Kanban Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kanban
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 209 162
Rank change year-on-year -11 -47 -16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Kanban 154 185 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.02% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.22% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 144 249
10th Percentile £325 £368 £400
25th Percentile £367 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -3.38%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £621 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £513
% change year-on-year -4.03% +1.66% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £57.45 £63.90 £55.20
25th Percentile £67.13 £66.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -15.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £77.81 £77.25 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £78.90 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% +13.79%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,692 15,107 19,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 82.89% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,203 9,063 12,987
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,375 1,495 1,198
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.30
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +18.88% +63.43%
75th Percentile £45.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.73
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban 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 19 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +13 64 £427 -22.36% 97
Yorkshire +17 43 £449 -18.45% 26
Scotland -13 31 £497 +4.63% 20
Midlands -1 27 £428 -14.40% 38
South East -22 21 £494 -1.20% 98
North West -3 20 £410 +2.50% 66
East Midlands +7 14 £358 -0.56% 13
West Midlands -6 13 £500 -21.57% 24
Wales +9 5 £469 -6.48% 8
South West +17 4 £425 -26.72% 24
East of England +7 2 £563 +2.27% 35
North East -5 1 £563 +37.20% 7
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (15.58%) Confluence
2 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Mule
4 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.65%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.65%) SAP MRS
2 1 (0.65%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.03%) Azure
2 35 (22.73%) AWS
3 19 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.69%) Amazon S3
5 16 (10.39%) Power Platform
6 14 (9.09%) GCP
7 13 (8.44%) Serverless
8 10 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.55%) AWS KMS
10 7 (4.55%) Route 53
11 5 (3.25%) GitHub
11 5 (3.25%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.60%) Figma
12 4 (2.60%) IaaS
12 4 (2.60%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.55%) DNS
1 7 (4.55%) NAS
1 7 (4.55%) SAN
2 3 (1.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.65%) AMQP
3 1 (0.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) DSL
3 1 (0.65%) GPON
3 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (5.84%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.84%) Power BI
4 8 (5.19%) MySQL
5 7 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.25%) Tableau
7 4 (2.60%) Power Query
8 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.95%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.95%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.95%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.95%) Redis
9 2 (1.30%) GIS
9 2 (1.30%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 56 (36.36%) JIRA
2 34 (22.08%) Git
3 32 (20.78%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.09%) Postman
5 11 (7.14%) GitLab
5 11 (7.14%) JUnit
6 9 (5.84%) SoapUI
7 8 (5.19%) Maven
7 8 (5.19%) Subversion
8 7 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (4.55%) Cypress.io
8 7 (4.55%) DbUnit
8 7 (4.55%) jMock
8 7 (4.55%) Mockito
8 7 (4.55%) Selenium
8 7 (4.55%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.95%) MSTest
9 3 (1.95%) Ranorex
9 3 (1.95%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.95%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (46.10%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.38%) Finance
3 32 (20.78%) Public Sector
4 24 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.09%) Banking
6 7 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
7 4 (2.60%) Retail
8 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (23.38%) Analyst
2 26 (16.88%) Developer
3 24 (15.58%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.44%) Lead
4 13 (8.44%) Project Manager
5 12 (7.79%) Delivery Manager
6 10 (6.49%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.84%) Scrum Master
8 8 (5.19%) IT Manager
8 8 (5.19%) IT Project Manager
8 8 (5.19%) Test Analyst
9 7 (4.55%) Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Senior
11 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (2.60%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 4 (2.60%) ETL Analyst
12 4 (2.60%) Migration Specialist
12 4 (2.60%) QA Engineer
13 3 (1.95%) Server Specialist
13 3 (1.95%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.29%) REST
2 17 (11.04%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.39%) RESTful
4 15 (9.74%) Spring
5 13 (8.44%) Kafka
6 11 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.49%) Middleware
7 10 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (6.49%) React
7 10 (6.49%) SOAP
7 10 (6.49%) Spring Cloud
7 10 (6.49%) Web Services
8 9 (5.84%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (5.84%) CSS
8 9 (5.84%) HTML
9 8 (5.19%) AWS CDK
9 8 (5.19%) JSON
9 8 (5.19%) Spring Batch
10 7 (4.55%) gRPC
10 7 (4.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.94%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.95%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.30%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.30%) Derivative
7 2 (1.30%) Equities
7 2 (1.30%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (6.49%) Windows
3 7 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.95%) Unix
5 2 (1.30%) Android
5 2 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (95.45%) Agile
2 135 (87.66%) Scrum
3 52 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (33.12%) CI/CD
5 45 (29.22%) DevOps
6 40 (25.97%) Microservices
7 37 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 27 (17.53%) Waterfall
11 26 (16.88%) TDD
12 25 (16.23%) Decision-Making
13 22 (14.29%) Project Management
14 21 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (13.64%) User Stories
15 19 (12.34%) Project Delivery
15 19 (12.34%) Test Automation
16 18 (11.69%) Roadmaps
16 18 (11.69%) Sprint Planning
16 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.78%) Java
2 24 (15.58%) Python
2 24 (15.58%) SQL
3 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.49%) Bash
7 9 (5.84%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.19%) Go
9 7 (4.55%) C#
10 5 (3.25%) C++
11 3 (1.95%) Bicep
11 3 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.95%) Perl
12 2 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.30%) VBA
12 2 (1.30%) VBScript
13 1 (0.65%) ABAP
13 1 (0.65%) Groovy
13 1 (0.65%) Magik
Qualifications
1 20 (12.99%) Degree
2 18 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.14%) CISM
5 11 (7.14%) CISSP
6 10 (6.49%) ISTQB
7 8 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.95%) CISA
8 3 (1.95%) ISEB
8 3 (1.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.30%) PMP
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.65%) CBAP
10 1 (0.65%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) QA
2 10 (6.49%) GDPR
3 9 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.84%) NIST
4 8 (5.19%) Accessibility
5 7 (4.55%) PCI DSS
6 6 (3.90%) PMO
7 4 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.95%) COBIT
8 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.95%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.95%) PSD2
9 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (16.23%) Docker
2 9 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.55%) Postfix
4 7 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 7 (4.55%) vSphere
5 3 (1.95%) KVM
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (11.04%) Ansible
2 16 (10.39%) Grafana
3 14 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 7 (4.55%) Terraform
5 7 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 7 (4.55%) vRealize
6 4 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.95%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.95%) Podman
7 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.95%) RSA Archer
7 3 (1.95%) SELinux
8 2 (1.30%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.30%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (1.30%) Nagios
8 2 (1.30%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 33 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.44%) Google
3 10 (6.49%) Oracle
4 9 (5.84%) CyberArk
5 8 (5.19%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (5.19%) Thycotic
6 7 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 7 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
6 7 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (4.55%) VMware
7 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.95%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.95%) Commvault
9 3 (1.95%) F5
9 3 (1.95%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.30%) Dell
10 2 (1.30%) IBM
10 2 (1.30%) Splunk