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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 185 207
Rank change year-on-year -50 +22 -1
Contract jobs citing Kanban 225 198 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.48% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.60% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 125 134
10th Percentile £400 £359 £363
25th Percentile £463 £424 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.49%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £656
90th Percentile £714 £775 £759
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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% -12.73%

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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 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 21 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 -32 16 £565 -9.60% 24
South London -8 5 £600 -18.64%
West London -23 3 £386 +1.67% 4
East London +2 2 £585 +62.50% 4
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 42 (18.67%) Confluence
2 18 (8.00%) CMS
3 11 (4.89%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.78%) Apache
5 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.78%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 20 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.78%) Notion
5 3 (1.33%) Trello
6 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Magento
2 4 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.89%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.89%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.89%) Shopify
3 2 (0.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (37.33%) Azure
2 56 (24.89%) AWS
3 30 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.00%) GCP
5 17 (7.56%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.33%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.89%) GitHub
8 9 (4.00%) Snowflake
9 8 (3.56%) SaaS
10 7 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.67%) Serverless
12 5 (2.22%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.78%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.78%) dbt
13 4 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) Network Security
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) FTP
2 1 (0.44%) NGFW
2 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.33%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.22%) Power BI
3 13 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.00%) Tableau
7 8 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (3.11%) Big Data
9 6 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.22%) Data Hub
10 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.78%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.33%) Looker
12 3 (1.33%) Metadata
12 3 (1.33%) Presto
13 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 67 (29.78%) JIRA
2 31 (13.78%) Jenkins
3 27 (12.00%) Git
4 20 (8.89%) Postman
5 12 (5.33%) Selenium
6 8 (3.56%) GitLab
6 8 (3.56%) Subversion
7 4 (1.78%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.78%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.78%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.33%) Appium
8 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.33%) DbUnit
8 3 (1.33%) jMock
8 3 (1.33%) JUnit
8 3 (1.33%) Maven
8 3 (1.33%) Mockito
8 3 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
General
1 98 (43.56%) Social Skills
2 71 (31.56%) Finance
3 44 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (17.33%) Marketing
5 38 (16.89%) Public Sector
6 29 (12.89%) Banking
7 19 (8.44%) Retail
8 15 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.11%) Front Office
9 7 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.22%) Local Government
10 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.78%) Games
11 4 (1.78%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Aviation
13 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 47 (20.89%) Analyst
2 21 (9.33%) Delivery Manager
3 20 (8.89%) Lead
3 20 (8.89%) Project Manager
3 20 (8.89%) Senior
4 18 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 18 (8.00%) Scrum Master
5 15 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.22%) Developer
6 14 (6.22%) Technical Analyst
7 13 (5.78%) Systems Analyst
8 11 (4.89%) Product Owner
9 9 (4.00%) Agile Coach
9 9 (4.00%) Architect
9 9 (4.00%) Product Manager
9 9 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.56%) Technical Manager
11 6 (2.67%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.67%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.67%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.22%) REST
2 13 (5.78%) Terraform
3 12 (5.33%) RESTful
4 11 (4.89%) Kafka
5 9 (4.00%) Spring
5 9 (4.00%) VML
6 8 (3.56%) CSS
6 8 (3.56%) HTML
6 8 (3.56%) JSON
7 7 (3.11%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.11%) YAML
8 6 (2.67%) Node.js
9 4 (1.78%) ADO
9 4 (1.78%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.78%) Play Framework
9 4 (1.78%) SOAP
9 4 (1.78%) Web Services
10 3 (1.33%) .NET
10 3 (1.33%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (1.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 66 (29.33%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.11%) Replication
5 5 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.22%) PMI
6 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.78%) NHS
7 3 (1.33%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.33%) Life Science
7 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.89%) AS400
8 2 (0.89%) Derivative
8 2 (0.89%) Equities
8 2 (0.89%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.89%) Linux
2 5 (2.22%) Android
3 3 (1.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.89%) VMS
4 2 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (96.44%) Agile
2 202 (89.78%) Scrum
3 91 (40.44%) DevOps
4 84 (37.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (25.33%) User Stories
6 55 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (24.44%) Sprint Planning
7 53 (23.56%) CI/CD
8 46 (20.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 44 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (18.67%) Acceptance Criteria
11 38 (16.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (15.56%) Decision-Making
13 34 (15.11%) Migration
14 33 (14.67%) Roadmaps
14 33 (14.67%) Test Automation
15 32 (14.22%) Microservices
15 32 (14.22%) Project Management
16 29 (12.89%) Backlog Management
17 28 (12.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.78%) SQL
2 43 (19.11%) Python
3 41 (18.22%) Java
4 12 (5.33%) Scala
5 11 (4.89%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.11%) C#
7 6 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.22%) R
9 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.89%) Groovy
10 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.44%) C++
11 1 (0.44%) Korn
11 1 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.44%) Degree
4 11 (4.89%) PMI Certification
5 9 (4.00%) PMP
6 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.78%) CSPO
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.33%) IIBA
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.89%) CBAP
10 2 (0.89%) CISSP
10 2 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.44%) QA
2 9 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.11%) PMO
4 4 (1.78%) GDPR
4 4 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.33%) GxP
5 3 (1.33%) WCAG
6 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.89%) NIST
6 2 (0.89%) SEPA
6 2 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (7.11%) Docker
2 7 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.11%) Grafana
3 4 (1.78%) Kibana
4 3 (1.33%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Puppet
5 2 (0.89%) Control-M
5 2 (0.89%) Rancher
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) CASB
6 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.56%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.00%) Databricks
3 9 (4.00%) Oracle
4 8 (3.56%) IBM
4 8 (3.56%) SAP
4 8 (3.56%) Splunk
5 7 (3.11%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.11%) Google
5 7 (3.11%) Refinitiv
6 6 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.22%) BMC
8 4 (1.78%) Adobe
8 4 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.78%) New Relic
8 4 (1.78%) Remedy
9 3 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.33%) Okta
9 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow