Kanban Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Kanban
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Kanban 9 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.54% 1.61% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.99% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £421 £436 £486
25th Percentile £440 £470 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +0.24% -11.85%
75th Percentile £509 £530 £532
90th Percentile £521 £535 £534
Wales median daily rate £475 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -7.32% +0.24% -11.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 296 301 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 83.62% 80.91% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 160 269
10th Percentile £195 £160 £173
25th Percentile £266 £210 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -9.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £676 £650
Wales median daily rate £403 £419 £425
% change year-on-year -3.88% -1.47% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 44 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.40
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.18 £23.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% -9.62% +30.29%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £29.64 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £23.66 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.29% -9.00% +30.59%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in South Wales

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Kanban

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Cardiff +3 9 £475 -7.32% 5
Kanban
Wales

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Asana
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
1 4 (44.44%) Postman
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Playwright
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Regression Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
5 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
5 4 (44.44%) SDLC
6 3 (33.33%) API Design
6 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Microservices
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Migration
8 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 3 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft