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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 228 204
Rank change year-on-year +22 -24 -36
Contract jobs citing Kanban 209 132 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.02% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.12% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 79 140
10th Percentile £375 £394 £381
25th Percentile £428 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -5.91% -8.03%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £641
90th Percentile £706 £778 £739
England median daily rate £517 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.90% -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 14,664 11,819 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.79% 91.08% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,843 7,917 11,504
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 161 342
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +17.71% -16.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.50 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 33 £625 +1.01% 29
South London - 13 £550 - 9
West London -14 4 £372 -7.10% 9
East London - 4 £585 - 8
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 36 (17.22%) Confluence
2 9 (4.31%) CMS
3 5 (2.39%) Apache
4 4 (1.91%) nginx
5 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.44%) Trello
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.44%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.40%) Azure
2 37 (17.70%) AWS
3 28 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.57%) GCP
5 16 (7.66%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.78%) GitHub
7 9 (4.31%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.83%) Miro
9 6 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.87%) Serverless
10 5 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.39%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.44%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) FTP
2 2 (0.96%) Firewall
2 2 (0.96%) Network Security
3 1 (0.48%) NGFW
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.83%) Power BI
3 8 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (3.35%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.91%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.91%) Metadata
7 4 (1.91%) Tableau
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.44%) Big Data
8 3 (1.44%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 66 (31.58%) JIRA
2 22 (10.53%) Git
3 17 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.83%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.35%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.35%) Postman
6 6 (2.87%) GitLab
6 6 (2.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (2.39%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.91%) ERwin
8 4 (1.91%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (1.91%) Maven
9 3 (1.44%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.44%) Appium
9 3 (1.44%) ER Studio
9 3 (1.44%) JUnit
9 3 (1.44%) Mockito
9 3 (1.44%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (1.44%) Selenium
9 3 (1.44%) Xcode
General
1 82 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 66 (31.58%) Finance
3 33 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 30 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.00%) Banking
6 17 (8.13%) Front Office
7 15 (7.18%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.31%) Legal
8 9 (4.31%) Retail
9 8 (3.83%) Marketing
10 5 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Automotive
12 3 (1.44%) Aviation
12 3 (1.44%) Local Government
12 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.96%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (17.22%) Analyst
2 28 (13.40%) Developer
3 24 (11.48%) Senior
4 23 (11.00%) Delivery Manager
5 20 (9.57%) Business Analyst
6 19 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 19 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 19 (9.09%) Scrum Master
7 17 (8.13%) Lead
8 10 (4.78%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) Technical Analyst
10 8 (3.83%) Test Analyst
11 7 (3.35%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.39%) Data Modeller
12 5 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.39%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.39%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.39%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) REST
2 11 (5.26%) React
3 10 (4.78%) Node.js
4 9 (4.31%) AngularJS
4 9 (4.31%) HTML
5 7 (3.35%) CSS
5 7 (3.35%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (3.35%) Spring
5 7 (3.35%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.35%) Web Services
5 7 (3.35%) XML
6 6 (2.87%) .NET
6 6 (2.87%) JSON
7 5 (2.39%) ADO
7 5 (2.39%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.91%) Akka
8 4 (1.91%) Playwright
8 4 (1.91%) RESTful
8 4 (1.91%) ZK
9 3 (1.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.75%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.57%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.22%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.22%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (4.78%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.83%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.87%) Derivative
8 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.39%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.39%) NHS
9 4 (1.91%) Wiki
10 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.44%) Equities
10 3 (1.44%) FMCG
10 3 (1.44%) PMI
11 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.70%) Linux
2 9 (4.31%) Windows
3 5 (2.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) VMS
5 3 (1.44%) Android
5 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (94.26%) Agile
2 185 (88.52%) Scrum
3 61 (29.19%) DevOps
4 55 (26.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 51 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (23.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (17.22%) Roadmaps
9 31 (14.83%) Project Management
10 30 (14.35%) CI/CD
10 30 (14.35%) Sprint Planning
10 30 (14.35%) TDD
10 30 (14.35%) User Stories
11 28 (13.40%) Test Automation
12 27 (12.92%) Acceptance Criteria
12 27 (12.92%) Migration
13 26 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (11.96%) Microservices
14 25 (11.96%) Project Delivery
14 25 (11.96%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.92%) Java
2 39 (18.66%) SQL
3 32 (15.31%) Python
4 16 (7.66%) C#
5 13 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.39%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.91%) R
8 4 (1.91%) Scala
9 3 (1.44%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.44%) Bash
9 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.44%) Swift
10 2 (0.96%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.53%) Degree
4 8 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.35%) PMP
6 6 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.39%) CISSP
8 4 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.91%) CBAP
8 4 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.91%) CISM
8 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (1.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 4 (1.91%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.44%) ISEB
9 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.96%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.31%) QA
2 11 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.31%) PMO
4 6 (2.87%) GDPR
5 5 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.39%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.91%) GRC
7 3 (1.44%) NCSC
7 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.96%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.96%) PSD2
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.48%) NIST
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (7.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Postfix
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.61%) Terraform
3 6 (2.87%) Ansible
3 6 (2.87%) Grafana
3 6 (2.87%) Rancher
4 3 (1.44%) Consul
4 3 (1.44%) Packer
4 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.96%) Argo
5 2 (0.96%) Nagios
6 1 (0.48%) CASB
6 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.74%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.35%) SAP
3 7 (3.35%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.39%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.39%) Splunk
5 4 (1.91%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.44%) Charles River
6 3 (1.44%) Databricks
6 3 (1.44%) Informatica
6 3 (1.44%) Murex
6 3 (1.44%) Okta
6 3 (1.44%) Spotify
7 2 (0.96%) Adobe
7 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.96%) Cisco
7 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.96%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.96%) Sparx