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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 182 209
Rank change year-on-year -62 +27 +3
Contract jobs citing Kanban 213 198 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.49% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.61% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 129 135
10th Percentile £396 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £420 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £653
90th Percentile £713 £775 £758
England median daily rate £515 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +3.00% -7.41% -1.82%
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 £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 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 2 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 -31 20 £565 -12.23% 18
South London -16 4 £600 -18.64% 1
West London -18 3 £386 +3.72% 11
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 42 (19.72%) Confluence
2 16 (7.51%) CMS
3 11 (5.16%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.88%) Apache
5 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.88%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 21 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.88%) Notion
5 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.76%) Magento
2 4 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.94%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.94%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.94%) Shopify
3 2 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.09%) Azure
2 54 (25.35%) AWS
3 27 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.45%) GCP
5 17 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.16%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.16%) GitHub
7 9 (4.23%) SaaS
7 9 (4.23%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (2.82%) Serverless
10 5 (2.35%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.88%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) FTP
1 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.57%) Power BI
3 13 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.23%) Tableau
6 7 (3.29%) Big Data
6 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.35%) Data Hub
9 4 (1.88%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.41%) Looker
10 3 (1.41%) Metadata
10 3 (1.41%) Presto
11 2 (0.94%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 67 (31.46%) JIRA
2 32 (15.02%) Jenkins
3 28 (13.15%) Git
4 18 (8.45%) Postman
5 12 (5.63%) Selenium
6 8 (3.76%) GitLab
6 8 (3.76%) Subversion
7 4 (1.88%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.88%) JUnit
7 4 (1.88%) Maven
7 4 (1.88%) Mockito
7 4 (1.88%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.88%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.41%) Appium
8 3 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.94%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 63 (29.58%) Finance
3 44 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (17.84%) Marketing
5 34 (15.96%) Public Sector
6 26 (12.21%) Banking
7 19 (8.92%) Retail
8 16 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.35%) Front Office
10 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.88%) Games
11 4 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.88%) Local Government
12 3 (1.41%) Legal
12 3 (1.41%) Military
12 3 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 45 (21.13%) Analyst
2 24 (11.27%) Lead
3 19 (8.92%) Senior
4 17 (7.98%) Business Analyst
4 17 (7.98%) Delivery Manager
5 16 (7.51%) Scrum Master
6 15 (7.04%) Developer
7 14 (6.57%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.10%) Project Manager
8 13 (6.10%) Technical Analyst
9 12 (5.63%) Systems Analyst
10 11 (5.16%) Product Owner
11 9 (4.23%) Agile Coach
11 9 (4.23%) Architect
11 9 (4.23%) Product Manager
12 8 (3.76%) Technical Manager
13 7 (3.29%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.29%) Programme Manager
13 7 (3.29%) Senior Manager
14 6 (2.82%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.04%) REST
2 13 (6.10%) RESTful
2 13 (6.10%) Terraform
3 11 (5.16%) Kafka
4 10 (4.69%) Spring
5 9 (4.23%) VML
6 8 (3.76%) CSS
6 8 (3.76%) HTML
6 8 (3.76%) JSON
6 8 (3.76%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.29%) YAML
8 6 (2.82%) Node.js
9 5 (2.35%) ADO
9 5 (2.35%) SOAP
9 5 (2.35%) Web Services
10 4 (1.88%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (1.88%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.88%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.88%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (1.88%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.17%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.29%) Replication
6 6 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.35%) PMI
8 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.41%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.41%) Life Science
9 3 (1.41%) NHS
9 3 (1.41%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.94%) AS400
10 2 (0.94%) Derivative
10 2 (0.94%) Equities
10 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.69%) Linux
2 5 (2.35%) Android
3 3 (1.41%) Unix
4 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.94%) VMS
4 2 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (96.71%) Agile
2 190 (89.20%) Scrum
3 85 (39.91%) DevOps
4 81 (38.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (26.29%) User Stories
7 55 (25.82%) CI/CD
7 55 (25.82%) Sprint Planning
8 46 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (21.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 39 (18.31%) Acceptance Criteria
11 35 (16.43%) Test Automation
12 33 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (15.02%) Decision-Making
14 30 (14.08%) Microservices
14 30 (14.08%) Roadmaps
15 29 (13.62%) Backlog Management
15 29 (13.62%) Migration
16 28 (13.15%) Analytics
16 28 (13.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.13%) SQL
2 41 (19.25%) Python
3 38 (17.84%) Java
4 12 (5.63%) Scala
5 11 (5.16%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.29%) C#
8 4 (1.88%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.41%) R
10 2 (0.94%) Groovy
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 40 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.15%) Degree
4 8 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.41%) CSPO
8 3 (1.41%) PMP
8 3 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CBAP
9 2 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.94%) IIBA
9 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CRISC
10 1 (0.47%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.08%) QA
2 9 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.41%) GxP
4 3 (1.41%) PMO
4 3 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.41%) WCAG
5 2 (0.94%) SEPA
5 2 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) HL7
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (7.98%) Docker
2 7 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.23%) Grafana
3 4 (1.88%) Kibana
4 3 (1.41%) Ansible
4 3 (1.41%) Puppet
5 2 (0.94%) Control-M
5 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.94%) Rancher
6 1 (0.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.98%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.23%) Databricks
3 9 (4.23%) Oracle
4 8 (3.76%) IBM
4 8 (3.76%) Splunk
5 7 (3.29%) Google
5 7 (3.29%) SAP
6 5 (2.35%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.35%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.35%) BMC
6 5 (2.35%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.88%) Adobe
7 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.88%) New Relic
7 4 (1.88%) Remedy
8 3 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.94%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Talend