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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 237 216
Rank change year-on-year +51 -21 -80
Contract jobs citing Kanban 195 119 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 0.85% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.95% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 72 131
10th Percentile £358 £363 £390
25th Percentile £431 £420 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £658 £638
90th Percentile £741 £799 £715
England median daily rate £514 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -0.72% -5.91% -

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 40 £625 +4.17% 30
West London -13 9 £425 +13.33% 11
East London -1 2 £405 -25.00% 11
South London -6 2 £775 +29.17% 14
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 32 (16.41%) Confluence
2 4 (2.05%) CMS
2 4 (2.05%) nginx
3 3 (1.54%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.05%) Trello
4 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.51%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.13%) Azure
2 36 (18.46%) AWS
3 29 (14.87%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (12.82%) GCP
5 18 (9.23%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.72%) GitHub
7 15 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.10%) Miro
9 7 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.59%) Serverless
10 6 (3.08%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.08%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.05%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.54%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) FTP
1 2 (1.03%) VPN
2 1 (0.51%) DNS
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) Power BI
2 11 (5.64%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (5.13%) Data Vault
4 9 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.59%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.08%) Metadata
7 6 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.08%) Tableau
8 4 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.05%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.54%) DB2
9 3 (1.54%) MySQL
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.03%) Big Data
10 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 70 (35.90%) JIRA
2 27 (13.85%) Git
3 18 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.64%) Bitbucket
5 10 (5.13%) ERwin
6 9 (4.62%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.62%) ER Studio
6 9 (4.62%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (4.10%) TeamCity
8 6 (3.08%) GitLab
9 5 (2.56%) Postman
9 5 (2.56%) Selenium
9 5 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.05%) Zephyr
11 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.03%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (1.03%) JUnit
11 2 (1.03%) Maven
11 2 (1.03%) Mockito
11 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 82 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.10%) Finance
3 22 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.23%) Banking
6 17 (8.72%) Front Office
7 12 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.59%) Retail
9 6 (3.08%) Legal
10 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.05%) Marketing
12 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.03%) Aviation
13 2 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (1.03%) Local Government
14 1 (0.51%) Complex Adaptive System
Job Titles
1 42 (21.54%) Developer
2 29 (14.87%) Analyst
3 24 (12.31%) Java Developer
4 23 (11.79%) Senior
5 22 (11.28%) Project Manager
6 17 (8.72%) Scrum Master
7 15 (7.69%) Business Analyst
8 12 (6.15%) Data Modeller
8 12 (6.15%) Lead
9 11 (5.64%) Agile Project Manager
9 11 (5.64%) Delivery Manager
10 10 (5.13%) Senior Manager
11 9 (4.62%) Angular Developer
11 9 (4.62%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (4.10%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 8 (4.10%) Product Manager
13 7 (3.59%) Test Analyst
14 6 (3.08%) Senior Project Manager
15 5 (2.56%) CRM Manager
15 5 (2.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.31%) REST
2 20 (10.26%) React
3 16 (8.21%) HTML
4 15 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.67%) CSS
6 9 (4.62%) Node.js
6 9 (4.62%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.10%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (4.10%) Web Services
8 7 (3.59%) RESTful
8 7 (3.59%) Spring
9 6 (3.08%) Kafka
10 5 (2.56%) .NET
10 5 (2.56%) ZK
11 4 (2.05%) ADO
11 4 (2.05%) Akka
11 4 (2.05%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (2.05%) JSON
12 3 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (1.54%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.72%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (6.15%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 8 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.59%) Derivative
8 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.56%) Reinsurance
10 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.05%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.05%) NHS
11 3 (1.54%) FMCG
11 3 (1.54%) PMI
12 2 (1.03%) CMDB
12 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.03%) Equities
12 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.13%) Linux
1 10 (5.13%) Windows
2 6 (3.08%) Unix
3 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.03%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (96.92%) Agile
2 188 (96.41%) Scrum
3 53 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (27.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 49 (25.13%) DevOps
5 46 (23.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (17.44%) Roadmaps
8 32 (16.41%) CI/CD
8 32 (16.41%) Sprint Planning
9 30 (15.38%) TDD
10 29 (14.87%) Test Automation
11 28 (14.36%) Analytics
12 27 (13.85%) User Stories
13 25 (12.82%) BDD
13 25 (12.82%) Microservices
14 23 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 22 (11.28%) Project Management
16 21 (10.77%) Data Modelling
16 21 (10.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.69%) Java
2 35 (17.95%) SQL
3 27 (13.85%) Python
4 18 (9.23%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.67%) C#
6 12 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.05%) Scala
9 3 (1.54%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.54%) Bash
9 3 (1.54%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) Korn
11 1 (0.51%) Bicep
11 1 (0.51%) Go
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.79%) Degree
3 20 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.59%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.56%) CBAP
7 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.54%) ISEB
9 2 (1.03%) CISSP
9 2 (1.03%) CSPO
9 2 (1.03%) PMP
9 2 (1.03%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISA
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.79%) QA
2 16 (8.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.56%) GRC
4 4 (2.05%) PMO
5 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.03%) PSD2
7 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (9.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.67%) Terraform
3 8 (4.10%) Ansible
4 4 (2.05%) Grafana
4 4 (2.05%) Rancher
5 3 (1.54%) Consul
5 3 (1.54%) Packer
6 2 (1.03%) Argo
6 2 (1.03%) Nagios
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.51%) Kibana
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) Oracle
3 7 (3.59%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.08%) Databricks
4 6 (3.08%) Sparx
5 5 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.05%) SAP
6 4 (2.05%) Splunk
7 3 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.54%) Informatica
8 2 (1.03%) Charles River
8 2 (1.03%) IBM
8 2 (1.03%) Murex
8 2 (1.03%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.03%) Pega
9 1 (0.51%) Instagram
9 1 (0.51%) TikTok
9 1 (0.51%) UiPath
9 1 (0.51%) YouTube