Kanban Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kanban
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 34 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +33
Contract jobs citing Kanban 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.44% 1.00% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.09% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £479 - £482
25th Percentile £523 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -23.64% -
75th Percentile £568 - £575
90th Percentile - - £590
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £545 £420 £550
% change year-on-year +29.76% -23.64% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 184 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.23% 92.00% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 95 93
10th Percentile £173 £305 £230
25th Percentile £364 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -11.82%
75th Percentile £520 £610 £588
90th Percentile £575 £650 £719
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 7
10th Percentile £15.85 £13.75 £13.70
25th Percentile £17.88 £14.69 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -66.32% +111.11%
75th Percentile £54.38 £17.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £58.00 £19.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -50.77% +44.44%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kanban relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Kanban job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Kanban

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) API Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft