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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 231 221
Rank change year-on-year +57 -10 -93
Contract jobs citing Kanban 227 145 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 0.93% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.03% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 91 127
10th Percentile £358 £340 £389
25th Percentile £427 £411 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -6.70%
75th Percentile £668 £625 £671
90th Percentile £750 £788 £755
England median daily rate £504 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +0.75% -9.09% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.75 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - -
75th Percentile £32.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.25 £27.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -67.94% +24.83%

All Process and 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 13,094 14,043 17,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.85% 89.80% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,631 9,077 12,422
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 166 232
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.59
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +3.60% -9.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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
Central London +19 43 £625 +8.70% 18
West London -10 11 £380 +1.33%
South London -4 3 £800 +33.33% 1
East London +3 2 £405 -25.00% 3
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 (16.30%) Confluence
2 6 (2.64%) CMS
3 4 (1.76%) nginx
4 3 (1.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.20%) Trello
3 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.99%) Azure
2 40 (17.62%) AWS
3 36 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.45%) GCP
5 21 (9.25%) GitHub
6 20 (8.81%) Snowflake
7 19 (8.37%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.85%) Miro
9 8 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.64%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.64%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.64%) Serverless
12 4 (1.76%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.76%) SaaS
12 4 (1.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (1.32%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.88%) tcpdump
1 2 (0.88%) VPN
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) FTP
2 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.73%) Power BI
2 11 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (4.41%) Data Vault
4 9 (3.96%) Tableau
5 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.64%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.64%) Metadata
6 6 (2.64%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.76%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.76%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.32%) DB2
9 3 (1.32%) MySQL
9 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.32%) Tableau Desktop
10 2 (0.88%) Tableau Server
11 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (33.04%) JIRA
2 35 (15.42%) Git
3 27 (11.89%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.29%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.41%) ERwin
6 9 (3.96%) ER Studio
6 9 (3.96%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (3.52%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.52%) GitLab
7 8 (3.52%) TeamCity
8 7 (3.08%) Postman
9 6 (2.64%) Selenium
10 5 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.76%) Zephyr
12 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.32%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.32%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.88%) JUnit
13 2 (0.88%) Maven
General
1 110 (48.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.23%) Finance
3 24 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.37%) Front Office
6 17 (7.49%) Banking
7 12 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.52%) Retail
9 7 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.64%) Marketing
11 5 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.32%) Local Government
12 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Aviation
13 2 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.88%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 55 (24.23%) Developer
2 34 (14.98%) Analyst
3 28 (12.33%) Senior
4 24 (10.57%) Project Manager
5 21 (9.25%) Java Developer
6 19 (8.37%) Scrum Master
7 18 (7.93%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.73%) Lead
9 12 (5.29%) Agile Project Manager
9 12 (5.29%) Data Modeller
10 11 (4.85%) Angular Developer
11 9 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
11 9 (3.96%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.96%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (3.52%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.52%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.08%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 7 (3.08%) Product Manager
13 7 (3.08%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.45%) React
1 26 (11.45%) REST
2 20 (8.81%) HTML
3 19 (8.37%) CSS
4 17 (7.49%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.85%) .NET
6 10 (4.41%) Spring
7 9 (3.96%) Kafka
7 9 (3.96%) Node.js
7 9 (3.96%) RESTful
7 9 (3.96%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.52%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (3.08%) SOAP
9 7 (3.08%) Web Services
10 6 (2.64%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.64%) JSON
11 5 (2.20%) Angular 2
12 4 (1.76%) Akka
12 4 (1.76%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (1.76%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.82%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.81%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (8.37%) Data Structures
4 17 (7.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (5.29%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.29%) Virtual Team
6 10 (4.41%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.41%) Derivative
7 7 (3.08%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.20%) NHS
9 5 (2.20%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.76%) PMI
11 3 (1.32%) FMCG
11 3 (1.32%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.29%) Linux
2 9 (3.96%) Windows
3 5 (2.20%) Unix
4 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (97.36%) Agile
2 220 (96.92%) Scrum
3 65 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (27.31%) DevOps
5 52 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (22.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 49 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (20.26%) CI/CD
9 40 (17.62%) TDD
10 39 (17.18%) Roadmaps
11 35 (15.42%) Sprint Planning
12 34 (14.98%) Test Automation
13 33 (14.54%) User Stories
14 30 (13.22%) Microservices
15 28 (12.33%) Analytics
16 27 (11.89%) BDD
17 25 (11.01%) Data Modelling
18 24 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 23 (10.13%) SDLC
20 22 (9.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.99%) Java
2 43 (18.94%) SQL
3 42 (18.50%) Python
4 30 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.69%) C#
6 12 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.96%) C++
8 8 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.76%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.76%) Scala
10 3 (1.32%) Bash
10 3 (1.32%) Go
10 3 (1.32%) Groovy
11 2 (0.88%) Korn
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (11.89%) Degree
1 27 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.20%) CBAP
7 4 (1.76%) CSPO
7 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.32%) ISEB
8 3 (1.32%) PMP
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.88%) CISSP
9 2 (0.88%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.13%) QA
2 18 (7.93%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.08%) GRC
4 5 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.76%) PMO
6 2 (0.88%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.88%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (12.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.25%) Terraform
3 9 (3.96%) Ansible
4 3 (1.32%) Consul
4 3 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) Packer
4 3 (1.32%) Rancher
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) Nagios
6 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.85%) Oracle
3 10 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.64%) Databricks
4 6 (2.64%) SAP
4 6 (2.64%) Sparx
5 5 (2.20%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.20%) Splunk
6 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.32%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.32%) Citrix
7 3 (1.32%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.32%) IBM
7 3 (1.32%) Murex
7 3 (1.32%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.88%) Adobe
8 2 (0.88%) Charles River
9 1 (0.44%) Google
9 1 (0.44%) Informatica
9 1 (0.44%) Sitecore