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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 216 178
Rank change year-on-year -13 -38 +7
Contract jobs citing Kanban 188 138 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.10% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.20% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 94 157
10th Percentile £389 £383 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £668 £738 £735
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £61.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +21.95% -8.21% -14.10%

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 15,918 11,536 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.22% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,645 7,806 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £808 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -27 17 £575 -9.80% 21
South London +2 13 £550 - 2
East London - 3 £585 - 3
West London -23 2 £377 -5.68% 2
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 27 (14.36%) Confluence
2 18 (9.57%) CMS
3 10 (5.32%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.60%) Apache
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.06%) Notion
4 2 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.60%) Magento
2 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.06%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.79%) Azure
2 38 (20.21%) AWS
3 24 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (8.51%) Power Platform
5 13 (6.91%) Amazon S3
5 13 (6.91%) GCP
6 7 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.19%) GitHub
8 5 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.66%) Smartsheet
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.13%) Serverless
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.60%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) FTP
2 2 (1.06%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.98%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.91%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.32%) Big Data
4 10 (5.32%) Power BI
5 8 (4.26%) Tableau
6 7 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.13%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (2.13%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.60%) Presto
9 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (28.19%) JIRA
2 23 (12.23%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.51%) Postman
4 14 (7.45%) Git
5 6 (3.19%) GitLab
5 6 (3.19%) Selenium
6 5 (2.66%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.66%) Maven
7 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.60%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.60%) Appium
8 3 (1.60%) DbUnit
8 3 (1.60%) jMock
8 3 (1.60%) JUnit
8 3 (1.60%) Mockito
8 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.60%) Subversion
8 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.60%) Xcode
8 3 (1.60%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (30.32%) Finance
3 32 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.36%) Public Sector
5 23 (12.23%) Marketing
6 20 (10.64%) Banking
7 10 (5.32%) Front Office
7 10 (5.32%) Retail
8 8 (4.26%) Legal
8 8 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.66%) Local Government
10 4 (2.13%) Automotive
11 3 (1.60%) Aviation
12 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (21.28%) Analyst
2 25 (13.30%) Senior
3 23 (12.23%) Delivery Manager
4 20 (10.64%) Lead
5 16 (8.51%) Business Analyst
6 15 (7.98%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.98%) Scrum Master
7 14 (7.45%) Project Manager
8 12 (6.38%) Developer
9 11 (5.85%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.79%) Senior Manager
10 9 (4.79%) Systems Analyst
11 7 (3.72%) Technical Manager
11 7 (3.72%) Test Analyst
11 7 (3.72%) Test Leader
12 6 (3.19%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.19%) Scala Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Security Engineer
13 5 (2.66%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.32%) HTML
2 9 (4.79%) Node.js
2 9 (4.79%) REST
3 8 (4.26%) CSS
3 8 (4.26%) RESTful
4 7 (3.72%) XML
5 6 (3.19%) ADO
5 6 (3.19%) Spring
5 6 (3.19%) Web Services
6 5 (2.66%) JSON
7 4 (2.13%) .NET
7 4 (2.13%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.13%) SOAP
7 4 (2.13%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.13%) VML
8 3 (1.60%) HTML5
8 3 (1.60%) JPA
8 3 (1.60%) PowerMock
8 3 (1.60%) Spring Batch
8 3 (1.60%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.74%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.64%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.66%) Replication
4 5 (2.66%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.13%) Wiki
6 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.60%) NHS
7 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.53%) CMDB
8 1 (0.53%) Life Science
8 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.38%) Linux
2 6 (3.19%) Android
2 6 (3.19%) Windows
3 5 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.13%) Unix
5 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (92.02%) Agile
2 156 (82.98%) Scrum
3 70 (37.23%) DevOps
4 51 (27.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.21%) Sprint Planning
7 36 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (19.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 34 (18.09%) CI/CD
8 34 (18.09%) Migration
9 31 (16.49%) User Stories
10 30 (15.96%) Acceptance Criteria
11 29 (15.43%) Microservices
12 27 (14.36%) Project Management
12 27 (14.36%) Roadmaps
12 27 (14.36%) Waterfall
13 26 (13.83%) Test Automation
14 24 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (12.23%) Sprint Retrospective
16 21 (11.17%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.40%) SQL
2 41 (21.81%) Java
3 36 (19.15%) Python
4 14 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.79%) C#
6 6 (3.19%) Scala
7 5 (2.66%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.13%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.13%) R
9 3 (1.60%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.60%) Swift
10 2 (1.06%) Bash
10 2 (1.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 43 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.45%) Degree
4 8 (4.26%) PMP
5 6 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.66%) CISSP
6 5 (2.66%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.13%) CISM
7 4 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (2.13%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.06%) IIBA
10 1 (0.53%) CBAP
10 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.83%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) PMO
3 6 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.66%) GDPR
4 5 (2.66%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.60%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (7.98%) Docker
2 4 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Postfix
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (6.91%) Terraform
2 12 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.79%) Grafana
4 5 (2.66%) Ansible
5 4 (2.13%) Kibana
5 4 (2.13%) Rancher
6 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.06%) Argo
7 2 (1.06%) Nagios
8 1 (0.53%) CASB
8 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.45%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.32%) Oracle
4 7 (3.72%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.72%) Refinitiv
4 7 (3.72%) SAP
5 6 (3.19%) Splunk
6 5 (2.66%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.60%) Okta
7 3 (1.60%) Spotify
8 2 (1.06%) BMC
8 2 (1.06%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.06%) Pega
8 2 (1.06%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.06%) Remedy
8 2 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Sitecore