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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 185 204
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Kanban 233 198 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.46% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.58% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 125 135
10th Percentile £412 £359 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £666
90th Percentile £701 £775 £778
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
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 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.17% -10.00%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -41 17 £595 -4.80% 22
South London -7 8 £550 -25.42% 3
West London -20 3 £386 -0.93% 4
East London +1 2 £585 +62.50% 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 42 (18.03%) Confluence
2 19 (8.15%) CMS
3 11 (4.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 20 (8.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.72%) Notion
5 3 (1.29%) Trello
6 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.43%) Magento
2 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.86%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.86%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.86%) Shopify
4 2 (0.86%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.48%) Azure
2 59 (25.32%) AWS
3 31 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.15%) GCP
4 19 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.58%) Amazon S3
6 9 (3.86%) GitHub
7 8 (3.43%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (3.00%) SaaS
9 6 (2.58%) Serverless
10 5 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.15%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.72%) Route 53
11 4 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) FTP
1 2 (0.86%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) NGFW
2 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.01%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.44%) Power BI
3 14 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.86%) Tableau
7 8 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.43%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.00%) Big Data
9 5 (2.15%) Data Hub
9 5 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.72%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.72%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.72%) Looker
10 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.29%) Metadata
11 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (29.61%) JIRA
2 32 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 27 (11.59%) Git
4 21 (9.01%) Postman
5 12 (5.15%) Selenium
6 8 (3.43%) GitLab
6 8 (3.43%) Subversion
7 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (1.72%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.72%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.72%) jMock
7 4 (1.72%) JUnit
7 4 (1.72%) Maven
7 4 (1.72%) Mockito
7 4 (1.72%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.72%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.29%) Appium
8 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.86%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 99 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 72 (30.90%) Finance
3 46 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (18.03%) Public Sector
5 39 (16.74%) Marketing
6 28 (12.02%) Banking
7 19 (8.15%) Retail
8 15 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Front Office
9 7 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.15%) Automotive
10 5 (2.15%) Local Government
10 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.72%) Games
11 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Aviation
13 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (20.17%) Analyst
2 24 (10.30%) Delivery Manager
3 23 (9.87%) Lead
4 21 (9.01%) Scrum Master
5 20 (8.58%) Senior
6 19 (8.15%) Project Manager
7 17 (7.30%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.44%) Developer
9 15 (6.44%) Technical Analyst
10 13 (5.58%) Systems Analyst
11 10 (4.29%) Product Owner
12 9 (3.86%) Agile Coach
12 9 (3.86%) Product Manager
12 9 (3.86%) Senior Manager
13 8 (3.43%) Architect
13 8 (3.43%) Technical Manager
14 7 (3.00%) Java Developer
15 6 (2.58%) Programme Manager
15 6 (2.58%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.01%) REST
2 13 (5.58%) RESTful
3 11 (4.72%) Kafka
4 10 (4.29%) Spring
5 9 (3.86%) VML
6 8 (3.43%) CSS
6 8 (3.43%) HTML
6 8 (3.43%) JSON
6 8 (3.43%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.00%) Node.js
7 7 (3.00%) YAML
8 5 (2.15%) ADO
8 5 (2.15%) SOAP
8 5 (2.15%) Web Services
9 4 (1.72%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.72%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.72%) JPA
9 4 (1.72%) PowerMock
9 4 (1.72%) Spring Batch
9 4 (1.72%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.33%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.73%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (7.30%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.86%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.00%) Replication
8 5 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.72%) NHS
9 4 (1.72%) PMI
10 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.29%) Life Science
10 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.86%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.86%) Derivative
11 2 (0.86%) iSeries
11 2 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.15%) Linux
2 6 (2.58%) Android
3 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.29%) Unix
3 3 (1.29%) Windows
4 2 (0.86%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (95.71%) Agile
2 208 (89.27%) Scrum
3 95 (40.77%) DevOps
4 83 (35.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (24.46%) User Stories
6 56 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (24.03%) Sprint Planning
7 52 (22.32%) CI/CD
8 48 (20.60%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 45 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (18.45%) Acceptance Criteria
11 38 (16.31%) Migration
12 37 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (14.59%) Decision-Making
14 33 (14.16%) Microservices
14 33 (14.16%) Test Automation
15 32 (13.73%) Project Management
15 32 (13.73%) Roadmaps
16 30 (12.88%) Backlog Management
17 28 (12.02%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.89%) SQL
2 42 (18.03%) Java
2 42 (18.03%) Python
3 12 (5.15%) JavaScript
3 12 (5.15%) Scala
4 7 (3.00%) C#
5 6 (2.58%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.15%) R
7 4 (1.72%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.86%) Groovy
9 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) C++
10 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.43%) SOQL
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.02%) Degree
4 10 (4.29%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.86%) PMP
6 7 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.29%) CISSP
9 3 (1.29%) CSPO
9 3 (1.29%) IIBA
9 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.86%) CBAP
10 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.86%) CISM
10 2 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.88%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.00%) PMO
4 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.29%) GxP
5 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.29%) NCSC
5 3 (1.29%) WCAG
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.86%) NIST
6 2 (0.86%) SEPA
6 2 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (7.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) Postfix
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.58%) Terraform
3 8 (3.43%) Grafana
4 4 (1.72%) Kibana
5 3 (1.29%) Puppet
6 2 (0.86%) Ansible
6 2 (0.86%) Control-M
6 2 (0.86%) Rancher
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.30%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.29%) SAP
4 9 (3.86%) Oracle
5 8 (3.43%) Databricks
5 8 (3.43%) IBM
5 8 (3.43%) Splunk
6 7 (3.00%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.00%) Bloomberg
6 7 (3.00%) Google
6 7 (3.00%) Refinitiv
7 5 (2.15%) BMC
8 4 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.72%) New Relic
8 4 (1.72%) Remedy
9 3 (1.29%) Okta
9 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.29%) Spotify