Kanban Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Kanban
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 +34
Contract jobs citing Kanban 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.34% 0.94% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.04% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £479 - £482
25th Percentile £523 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £420 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -23.64% -
75th Percentile £568 - £575
90th Percentile - - £590
North East median daily rate £545 £420 £550
% change year-on-year +29.76% -23.64% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 193 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.78% 90.61% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 99 102
10th Percentile £175 £305 £188
25th Percentile £363 £358 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £520 £590 £586
90th Percentile £575 £650 £709
North East median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 9
10th Percentile £15.06 £13.75 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.88 £14.69 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -66.32% +111.11%
75th Percentile £54.06 £17.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £19.75 -
North East median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +159.46% -10.93% -41.90%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Kanban

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -11 5 £545 +29.76% 6
South Tyneside - 1 £450 -
Kanban
North East

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) API Testing
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft