Kanban Contracts in the Thames Valley

Kanban
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 88 122 90
Rank change year-on-year +34 -32 +23
Contract jobs citing Kanban 14 23 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.86% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.98% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 38
10th Percentile £464 £416 £425
25th Percentile £494 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £563 £464
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +21.35% +3.06%
75th Percentile £584 £616 £570
90th Percentile £603 £625 £724
South East median daily rate £500 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -8.09% +3.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +25.00% +3.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the Thames Valley

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the Thames Valley

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the Thames Valley

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the Thames Valley

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +20 9 £494 -14.09% 20
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £575 +35.29% 17
Oxfordshire - 2 £550 - 15
Kanban
South East

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Route 53
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Slack
3 1 (7.14%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Broadband
2 1 (7.14%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (7.14%) DbUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) jMock
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Mockito
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Scrum Master
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.14%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.14%) GIS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior Scrum Master
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (7.14%) ADO
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.14%) Blazor
1 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) JPA
1 1 (7.14%) PowerMock
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Integration
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Life Science
3 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Scrum
2 11 (78.57%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (35.71%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (28.57%) Coaching
6 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (28.57%) User Stories
6 4 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
7 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (21.43%) Burndown Charts
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
7 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (21.43%) Statistics
8 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Magik
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Postfix
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (7.14%) Sparx
3 1 (7.14%) VMware