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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 232 207
Rank change year-on-year +32 -25 -45
Contract jobs citing Kanban 206 126 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 0.97% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.06% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 73 137
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £431 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -5.91% -8.03%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £798 £725
England median daily rate £520 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 March 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 March 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 -9 34 £625 +8.70% 34
South London -3 12 £550 +29.41% 9
West London -15 4 £372 -21.77% 10
East London - 4 £585 - 9
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 (16.02%) Confluence
2 7 (3.40%) CMS
3 5 (2.43%) Apache
4 4 (1.94%) nginx
5 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.46%) Trello
3 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.76%) Azure
2 39 (18.93%) AWS
3 27 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.19%) GCP
5 16 (7.77%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.34%) Snowflake
7 10 (4.85%) GitHub
8 8 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.88%) Miro
9 6 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.91%) Serverless
10 5 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (1.94%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.46%) Figma
12 3 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) FTP
2 2 (0.97%) Firewall
2 2 (0.97%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) NGFW
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.88%) Power BI
5 7 (3.40%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.43%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.43%) Metadata
7 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.94%) Tableau
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.46%) Big Data
9 3 (1.46%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (31.55%) JIRA
2 22 (10.68%) Git
3 16 (7.77%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.40%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.40%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.91%) ERwin
5 6 (2.91%) GitLab
6 5 (2.43%) ER Studio
6 5 (2.43%) Postman
6 5 (2.43%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (2.43%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.94%) Maven
8 3 (1.46%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.46%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (1.46%) JUnit
8 3 (1.46%) Mockito
8 3 (1.46%) Selenium
8 3 (1.46%) Xcode
8 3 (1.46%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (39.32%) Social Skills
2 67 (32.52%) Finance
3 32 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 28 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.17%) Banking
6 17 (8.25%) Front Office
7 14 (6.80%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.88%) Legal
8 8 (3.88%) Retail
9 5 (2.43%) Marketing
10 4 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Automotive
11 3 (1.46%) Aviation
11 3 (1.46%) Local Government
11 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.97%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (15.53%) Analyst
2 27 (13.11%) Developer
3 24 (11.65%) Senior
4 23 (11.17%) Delivery Manager
5 19 (9.22%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.22%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.22%) Scrum Master
6 18 (8.74%) Business Analyst
7 17 (8.25%) Lead
8 10 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.88%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (3.88%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.40%) Data Modeller
10 7 (3.40%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 7 (3.40%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.91%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.43%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.43%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.43%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.77%) REST
2 11 (5.34%) React
3 9 (4.37%) AngularJS
3 9 (4.37%) HTML
3 9 (4.37%) Node.js
4 7 (3.40%) CSS
4 7 (3.40%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (3.40%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.40%) Web Services
4 7 (3.40%) XML
5 6 (2.91%) JSON
5 6 (2.91%) Spring
6 5 (2.43%) .NET
6 5 (2.43%) ADO
6 5 (2.43%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (1.94%) Akka
7 4 (1.94%) Playwright
7 4 (1.94%) RESTful
7 4 (1.94%) ZK
8 3 (1.46%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.99%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.31%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.83%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.34%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.88%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.40%) Derivative
8 5 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.43%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.43%) NHS
9 4 (1.94%) Wiki
10 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.46%) Equities
10 3 (1.46%) FMCG
10 3 (1.46%) PMI
11 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.31%) Linux
2 9 (4.37%) Windows
3 5 (2.43%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Android
4 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (94.17%) Agile
2 182 (88.35%) Scrum
3 56 (27.18%) DevOps
3 56 (27.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 51 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (23.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (17.96%) Roadmaps
7 30 (14.56%) Project Management
7 30 (14.56%) User Stories
8 28 (13.59%) Sprint Planning
8 28 (13.59%) TDD
9 27 (13.11%) CI/CD
9 27 (13.11%) Test Automation
10 25 (12.14%) Acceptance Criteria
11 24 (11.65%) Analytics
11 24 (11.65%) Migration
11 24 (11.65%) Project Delivery
11 24 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (11.65%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.79%) Java
2 39 (18.93%) SQL
3 30 (14.56%) Python
4 15 (7.28%) C#
5 13 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.43%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.94%) R
8 4 (1.94%) Scala
9 3 (1.46%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.46%) Bash
9 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.46%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.46%) Swift
10 2 (0.97%) Bicep
10 2 (0.97%) Korn
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 44 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.68%) Degree
4 8 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.40%) PMP
6 6 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.43%) CISSP
7 5 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.94%) CBAP
8 4 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.94%) CISM
8 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (1.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 4 (1.94%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.46%) ISEB
9 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.97%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.05%) QA
2 13 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.37%) PMO
4 6 (2.91%) GDPR
5 5 (2.43%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.94%) GRC
7 3 (1.46%) NCSC
7 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.97%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.97%) PSD2
9 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.49%) NIST
9 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (7.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Postfix
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.25%) Terraform
3 6 (2.91%) Ansible
3 6 (2.91%) Grafana
4 5 (2.43%) Rancher
5 3 (1.46%) Consul
5 3 (1.46%) Packer
5 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.97%) Argo
6 2 (0.97%) Nagios
7 1 (0.49%) CASB
7 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.83%) Oracle
3 7 (3.40%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.91%) SAP
5 5 (2.43%) Splunk
6 4 (1.94%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.94%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.94%) Databricks
7 3 (1.46%) Charles River
7 3 (1.46%) Informatica
7 3 (1.46%) Murex
7 3 (1.46%) Okta
7 3 (1.46%) Sparx
7 3 (1.46%) Spotify
8 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco
8 2 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.97%) Pega
8 2 (0.97%) Refinitiv