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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 221 180
Rank change year-on-year -10 -41 -2
Contract jobs citing Kanban 192 131 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.03% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.12% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 86 150
10th Percentile £387 £375 £377
25th Percentile £459 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -8.03%
75th Percentile £613 £597 £647
90th Percentile £675 £681 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 £71.00 £61.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +15.45% +34.05% -42.65%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 April 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 April 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 -23 24 £575 +4.55% 21
South London +2 13 £550 - 3
East London - 4 £585 - 1
West London -27 2 £377 -5.68% 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 29 (15.10%) Confluence
2 14 (7.29%) CMS
3 7 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.08%) Apache
4 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.08%) nginx
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.04%) Trello
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.48%) Azure
2 38 (19.79%) AWS
3 22 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (8.33%) GCP
5 14 (7.29%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.65%) GitHub
8 6 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.13%) Serverless
9 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.60%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.08%) Miro
11 3 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.56%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) FTP
2 2 (1.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) NGFW
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.21%) Big Data
4 9 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.65%) Power BI
6 5 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.60%) Tableau
7 4 (2.08%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (2.08%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.56%) Presto
Development Applications
1 53 (27.60%) JIRA
2 22 (11.46%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.38%) Git
4 12 (6.25%) Postman
5 6 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.13%) GitLab
6 5 (2.60%) Maven
6 5 (2.60%) Selenium
6 5 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.08%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (2.08%) JUnit
7 4 (2.08%) Mockito
7 4 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.56%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.56%) Appium
8 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.56%) Xcode
8 3 (1.56%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 59 (30.73%) Finance
3 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.42%) Banking
6 16 (8.33%) Marketing
7 15 (7.81%) Front Office
8 9 (4.69%) Legal
9 7 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.13%) Retail
11 5 (2.60%) Local Government
11 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.08%) Automotive
12 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.56%) Aviation
14 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.52%) Law
15 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (18.75%) Analyst
2 22 (11.46%) Delivery Manager
3 20 (10.42%) Developer
4 19 (9.90%) Scrum Master
4 19 (9.90%) Senior
5 18 (9.38%) Lead
6 16 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 16 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 14 (7.29%) Project Manager
8 12 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Scala Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (3.65%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (3.65%) Test Analyst
11 6 (3.13%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 6 (3.13%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.60%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.60%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.73%) HTML
1 11 (5.73%) Node.js
1 11 (5.73%) REST
2 9 (4.69%) CSS
3 8 (4.17%) Spring
4 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.65%) RESTful
4 7 (3.65%) XML
5 6 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (3.13%) React
5 6 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.13%) Web Services
6 5 (2.60%) JSON
7 4 (2.08%) .NET
7 4 (2.08%) ADO
7 4 (2.08%) Akka
7 4 (2.08%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.08%) SOAP
8 3 (1.56%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.79%) Product Ownership
2 23 (11.98%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.65%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.08%) Wiki
8 3 (1.56%) NHS
9 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.04%) PMI
9 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.38%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Unix
3 6 (3.13%) Windows
4 4 (2.08%) VMS
5 3 (1.56%) Android
5 3 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (93.23%) Agile
2 164 (85.42%) Scrum
3 63 (32.81%) DevOps
4 48 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 35 (18.23%) CI/CD
9 32 (16.67%) Migration
9 32 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
10 31 (16.15%) Microservices
11 30 (15.63%) Project Management
12 29 (15.10%) Roadmaps
13 28 (14.58%) User Stories
14 27 (14.06%) Acceptance Criteria
14 27 (14.06%) TDD
15 25 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (12.50%) Test Automation
17 23 (11.98%) Waterfall
18 20 (10.42%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.52%) Java
2 39 (20.31%) SQL
3 36 (18.75%) Python
4 15 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.29%) C#
6 8 (4.17%) Scala
7 6 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.08%) R
10 3 (1.56%) Bash
10 3 (1.56%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.56%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.56%) Swift
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.29%) Degree
4 7 (3.65%) PMP
5 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.60%) CISSP
6 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.08%) CISM
7 4 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.04%) CBAP
9 2 (1.04%) IIBA
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.15%) QA
2 7 (3.65%) PMO
3 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.60%) GDPR
4 5 (2.60%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.56%) NCSC
5 3 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.04%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.04%) PSD2
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (10.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Postfix
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (10.94%) Terraform
2 20 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.21%) Grafana
4 6 (3.13%) Rancher
5 5 (2.60%) Ansible
6 4 (2.08%) Kibana
7 3 (1.56%) Consul
7 3 (1.56%) Packer
7 3 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.04%) Argo
8 2 (1.04%) Nagios
9 1 (0.52%) CASB
9 1 (0.52%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.73%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.21%) Oracle
4 6 (3.13%) SAP
4 6 (3.13%) Splunk
5 5 (2.60%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.08%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.08%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.56%) Okta
7 3 (1.56%) Spotify
8 2 (1.04%) Adobe
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco
8 2 (1.04%) Informatica
8 2 (1.04%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.04%) Pega
8 2 (1.04%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud