Kanban Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kanban
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 200 204
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -50
Contract jobs citing Kanban 179 162 224
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.09% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.25% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 123 178
10th Percentile £336 £367 £400
25th Percentile £402 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.57%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £565
90th Percentile £610 £598 £613
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.20% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £54.20
25th Percentile - £67.98 £57.50
Median hourly rate - £73.23 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.85% +16.57%
75th Percentile - £78.47 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £50.24 £85.00
% change year-on-year -37.30% -40.90% +21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 12,948 17,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.91% 87.17% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,513 7,612 11,167
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,768 749 1,201
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.21% +39.26%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kanban

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kanban.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kanban

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England +1 61 £475 -5.00% 24
Midlands -3 38 £413 -25.47% 12
Yorkshire -18 37 £488 -2.50% 10
Scotland -15 30 £525 +15.38% 6
South East -43 29 £485 -3.00% 37
East Midlands - 26 £360 - 4
North West -17 21 £402 -6.78% 14
South West -9 13 £568 +3.18% 7
West Midlands -23 12 £501 -9.44% 8
Wales +2 8 £469 -9.64%
North East -2 5 £545 +29.76%
East of England -22 5 £450 +9.09% 10
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 36 (20.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Apache
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Mule
3 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.12%) Sketch
6 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.23%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.56%) Finacle
4 1 (0.56%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.56%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.67%) AWS
2 34 (18.99%) Azure
3 15 (8.38%) GCP
4 13 (7.26%) Amazon S3
5 12 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.70%) Serverless
6 11 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.15%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.59%) GitHub
7 10 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.79%) Figma
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.68%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) DNS
1 4 (2.23%) HTTP
2 3 (1.68%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) NAS
2 3 (1.68%) SAN
3 1 (0.56%) AMQP
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.59%) Power BI
3 8 (4.47%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.79%) Tableau
5 4 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.23%) Metadata
5 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.68%) MySQL
6 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.12%) Big Data
7 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (35.75%) JIRA
2 21 (11.73%) Git
3 20 (11.17%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.94%) Postman
5 12 (6.70%) GitLab
6 9 (5.03%) SoapUI
7 7 (3.91%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.68%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.68%) Selenium
8 3 (1.68%) Subversion
9 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) Appium
10 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) NUnit
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (43.58%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.37%) Finance
3 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.97%) Public Sector
5 18 (10.06%) Banking
6 9 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Billing
8 3 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Legal
8 3 (1.68%) Marketing
8 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (24.58%) Analyst
2 29 (16.20%) Business Analyst
3 18 (10.06%) Delivery Manager
4 16 (8.94%) Project Manager
5 14 (7.82%) Scrum Master
6 12 (6.70%) Developer
7 11 (6.15%) Senior
8 9 (5.03%) Lead
8 9 (5.03%) Test Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Payments Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Payments Business Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Agile Coach
11 5 (2.79%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Agile Scrum Master
11 5 (2.79%) Junior
11 5 (2.79%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.94%) REST
2 11 (6.15%) AWS CDK
3 9 (5.03%) Kafka
4 8 (4.47%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.91%) OAuth
5 7 (3.91%) Playwright
5 7 (3.91%) SailPoint
5 7 (3.91%) Spring
6 6 (3.35%) JWT
6 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.35%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.79%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.79%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.79%) NumPy
7 5 (2.79%) OpenCV
7 5 (2.79%) Pandas
7 5 (2.79%) SQLAlchemy
8 4 (2.23%) boto
8 4 (2.23%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.91%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.82%) PMI
3 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) FMCG
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.15%) Linux
2 8 (4.47%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Android
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (96.09%) Agile
2 154 (86.03%) Scrum
3 60 (33.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 59 (32.96%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (27.37%) CI/CD
6 45 (25.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 45 (25.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (20.67%) DevOps
8 35 (19.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (17.88%) Coaching
10 31 (17.32%) Sprint Planning
10 31 (17.32%) User Stories
11 27 (15.08%) Test Automation
12 23 (12.85%) Project Delivery
12 23 (12.85%) Roadmaps
12 23 (12.85%) User Experience
12 23 (12.85%) Waterfall
13 22 (12.29%) Microservices
14 21 (11.73%) Decision-Making
14 21 (11.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.53%) Python
2 16 (8.94%) Java
3 15 (8.38%) SQL
4 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.47%) Bash
5 8 (4.47%) C#
6 6 (3.35%) Ruby
7 5 (2.79%) C++
7 5 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.23%) Go
8 4 (2.23%) Perl
8 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) ABAP
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.73%) Degree
3 16 (8.94%) PMI Certification
4 14 (7.82%) CISM
4 14 (7.82%) CISSP
4 14 (7.82%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.03%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.35%) CISA
7 6 (3.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 6 (3.35%) PMP
8 4 (2.23%) CBAP
8 4 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (2.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.68%) MBA
10 1 (0.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.53%) QA
2 14 (7.82%) NIST
2 14 (7.82%) PCI DSS
3 13 (7.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (5.59%) GDPR
5 8 (4.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.91%) PSD2
7 6 (3.35%) COBIT
7 6 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (3.35%) NIST 800
8 4 (2.23%) ISO 8583
8 4 (2.23%) PMO
9 3 (1.68%) Basel III
9 3 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (1.68%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.56%) HL7
10 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (11.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.68%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.68%) vSphere
3 2 (1.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 20 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.26%) Grafana
3 11 (6.15%) Ansible
4 6 (3.35%) RSA Archer
5 5 (2.79%) Terraform
6 4 (2.23%) Podman
6 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.68%) SELinux
7 3 (1.68%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.68%) vRealize
8 2 (1.12%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.12%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.12%) Nagios
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.56%) Argo
9 1 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.26%) Google
3 10 (5.59%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.03%) CyberArk
5 8 (4.47%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (4.47%) Thycotic
6 7 (3.91%) Oracle
7 6 (3.35%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.35%) CA Agile Central
7 6 (3.35%) Rapid7
8 5 (2.79%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.68%) F5
9 3 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.68%) Spotify
9 3 (1.68%) VMware
10 2 (1.12%) Commvault
10 2 (1.12%) SAP
11 1 (0.56%) Genesys
11 1 (0.56%) IBM