Kanban Contracts in the Midlands

Kanban
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 120 141
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing Kanban 13 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.47% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.57% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 17
10th Percentile £395 £292 £413
25th Percentile £448 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £600
90th Percentile £594 £688 £620
England median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the Midlands

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the Midlands

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the Midlands

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the Midlands

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 10 £512 -2.48% 14
East Midlands +8 3 £358 -1.24% 9
Kanban
England

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS KMS
2 6 (46.15%) Route 53
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Apigee
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) GIS
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) JUnit
2 6 (46.15%) Mockito
3 4 (30.77%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (23.08%) DbUnit
4 3 (23.08%) jMock
4 3 (23.08%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (7.69%) Selenium
5 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
5 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
5 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Apigee Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Hibernate
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
1 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 3 (23.08%) Bootstrap
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) JPA
2 3 (23.08%) jQuery
2 3 (23.08%) PowerMock
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Batch
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Integration
2 3 (23.08%) WireMock
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) Scrum
3 7 (53.85%) Microservices
4 6 (46.15%) BDD
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) TDD
5 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (30.77%) SDLC
7 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
7 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 3 (23.08%) Open Source
7 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
8 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
8 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
1 3 (23.08%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow