Kanban Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Kanban
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 94 111
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Kanban 9 27 30
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.42% 1.41% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.57% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 13
10th Percentile £505 £407 £430
25th Percentile £513 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +0.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £613
90th Percentile £560 £662 £625
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +4.17%

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 1,844 1,720 2,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.74% 89.54% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,021 1,448
10th Percentile £268 £278 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £602
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.62% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 47 99
10th Percentile £15.47 £23.31 £19.19
25th Percentile £17.75 £39.50 £25.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £54.39
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +4.34% +141.71%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.22 £65.13
90th Percentile £91.28 £67.20 £72.91
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £48.62 £55.00
% change year-on-year -53.73% -11.60% +41.94%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Kanban

Kanban
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Kanban.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Kanban

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 27 December 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
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £525 +10.53% 12
Berkshire -27 3 £550 +9.13% 25
Oxfordshire -12 2 £513 -6.82% 11
Kanban
South East

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Slack
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) General Ledger
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Oracle Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Director
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Flutter
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (55.56%) User Stories
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) BPMN
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Inventory Management
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce