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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 205 181
Rank change year-on-year -25 -24 +2
Contract jobs citing Kanban 184 137 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.10% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.19% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 91 155
10th Percentile £386 £375 £376
25th Percentile £459 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £650
90th Percentile £668 £688 £740
England median daily rate £517 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -6.91% -
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 £61.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +21.95% -8.21% -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 15,807 11,500 15,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.40% 92.19% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,571 7,797 11,258
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 173 315
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.21% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.65 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.47% -20.36% -2.25%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -22 19 £570 -5.00% 16
South London -3 13 £550 - 2
East London - 3 £585 - 3
West London -28 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 27 (14.67%) Confluence
2 16 (8.70%) CMS
3 9 (4.89%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.63%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.09%) Notion
4 2 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.09%) Magento
2 2 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.09%) Shopify
3 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.72%) Azure
2 38 (20.65%) AWS
3 22 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.07%) GCP
6 12 (6.52%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.72%) GitHub
8 5 (2.72%) Serverless
8 5 (2.72%) Smartsheet
9 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.63%) BrowserStack
10 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.63%) Route 53
10 3 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) FTP
2 2 (1.09%) Network Security
3 1 (0.54%) Firewall
3 1 (0.54%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.61%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.43%) Big Data
4 10 (5.43%) Power BI
5 9 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.35%) Tableau
7 7 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.72%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (2.17%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.63%) Presto
10 3 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (28.26%) JIRA
2 21 (11.41%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.61%) Git
3 14 (7.61%) Postman
4 6 (3.26%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.26%) GitLab
4 6 (3.26%) Selenium
5 5 (2.72%) Maven
6 4 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.63%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.63%) Appium
7 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.63%) DbUnit
7 3 (1.63%) jMock
7 3 (1.63%) JUnit
7 3 (1.63%) Mockito
7 3 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.63%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.63%) Xcode
7 3 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.07%) Finance
3 33 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.67%) Public Sector
5 21 (11.41%) Banking
6 20 (10.87%) Marketing
7 10 (5.43%) Front Office
8 8 (4.35%) Legal
8 8 (4.35%) Retail
9 7 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Local Government
11 4 (2.17%) Automotive
11 4 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.63%) Aviation
13 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Advertising
14 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (21.74%) Analyst
2 24 (13.04%) Senior
3 22 (11.96%) Delivery Manager
4 18 (9.78%) Business Analyst
4 18 (9.78%) Lead
5 14 (7.61%) Data Engineer
5 14 (7.61%) Developer
5 14 (7.61%) Scrum Master
6 13 (7.07%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
8 9 (4.89%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.35%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (3.80%) Test Analyst
11 6 (3.26%) Scala Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Technical Manager
11 6 (3.26%) Test Leader
12 5 (2.72%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.72%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.98%) HTML
2 10 (5.43%) Node.js
3 9 (4.89%) CSS
3 9 (4.89%) REST
4 7 (3.80%) RESTful
4 7 (3.80%) XML
5 6 (3.26%) Spring
5 6 (3.26%) Web Services
6 5 (2.72%) ADO
6 5 (2.72%) JSON
7 4 (2.17%) .NET
7 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.17%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.17%) React
7 4 (2.17%) SOAP
7 4 (2.17%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.63%) Bootstrap
8 3 (1.63%) Kafka
8 3 (1.63%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.63%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 21 (11.41%) Cloud Native
3 18 (9.78%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.72%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.17%) Replication
7 4 (2.17%) Wiki
8 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.63%) NHS
8 3 (1.63%) PMI
9 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.54%) CMDB
10 1 (0.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Android
2 6 (3.26%) Windows
3 5 (2.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.17%) Unix
5 3 (1.63%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (91.85%) Agile
2 152 (82.61%) Scrum
3 65 (35.33%) DevOps
4 49 (26.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 34 (18.48%) CI/CD
8 34 (18.48%) Sprint Planning
9 32 (17.39%) Migration
10 31 (16.85%) User Stories
11 29 (15.76%) Microservices
12 28 (15.22%) Acceptance Criteria
13 27 (14.67%) Roadmaps
14 26 (14.13%) Test Automation
15 25 (13.59%) Project Management
15 25 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (13.59%) Waterfall
16 20 (10.87%) ETL
16 20 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.91%) SQL
2 41 (22.28%) Java
3 35 (19.02%) Python
4 15 (8.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.89%) C#
6 6 (3.26%) Scala
7 5 (2.72%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.17%) R
9 3 (1.63%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.63%) Swift
10 2 (1.09%) Bash
10 2 (1.09%) Bicep
11 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.07%) Degree
4 7 (3.80%) PMP
5 6 (3.26%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.72%) CISSP
6 5 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.17%) CISM
7 4 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (2.17%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.63%) CBAP
8 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.09%) IIBA
10 1 (0.54%) CSPO
10 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.22%) QA
2 7 (3.80%) PMO
3 6 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.72%) GDPR
4 5 (2.72%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.63%) NCSC
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.09%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.09%) PSD2
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.54%) NIST
8 1 (0.54%) SLA
8 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (7.61%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Postfix
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (7.07%) Terraform
2 12 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.43%) Grafana
4 5 (2.72%) Ansible
5 4 (2.17%) Kibana
5 4 (2.17%) Rancher
6 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.09%) Argo
7 2 (1.09%) Nagios
8 1 (0.54%) CASB
8 1 (0.54%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.61%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.43%) Oracle
4 7 (3.80%) SAP
5 6 (3.26%) Bloomberg
5 6 (3.26%) Refinitiv
5 6 (3.26%) Splunk
6 5 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.63%) Okta
7 3 (1.63%) Spotify
8 2 (1.09%) BMC
8 2 (1.09%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.09%) Pega
8 2 (1.09%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.09%) Remedy
8 2 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Sitecore