Kanban Contracts in the North West

Kanban
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 117 116
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Kanban 13 20 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.73% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.84% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 31
10th Percentile £322 - £410
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £65 £500
Median % change year-on-year +466.15% -87.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £505 £377 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £569
England median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +63.47% - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £45.88 £80.00
% change year-on-year +34.05% -42.65% +79.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the North West

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the North West

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the North West

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the North West

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the North West 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
Manchester +14 5 - - 67
Lancashire +4 4 £600 - 24
Cheshire -5 4 £363 +457.69% 1
Kanban
England

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (46.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Legal
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Automotive
5 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Project Manager
2 4 (30.77%) IT Manager
2 4 (30.77%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Payments Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Coach
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) CAD Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Scrum
3 6 (46.15%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
4 4 (30.77%) LLM
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 3 (23.08%) Coaching
5 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) CBAP
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef