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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 238 220
Rank change year-on-year +66 -18 -92
Contract jobs citing Kanban 230 144 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 0.92% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.03% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 93 139
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £430 £420 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -5.58%
75th Percentile £668 £625 £659
90th Percentile £775 £755 £753
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.75 - £84.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 - £91.00
75th Percentile £32.25 - £98.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.25 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.72%

All Process and 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 12,961 14,023 18,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.17% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 9,049 13,046
10th Percentile £331 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +24 43 £625 +8.70% 55
West London -11 11 £380 +1.33% 1
South London +1 7 £775 +29.17%
East London +3 2 £405 -25.00% 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 37 (16.09%) Confluence
2 6 (2.61%) CMS
3 4 (1.74%) nginx
4 2 (0.87%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.17%) Trello
3 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.83%) Azure
2 44 (19.13%) AWS
3 37 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (13.04%) GCP
5 26 (11.30%) GitHub
6 20 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 20 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 13 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.78%) Miro
10 7 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.04%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.04%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.61%) SaaS
11 6 (2.61%) Serverless
12 4 (1.74%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.30%) VPN
3 2 (0.87%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.65%) Power BI
3 11 (4.78%) Snowflake Schema
4 10 (4.35%) Data Vault
4 10 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.91%) Tableau
6 6 (2.61%) Metadata
7 5 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.74%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.30%) DB2
9 3 (1.30%) MySQL
9 3 (1.30%) Tableau Desktop
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.87%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 74 (32.17%) JIRA
2 41 (17.83%) Git
3 28 (12.17%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.78%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.35%) ERwin
6 9 (3.91%) ER Studio
6 9 (3.91%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (3.48%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.04%) Artifactory
8 7 (3.04%) GitLab
8 7 (3.04%) Postman
9 6 (2.61%) Selenium
9 6 (2.61%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.30%) JUnit
11 3 (1.30%) Mockito
11 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.30%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.09%) Finance
3 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 22 (9.57%) Front Office
6 18 (7.83%) Banking
7 12 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.91%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.48%) Retail
10 7 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.61%) Marketing
12 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.30%) Local Government
13 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.87%) Aviation
14 2 (0.87%) Portuguese Language
14 2 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (25.65%) Developer
2 32 (13.91%) Analyst
3 29 (12.61%) Senior
4 24 (10.43%) Project Manager
5 22 (9.57%) Java Developer
6 18 (7.83%) Business Analyst
7 17 (7.39%) Scrum Master
8 12 (5.22%) Agile Project Manager
8 12 (5.22%) Data Modeller
8 12 (5.22%) Lead
9 11 (4.78%) Angular Developer
9 11 (4.78%) Python Developer
10 10 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
11 9 (3.91%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.91%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.91%) Technical Analyst
12 7 (3.04%) Engineering Manager
12 7 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.04%) Product Manager
12 7 (3.04%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.74%) React
2 26 (11.30%) REST
3 20 (8.70%) HTML
4 19 (8.26%) AngularJS
4 19 (8.26%) CSS
5 13 (5.65%) Spring
6 12 (5.22%) .NET
7 11 (4.78%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (4.35%) Kafka
8 10 (4.35%) RESTful
8 10 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.48%) Node.js
9 8 (3.48%) SOAP
9 8 (3.48%) Web Services
10 6 (2.61%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.17%) Angular 2
11 5 (2.17%) FpML
11 5 (2.17%) JSON
11 5 (2.17%) Middleware
12 4 (1.74%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.57%) Data Structures
3 21 (9.13%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (6.52%) Algorithms
6 13 (5.65%) Derivative
7 12 (5.22%) Virtual Team
8 10 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 10 (4.35%) Fixed Income
9 7 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.17%) NHS
10 5 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.17%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.74%) PMI
12 3 (1.30%) FMCG
12 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.22%) Linux
2 8 (3.48%) Windows
3 5 (2.17%) Unix
4 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (96.96%) Agile
2 222 (96.52%) Scrum
3 67 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (27.39%) DevOps
5 52 (22.61%) CI/CD
5 52 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (21.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 48 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (17.39%) TDD
9 38 (16.52%) Roadmaps
10 35 (15.22%) Microservices
11 34 (14.78%) Test Automation
12 33 (14.35%) Sprint Planning
13 32 (13.91%) User Stories
14 29 (12.61%) BDD
15 28 (12.17%) Analytics
16 25 (10.87%) Data Modelling
17 24 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 23 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (26.96%) Java
2 49 (21.30%) Python
3 45 (19.57%) SQL
4 35 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.17%) C#
6 14 (6.09%) C++
7 13 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.48%) Groovy
10 7 (3.04%) Go
11 3 (1.30%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.87%) Bash
12 2 (0.87%) Korn
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (13.04%) Degree
2 24 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.17%) CBAP
8 4 (1.74%) CSPO
8 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.30%) ISEB
9 3 (1.30%) PMP
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.87%) CISSP
10 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.87%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.43%) CISA
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.00%) QA
2 18 (7.83%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.04%) GRC
4 5 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.74%) PMO
6 2 (0.87%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (13.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.30%) Terraform
3 13 (5.65%) Ansible
4 7 (3.04%) Puppet
5 3 (1.30%) Consul
5 3 (1.30%) Grafana
5 3 (1.30%) Packer
6 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.87%) Rancher
7 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.43%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.43%) SCCM
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.35%) Oracle
3 9 (3.91%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.61%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.61%) Databricks
4 6 (2.61%) SAP
4 6 (2.61%) Sparx
5 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.74%) Splunk
6 3 (1.30%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.30%) Citrix
6 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.30%) Murex
6 3 (1.30%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.87%) Adobe
7 2 (0.87%) Charles River
7 2 (0.87%) IBM
8 1 (0.43%) Google
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) Sitecore