 (0.44%) CASB
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.42%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.37%) Oracle
4 8 (3.49%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.49%) SAP
4 8 (3.49%) Splunk
5 7 (3.06%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.06%) Refinitiv
6 6 (2.62%) Google
6 6 (2.62%) IBM
7 5 (2.18%) Databricks
7 5 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.75%) New Relic
9 3 (1.31%) BMC
9 3 (1.31%) Okta
9 3 (1.31%) Spotify
10 2 (0.87%) Qualtrics