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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 248 222
Rank change year-on-year +77 -26 -94
Contract jobs citing Kanban 225 148 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 0.94% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.05% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 95 134
10th Percentile £358 £349 £390
25th Percentile £425 £411 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -6.62%
75th Percentile £668 £625 £665
90th Percentile £750 £778 £746
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.75 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - -
75th Percentile £32.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.25 £27.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -67.94% +30.77%

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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 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 30 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 +16 43 £625 +8.70% 22
West London -7 11 £380 +1.33%
South London 0 4 £825 +37.50%
East London +2 2 £405 -25.00% 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 37 (16.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.67%) CMS
3 4 (1.78%) nginx
4 3 (1.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.22%) Trello
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.22%) Azure
2 40 (17.78%) AWS
3 36 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.56%) GCP
5 21 (9.33%) GitHub
6 20 (8.89%) Snowflake
7 19 (8.44%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.89%) Miro
9 8 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.67%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.67%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.67%) Serverless
12 4 (1.78%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.78%) SaaS
12 4 (1.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (1.33%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.89%) tcpdump
2 2 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.44%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) FTP
3 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.78%) Power BI
2 11 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (4.44%) Data Vault
4 9 (4.00%) Tableau
5 8 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.67%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.67%) Metadata
6 6 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.78%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.78%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.33%) DB2
9 3 (1.33%) MySQL
9 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.33%) Tableau Desktop
10 2 (0.89%) Tableau Server
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (33.33%) JIRA
2 35 (15.56%) Git
3 26 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.33%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.44%) ERwin
6 9 (4.00%) ER Studio
6 9 (4.00%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (3.56%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.56%) GitLab
8 7 (3.11%) Postman
8 7 (3.11%) TeamCity
9 6 (2.67%) Selenium
10 5 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.78%) Zephyr
12 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.33%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.33%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.89%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.89%) Mockito
General
1 108 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.89%) Finance
3 23 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.89%) Front Office
6 17 (7.56%) Banking
7 12 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Retail
9 7 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.67%) Marketing
11 5 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.33%) Local Government
12 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.89%) Legal
13 2 (0.89%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (24.89%) Developer
2 34 (15.11%) Analyst
3 28 (12.44%) Senior
4 23 (10.22%) Project Manager
5 21 (9.33%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 18 (8.00%) Scrum Master
7 13 (5.78%) Lead
8 12 (5.33%) Agile Project Manager
8 12 (5.33%) Data Modeller
9 11 (4.89%) Angular Developer
10 9 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (4.00%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 9 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (3.56%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.11%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 7 (3.11%) Product Manager
12 7 (3.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.56%) React
1 26 (11.56%) REST
2 20 (8.89%) HTML
3 19 (8.44%) CSS
4 17 (7.56%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.89%) .NET
6 10 (4.44%) Spring
7 9 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (4.00%) Kafka
7 9 (4.00%) Node.js
7 9 (4.00%) RESTful
7 9 (4.00%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.11%) SOAP
8 7 (3.11%) Web Services
9 6 (2.67%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.67%) JSON
10 5 (2.22%) Angular 2
11 4 (1.78%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.78%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (1.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.89%) Data Structures
2 20 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (5.78%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.33%) Virtual Team
6 11 (4.89%) Derivative
7 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.56%) Fixed Income
9 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.22%) NHS
11 5 (2.22%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.78%) PMI
13 3 (1.33%) FMCG
13 3 (1.33%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.33%) Linux
2 9 (4.00%) Windows
3 5 (2.22%) Unix
4 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (97.33%) Agile
2 218 (96.89%) Scrum
3 66 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (27.56%) DevOps
5 51 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 48 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 39 (17.33%) Roadmaps
9 39 (17.33%) TDD
10 34 (15.11%) Sprint Planning
10 34 (15.11%) Test Automation
11 32 (14.22%) User Stories
12 30 (13.33%) Microservices
13 28 (12.44%) Analytics
14 27 (12.00%) BDD
15 25 (11.11%) Data Modelling
16 24 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (10.22%) SDLC
18 22 (9.78%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 60 (26.67%) Java
2 44 (19.56%) SQL
3 43 (19.11%) Python
4 30 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.22%) C#
6 12 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.44%) C++
8 8 (3.56%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.78%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.33%) Bash
10 3 (1.33%) Go
10 3 (1.33%) Groovy
10 3 (1.33%) Scala
11 2 (0.89%) Korn
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (12.00%) Degree
1 27 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.67%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.22%) CBAP
7 4 (1.78%) CSPO
7 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.33%) ISEB
9 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.89%) CISSP
9 2 (0.89%) PMP
9 2 (0.89%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) CISA
10 1 (0.44%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.22%) QA
2 18 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.11%) GRC
4 5 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.78%) PMO
6 2 (0.89%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.89%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (12.44%) Docker
2 4 (1.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.33%) Terraform
3 9 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Consul
4 3 (1.33%) Grafana
4 3 (1.33%) Packer
4 3 (1.33%) Rancher
5 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.89%) Puppet
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) Nagios
6 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.89%) Oracle
3 10 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.67%) Databricks
4 6 (2.67%) SAP
4 6 (2.67%) Sparx
5 5 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.22%) Splunk
6 4 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.33%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.33%) Citrix
7 3 (1.33%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.33%) IBM
7 3 (1.33%) Murex
7 3 (1.33%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.89%) Adobe
8 2 (0.89%) Charles River
9 1 (0.44%) Calypso
9 1 (0.44%) HP
9 1 (0.44%) Temenos