Kanban Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Kanban
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 38 45
Rank change year-on-year -58 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Kanban 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.35% 0.85% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.88% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £606 £430 -
25th Percentile £610 £442 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £461 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.41% +15.25% -
75th Percentile £616 £481 -
90th Percentile £617 £492 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £615 £422 £400
% change year-on-year +45.73% +5.50% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 816 226 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.34% 96.58% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 143 222
10th Percentile £355 £220 £357
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £14.44 - -
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -8.14% +25.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Kanban

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Hadoop Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Active Listening
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft