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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 175 222
Rank change year-on-year -77 +47 +2
Contract jobs citing Kanban 205 217 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.62% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.75% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 113
10th Percentile £400 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £447 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £625
90th Percentile £725 £783 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £30.75 -
Median hourly rate £53.00 £31.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.25% - -
75th Percentile £55.50 £32.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £41.25 £69.50
% change year-on-year +75.76% -40.65% -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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £668 £663 £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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -51 19 £565 -11.37% 19
West London -23 6 £435 +11.54% 1
South London -15 3 £650 -16.13% 6
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 44 (21.46%) Confluence
2 8 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.90%) CMS
3 5 (2.44%) Apache
4 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.95%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.95%) Notion
6 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Magento
2 4 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.46%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.98%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.98%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.02%) Azure
2 53 (25.85%) AWS
3 27 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.29%) GCP
4 17 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.32%) GitHub
6 9 (4.39%) SaaS
6 9 (4.39%) Snowflake
7 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.93%) Azure Databricks
7 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.95%) dbt
9 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.95%) Miro
9 4 (1.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) FTP
1 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.34%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.34%) Power BI
3 9 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.41%) Tableau
5 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.44%) Data Hub
5 5 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.95%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.95%) Metadata
7 3 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.46%) Looker
8 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.98%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (33.17%) JIRA
2 27 (13.17%) Git
3 25 (12.20%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.83%) Selenium
5 12 (5.85%) Postman
6 8 (3.90%) Subversion
7 6 (2.93%) GitLab
8 4 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.95%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.95%) JUnit
8 4 (1.95%) Maven
8 4 (1.95%) Mockito
8 4 (1.95%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.46%) Appium
9 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.98%) DbUnit
General
1 98 (47.80%) Social Skills
2 64 (31.22%) Finance
3 36 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.07%) Public Sector
5 28 (13.66%) Banking
5 28 (13.66%) Marketing
6 18 (8.78%) Retail
7 16 (7.80%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.95%) Games
11 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.46%) Local Government
11 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.46%) Military
11 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.98%) Legal
12 2 (0.98%) Publishing
12 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (18.54%) Analyst
2 21 (10.24%) Delivery Manager
2 21 (10.24%) Lead
2 21 (10.24%) Senior
3 19 (9.27%) Business Analyst
4 18 (8.78%) Project Manager
5 13 (6.34%) Developer
5 13 (6.34%) Scrum Master
6 12 (5.85%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.37%) Product Owner
8 10 (4.88%) Agile Coach
8 10 (4.88%) Product Manager
8 10 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (4.88%) Technical Manager
9 8 (3.90%) Architect
9 8 (3.90%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.41%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (2.93%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.93%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.29%) REST
2 12 (5.85%) Kafka
3 11 (5.37%) RESTful
4 9 (4.39%) Spring
4 9 (4.39%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.90%) JSON
5 8 (3.90%) Terraform
5 8 (3.90%) VML
6 7 (3.41%) YAML
7 5 (2.44%) ADO
7 5 (2.44%) SOAP
8 4 (1.95%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (1.95%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.95%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.95%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.95%) JPA
8 4 (1.95%) Node.js
8 4 (1.95%) Playwright
8 4 (1.95%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (26.34%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.41%) Replication
4 7 (3.41%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.44%) PMI
7 4 (1.95%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.46%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.46%) Life Science
8 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.46%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.98%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.93%) Android
2 5 (2.44%) Linux
3 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (97.07%) Agile
2 184 (89.76%) Scrum
3 88 (42.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 74 (36.10%) DevOps
5 55 (26.83%) User Stories
6 54 (26.34%) CI/CD
7 53 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (23.41%) Sprint Planning
10 44 (21.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 39 (19.02%) Acceptance Criteria
12 35 (17.07%) Test Automation
13 34 (16.59%) Decision-Making
14 30 (14.63%) AI
14 30 (14.63%) Backlog Management
14 30 (14.63%) Roadmaps
15 28 (13.66%) Analytics
15 28 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (13.17%) Project Management
17 26 (12.68%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.59%) SQL
2 30 (14.63%) Java
3 28 (13.66%) Python
4 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.90%) C#
5 8 (3.90%) Scala
6 6 (2.93%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.95%) R
7 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.98%) Groovy
8 2 (0.98%) Korn
8 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.63%) Degree
3 29 (14.15%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.44%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.95%) PMP
8 3 (1.46%) CSPO
8 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
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 31 (15.12%) QA
2 8 (3.90%) 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 12 (5.85%) Docker
2 7 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.93%) Grafana
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.46%) Puppet
4 2 (0.98%) Control-M
4 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Argo
5 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.85%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.37%) Databricks
4 8 (3.90%) IBM
4 8 (3.90%) Oracle
5 7 (3.41%) Google
5 7 (3.41%) SAP
6 5 (2.44%) BMC
6 5 (2.44%) New Relic
6 5 (2.44%) Splunk
7 4 (1.95%) Adobe
7 4 (1.95%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.95%) Remedy
7 4 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.46%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.46%) Talend
9 2 (0.98%) Avaloq