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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 179 230
Rank change year-on-year -72 +51 -8
Contract jobs citing Kanban 206 208 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.54% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.67% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 140 120
10th Percentile £400 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +2.09% -2.05%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £628
90th Percentile £725 £801 £725
England median daily rate £513 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.21% -4.09%
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 £75.50 £41.25 £69.50
% change year-on-year +83.03% -40.65% -18.24%

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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £663 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 3 October 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 20 £565 -13.08% 19
West London -31 4 £428 +9.79% 6
South London -12 3 £650 -16.13% 4
North London - 1 £525 - 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 41 (19.90%) Confluence
2 12 (5.83%) Apache Spark
3 11 (5.34%) CMS
4 7 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.43%) Apache
6 4 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.94%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 20 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.94%) Notion
5 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Magento
2 4 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.97%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.97%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.97%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.35%) Azure
2 57 (27.67%) AWS
3 27 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.28%) GCP
6 13 (6.31%) GitHub
7 10 (4.85%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.85%) SaaS
8 9 (4.37%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.43%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.43%) Serverless
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.94%) dbt
11 4 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) FTP
1 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.22%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.31%) Power BI
4 9 (4.37%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.88%) Tableau
6 7 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.40%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.43%) Data Hub
9 4 (1.94%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.94%) Big Data
9 4 (1.94%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.46%) Looker
10 3 (1.46%) Metadata
10 3 (1.46%) Presto
11 2 (0.97%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (32.04%) JIRA
2 28 (13.59%) Jenkins
3 27 (13.11%) Git
4 13 (6.31%) Postman
5 11 (5.34%) Selenium
6 8 (3.88%) Subversion
7 6 (2.91%) GitLab
8 4 (1.94%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.94%) JUnit
8 4 (1.94%) Maven
8 4 (1.94%) Mockito
8 4 (1.94%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.94%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.46%) Appium
9 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.97%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.97%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (46.60%) Social Skills
2 63 (30.58%) Finance
3 39 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.99%) Public Sector
5 30 (14.56%) Marketing
6 27 (13.11%) Banking
7 18 (8.74%) Retail
8 15 (7.28%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.94%) Front Office
11 4 (1.94%) Games
11 4 (1.94%) Local Government
12 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.46%) Military
12 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.97%) Aviation
13 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 38 (18.45%) Analyst
2 22 (10.68%) Lead
3 19 (9.22%) Delivery Manager
3 19 (9.22%) Senior
4 16 (7.77%) Business Analyst
4 16 (7.77%) Data Engineer
4 16 (7.77%) Project Manager
5 14 (6.80%) Scrum Master
6 13 (6.31%) Developer
7 11 (5.34%) Agile Coach
7 11 (5.34%) Product Manager
7 11 (5.34%) Product Owner
7 11 (5.34%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (4.85%) Technical Manager
9 9 (4.37%) Systems Analyst
10 8 (3.88%) Architect
11 7 (3.40%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.91%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.91%) Programme Manager
12 6 (2.91%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.80%) REST
2 13 (6.31%) RESTful
3 12 (5.83%) Kafka
3 12 (5.83%) Terraform
4 8 (3.88%) JSON
4 8 (3.88%) Spring
4 8 (3.88%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.88%) VML
5 7 (3.40%) CSS
5 7 (3.40%) HTML
5 7 (3.40%) YAML
6 5 (2.43%) ADO
6 5 (2.43%) SOAP
7 4 (1.94%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.94%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.94%) Jakarta EE
7 4 (1.94%) JPA
7 4 (1.94%) Node.js
7 4 (1.94%) Play Framework
7 4 (1.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.67%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.40%) Replication
6 6 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.43%) PMI
8 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.46%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.46%) Life Science
8 3 (1.46%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.97%) AS400
9 2 (0.97%) iSeries
9 2 (0.97%) NHS
9 2 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.88%) Linux
2 5 (2.43%) Android
3 3 (1.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (97.09%) Agile
2 185 (89.81%) Scrum
3 84 (40.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 77 (37.38%) DevOps
5 54 (26.21%) User Stories
6 52 (25.24%) CI/CD
6 52 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (24.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (23.79%) Sprint Planning
9 43 (20.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 38 (18.45%) Acceptance Criteria
11 34 (16.50%) Test Automation
12 33 (16.02%) Decision-Making
13 32 (15.53%) Backlog Management
14 31 (15.05%) Roadmaps
15 29 (14.08%) Analytics
15 29 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (13.59%) AI
17 27 (13.11%) ETL
17 27 (13.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.39%) SQL
2 36 (17.48%) Python
3 35 (16.99%) Java
4 12 (5.83%) Scala
5 10 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.37%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.91%) C#
8 4 (1.94%) R
8 4 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.97%) Groovy
10 2 (0.97%) Korn
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Bash
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 39 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.11%) Degree
4 8 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.94%) PMP
7 3 (1.46%) CSPO
7 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.97%) CBAP
8 2 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.97%) IIBA
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CISA
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.11%) QA
2 9 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.46%) GDPR
4 3 (1.46%) GxP
4 3 (1.46%) PMO
4 3 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.46%) WCAG
5 2 (0.97%) SEPA
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (7.28%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.37%) Grafana
3 4 (1.94%) Kibana
4 3 (1.46%) Ansible
4 3 (1.46%) Puppet
5 2 (0.97%) Control-M
5 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.34%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.85%) Databricks
4 8 (3.88%) IBM
4 8 (3.88%) Oracle
4 8 (3.88%) Splunk
5 7 (3.40%) Google
5 7 (3.40%) SAP
6 5 (2.43%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.43%) BMC
6 5 (2.43%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.94%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.94%) New Relic
7 4 (1.94%) Remedy
8 3 (1.46%) Adobe
8 3 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.97%) Informatica
9 2 (0.97%) VMware