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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 242 243
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 -90
Contract jobs citing Kanban 420 330 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.06% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.19% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 220 318
10th Percentile £358 £362 £398
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% -2.85%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £657 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.90% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £25.81 -
25th Percentile - £26.66 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £37.63 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +99.34% -17.99% -41.12%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £62.50
90th Percentile - £69.33 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £60.61 £45.88
% change year-on-year +23.74% +32.11% -46.02%

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 34,126 27,826 38,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.30% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,616 16,956 25,656
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.47% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,067 860 2,108
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.55 £61.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.88 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.03% -13.03% +18.89%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +14 339 £513 +0.10% 207
UK excluding London -55 185 £476 -4.90% 158
London +31 184 £550 +5.52% 74
Work from Home -67 93 £500 +11.11% 159
North of England -17 55 £475 -5.00% 49
Midlands -26 38 £425 -26.09% 14
Scotland -13 34 £500 +12.68% 3
South East -55 32 £500 - 59
North West -8 26 £380 -4.22% 32
Yorkshire -42 24 £500 - 14
East Midlands -5 22 £358 -
South West -13 16 £550 -0.90% 12
West Midlands -36 16 £501 -12.96% 14
East of England -20 10 £493 +19.52% 19
North East -7 7 £545 - 3
Wales -3 5 £509 -3.05% 4

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 96 (22.86%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) Apache
3 8 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.90%) CMS
4 5 (1.19%) nginx
5 4 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.67%) Trello
4 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Finacle
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (23.33%) Azure
2 78 (18.57%) AWS
3 53 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.57%) GCP
4 36 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.33%) GitHub
6 22 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.00%) Serverless
8 17 (4.05%) Snowflake
9 15 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.33%) Miro
11 11 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.14%) SaaS
13 8 (1.90%) Figma
14 7 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.90%) HTTP
2 5 (1.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) BGP
3 3 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.71%) DNS
3 3 (0.71%) OSPF
3 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.48%) FTP
4 2 (0.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.43%) Power BI
2 21 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 16 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.33%) Metadata
5 14 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
7 12 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.38%) Data Vault
10 9 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.90%) Big Data
12 7 (1.67%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.43%) Tableau
14 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.95%) MySQL
14 4 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 150 (35.71%) JIRA
2 52 (12.38%) Git
3 33 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.71%) GitLab
5 18 (4.29%) Postman
6 17 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 14 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.10%) Selenium
9 10 (2.38%) ERwin
10 9 (2.14%) ER Studio
10 9 (2.14%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (1.90%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.43%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.19%) JMeter
13 5 (1.19%) Mockito
13 5 (1.19%) ScalaTest
14 4 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
General
1 164 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 97 (23.10%) Finance
3 66 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 48 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (10.48%) Banking
6 22 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (4.29%) Front Office
8 12 (2.86%) Retail
9 11 (2.62%) Legal
10 8 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
10 8 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Marketing
10 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Aviation
13 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (17.14%) Analyst
2 62 (14.76%) Developer
3 48 (11.43%) Business Analyst
3 48 (11.43%) Senior
4 45 (10.71%) Project Manager
5 40 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
6 35 (8.33%) Scrum Master
7 28 (6.67%) Java Developer
8 27 (6.43%) Lead
9 15 (3.57%) Agile Project Manager
9 15 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 14 (3.33%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.10%) Product Manager
12 12 (2.86%) Data Modeller
12 12 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.62%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.62%) Test Analyst
14 10 (2.38%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.38%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.33%) REST
2 31 (7.38%) React
3 22 (5.24%) RESTful
4 20 (4.76%) Kafka
4 20 (4.76%) Spring
5 19 (4.52%) Spring Boot
6 18 (4.29%) HTML
7 16 (3.81%) JSON
7 16 (3.81%) Node.js
8 15 (3.57%) CSS
9 14 (3.33%) .NET
10 11 (2.62%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.62%) AWS CDK
10 11 (2.62%) Playwright
11 9 (2.14%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (1.90%) OAuth
13 7 (1.67%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.67%) JWT
13 7 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (26.19%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.95%) PMI
4 22 (5.24%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.29%) Virtual Team
6 16 (3.81%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.90%) Derivative
10 7 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.43%) FMCG
12 5 (1.19%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.19%) NHS
12 5 (1.19%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.24%) Linux
2 20 (4.76%) Windows
3 10 (2.38%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (96.90%) Agile
2 378 (90.00%) Scrum
3 127 (30.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 117 (27.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 114 (27.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 107 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (24.52%) DevOps
8 95 (22.62%) CI/CD
9 69 (16.43%) User Stories
10 67 (15.95%) Sprint Planning
11 66 (15.71%) Roadmaps
12 65 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 64 (15.24%) Test Automation
14 53 (12.62%) TDD
15 52 (12.38%) Analytics
15 52 (12.38%) Project Management
16 48 (11.43%) Coaching
17 46 (10.95%) Project Delivery
18 45 (10.71%) Decision-Making
18 45 (10.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.62%) Java
2 64 (15.24%) SQL
3 54 (12.86%) Python
4 31 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.19%) C#
6 20 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.90%) Scala
9 7 (1.67%) Bash
10 6 (1.43%) C++
10 6 (1.43%) Ruby
11 5 (1.19%) Go
11 5 (1.19%) Perl
12 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.71%) R
14 2 (0.48%) Bicep
14 2 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 75 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 53 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.90%) Degree
4 29 (6.90%) PMI Certification
5 26 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (3.81%) PMP
7 15 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.57%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.38%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (2.14%) CBAP
11 7 (1.67%) MBA
12 6 (1.43%) CISSP
13 5 (1.19%) CISA
13 5 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.95%) CSPO
14 4 (0.95%) ISEB
14 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (17.38%) QA
2 30 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.86%) GDPR
5 11 (2.62%) PMO
6 10 (2.38%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.14%) PSD2
8 7 (1.67%) Basel III
9 6 (1.43%) ISO 8583
10 5 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (1.19%) GRC
10 5 (1.19%) NIST
10 5 (1.19%) WCAG
11 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.71%) COBIT
12 3 (0.71%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.48%) vSphere
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.95%) Terraform
3 20 (4.76%) Grafana
4 14 (3.33%) Ansible
5 7 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.19%) Rancher
7 4 (0.95%) Argo
7 4 (0.95%) Consul
7 4 (0.95%) Packer
8 3 (0.71%) Nagios
8 3 (0.71%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.24%) Podman
9 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.24%) vMotion
9 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.00%) Oracle
3 14 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 13 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.62%) Databricks
7 7 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.43%) Sparx
9 5 (1.19%) SAP
9 5 (1.19%) Splunk
10 4 (0.95%) Cisco
10 4 (0.95%) Google
10 4 (0.95%) Spotify
10 4 (0.95%) VMware
11 3 (0.71%) Arista
11 3 (0.71%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.71%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.71%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.71%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.71%) Red Hat