Kanban Contract Job Trends

Kanban
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kanban skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 241 209
Rank change year-on-year -3 -32 -30
Contract jobs citing Kanban 468 327 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.11% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.22% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 236 321
10th Percentile £359 £340 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £497 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -8.64% +3.62%
75th Percentile £595 £561 £600
90th Percentile £643 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £480 £509
% change year-on-year -0.94% -5.60% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £63.80 £26.38 -
25th Percentile £68.00 £37.56 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.23 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +9.29% -14.10%
75th Percentile - £77.98 £74.75
90th Percentile - £78.58 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -10.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,423 26,734 36,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 90.97% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,371 17,185 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,096 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the UK

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Kanban
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +17 390 £521 +1.71% 171
UK excluding London -6 237 £476 -0.94% 137
London -11 188 £550 +4.76% 58
Work from Home -48 110 £500 +13.64% 235
North of England -38 70 £450 +12.50% 56
Midlands -16 59 £466 -7.92% 12
West Midlands -18 48 £475 -7.23% 9
South East -44 46 £568 +13.50% 28
Scotland -1 38 £470 +4.44% 14
North West -16 35 £450 +22.28% 26
Yorkshire -53 24 £480 +20.00% 18
South West -16 15 £475 -15.93% 9
North East -9 13 £450 -20.00% 12
East of England -17 13 £475 +0.05% 10
East Midlands -19 11 £354 -1.12% 3
Wales -13 1 £509 -3.05% 8

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 106 (22.65%) Confluence
2 23 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.70%) CMS
4 9 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.50%) Apache
6 6 (1.28%) SAS
7 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (4.06%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.50%) Trello
4 6 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.43%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.64%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 138 (29.49%) Azure
2 110 (23.50%) AWS
3 67 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.12%) Power Platform
5 36 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 29 (6.20%) GCP
7 25 (5.34%) GitHub
8 22 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (4.70%) Serverless
9 20 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.99%) Miro
13 13 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.56%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.56%) Route 53
15 10 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.71%) Firewall
1 8 (1.71%) HTTP
2 6 (1.28%) Network Security
3 3 (0.64%) BGP
3 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.64%) FTP
3 3 (0.64%) NGFW
3 3 (0.64%) OSPF
3 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) SONET
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.12%) NoSQL
2 33 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.62%) Power BI
4 25 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (4.91%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.91%) SQL Server
6 17 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.21%) Big Data
8 13 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.78%) Hadoop
8 13 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.35%) Tableau
10 10 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.28%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 148 (31.62%) JIRA
2 56 (11.97%) Git
3 52 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.41%) GitLab
5 26 (5.56%) Postman
6 16 (3.42%) Mockito
7 14 (2.99%) Maven
8 13 (2.78%) Selenium
9 12 (2.56%) JUnit
9 12 (2.56%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.92%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.92%) jMock
10 9 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.50%) Android Studio
11 7 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.28%) fastlane
General
1 187 (39.96%) Social Skills
2 104 (22.22%) Finance
3 96 (20.51%) Public Sector
4 78 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (9.19%) Banking
6 29 (6.20%) Marketing
7 16 (3.42%) Legal
8 14 (2.99%) Retail
9 12 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.14%) Front Office
12 8 (1.71%) Automotive
12 8 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.50%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Local Government
14 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (16.88%) Analyst
2 57 (12.18%) Developer
3 52 (11.11%) Senior
4 47 (10.04%) Scrum Master
5 46 (9.83%) Business Analyst
5 46 (9.83%) Lead
6 41 (8.76%) Project Manager
7 39 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (6.84%) Data Engineer
9 28 (5.98%) Java Developer
10 17 (3.63%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (2.99%) Agile Coach
11 14 (2.99%) Architect
12 13 (2.78%) Product Owner
12 13 (2.78%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.78%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (2.56%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.26%) RESTful
2 33 (7.05%) Spring
3 32 (6.84%) REST
4 27 (5.77%) Spring Boot
5 21 (4.49%) Node.js
6 18 (3.85%) Kafka
7 17 (3.63%) React
8 16 (3.42%) AngularJS
8 16 (3.42%) HTML
9 15 (3.21%) .NET
9 15 (3.21%) JSON
9 15 (3.21%) Web Services
10 14 (2.99%) CSS
11 13 (2.78%) SOAP
12 12 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (2.56%) Hibernate
12 12 (2.56%) JPA
12 12 (2.56%) Spring Batch
12 12 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
12 12 (2.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 124 (26.50%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (4.70%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.63%) PMI
6 16 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.99%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.92%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.50%) Wiki
11 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.07%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.07%) Replication
13 4 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.26%) Linux
2 13 (2.78%) Unix
2 13 (2.78%) Windows
3 10 (2.14%) Android
4 8 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (95.09%) Agile
2 415 (88.68%) Scrum
3 156 (33.33%) DevOps
4 128 (27.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 127 (27.14%) CI/CD
5 127 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 104 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (19.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 89 (19.02%) Sprint Planning
9 70 (14.96%) Microservices
10 69 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 68 (14.53%) Test Automation
12 63 (13.46%) TDD
13 62 (13.25%) Migration
14 61 (13.03%) Roadmaps
15 60 (12.82%) User Stories
16 58 (12.39%) Acceptance Criteria
16 58 (12.39%) Decision-Making
17 57 (12.18%) Project Management
18 56 (11.97%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 103 (22.01%) SQL
2 79 (16.88%) Java
3 65 (13.89%) Python
4 32 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.49%) C#
6 15 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.35%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.14%) Scala
9 9 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.28%) Bash
11 6 (1.28%) Go
11 6 (1.28%) Perl
11 6 (1.28%) Swift
12 5 (1.07%) R
13 4 (0.85%) Bicep
14 3 (0.64%) C++
14 3 (0.64%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 114 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.47%) Degree
4 28 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (5.77%) PMI Certification
6 25 (5.34%) PMP
7 17 (3.63%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.56%) CISSP
9 11 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.35%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.50%) MBA
12 6 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.07%) CISM
13 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (14.96%) QA
2 30 (6.41%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.63%) GDPR
5 13 (2.78%) PMO
6 10 (2.14%) WCAG
7 9 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.92%) NIST
8 7 (1.50%) Basel III
9 5 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.07%) SLA
10 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.85%) NCSC
10 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 43 (9.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.71%) Postfix
3 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.20%) Grafana
3 25 (5.34%) Terraform
4 11 (2.35%) Ansible
5 10 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.07%) Kibana
7 4 (0.85%) Rancher
8 3 (0.64%) Argo
8 3 (0.64%) CASB
8 3 (0.64%) Foglight
9 2 (0.43%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vMotion
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.77%) Oracle
3 18 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.21%) Atlassian
4 15 (3.21%) Splunk
5 14 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.78%) Databricks
7 12 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (2.35%) SAP
9 7 (1.50%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.50%) Refinitiv
10 6 (1.28%) Cisco
10 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.07%) Google
11 5 (1.07%) Spotify
12 4 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.85%) Okta
12 4 (0.85%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.85%) VMware