Kanban Contracts in Manchester

Kanban
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Kanban skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kanban over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 88 99
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Kanban 5 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.53% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.61% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 18
10th Percentile - £535 £410
25th Percentile - £550 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £643
North West median daily rate £368 £65 £500
% change year-on-year +466.15% -87.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +63.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in Manchester

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in Manchester

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in Manchester

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bolton - 3 - - 13
Kanban
North West

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (60.00%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) CAD Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared