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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 201 183
Rank change year-on-year -17 -18 +7
Contract jobs citing Kanban 212 154 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.22% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.32% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 95 159
10th Percentile £391 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -0.18% -8.03%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £631
90th Percentile £675 £815 £730
England median daily rate £503 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +0.55% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £63.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% -5.97% -16.25%

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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -21 18 £575 -12.75% 15
South London -9 14 £550 -25.42%
East London - 3 £585 - 5
West London -28 2 £377 -5.68% 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 37 (17.45%) Confluence
2 22 (10.38%) CMS
3 10 (4.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.89%) Apache
4 4 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.42%) Notion
6 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.36%) Magento
2 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.94%) SAP Retail
2 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.02%) Azure
2 46 (21.70%) AWS
3 29 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.49%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 12 (5.66%) GCP
6 8 (3.77%) GitHub
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.36%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.89%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (1.89%) Route 53
8 4 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) Network Security
2 1 (0.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) FTP
2 1 (0.47%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.66%) Power BI
4 10 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.72%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.77%) Big Data
6 8 (3.77%) Tableau
7 7 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.89%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.42%) Presto
Development Applications
1 62 (29.25%) JIRA
2 29 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.38%) Postman
4 21 (9.91%) Git
5 10 (4.72%) Selenium
6 5 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.36%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.36%) GitLab
6 5 (2.36%) Maven
6 5 (2.36%) Subversion
7 4 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (1.89%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.89%) jMock
7 4 (1.89%) JUnit
7 4 (1.89%) Mockito
7 4 (1.89%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.42%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.42%) Xcode
General
1 89 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 69 (32.55%) Finance
3 41 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (18.40%) Public Sector
5 30 (14.15%) Marketing
6 28 (13.21%) Banking
7 17 (8.02%) Retail
8 11 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.30%) Front Office
10 6 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.83%) Legal
11 5 (2.36%) Automotive
11 5 (2.36%) Local Government
11 5 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.42%) Aviation
13 3 (1.42%) Games
13 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 42 (19.81%) Analyst
2 28 (13.21%) Delivery Manager
3 23 (10.85%) Senior
4 20 (9.43%) Lead
5 18 (8.49%) Scrum Master
6 16 (7.55%) Data Engineer
7 15 (7.08%) Business Analyst
8 14 (6.60%) Developer
9 13 (6.13%) Project Manager
9 13 (6.13%) Systems Analyst
10 11 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.25%) Product Owner
12 8 (3.77%) Architect
12 8 (3.77%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.77%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.77%) Technical Manager
13 7 (3.30%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.30%) Test Leader
14 6 (2.83%) Agile Coach
14 6 (2.83%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.19%) REST
1 11 (5.19%) RESTful
2 9 (4.25%) HTML
2 9 (4.25%) Node.js
2 9 (4.25%) Spring
3 8 (3.77%) CSS
4 7 (3.30%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.83%) VML
5 6 (2.83%) Web Services
5 6 (2.83%) XML
6 5 (2.36%) .NET
6 5 (2.36%) JSON
6 5 (2.36%) SOAP
7 4 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.89%) ADO
7 4 (1.89%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.89%) JPA
7 4 (1.89%) PowerMock
7 4 (1.89%) Spring Batch
7 4 (1.89%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 59 (27.83%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.43%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (8.96%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.36%) Replication
7 4 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.89%) Wiki
8 3 (1.42%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.42%) Life Science
8 3 (1.42%) NHS
8 3 (1.42%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.94%) PMI
9 2 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.19%) Linux
2 6 (2.83%) Android
3 5 (2.36%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.89%) Windows
5 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.42%) Unix
6 2 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (94.81%) Agile
2 180 (84.91%) Scrum
3 89 (41.98%) DevOps
4 65 (30.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (22.64%) CI/CD
6 47 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (21.70%) Sprint Planning
8 45 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (20.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 42 (19.81%) User Stories
11 37 (17.45%) Microservices
12 36 (16.98%) Migration
13 31 (14.62%) Acceptance Criteria
14 30 (14.15%) Roadmaps
14 30 (14.15%) Test Automation
15 29 (13.68%) Decision-Making
15 29 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (12.74%) Sprint Retrospective
17 25 (11.79%) AI
18 24 (11.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.11%) SQL
2 42 (19.81%) Java
3 38 (17.92%) Python
4 15 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.25%) C#
6 5 (2.36%) R
6 5 (2.36%) Scala
6 5 (2.36%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.89%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.42%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.42%) Swift
9 2 (0.94%) Bicep
9 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.47%) Go
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 49 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 42 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.02%) Degree
4 7 (3.30%) PMP
5 6 (2.83%) CISSP
5 6 (2.83%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.36%) CISM
6 5 (2.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.42%) CSPO
8 3 (1.42%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.94%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.68%) QA
2 7 (3.30%) PMO
3 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.83%) GDPR
3 6 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.42%) GxP
6 3 (1.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 2 (0.94%) SEPA
7 2 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (7.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.42%) Postfix
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (6.13%) Terraform
2 11 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.77%) Grafana
4 4 (1.89%) Kibana
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) Rancher
6 1 (0.47%) CASB
6 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.02%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.72%) Oracle
4 8 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.77%) SAP
5 7 (3.30%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.30%) Refinitiv
5 7 (3.30%) Splunk
6 5 (2.36%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.89%) Databricks
7 4 (1.89%) IBM
7 4 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.42%) BMC
8 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.42%) New Relic
8 3 (1.42%) Okta
8 3 (1.42%) Spotify
9 2 (0.94%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.94%) Qualtrics