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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 198 197
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Kanban 227 177 231
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.31% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.42% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 110 153
10th Percentile £393 £380 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -7.17%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £778 £745
England median daily rate £512 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.40% -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 £73.75 £51.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 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 9 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 -17 19 £570 -8.80% 17
South London +1 15 £550 -25.42% 1
East London - 3 £585 - 4
West London -21 2 £377 -5.68% 23
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 38 (16.74%) Confluence
2 22 (9.69%) CMS
3 10 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.76%) Apache
4 4 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.76%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.32%) Notion
6 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Magento
2 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.88%) SAP Retail
2 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 76 (33.48%) Azure
2 52 (22.91%) AWS
3 31 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.37%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.17%) GCP
6 13 (5.73%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.96%) GitHub
8 6 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (2.64%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.76%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.76%) Route 53
10 4 (1.76%) SaaS
10 4 (1.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Network Security
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) FTP
2 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.25%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.29%) Power BI
4 11 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.96%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.52%) Big Data
6 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.08%) Tableau
8 6 (2.64%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.76%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.32%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.32%) Presto
Development Applications
1 63 (27.75%) JIRA
2 32 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 26 (11.45%) Git
4 22 (9.69%) Postman
5 10 (4.41%) Selenium
6 7 (3.08%) Subversion
7 5 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.20%) GitLab
7 5 (2.20%) Maven
8 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.76%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.76%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.76%) jMock
8 4 (1.76%) JUnit
8 4 (1.76%) Mockito
8 4 (1.76%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.32%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.32%) Xcode
General
1 97 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 74 (32.60%) Finance
3 45 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (17.62%) Public Sector
5 34 (14.98%) Marketing
6 27 (11.89%) Banking
7 21 (9.25%) Retail
8 14 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.08%) Front Office
9 7 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.20%) Automotive
10 5 (2.20%) Legal
10 5 (2.20%) Local Government
10 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.32%) Aviation
12 3 (1.32%) Games
12 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 44 (19.38%) Analyst
2 28 (12.33%) Delivery Manager
3 23 (10.13%) Senior
4 20 (8.81%) Lead
4 20 (8.81%) Scrum Master
5 17 (7.49%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.49%) Developer
6 15 (6.61%) Business Analyst
6 15 (6.61%) Project Manager
7 14 (6.17%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (5.73%) Systems Analyst
9 9 (3.96%) Architect
9 9 (3.96%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.96%) Product Owner
10 8 (3.52%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.52%) Technical Manager
11 7 (3.08%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.08%) Test Leader
12 6 (2.64%) Senior Project Manager
12 6 (2.64%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.17%) REST
1 14 (6.17%) RESTful
2 10 (4.41%) Spring
3 9 (3.96%) JSON
3 9 (3.96%) Node.js
4 8 (3.52%) CSS
4 8 (3.52%) HTML
4 8 (3.52%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.52%) VML
5 6 (2.64%) Kafka
5 6 (2.64%) Web Services
6 5 (2.20%) .NET
6 5 (2.20%) ADO
6 5 (2.20%) SOAP
6 5 (2.20%) XML
6 5 (2.20%) YAML
7 4 (1.76%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.76%) J2EE
7 4 (1.76%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.99%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.81%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.20%) Replication
7 4 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.76%) NHS
7 4 (1.76%) Wiki
8 3 (1.32%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.32%) Life Science
8 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.85%) Linux
2 8 (3.52%) Android
3 5 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.76%) Windows
5 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (95.15%) Agile
2 195 (85.90%) Scrum
3 95 (41.85%) DevOps
4 70 (30.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (22.03%) CI/CD
7 47 (20.70%) Sprint Planning
8 46 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (19.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 45 (19.82%) User Stories
10 38 (16.74%) Migration
11 37 (16.30%) Microservices
12 33 (14.54%) Acceptance Criteria
13 32 (14.10%) Decision-Making
13 32 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (13.66%) Test Automation
15 30 (13.22%) Project Management
15 30 (13.22%) Roadmaps
16 28 (12.33%) Waterfall
17 27 (11.89%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.91%) SQL
2 45 (19.82%) Java
3 40 (17.62%) Python
4 14 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.52%) C#
6 7 (3.08%) Scala
7 6 (2.64%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.20%) R
8 5 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.76%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.32%) Swift
11 2 (0.88%) Bicep
11 2 (0.88%) Groovy
11 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) Go
12 1 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 51 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.38%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.25%) Degree
4 9 (3.96%) PMP
5 8 (3.52%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.64%) CISSP
7 5 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.20%) CISM
7 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (1.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.32%) CSPO
9 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.66%) QA
2 9 (3.96%) PMO
3 6 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.64%) GDPR
3 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.20%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.32%) GxP
6 3 (1.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 2 (0.88%) SEPA
7 2 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.49%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.32%) Postfix
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (6.17%) Kubernetes
1 14 (6.17%) Terraform
2 8 (3.52%) Grafana
3 4 (1.76%) Kibana
4 2 (0.88%) Ansible
4 2 (0.88%) Rancher
5 1 (0.44%) CASB
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.49%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.41%) Oracle
4 8 (3.52%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.52%) SAP
4 8 (3.52%) Splunk
5 7 (3.08%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.08%) Refinitiv
6 5 (2.20%) Google
6 5 (2.20%) IBM
6 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.76%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.76%) Databricks
7 4 (1.76%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.76%) New Relic
8 3 (1.32%) BMC
8 3 (1.32%) Okta
8 3 (1.32%) Spotify
9 2 (0.88%) Qualtrics