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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 208 188
Rank change year-on-year -19 -20 -1
Contract jobs citing Kanban 203 142 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.16% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.26% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 90 161
10th Percentile £390 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £586 £662 £638
90th Percentile £675 £789 £725
England median daily rate £500 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -2.39% -6.86% -
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 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -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 16,682 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,119 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 20 £600 -8.95% 23
South London -3 14 £550 -25.42%
East London - 3 £585 - 4
West London -24 2 £377 -5.68% 2
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 33 (16.26%) Confluence
2 21 (10.34%) CMS
3 10 (4.93%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.97%) Apache
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.48%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.99%) Notion
5 2 (0.99%) Trello
6 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Magento
2 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.99%) SAP Retail
2 2 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.99%) Shopify
3 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.51%) Azure
2 41 (20.20%) AWS
3 27 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.88%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 12 (5.91%) GCP
7 7 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.45%) GitHub
8 6 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.97%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.97%) Route 53
10 4 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.97%) Serverless
10 4 (1.97%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) FTP
1 2 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.87%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.93%) Power BI
6 9 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.43%) Tableau
7 8 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.94%) Big Data
8 7 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.97%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.97%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.48%) Presto
Development Applications
1 56 (27.59%) JIRA
2 26 (12.81%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.85%) Postman
4 19 (9.36%) Git
5 9 (4.43%) Selenium
6 5 (2.46%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.46%) GitLab
6 5 (2.46%) Maven
7 4 (1.97%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (1.97%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.97%) jMock
7 4 (1.97%) JUnit
7 4 (1.97%) Mockito
7 4 (1.97%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.97%) Subversion
8 3 (1.48%) Appium
8 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.48%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.48%) Xcode
General
1 80 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 64 (31.53%) Finance
3 39 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 28 (13.79%) Marketing
6 25 (12.32%) Banking
7 16 (7.88%) Retail
8 10 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.43%) Front Office
10 7 (3.45%) Legal
11 6 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.46%) Automotive
12 5 (2.46%) Local Government
13 3 (1.48%) Aviation
13 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (20.20%) Analyst
2 27 (13.30%) Delivery Manager
3 25 (12.32%) Senior
4 20 (9.85%) Lead
5 16 (7.88%) Business Analyst
5 16 (7.88%) Data Engineer
5 16 (7.88%) Developer
5 16 (7.88%) Scrum Master
6 14 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 12 (5.91%) Systems Analyst
8 11 (5.42%) Technical Analyst
9 10 (4.93%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.43%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.94%) Technical Manager
12 7 (3.45%) Agile Coach
12 7 (3.45%) Test Leader
13 6 (2.96%) Architect
13 6 (2.96%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Senior Project Manager
13 6 (2.96%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.42%) REST
1 11 (5.42%) RESTful
2 10 (4.93%) HTML
3 9 (4.43%) Node.js
3 9 (4.43%) Spring
4 8 (3.94%) CSS
5 7 (3.45%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.45%) Web Services
6 6 (2.96%) XML
7 5 (2.46%) ADO
7 5 (2.46%) SOAP
7 5 (2.46%) VML
8 4 (1.97%) .NET
8 4 (1.97%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (1.97%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.97%) Bootstrap
8 4 (1.97%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.97%) JSON
8 4 (1.97%) Play Framework
8 4 (1.97%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.63%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.85%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.43%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.46%) Replication
5 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.97%) Wiki
7 3 (1.48%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.48%) NHS
8 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.99%) PMI
8 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.91%) Linux
2 6 (2.96%) Android
3 5 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.46%) Windows
4 3 (1.48%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (93.60%) Agile
2 171 (84.24%) Scrum
3 82 (40.39%) DevOps
4 60 (29.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (22.17%) CI/CD
6 44 (21.67%) Sprint Planning
7 43 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (21.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 41 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (18.23%) User Stories
10 35 (17.24%) Microservices
10 35 (17.24%) Migration
11 30 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (14.78%) Test Automation
12 28 (13.79%) Acceptance Criteria
13 27 (13.30%) Roadmaps
13 27 (13.30%) Sprint Retrospective
14 25 (12.32%) Project Management
15 24 (11.82%) ETL
15 24 (11.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.14%) SQL
2 44 (21.67%) Java
3 37 (18.23%) Python
4 15 (7.39%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.93%) C#
6 5 (2.46%) R
6 5 (2.46%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.97%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.97%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.97%) Scala
8 3 (1.48%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.48%) Swift
9 2 (0.99%) Bicep
9 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) Go
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
10 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 48 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 42 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.88%) Degree
4 7 (3.45%) PMP
5 6 (2.96%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.46%) CISSP
7 4 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.97%) CISM
7 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (1.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.99%) CBAP
9 2 (0.99%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.99%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.30%) QA
2 7 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.45%) GDPR
2 7 (3.45%) PMO
3 6 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.46%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.48%) NCSC
7 2 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.49%) GxP
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.49%) NIST
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) SEPA
8 1 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (7.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.48%) Postfix
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (6.90%) Terraform
2 10 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.94%) Grafana
4 4 (1.97%) Kibana
5 3 (1.48%) Ansible
6 2 (0.99%) Rancher
7 1 (0.49%) CASB
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.37%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.40%) Oracle
4 8 (3.94%) SAP
5 7 (3.45%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.45%) Refinitiv
5 7 (3.45%) Splunk
6 6 (2.96%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.97%) Databricks
8 4 (1.97%) IBM
8 4 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.48%) New Relic
9 3 (1.48%) Okta
9 3 (1.48%) Spotify
10 2 (0.99%) Pega
10 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.99%) Sitecore