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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 223 237
Rank change year-on-year -40 +14 -28
Contract jobs citing Kanban 508 409 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.25% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.38% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 290 318
10th Percentile £385 £340 £360
25th Percentile £425 £401 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.06% +0.39%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £590
90th Percentile £675 £688 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +7.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.20
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £64.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +7.91% -18.24%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £74.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -4.14%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Top 17 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 1 September 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 -56 417 £514 +2.75% 471
UK excluding London -26 234 £484 +7.56% 286
London -68 212 £550 - 240
Work from Home -42 131 £515 +4.25% 246
North of England -61 73 £481 +14.40% 94
Midlands -35 45 £467 +9.11% 39
South East -39 41 £600 +45.02% 54
Scotland -9 40 £475 -5.00% 17
West Midlands -21 40 £475 -5.00% 28
North East -18 28 £450 -20.00% 15
North West -52 26 £556 +39.06% 56
Yorkshire -61 19 £500 +11.11% 23
East of England -8 17 £438 -11.26% 15
South West -28 14 £498 +17.06% 48
Wales -15 4 £513 +9.33% 10
East Midlands -24 4 £402 +12.29% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12

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
1 127 (25.00%) Confluence
2 17 (3.35%) CMS
3 12 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.57%) Apache
7 6 (1.18%) SAS
8 5 (0.98%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.57%) Trello
5 5 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.79%) Notion
7 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Magento
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 176 (34.65%) Azure
2 139 (27.36%) AWS
3 95 (18.70%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (7.48%) Amazon S3
5 37 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 35 (6.89%) GCP
7 32 (6.30%) GitHub
8 25 (4.92%) Serverless
9 21 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (3.54%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.76%) SaaS
13 13 (2.56%) Miro
14 11 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.97%) AWS KMS
15 10 (1.97%) Firebase
15 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.18%) Network Security
2 4 (0.79%) MQTT
3 3 (0.59%) Firewall
3 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) AMQP
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) MPLS
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) RS-232
5 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.20%) SONET
5 1 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.51%) Power BI
3 24 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.72%) MongoDB
3 24 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 22 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.17%) Tableau
8 10 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.77%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.57%) Big Data
10 8 (1.57%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.98%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (0.98%) Data Hub
12 5 (0.98%) Looker
13 4 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.79%) Presto
Development Applications
1 188 (37.01%) JIRA
2 74 (14.57%) Jenkins
3 53 (10.43%) Git
4 37 (7.28%) GitLab
5 21 (4.13%) Postman
6 20 (3.94%) Selenium
7 19 (3.74%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.76%) JUnit
9 13 (2.56%) Maven
9 13 (2.56%) Mockito
10 12 (2.36%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.97%) fastlane
12 9 (1.77%) Subversion
13 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.38%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.38%) DbUnit
14 7 (1.38%) Zephyr
15 6 (1.18%) Android Studio
15 6 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
15 6 (1.18%) jMock
General
1 230 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 142 (27.95%) Public Sector
3 122 (24.02%) Finance
4 95 (18.70%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.07%) Banking
6 40 (7.87%) Marketing
7 25 (4.92%) Retail
8 23 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (2.17%) Legal
12 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.57%) Front Office
14 6 (1.18%) Local Government
15 5 (0.98%) Games
15 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.98%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.79%) Aviation
16 4 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (18.11%) Analyst
2 66 (12.99%) Developer
3 54 (10.63%) Scrum Master
4 51 (10.04%) Business Analyst
4 51 (10.04%) Senior
5 48 (9.45%) Delivery Manager
6 35 (6.89%) Lead
7 30 (5.91%) Product Owner
8 29 (5.71%) Project Manager
9 25 (4.92%) Architect
10 24 (4.72%) Technical Analyst
11 23 (4.53%) Data Engineer
12 20 (3.94%) Java Developer
13 19 (3.74%) Product Manager
14 16 (3.15%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.95%) Agile Coach
16 14 (2.76%) Systems Analyst
17 12 (2.36%) Agile Delivery Manager
18 11 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
18 11 (2.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.86%) RESTful
2 37 (7.28%) REST
3 32 (6.30%) Spring
4 31 (6.10%) Terraform
5 30 (5.91%) Spring Boot
6 22 (4.33%) Kafka
7 17 (3.35%) CSS
7 17 (3.35%) HTML
8 16 (3.15%) Node.js
9 15 (2.95%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (2.76%) SOAP
10 14 (2.76%) Web Services
11 13 (2.56%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.56%) Hibernate
11 13 (2.56%) JPA
12 12 (2.36%) JSON
13 11 (2.17%) Playwright
13 11 (2.17%) React
13 11 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 158 (31.10%) Product Ownership
2 35 (6.89%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.36%) Life Science
6 12 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.17%) PMI
7 11 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.97%) NHS
9 8 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.38%) Replication
11 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.98%) Blog
12 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.10%) Linux
2 12 (2.36%) Android
3 10 (1.97%) Unix
4 7 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.18%) Windows
6 2 (0.39%) VMS
7 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (97.64%) Agile
2 451 (88.78%) Scrum
3 206 (40.55%) DevOps
4 182 (35.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 155 (30.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 139 (27.36%) Sprint Planning
7 135 (26.57%) CI/CD
8 109 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (21.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 95 (18.70%) User Stories
11 92 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 83 (16.34%) Decision-Making
13 80 (15.75%) Sprint Retrospective
14 73 (14.37%) Roadmaps
15 72 (14.17%) Acceptance Criteria
15 72 (14.17%) Microservices
16 68 (13.39%) TDD
16 68 (13.39%) Test Automation
17 65 (12.80%) Analytics
18 62 (12.20%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 81 (15.94%) Java
2 75 (14.76%) SQL
3 63 (12.40%) Python
4 31 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 27 (5.31%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.54%) Scala
7 14 (2.76%) C#
8 12 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.18%) Bash
10 6 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.98%) Swift
12 4 (0.79%) Rust
13 3 (0.59%) C++
13 3 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) Groovy
14 2 (0.39%) SOQL
15 1 (0.20%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 131 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 107 (21.06%) SC Cleared
3 62 (12.20%) Degree
4 37 (7.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.74%) PMI Certification
6 16 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.57%) PMP
9 7 (1.38%) CSPO
10 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (0.98%) CISSP
11 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.59%) CBAP
12 3 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) IIBA
12 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.78%) QA
2 38 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.74%) WCAG
4 13 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.97%) GxP
6 8 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 8 (1.57%) PMO
7 6 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.79%) GDPR
8 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.79%) NIST
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.59%) SLA
10 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 2 (0.39%) SEPA
10 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 46 (9.06%) Docker
2 7 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.69%) Grafana
3 13 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.77%) Ansible
5 8 (1.57%) Kibana
5 8 (1.57%) Puppet
6 4 (0.79%) Podman
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) Control-M
7 2 (0.39%) Foglight
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 53 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.92%) Oracle
3 23 (4.53%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.94%) Atlassian
5 17 (3.35%) Databricks
5 17 (3.35%) Google
6 15 (2.95%) Splunk
7 14 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.56%) IBM
8 13 (2.56%) SAP
9 10 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.18%) Workday
12 5 (0.98%) Apple
12 5 (0.98%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.98%) BMC
12 5 (0.98%) Refinitiv
13 4 (0.79%) Adobe
13 4 (0.79%) Remedy
13 4 (0.79%) Tenable