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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 245 209
Rank change year-on-year +41 -36 -75
Contract jobs citing Kanban 185 118 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 0.85% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.94% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 70 132
10th Percentile £362 £363 £394
25th Percentile £450 £416 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £662 £638
90th Percentile £750 £800 £724
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 13,453 12,575 16,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.47% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 7,994 11,570
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 156 322
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.60 £79.38 £72.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 41 £625 +8.70% 21
West London -12 8 £463 +23.33% 2
South London -4 3 £750 +25.00% 4
East London - 2 £518 - 2
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 (15.68%) Confluence
2 5 (2.70%) Apache
3 4 (2.16%) CMS
3 4 (2.16%) nginx
4 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.08%) Trello
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.08%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.32%) Azure
2 35 (18.92%) AWS
3 25 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (13.51%) GCP
4 17 (9.19%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.11%) Snowflake
6 13 (7.03%) GitHub
7 8 (4.32%) Miro
8 5 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.70%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.70%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.70%) Serverless
9 4 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.16%) Smartsheet
10 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.62%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.62%) Figma
10 3 (1.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) FTP
2 1 (0.54%) Firewall
2 1 (0.54%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.49%) Power BI
1 12 (6.49%) Snowflake Schema
2 10 (5.41%) Data Vault
3 7 (3.78%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.24%) Metadata
5 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.70%) Tableau
6 4 (2.16%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.62%) Big Data
7 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.08%) DB2
8 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.08%) MySQL
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 64 (34.59%) JIRA
2 24 (12.97%) Git
3 16 (8.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 10 (5.41%) ERwin
5 9 (4.86%) ER Studio
5 9 (4.86%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (4.32%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.24%) GitLab
7 6 (3.24%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.16%) Selenium
9 4 (2.16%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.62%) Postman
11 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (1.08%) Maven
12 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.54%) Mockito
12 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 74 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.41%) Finance
3 20 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.73%) Banking
5 17 (9.19%) Front Office
6 13 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.32%) Retail
8 7 (3.78%) Legal
8 7 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.62%) Marketing
11 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.08%) Aviation
12 2 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (20.54%) Developer
2 31 (16.76%) Analyst
3 23 (12.43%) Java Developer
3 23 (12.43%) Senior
4 19 (10.27%) Project Manager
5 17 (9.19%) Business Analyst
6 16 (8.65%) Scrum Master
7 14 (7.57%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (6.49%) Data Modeller
8 12 (6.49%) Lead
9 11 (5.95%) Senior Manager
10 10 (5.41%) Agile Project Manager
11 8 (4.32%) Angular Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Product Manager
11 8 (4.32%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (4.32%) Test Analyst
12 6 (3.24%) Senior Project Manager
13 5 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.70%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.27%) REST
2 17 (9.19%) React
3 13 (7.03%) HTML
4 12 (6.49%) AngularJS
5 11 (5.95%) CSS
6 8 (4.32%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.32%) Node.js
6 8 (4.32%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.78%) Web Services
8 6 (3.24%) Spring
8 6 (3.24%) ZK
9 5 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (2.16%) .NET
10 4 (2.16%) ADO
10 4 (2.16%) Akka
10 4 (2.16%) JSON
10 4 (2.16%) Kafka
10 4 (2.16%) RESTful
10 4 (2.16%) XML
11 3 (1.62%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.19%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (6.49%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.95%) Virtual Team
6 10 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (4.32%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.78%) Derivative
10 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.70%) Reinsurance
11 4 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.16%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.62%) FMCG
12 3 (1.62%) NHS
12 3 (1.62%) PMI
13 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.08%) Equities
13 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.41%) Linux
2 8 (4.32%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) Unix
4 2 (1.08%) VMS
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (96.76%) Agile
2 177 (95.68%) Scrum
3 52 (28.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 48 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (23.78%) DevOps
5 44 (23.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (17.84%) Roadmaps
8 31 (16.76%) Analytics
9 29 (15.68%) Sprint Planning
10 27 (14.59%) TDD
11 26 (14.05%) CI/CD
11 26 (14.05%) Test Automation
11 26 (14.05%) User Stories
12 23 (12.43%) Data Modelling
12 23 (12.43%) Project Delivery
13 22 (11.89%) BDD
13 22 (11.89%) Project Management
13 22 (11.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (10.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.11%) Java
2 33 (17.84%) SQL
3 28 (15.14%) Python
4 14 (7.57%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.49%) C#
6 10 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.16%) Scala
9 3 (1.62%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.62%) Bash
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) Korn
10 2 (1.08%) R
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.89%) Degree
2 22 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.24%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.70%) CBAP
5 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.62%) ISEB
8 2 (1.08%) CISSP
8 2 (1.08%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.08%) PMP
8 2 (1.08%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) CISA
9 1 (0.54%) CSPO
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.54%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.51%) QA
2 16 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.70%) GRC
3 5 (2.70%) PMO
4 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.62%) GDPR
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.08%) PSD2
7 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (8.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.49%) Terraform
3 9 (4.86%) Ansible
4 4 (2.16%) Grafana
4 4 (2.16%) Rancher
5 3 (1.62%) Consul
5 3 (1.62%) Packer
6 2 (1.08%) Argo
6 2 (1.08%) Nagios
6 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) Oracle
3 7 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.24%) Databricks
4 6 (3.24%) Sparx
5 4 (2.16%) SAP
5 4 (2.16%) Splunk
6 3 (1.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.62%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.62%) Informatica
6 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.08%) Charles River
7 2 (1.08%) Murex
7 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe
8 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.54%) Facebook
8 1 (0.54%) Google
8 1 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.54%) Marketo