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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 181 209
Rank change year-on-year -70 +28 +17
Contract jobs citing Kanban 205 203 178
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.51% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.63% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 138 125
10th Percentile £390 £359 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £686 £638
90th Percentile £725 £803 £725
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 £75.00 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year - +7.91% -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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -37 20 £565 -13.08% 25
South London -12 3 £650 -16.13% 1
West London -28 3 £386 -0.93% 11
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 39 (19.02%) Confluence
2 13 (6.34%) CMS
3 12 (5.85%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.44%) Apache
6 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.95%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 20 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.95%) Notion
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Magento
2 4 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.98%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.98%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.98%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (38.05%) Azure
2 55 (26.83%) AWS
3 27 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.80%) GCP
6 12 (5.85%) GitHub
7 10 (4.88%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.39%) SaaS
8 9 (4.39%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.44%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.44%) Serverless
11 4 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.95%) Azure Databricks
11 4 (1.95%) dbt
11 4 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) FTP
1 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.27%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (6.83%) Power BI
3 13 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.39%) Tableau
5 8 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.41%) Big Data
6 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.44%) Data Hub
9 4 (1.95%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.95%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.46%) Looker
10 3 (1.46%) Metadata
10 3 (1.46%) Presto
11 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 65 (31.71%) JIRA
2 30 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 27 (13.17%) Git
4 15 (7.32%) Postman
5 12 (5.85%) Selenium
6 8 (3.90%) GitLab
6 8 (3.90%) Subversion
7 4 (1.95%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.95%) JUnit
7 4 (1.95%) Maven
7 4 (1.95%) Mockito
7 4 (1.95%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.46%) Appium
8 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.98%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.98%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.76%) Finance
3 39 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.07%) Marketing
5 34 (16.59%) Public Sector
6 26 (12.68%) Banking
7 18 (8.78%) Retail
8 15 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.95%) Front Office
11 4 (1.95%) Games
12 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.46%) Local Government
12 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.46%) Military
12 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.98%) Aviation
13 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 39 (19.02%) Analyst
2 23 (11.22%) Lead
3 19 (9.27%) Senior
4 18 (8.78%) Delivery Manager
5 16 (7.80%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.32%) Scrum Master
7 14 (6.83%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.83%) Project Manager
8 13 (6.34%) Developer
9 12 (5.85%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (5.37%) Product Owner
11 10 (4.88%) Agile Coach
11 10 (4.88%) Product Manager
11 10 (4.88%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Architect
13 8 (3.90%) Technical Manager
14 7 (3.41%) Senior Manager
15 6 (2.93%) Java Developer
15 6 (2.93%) Programme Manager
15 6 (2.93%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.83%) REST
2 13 (6.34%) RESTful
3 12 (5.85%) Kafka
3 12 (5.85%) Terraform
4 8 (3.90%) CSS
4 8 (3.90%) HTML
4 8 (3.90%) JSON
4 8 (3.90%) Spring
4 8 (3.90%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.90%) VML
5 7 (3.41%) YAML
6 5 (2.44%) ADO
6 5 (2.44%) SOAP
7 4 (1.95%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.95%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.95%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.95%) Jakarta EE
7 4 (1.95%) JPA
7 4 (1.95%) Node.js
7 4 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (28.29%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.41%) Replication
6 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.93%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.44%) PMI
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 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.98%) AS400
9 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.90%) Linux
2 5 (2.44%) Android
3 3 (1.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (97.07%) Agile
2 183 (89.27%) Scrum
3 82 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 77 (37.56%) DevOps
5 52 (25.37%) CI/CD
5 52 (25.37%) Sprint Planning
5 52 (25.37%) User Stories
6 51 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (20.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 36 (17.56%) Acceptance Criteria
10 32 (15.61%) Backlog Management
10 32 (15.61%) Test Automation
11 30 (14.63%) Decision-Making
12 29 (14.15%) Roadmaps
12 29 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (13.66%) Analytics
14 27 (13.17%) AI
14 27 (13.17%) ETL
14 27 (13.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.98%) SQL
2 38 (18.54%) Python
3 35 (17.07%) Java
4 12 (5.85%) Scala
5 11 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.93%) C#
8 4 (1.95%) R
8 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.98%) Groovy
10 2 (0.98%) Korn
10 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Bash
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.68%) Degree
4 8 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.46%) CSPO
8 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.46%) PMP
8 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.98%) CBAP
9 2 (0.98%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.98%) IIBA
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.49%) CRISC
10 1 (0.49%) GPEN
10 1 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.15%) QA
2 10 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.93%) 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 (0.98%) 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 14 (6.83%) Docker
2 7 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.39%) Grafana
3 4 (1.95%) Kibana
4 3 (1.46%) Ansible
4 3 (1.46%) Puppet
5 2 (0.98%) Control-M
5 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.83%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.88%) Databricks
4 8 (3.90%) IBM
4 8 (3.90%) Oracle
4 8 (3.90%) Splunk
5 7 (3.41%) Google
6 6 (2.93%) SAP
7 5 (2.44%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.44%) BMC
7 5 (2.44%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.95%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.95%) New Relic
8 4 (1.95%) Remedy
9 3 (1.46%) Adobe
9 3 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.98%) Informatica
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) VMware