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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 237 216
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 -61
Contract jobs citing Kanban 185 118 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 0.87% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.96% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 71 128
10th Percentile £359 £363 £392
25th Percentile £458 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £800 £729
England median daily rate £516 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +0.78% -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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -5 36 £625 +8.70% 21
West London -11 9 £425 +13.33% 4
South London -6 3 £750 +76.47% 4
East London - 2 £518 - 5
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
2 5 (2.70%) 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
2 4 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Trello
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
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 48 (25.95%) Azure
2 35 (18.92%) AWS
3 26 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (12.97%) GCP
5 18 (9.73%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 14 (7.57%) GitHub
8 7 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.78%) Miro
9 6 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.24%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.24%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.70%) Serverless
11 4 (2.16%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.62%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.62%) Figma
12 3 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) FTP
2 1 (0.54%) Firewall
2 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.03%) Snowflake Schema
2 11 (5.95%) Power BI
3 10 (5.41%) Data Vault
4 9 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.78%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.24%) Metadata
6 6 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.16%) Star Schema
8 4 (2.16%) Tableau
9 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.62%) Big Data
9 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.62%) DB2
10 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (35.14%) JIRA
2 20 (10.81%) Git
3 17 (9.19%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 10 (5.41%) ERwin
5 9 (4.86%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.86%) ER Studio
5 9 (4.86%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (3.78%) GitLab
6 7 (3.78%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.24%) Selenium
8 5 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.16%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.62%) Postman
11 2 (1.08%) Android Studio
11 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (1.08%) Maven
11 2 (1.08%) Xcode
12 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 73 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 52 (28.11%) Finance
3 21 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.35%) Banking
4 18 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.19%) Front Office
6 15 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.86%) Retail
8 8 (4.32%) Legal
9 7 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.62%) Aviation
11 3 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.62%) Marketing
11 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (18.38%) Developer
2 30 (16.22%) Analyst
3 28 (15.14%) Senior
4 21 (11.35%) Java Developer
5 20 (10.81%) Project Manager
6 16 (8.65%) Business Analyst
7 15 (8.11%) Delivery Manager
7 15 (8.11%) Scrum Master
8 13 (7.03%) Lead
9 12 (6.49%) Data Modeller
10 11 (5.95%) Senior Manager
11 10 (5.41%) Agile Project Manager
12 9 (4.86%) Test Analyst
13 8 (4.32%) Low Latency Java Developer
14 7 (3.78%) Technical Analyst
15 6 (3.24%) Angular Developer
15 6 (3.24%) Product Manager
15 6 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.24%) Senior Project Manager
15 6 (3.24%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.65%) React
1 16 (8.65%) REST
2 13 (7.03%) HTML
3 11 (5.95%) CSS
4 9 (4.86%) AngularJS
4 9 (4.86%) Node.js
5 8 (4.32%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (2.70%) JSON
7 5 (2.70%) Web Services
8 4 (2.16%) .NET
8 4 (2.16%) ADO
8 4 (2.16%) Akka
8 4 (2.16%) Playwright
8 4 (2.16%) RESTful
8 4 (2.16%) Spring
8 4 (2.16%) XML
8 4 (2.16%) ZK
9 3 (1.62%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.30%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.73%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (7.03%) Algorithms
5 12 (6.49%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.95%) Virtual Team
7 10 (5.41%) 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%) Mobile App
13 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.41%) Linux
1 10 (5.41%) Windows
2 5 (2.70%) Unix
3 2 (1.08%) Android
3 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.08%) VMS
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (97.30%) Agile
2 175 (94.59%) Scrum
3 52 (28.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 48 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (25.41%) DevOps
6 46 (24.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (22.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.84%) Analytics
9 31 (16.76%) Roadmaps
10 29 (15.68%) Sprint Planning
10 29 (15.68%) Test Automation
11 28 (15.14%) CI/CD
12 26 (14.05%) User Stories
13 24 (12.97%) Data Modelling
13 24 (12.97%) TDD
14 23 (12.43%) Project Management
15 21 (11.35%) Project Delivery
16 20 (10.81%) Acceptance Criteria
16 20 (10.81%) BDD
16 20 (10.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.57%) Java
2 34 (18.38%) SQL
3 26 (14.05%) Python
4 17 (9.19%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.03%) C#
6 8 (4.32%) 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%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.08%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.08%) R
10 2 (1.08%) Swift
11 1 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.89%) Degree
4 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.70%) CBAP
5 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.62%) ISEB
7 3 (1.62%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.08%) CISSP
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%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.54%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.59%) QA
2 16 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.16%) GRC
3 4 (2.16%) PMO
4 3 (1.62%) GDPR
5 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.08%) PSD2
6 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (8.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.11%) Terraform
3 6 (3.24%) 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
Vendors
1 20 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.03%) Oracle
3 7 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.24%) Databricks
4 6 (3.24%) Sparx
5 4 (2.16%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.16%) SAP
5 4 (2.16%) Splunk
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%) Facebook
8 1 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.54%) Marketo
8 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.54%) Solace