Kanban Contracts in Scotland

Kanban
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 77 87 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 -48 +62
Contract jobs citing Kanban 40 42 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.46% 1.89% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.14% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 148
10th Percentile £360 £414 £413
25th Percentile £406 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.13% +10.67%
75th Percentile £482 £508 £529
90th Percentile £538 £563 £591
UK median daily rate £494 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -8.52% +2.86% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in Scotland

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Kanban in Scotland

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in Scotland

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in Scotland

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +2 24 £466 +1.20% 12
Glasgow +12 14 £425 -15.51% 8
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 15 (37.50%) Serverless
3 14 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (32.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (30.00%) IaaS
6 9 (22.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 9 (22.50%) OpenShift
7 6 (15.00%) Azure
7 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (15.00%) PaaS
7 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (15.00%) SaaS
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (12.50%) PowerApps
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DHCP
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.00%) InfluxDB
5 2 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.00%) Power Query
5 2 (5.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.50%) GIS
6 1 (2.50%) Metadata
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) JIRA
2 8 (20.00%) Git
3 7 (17.50%) Cypress.io
3 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (15.00%) GitLab
5 4 (10.00%) Postman
5 4 (10.00%) Selenium
6 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.50%) Subversion
6 3 (7.50%) TeamCity
6 3 (7.50%) WebDriver
7 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.50%) JUnit
8 1 (2.50%) MSTest
8 1 (2.50%) NUnit
8 1 (2.50%) Ranorex
General
1 20 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Finance
4 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Banking
6 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Scrum Master
2 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 4 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Agile Project Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Delivery Project Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) SharePoint Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) AWS CDK
2 7 (17.50%) React
2 7 (17.50%) REST
3 4 (10.00%) .NET
3 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.50%) JSON
4 3 (7.50%) Next.js
4 3 (7.50%) Node.js
4 3 (7.50%) PostGIS
4 3 (7.50%) YAML
5 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.00%) Spring
6 1 (2.50%) CSS
6 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.50%) HTML
6 1 (2.50%) HTML5
6 1 (2.50%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
3 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.00%) Educational Technology
4 2 (5.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Agile
2 31 (77.50%) Scrum
3 18 (45.00%) DevOps
4 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (27.50%) TDD
5 11 (27.50%) Test Automation
6 10 (25.00%) Migration
7 9 (22.50%) Human-Centred Design
7 9 (22.50%) Inclusive Design
7 9 (22.50%) Service Delivery
7 9 (22.50%) Waterfall
8 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.00%) Backlog Management
10 6 (15.00%) Conflict Resolution
10 6 (15.00%) Software Delivery
10 6 (15.00%) Workflow
11 5 (12.50%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 9 (22.50%) Bash
4 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.00%) C#
6 4 (10.00%) Groovy
6 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.50%) C++
7 3 (7.50%) VBA
7 3 (7.50%) VBScript
8 2 (5.00%) Bicep
8 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) ISEB
1 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (7.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) CBAP
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
1 7 (17.50%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.50%) KVM
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Grafana
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Kibana
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.00%) SCCM
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.50%) Nagios
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) HP
3 2 (5.00%) Imperva
4 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.50%) Commvault
4 1 (2.50%) NetApp
4 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow