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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 220 229
Rank change year-on-year -55 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Kanban 507 413 386
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.25% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.38% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 302 291
10th Percentile £385 £351 £360
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £584
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +4.81% -6.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £42.65 £32.78 £63.20
25th Percentile £56.09 £35.81 £64.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £41.25 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -40.65% -18.24%
75th Percentile £78.50 £46.31 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £49.13 £74.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £51.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +48.04% -26.62% -18.24%

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 46,438 29,893 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.54% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,948 18,567 19,512
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,331 1,864 1,314
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.13 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.85% -48.10% +1.18%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -74 410 £513 +2.50% 475
UK excluding London -32 232 £490 +4.81% 279
London -78 207 £544 -1.09% 213
Work from Home -28 146 £500 - 263
North of England -45 75 £494 +9.72% 101
Midlands -31 46 £475 +10.98% 38
West Midlands -21 41 £475 -5.00% 28
Scotland -10 38 £475 -10.22% 12
South East -51 37 £600 +29.03% 66
North East -10 31 £450 -19.10% 11
North West -30 25 £550 +34.15% 56
Yorkshire -49 19 £500 +6.38% 34
East of England -9 18 £375 -23.94% 15
South West -35 13 £498 +17.06% 31
Wales -12 4 £513 +9.33% 12
East Midlands -31 4 £402 +11.67% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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
1 126 (24.85%) Confluence
2 13 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.17%) CMS
4 9 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.58%) Apache
6 5 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.18%) Trello
5 4 (0.79%) Notion
6 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Magento
2 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.20%) Primavera
6 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 181 (35.70%) Azure
2 149 (29.39%) AWS
3 97 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.09%) GitHub
5 37 (7.30%) Amazon S3
5 37 (7.30%) Power Platform
6 33 (6.51%) GCP
7 24 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (4.54%) Serverless
9 19 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.55%) Snowflake
11 17 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (3.16%) SaaS
13 12 (2.37%) Miro
14 11 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.97%) AWS KMS
15 10 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.18%) Network Security
2 4 (0.79%) MQTT
3 3 (0.59%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.20%) AMQP
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.20%) MPLS
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) RS-232
5 1 (0.20%) RS-422
5 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
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%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.92%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.13%) Power BI
4 24 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.97%) Tableau
10 8 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.38%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.38%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.99%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (0.99%) Big Data
12 5 (0.99%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.99%) Data Hub
13 4 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.79%) Looker
13 4 (0.79%) Presto
Development Applications
1 189 (37.28%) JIRA
2 76 (14.99%) Jenkins
3 57 (11.24%) Git
4 34 (6.71%) GitLab
5 23 (4.54%) SonarQube
6 20 (3.94%) Maven
6 20 (3.94%) Selenium
7 19 (3.75%) JUnit
8 17 (3.35%) Mockito
9 15 (2.96%) Postman
10 13 (2.56%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.97%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (1.78%) Subversion
13 8 (1.58%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.58%) fastlane
13 8 (1.58%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (1.18%) REST Assured
14 6 (1.18%) Zephyr
15 5 (0.99%) Gatling
General
1 225 (44.38%) Social Skills
2 148 (29.19%) Public Sector
3 125 (24.65%) Finance
4 89 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.09%) Banking
6 32 (6.31%) Marketing
7 29 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.73%) Retail
9 21 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.38%) Legal
14 6 (1.18%) Front Office
14 6 (1.18%) Games
14 6 (1.18%) Local Government
14 6 (1.18%) Military
15 5 (0.99%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (16.37%) Analyst
2 72 (14.20%) Developer
3 56 (11.05%) Senior
4 55 (10.85%) Delivery Manager
5 50 (9.86%) Business Analyst
6 42 (8.28%) Scrum Master
7 38 (7.50%) Project Manager
8 37 (7.30%) Lead
9 29 (5.72%) Product Owner
10 26 (5.13%) Java Developer
11 25 (4.93%) Architect
12 22 (4.34%) Product Manager
13 21 (4.14%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.14%) Technical Analyst
14 18 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.96%) Agile Coach
15 15 (2.96%) Technical Manager
16 14 (2.76%) Software Developer
16 14 (2.76%) Software Engineer
17 13 (2.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.06%) RESTful
2 41 (8.09%) REST
3 38 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 37 (7.30%) Spring
5 36 (7.10%) Terraform
6 25 (4.93%) Kafka
7 20 (3.94%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.55%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (3.55%) Hibernate
8 18 (3.55%) JPA
8 18 (3.55%) SOAP
9 17 (3.35%) Web Services
10 15 (2.96%) CSS
10 15 (2.96%) HTML
10 15 (2.96%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (2.76%) Node.js
12 13 (2.56%) .NET
12 13 (2.56%) Play Framework
13 12 (2.37%) JSON
14 10 (1.97%) React
Miscellaneous
1 147 (28.99%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.76%) Life Science
6 13 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.17%) PMI
9 10 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.97%) NHS
10 9 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.58%) Blog
11 8 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.38%) Replication
13 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.73%) Linux
2 12 (2.37%) Windows
3 11 (2.17%) Android
4 6 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.18%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Rocky
6 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (96.65%) Agile
2 455 (89.74%) Scrum
3 198 (39.05%) DevOps
4 196 (38.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 160 (31.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (29.19%) CI/CD
7 132 (26.04%) Sprint Planning
8 115 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (20.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 99 (19.53%) User Stories
11 82 (16.17%) Decision-Making
11 82 (16.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 82 (16.17%) Test Automation
12 78 (15.38%) Roadmaps
13 75 (14.79%) Microservices
14 72 (14.20%) TDD
15 71 (14.00%) Sprint Retrospective
16 69 (13.61%) Acceptance Criteria
17 64 (12.62%) AI
17 64 (12.62%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 82 (16.17%) Java
2 63 (12.43%) SQL
3 57 (11.24%) Python
4 32 (6.31%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.34%) Scala
7 18 (3.55%) C#
8 15 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.58%) C++
9 8 (1.58%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.38%) Bash
11 6 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.79%) R
13 4 (0.79%) Rust
13 4 (0.79%) Swift
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) Groovy
14 2 (0.39%) Korn
14 2 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 123 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 104 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.83%) Degree
4 41 (8.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.55%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.58%) PMP
8 7 (1.38%) CSPO
9 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.59%) CBAP
12 3 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) IIBA
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.82%) QA
2 38 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.75%) WCAG
4 13 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.58%) GxP
6 7 (1.38%) PMO
7 6 (1.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.79%) GDPR
9 4 (0.79%) NIST
10 3 (0.59%) NCSC
10 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.39%) SEPA
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.20%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (10.26%) Docker
2 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.89%) Grafana
3 17 (3.35%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.78%) Ansible
4 9 (1.78%) Puppet
5 8 (1.58%) Kibana
6 4 (0.79%) Podman
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) Control-M
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) PTC Integrity
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.94%) Oracle
3 19 (3.75%) Atlassian
4 18 (3.55%) Splunk
5 17 (3.35%) Databricks
5 17 (3.35%) Google
5 17 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.76%) SAP
7 13 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.56%) IBM
8 8 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (1.18%) Workday
10 5 (0.99%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.99%) BMC
10 5 (0.99%) Refinitiv
11 4 (0.79%) Adobe
11 4 (0.79%) Apple
11 4 (0.79%) Remedy
11 4 (0.79%) VMware