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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 176 212
Rank change year-on-year -77 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing Kanban 210 195 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.48% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.60% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 129 130
10th Percentile £396 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £424 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £656
90th Percentile £713 £775 £765
England median daily rate £519 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +3.75% -6.98% -2.27%
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 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -18.24%

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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -36 20 £565 -12.23% 15
South London -12 4 £600 -18.64% 1
West London -24 3 £386 -0.93% 12
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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 16 (7.62%) CMS
3 12 (5.71%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.38%) Apache
6 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.90%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.90%) Notion
5 2 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Magento
2 4 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.95%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.95%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.95%) Shopify
3 2 (0.95%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.14%) Azure
2 54 (25.71%) AWS
3 27 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.57%) GCP
5 17 (8.10%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.24%) GitHub
7 10 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.29%) SaaS
8 9 (4.29%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.38%) Serverless
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) FTP
1 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.05%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.67%) Power BI
3 13 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.29%) Tableau
5 8 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.33%) Big Data
6 7 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.38%) Data Hub
9 4 (1.90%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.90%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.43%) Looker
10 3 (1.43%) Metadata
10 3 (1.43%) Presto
11 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (31.90%) JIRA
2 31 (14.76%) Jenkins
3 27 (12.86%) Git
4 18 (8.57%) Postman
5 12 (5.71%) Selenium
6 8 (3.81%) GitLab
6 8 (3.81%) Subversion
7 4 (1.90%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.90%) JUnit
7 4 (1.90%) Maven
7 4 (1.90%) Mockito
7 4 (1.90%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.90%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.43%) Appium
8 3 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.95%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.95%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.05%) Finance
3 44 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (18.57%) Marketing
5 33 (15.71%) Public Sector
6 25 (11.90%) Banking
7 19 (9.05%) Retail
8 16 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.90%) Front Office
11 4 (1.90%) Games
11 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.43%) Legal
12 3 (1.43%) Local Government
12 3 (1.43%) Military
12 3 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.95%) Aviation
13 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (21.43%) Analyst
2 24 (11.43%) Lead
3 19 (9.05%) Senior
4 17 (8.10%) Business Analyst
4 17 (8.10%) Delivery Manager
5 16 (7.62%) Scrum Master
6 14 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.67%) Developer
7 13 (6.19%) Project Manager
7 13 (6.19%) Technical Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
9 11 (5.24%) Product Owner
10 9 (4.29%) Agile Coach
10 9 (4.29%) Architect
10 9 (4.29%) Product Manager
11 8 (3.81%) Technical Manager
12 7 (3.33%) Programme Manager
12 7 (3.33%) Senior Manager
13 6 (2.86%) Java Developer
13 6 (2.86%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.67%) REST
2 13 (6.19%) RESTful
3 12 (5.71%) Kafka
3 12 (5.71%) Terraform
4 9 (4.29%) Spring
4 9 (4.29%) VML
5 8 (3.81%) CSS
5 8 (3.81%) HTML
5 8 (3.81%) JSON
5 8 (3.81%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.33%) YAML
7 5 (2.38%) ADO
7 5 (2.38%) Node.js
7 5 (2.38%) SOAP
8 4 (1.90%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (1.90%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.90%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.90%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.90%) JPA
8 4 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (28.10%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.33%) Replication
6 6 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.38%) PMI
8 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.43%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.43%) Life Science
9 3 (1.43%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.95%) AS400
10 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.29%) Linux
2 5 (2.38%) Android
3 3 (1.43%) Unix
4 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.95%) Windows
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (96.67%) Agile
2 187 (89.05%) Scrum
3 83 (39.52%) DevOps
4 81 (38.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 56 (26.67%) User Stories
6 55 (26.19%) Sprint Planning
7 54 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (25.24%) CI/CD
9 45 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (20.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 39 (18.57%) Acceptance Criteria
12 33 (15.71%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (14.76%) Decision-Making
15 30 (14.29%) Backlog Management
16 29 (13.81%) Analytics
16 29 (13.81%) Microservices
16 29 (13.81%) Migration
16 29 (13.81%) Project Management
16 29 (13.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.48%) SQL
2 38 (18.10%) Python
3 36 (17.14%) Java
4 12 (5.71%) Scala
5 11 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.33%) C#
8 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.43%) R
10 2 (0.95%) Groovy
10 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 40 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.86%) Degree
4 8 (3.81%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.43%) CSPO
8 3 (1.43%) PMP
8 3 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.95%) CBAP
9 2 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.95%) IIBA
9 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CRISC
10 1 (0.48%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.43%) GDPR
4 3 (1.43%) GxP
4 3 (1.43%) PMO
4 3 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.43%) WCAG
5 2 (0.95%) SEPA
5 2 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (7.62%) Docker
2 7 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.29%) Grafana
3 4 (1.90%) Kibana
4 3 (1.43%) Puppet
5 2 (0.95%) Ansible
5 2 (0.95%) Control-M
5 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Rancher
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.10%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.29%) Databricks
4 8 (3.81%) IBM
4 8 (3.81%) Oracle
4 8 (3.81%) Splunk
5 7 (3.33%) Google
5 7 (3.33%) SAP
6 5 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.38%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.38%) BMC
6 5 (2.38%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.90%) Adobe
7 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.90%) New Relic
7 4 (1.90%) Remedy
8 3 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.95%) Talend