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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 235 213
Rank change year-on-year +31 -22 -60
Contract jobs citing Kanban 203 120 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 0.89% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.98% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 74 133
10th Percentile £360 £400 £389
25th Percentile £428 £431 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £725 £798 £735
England median daily rate £501 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.34% -6.82% -

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 14,164 12,253 16,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.70% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 7,900 11,699
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.10%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 345
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.60 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.50 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 February 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 February 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 +4 38 £625 +8.70% 18
South London -1 12 £600 +41.18% 2
West London -18 9 £425 +13.33% 5
East London - 2 £518 - 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 29 (14.29%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) CMS
3 5 (2.46%) Apache
4 4 (1.97%) nginx
5 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.99%) Trello
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.99%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.14%) Azure
2 35 (17.24%) AWS
3 28 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.33%) Power Platform
5 22 (10.84%) GCP
6 13 (6.40%) Snowflake
7 12 (5.91%) GitHub
8 7 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.45%) Miro
9 6 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.46%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.46%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.46%) Serverless
11 4 (1.97%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.48%) Figma
12 3 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.48%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) FTP
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.40%) Power BI
2 12 (5.91%) Snowflake Schema
2 12 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.94%) Data Vault
3 8 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.96%) Metadata
6 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.97%) Star Schema
7 4 (1.97%) Tableau
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.48%) Big Data
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 66 (32.51%) JIRA
2 23 (11.33%) Git
3 14 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.43%) ERwin
5 8 (3.94%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.94%) ER Studio
5 8 (3.94%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.96%) GitLab
8 5 (2.46%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.97%) Postman
9 4 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.48%) Android Studio
10 3 (1.48%) Maven
10 3 (1.48%) Selenium
10 3 (1.48%) Xcode
10 3 (1.48%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.99%) Appium
11 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.99%) JUnit
General
1 78 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 57 (28.08%) Finance
3 26 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.85%) Banking
5 17 (8.37%) Front Office
6 14 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.43%) Retail
8 8 (3.94%) Legal
9 7 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.97%) Marketing
11 3 (1.48%) Automotive
11 3 (1.48%) Aviation
11 3 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.99%) Local Government
12 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (16.26%) Developer
2 30 (14.78%) Analyst
3 27 (13.30%) Senior
4 20 (9.85%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.36%) Delivery Manager
5 19 (9.36%) Project Manager
6 17 (8.37%) Business Analyst
6 17 (8.37%) Lead
6 17 (8.37%) Scrum Master
7 10 (4.93%) Data Modeller
7 10 (4.93%) Senior Manager
8 9 (4.43%) Agile Project Manager
8 9 (4.43%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 8 (3.94%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (2.96%) Angular Developer
11 6 (2.96%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.46%) Report Manager
12 5 (2.46%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.37%) REST
2 14 (6.90%) React
3 11 (5.42%) HTML
4 10 (4.93%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.43%) CSS
6 8 (3.94%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.94%) Node.js
7 7 (3.45%) JSON
7 7 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.45%) XML
8 6 (2.96%) Web Services
9 5 (2.46%) .NET
9 5 (2.46%) ADO
9 5 (2.46%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.97%) Akka
10 4 (1.97%) Playwright
10 4 (1.97%) Spring
10 4 (1.97%) ZK
11 3 (1.48%) HTML5
11 3 (1.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.75%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.88%) Data Structures
3 14 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (6.40%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.40%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.93%) Virtual Team
7 9 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.45%) Derivative
9 5 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.97%) NHS
10 4 (1.97%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.97%) Wiki
11 3 (1.48%) FMCG
11 3 (1.48%) PMI
12 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.99%) Equities
12 2 (0.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Linux
2 10 (4.93%) Windows
3 5 (2.46%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Android
4 3 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.48%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.99%) VMS
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (94.58%) Agile
2 180 (88.67%) Scrum
3 55 (27.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 53 (26.11%) DevOps
5 50 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (23.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (16.26%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.76%) Analytics
9 28 (13.79%) TDD
9 28 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 27 (13.30%) User Stories
11 26 (12.81%) CI/CD
11 26 (12.81%) Sprint Planning
12 24 (11.82%) Project Delivery
12 24 (11.82%) Project Management
13 23 (11.33%) Data Modelling
14 22 (10.84%) Acceptance Criteria
15 21 (10.34%) BDD
16 20 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.65%) Java
2 37 (18.23%) SQL
3 27 (13.30%) Python
4 17 (8.37%) C#
5 16 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.94%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.46%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.97%) Scala
10 3 (1.48%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.48%) Bash
10 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.48%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.48%) Swift
11 2 (0.99%) Bicep
11 2 (0.99%) C++
11 2 (0.99%) Korn
11 2 (0.99%) R
12 1 (0.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.34%) Degree
4 8 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.46%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.97%) CBAP
6 4 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.97%) CISM
6 4 (1.97%) CISSP
6 4 (1.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 4 (1.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 4 (1.97%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.48%) ISEB
7 3 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.99%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.26%) QA
2 14 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.46%) GDPR
3 5 (2.46%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.97%) GRC
4 4 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.97%) PMO
5 2 (0.99%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.99%) NCSC
5 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.99%) PSD2
6 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.39%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Ansible
4 5 (2.46%) Grafana
5 4 (1.97%) Rancher
6 3 (1.48%) Consul
6 3 (1.48%) Packer
7 2 (0.99%) Argo
7 2 (0.99%) Nagios
7 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.91%) Oracle
3 7 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.96%) SAP
5 5 (2.46%) Databricks
5 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.46%) Sparx
6 4 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.97%) Splunk
7 3 (1.48%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.48%) Informatica
7 3 (1.48%) Spotify
8 2 (0.99%) Charles River
8 2 (0.99%) Murex
8 2 (0.99%) Pega
9 1 (0.49%) Adobe
9 1 (0.49%) Citrix
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.49%) Solace