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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 180 198
Rank change year-on-year -48 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing Kanban 231 198 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.47% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.59% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 125 135
10th Percentile £400 £359 £363
25th Percentile £463 £424 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -7.49%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £656
90th Percentile £710 £775 £758
England median daily rate £520 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.17% -12.73%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 August 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 August 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 -26 17 £595 -4.80% 22
South London -8 7 £550 -25.42%
West London -23 3 £386 -0.93% 4
East London 0 2 £585 +62.50% 4
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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 18 (7.79%) CMS
3 11 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.73%) Apache
5 4 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.73%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 20 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.73%) Notion
5 3 (1.30%) Trello
6 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Magento
2 4 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.87%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.87%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.87%) Shopify
4 2 (0.87%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (36.36%) Azure
2 58 (25.11%) AWS
3 30 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.23%) GCP
5 18 (7.79%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.90%) GitHub
8 8 (3.46%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.03%) SaaS
10 6 (2.60%) Serverless
11 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) FTP
1 2 (0.87%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) NGFW
2 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.49%) Power BI
3 13 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.90%) Tableau
7 8 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (3.03%) Big Data
9 5 (2.16%) Data Hub
9 5 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.73%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.73%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.73%) Looker
11 3 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.30%) Metadata
11 3 (1.30%) Presto
11 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (29.44%) JIRA
2 31 (13.42%) Jenkins
3 27 (11.69%) Git
4 20 (8.66%) Postman
5 12 (5.19%) Selenium
6 8 (3.46%) GitLab
6 8 (3.46%) Subversion
7 4 (1.73%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.73%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.73%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.30%) Appium
8 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.30%) DbUnit
8 3 (1.30%) jMock
8 3 (1.30%) JUnit
8 3 (1.30%) Maven
8 3 (1.30%) Mockito
8 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
General
1 98 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 73 (31.60%) Finance
3 44 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (17.75%) Public Sector
5 39 (16.88%) Marketing
6 29 (12.55%) Banking
7 19 (8.23%) Retail
8 15 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.03%) Front Office
9 7 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.16%) Local Government
10 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.73%) Games
11 4 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.30%) Automotive
12 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Aviation
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (19.91%) Analyst
2 24 (10.39%) Delivery Manager
3 22 (9.52%) Lead
4 20 (8.66%) Project Manager
4 20 (8.66%) Scrum Master
4 20 (8.66%) Senior
5 17 (7.36%) Business Analyst
6 15 (6.49%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.06%) Developer
7 14 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (5.63%) Systems Analyst
9 11 (4.76%) Product Owner
10 9 (3.90%) Agile Coach
10 9 (3.90%) Product Manager
10 9 (3.90%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.46%) Architect
11 8 (3.46%) Technical Manager
12 6 (2.60%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.60%) Programme Manager
12 6 (2.60%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.06%) REST
2 12 (5.19%) RESTful
3 11 (4.76%) Kafka
4 9 (3.90%) Spring
4 9 (3.90%) VML
5 8 (3.46%) CSS
5 8 (3.46%) HTML
5 8 (3.46%) JSON
6 7 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.03%) YAML
7 6 (2.60%) Node.js
8 5 (2.16%) ADO
9 4 (1.73%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.73%) Play Framework
9 4 (1.73%) SOAP
9 4 (1.73%) Web Services
10 3 (1.30%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.30%) Bootstrap
10 3 (1.30%) Spring Batch
10 3 (1.30%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.90%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.03%) Replication
6 5 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.16%) PMI
7 4 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.73%) NHS
8 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.30%) Life Science
8 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.30%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.87%) AS400
9 2 (0.87%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.87%) Derivative
9 2 (0.87%) Equities
9 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.76%) Linux
2 6 (2.60%) Android
3 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.30%) Unix
3 3 (1.30%) Windows
4 2 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (95.67%) Agile
2 207 (89.61%) Scrum
3 93 (40.26%) DevOps
4 85 (36.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (24.68%) User Stories
6 55 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (23.81%) Sprint Planning
7 53 (22.94%) CI/CD
8 47 (20.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 45 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
11 38 (16.45%) Migration
12 37 (16.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (14.72%) Decision-Making
13 34 (14.72%) Roadmaps
13 34 (14.72%) Test Automation
14 33 (14.29%) Project Management
15 32 (13.85%) Microservices
16 30 (12.99%) Backlog Management
17 28 (12.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.65%) SQL
2 43 (18.61%) Python
3 42 (18.18%) Java
4 12 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.19%) Scala
5 7 (3.03%) C#
6 6 (2.60%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.16%) R
8 4 (1.73%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.87%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.43%) SOQL
11 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.12%) Degree
4 11 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.90%) PMP
6 7 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.73%) CSPO
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.30%) CISSP
10 3 (1.30%) IIBA
10 3 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.87%) CBAP
11 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.87%) CISM
11 2 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.55%) QA
2 9 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.03%) PMO
4 4 (1.73%) GDPR
4 4 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.30%) GxP
5 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.30%) NCSC
5 3 (1.30%) WCAG
6 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) SEPA
6 2 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.93%) Docker
2 7 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Postfix
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.63%) Terraform
3 7 (3.03%) Grafana
4 4 (1.73%) Kibana
5 3 (1.30%) Ansible
5 3 (1.30%) Puppet
6 2 (0.87%) Control-M
6 2 (0.87%) Rancher
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.36%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.90%) Oracle
3 9 (3.90%) SAP
4 8 (3.46%) Databricks
4 8 (3.46%) IBM
4 8 (3.46%) Splunk
5 7 (3.03%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.03%) Google
5 7 (3.03%) Refinitiv
6 6 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.16%) BMC
8 4 (1.73%) Adobe
8 4 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.73%) New Relic
8 4 (1.73%) Remedy
9 3 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.30%) Okta
9 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow