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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 178 202
Rank change year-on-year -50 +24 -4
Contract jobs citing Kanban 236 200 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.48% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.60% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 127 135
10th Percentile £402 £359 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.09%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £656
90th Percentile £696 £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% -10.00%

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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £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 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 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 13 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 -42 18 £565 -9.60% 21
South London -6 9 £550 -25.42% 3
West London -19 3 £386 -0.93% 4
East London +2 2 £585 +62.50% 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 44 (18.64%) Confluence
2 19 (8.05%) CMS
3 11 (4.66%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.69%) Apache
5 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 19 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.69%) Notion
5 3 (1.27%) Trello
6 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Magento
2 4 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.85%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.85%) Shopify
4 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.29%) Azure
2 59 (25.00%) AWS
3 33 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.05%) GCP
5 18 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.51%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.81%) GitHub
8 8 (3.39%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (2.97%) SaaS
10 6 (2.54%) Serverless
11 5 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.12%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.69%) Route 53
12 4 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) FTP
1 2 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) NGFW
2 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (5.93%) Power BI
3 13 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.81%) Tableau
6 8 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.97%) Big Data
8 5 (2.12%) Data Hub
8 5 (2.12%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.69%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.69%) Looker
9 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.27%) Presto
10 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (30.51%) JIRA
2 32 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 27 (11.44%) Git
4 21 (8.90%) Postman
5 12 (5.08%) Selenium
6 8 (3.39%) GitLab
6 8 (3.39%) Subversion
7 5 (2.12%) Appium
8 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.69%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.69%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.69%) jMock
8 4 (1.69%) JUnit
8 4 (1.69%) Maven
8 4 (1.69%) Mockito
8 4 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.69%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.85%) SoapUI
General
1 99 (41.95%) Social Skills
2 74 (31.36%) Finance
3 45 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (18.64%) Public Sector
5 39 (16.53%) Marketing
6 29 (12.29%) Banking
7 19 (8.05%) Retail
8 15 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.97%) Front Office
9 7 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.54%) Local Government
11 5 (2.12%) Automotive
11 5 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.69%) Games
12 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Aviation
14 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (19.92%) Analyst
2 25 (10.59%) Delivery Manager
2 25 (10.59%) Lead
3 21 (8.90%) Scrum Master
4 20 (8.47%) Senior
5 19 (8.05%) Project Manager
6 17 (7.20%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 15 (6.36%) Developer
8 15 (6.36%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (5.51%) Systems Analyst
10 10 (4.24%) Product Owner
11 9 (3.81%) Product Manager
11 9 (3.81%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.39%) Agile Coach
12 8 (3.39%) Architect
12 8 (3.39%) Technical Manager
13 7 (2.97%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.97%) Test Leader
14 6 (2.54%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.93%) REST
2 13 (5.51%) RESTful
3 11 (4.66%) Kafka
4 10 (4.24%) Spring
5 9 (3.81%) VML
6 8 (3.39%) CSS
6 8 (3.39%) HTML
6 8 (3.39%) JSON
6 8 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.97%) Node.js
7 7 (2.97%) YAML
8 5 (2.12%) .NET
8 5 (2.12%) ADO
8 5 (2.12%) SOAP
8 5 (2.12%) Web Services
9 4 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.69%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.69%) JPA
9 4 (1.69%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 66 (27.97%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.81%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.97%) Replication
7 5 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.12%) NHS
8 4 (1.69%) PMI
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Life Science
9 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.27%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.85%) AS400
10 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.85%) Derivative
10 2 (0.85%) Equities
10 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.08%) Linux
2 6 (2.54%) Android
3 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.27%) Unix
3 3 (1.27%) Windows
4 2 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (95.76%) Agile
2 211 (89.41%) Scrum
3 97 (41.10%) DevOps
4 85 (36.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (24.15%) User Stories
6 55 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (23.31%) Sprint Planning
7 53 (22.46%) CI/CD
8 48 (20.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 47 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (18.22%) Acceptance Criteria
11 39 (16.53%) Migration
12 35 (14.83%) Microservices
12 35 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (14.41%) Decision-Making
14 33 (13.98%) Project Management
15 32 (13.56%) Test Automation
16 31 (13.14%) Roadmaps
17 30 (12.71%) Backlog Management
18 28 (11.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.61%) SQL
2 42 (17.80%) Java
2 42 (17.80%) Python
3 12 (5.08%) JavaScript
3 12 (5.08%) Scala
4 9 (3.81%) C#
5 6 (2.54%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.12%) R
7 4 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.85%) Groovy
9 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.42%) C++
10 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.42%) Korn
10 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.42%) SOQL
10 1 (0.42%) Swift
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.29%) Degree
4 10 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.81%) PMP
6 7 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.69%) CISSP
9 4 (1.69%) IIBA
10 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.27%) CISM
10 3 (1.27%) CSPO
10 3 (1.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (1.27%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.56%) QA
2 9 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.97%) PMO
4 5 (2.12%) GDPR
5 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.27%) GxP
6 3 (1.27%) NCSC
6 3 (1.27%) WCAG
7 2 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.85%) NIST
7 2 (0.85%) SEPA
7 2 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) HL7
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (7.20%) Docker
2 7 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.51%) Terraform
3 8 (3.39%) Grafana
4 4 (1.69%) Kibana
5 3 (1.27%) Puppet
6 2 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.85%) Control-M
6 2 (0.85%) Rancher
7 1 (0.42%) Argo
7 1 (0.42%) CASB
7 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.20%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.24%) SAP
4 9 (3.81%) Oracle
5 8 (3.39%) Databricks
5 8 (3.39%) IBM
5 8 (3.39%) Splunk
6 7 (2.97%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.97%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.97%) Google
6 7 (2.97%) Refinitiv
7 5 (2.12%) BMC
8 4 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.69%) New Relic
8 4 (1.69%) Remedy
8 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.27%) Okta
9 3 (1.27%) Spotify