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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 240 215
Rank change year-on-year +34 -25 -60
Contract jobs citing Kanban 198 119 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 0.88% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.97% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 72 132
10th Percentile £360 £400 £388
25th Percentile £436 £431 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -5.23% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £799 £736
England median daily rate £513 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +0.05% -6.86% -

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 14,067 12,226 16,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.56% 90.66% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 7,826 11,604
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -3 37 £625 +8.70% 20
South London -2 10 £700 +64.71% 3
West London -15 9 £425 +13.33% 5
East London - 2 £518 - 4
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 29 (14.65%) Confluence
2 6 (3.03%) CMS
3 5 (2.53%) Apache
4 4 (2.02%) nginx
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Trello
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.25%) Azure
2 36 (18.18%) AWS
3 27 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.62%) GCP
5 22 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.58%) Snowflake
7 13 (6.57%) GitHub
8 7 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.54%) Miro
9 6 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.53%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.53%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.53%) Serverless
11 4 (2.02%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.52%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.52%) Figma
12 3 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) FTP
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.57%) Snowflake Schema
2 12 (6.06%) Power BI
3 11 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.05%) Data Vault
5 8 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.03%) Metadata
7 5 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.02%) Star Schema
8 4 (2.02%) Tableau
9 3 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.52%) Big Data
10 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (33.84%) JIRA
2 23 (11.62%) Git
3 15 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.05%) ERwin
5 9 (4.55%) ER Studio
5 9 (4.55%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (4.04%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.54%) GitLab
8 5 (2.53%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.02%) Postman
9 4 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.52%) Maven
10 3 (1.52%) Selenium
10 3 (1.52%) Zephyr
11 2 (1.01%) Appium
11 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.01%) JUnit
11 2 (1.01%) Mockito
11 2 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 79 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.27%) Finance
3 26 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.10%) Banking
6 17 (8.59%) Front Office
7 14 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.55%) Retail
9 8 (4.04%) Legal
10 7 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.02%) Marketing
12 3 (1.52%) Aviation
12 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.01%) Automotive
13 2 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (1.01%) Local Government
13 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (16.67%) Developer
2 30 (15.15%) Analyst
3 26 (13.13%) Senior
4 20 (10.10%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.60%) Project Manager
6 17 (8.59%) Business Analyst
7 16 (8.08%) Delivery Manager
7 16 (8.08%) Lead
8 15 (7.58%) Scrum Master
9 12 (6.06%) Data Modeller
10 10 (5.05%) Senior Manager
11 9 (4.55%) Agile Project Manager
11 9 (4.55%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.04%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 8 (4.04%) Test Analyst
13 7 (3.54%) Technical Analyst
14 6 (3.03%) Angular Developer
14 6 (3.03%) Product Manager
15 5 (2.53%) Report Manager
15 5 (2.53%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.59%) REST
2 14 (7.07%) React
3 11 (5.56%) HTML
4 10 (5.05%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.55%) CSS
6 8 (4.04%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.04%) Node.js
6 8 (4.04%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.54%) JSON
8 6 (3.03%) Web Services
8 6 (3.03%) XML
9 5 (2.53%) .NET
9 5 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (2.53%) Spring
10 4 (2.02%) ADO
10 4 (2.02%) Akka
10 4 (2.02%) Playwright
10 4 (2.02%) ZK
11 3 (1.52%) HTML5
11 3 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.17%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (6.57%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.57%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.05%) Virtual Team
6 9 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (4.04%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.54%) Derivative
9 6 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.53%) Reinsurance
11 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.02%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.02%) NHS
11 4 (2.02%) Wiki
12 3 (1.52%) FMCG
12 3 (1.52%) PMI
13 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
13 2 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.56%) Linux
2 9 (4.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.53%) Unix
4 2 (1.01%) Android
4 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.01%) VMS
4 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (95.45%) Agile
2 177 (89.39%) Scrum
3 56 (28.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 52 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (25.25%) DevOps
6 47 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (23.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (16.67%) Analytics
9 31 (15.66%) Roadmaps
10 28 (14.14%) TDD
11 27 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
11 27 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 27 (13.64%) User Stories
12 26 (13.13%) CI/CD
13 25 (12.63%) Data Modelling
14 24 (12.12%) Project Delivery
15 23 (11.62%) Project Management
16 21 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
16 21 (10.61%) BDD
17 20 (10.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.24%) Java
2 36 (18.18%) SQL
3 27 (13.64%) Python
4 17 (8.59%) C#
5 15 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.02%) Scala
10 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.52%) Bash
11 2 (1.01%) Bicep
11 2 (1.01%) C++
11 2 (1.01%) Korn
11 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.01%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.01%) R
11 2 (1.01%) Swift
12 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.61%) Degree
4 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.02%) CBAP
6 4 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.52%) CISM
7 3 (1.52%) CISSP
7 3 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.01%) ISEB
8 2 (1.01%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.67%) QA
2 16 (8.08%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.53%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.02%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.02%) GRC
4 4 (2.02%) PMO
5 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.01%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.01%) PSD2
7 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (7.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.58%) Terraform
3 6 (3.03%) Ansible
4 5 (2.53%) Grafana
5 4 (2.02%) Rancher
6 3 (1.52%) Consul
6 3 (1.52%) Packer
7 2 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (1.01%) Nagios
7 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.06%) Oracle
3 7 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.03%) Databricks
4 6 (3.03%) Sparx
5 5 (2.53%) SAP
5 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.02%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.02%) Splunk
7 3 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.52%) Informatica
8 2 (1.01%) Charles River
8 2 (1.01%) Murex
8 2 (1.01%) Pega
8 2 (1.01%) Spotify
9 1 (0.51%) Marketo
9 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.51%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.51%) Solace
9 1 (0.51%) TikTok