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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 231 255
Rank change year-on-year -10 +24 -95
Contract jobs citing Kanban 467 347 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.13% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.26% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 233 295
10th Percentile £358 £363 £388
25th Percentile £413 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -7.41% -0.74%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £25.81 -
25th Percentile - £26.66 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £37.63 £52.94
Median % change year-on-year +99.34% -28.93% -33.83%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £71.88
90th Percentile - £69.33 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £60.61 £52.94
% change year-on-year +23.74% +14.49% -37.72%

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 35,955 27,589 38,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.76% 89.91% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,818 17,125 24,933
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 864 2,185
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.99 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.18 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 26 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 26 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 +13 390 £520 +1.46% 194
UK excluding London -37 214 £475 -5.00% 161
London +48 211 £535 +1.90% 59
Work from Home -47 110 £500 +9.89% 165
North of England -22 60 £475 +1.33% 58
Midlands -12 52 £450 -21.74% 17
South East -49 39 £525 +5.00% 55
Scotland -6 34 £466 +3.50% 3
West Midlands -29 32 £490 -14.78% 16
North West -10 30 £428 -2.17% 32
Yorkshire -47 24 £513 +2.50% 22
East Midlands -9 20 £358 - 1
South West -18 20 £525 -7.08% 17
East of England -15 9 £513 +24.30% 8
North East -6 8 £541 - 4
Wales -7 5 £509 -3.05% 3

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 99 (21.20%) Confluence
2 15 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.93%) Apache
3 9 (1.93%) CMS
4 5 (1.07%) nginx
4 5 (1.07%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (4.28%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.50%) Trello
3 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (23.55%) Azure
2 94 (20.13%) AWS
3 58 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.07%) GCP
5 33 (7.07%) GitHub
6 22 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (4.07%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.07%) Serverless
8 16 (3.43%) Miro
9 14 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (3.00%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.14%) SaaS
12 8 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.71%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.71%) HTTP
2 7 (1.50%) Firewall
3 4 (0.86%) Network Security
4 3 (0.64%) BGP
4 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.64%) DNS
4 3 (0.64%) FTP
4 3 (0.64%) OSPF
4 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) NGFW
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.85%) Power BI
2 28 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (4.28%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.28%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.43%) Metadata
7 15 (3.21%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.78%) Hadoop
9 11 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.93%) Big Data
10 9 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.71%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.71%) Tableau
12 7 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 154 (32.98%) JIRA
2 67 (14.35%) Git
3 36 (7.71%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.57%) GitLab
5 18 (3.85%) Postman
6 16 (3.43%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.57%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.57%) Mockito
8 10 (2.14%) Selenium
9 9 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (1.93%) JUnit
9 9 (1.93%) Maven
10 8 (1.71%) ERwin
10 8 (1.71%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.50%) ER Studio
11 7 (1.50%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.07%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 175 (37.47%) Social Skills
2 112 (23.98%) Finance
3 77 (16.49%) Public Sector
4 65 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (9.85%) Banking
6 24 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.07%) Front Office
8 12 (2.57%) Retail
9 11 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.36%) Legal
10 10 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.93%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (1.93%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.71%) Marketing
13 6 (1.28%) Automotive
14 5 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 71 (15.20%) Analyst
2 66 (14.13%) Developer
3 52 (11.13%) Business Analyst
4 51 (10.92%) Senior
5 47 (10.06%) Project Manager
6 42 (8.99%) Delivery Manager
7 41 (8.78%) Scrum Master
8 37 (7.92%) Lead
9 35 (7.49%) Java Developer
10 20 (4.28%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.43%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.00%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.57%) Agile Project Manager
14 12 (2.57%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.36%) Product Owner
15 11 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
16 9 (1.93%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.21%) REST
2 29 (6.21%) React
2 29 (6.21%) Spring
3 28 (6.00%) Spring Boot
4 21 (4.50%) Kafka
4 21 (4.50%) RESTful
5 20 (4.28%) AngularJS
6 19 (4.07%) Node.js
7 18 (3.85%) JSON
8 16 (3.43%) .NET
9 15 (3.21%) HTML
10 13 (2.78%) CSS
10 13 (2.78%) Playwright
11 12 (2.57%) Web Services
12 11 (2.36%) XML
13 9 (1.93%) AWS CDK
14 8 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
15 7 (1.50%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (1.50%) JPA
15 7 (1.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (23.98%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.57%) PMI
4 25 (5.35%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.50%) Virtual Team
6 20 (4.28%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.64%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.71%) Derivative
11 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.50%) Wiki
12 6 (1.28%) NHS
13 5 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.07%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.07%) FMCG
13 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.85%) Linux
2 21 (4.50%) Windows
3 11 (2.36%) Unix
4 7 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.86%) Android
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (94.86%) Agile
2 410 (87.79%) Scrum
3 132 (28.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (26.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 124 (26.55%) DevOps
6 119 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (24.84%) CI/CD
8 113 (24.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 72 (15.42%) Roadmaps
10 71 (15.20%) Test Automation
11 70 (14.99%) TDD
12 68 (14.56%) User Stories
13 65 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 61 (13.06%) Sprint Planning
15 59 (12.63%) Analytics
16 57 (12.21%) Microservices
16 57 (12.21%) Project Management
17 54 (11.56%) Decision-Making
18 50 (10.71%) Acceptance Criteria
19 48 (10.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 89 (19.06%) SQL
2 84 (17.99%) Java
3 65 (13.92%) Python
4 32 (6.85%) C#
5 30 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.93%) Bash
8 9 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.71%) Perl
9 8 (1.71%) Scala
10 7 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.50%) Go
10 7 (1.50%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.28%) C++
11 6 (1.28%) Ruby
12 5 (1.07%) R
13 4 (0.86%) Bicep
14 3 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.99%) Degree
4 34 (7.28%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (4.71%) PMP
7 16 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.43%) Master's Degree
8 15 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.78%) CISSP
10 10 (2.14%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.71%) CBAP
11 8 (1.71%) CISM
11 8 (1.71%) MBA
12 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 6 (1.28%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.07%) CISA
14 5 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (17.34%) QA
2 29 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.43%) GDPR
5 15 (3.21%) PMO
6 11 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.71%) Basel III
8 8 (1.71%) ISO 8583
8 8 (1.71%) NIST
9 6 (1.28%) PSD2
10 5 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.86%) GRC
11 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.64%) COBIT
12 3 (0.64%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.64%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (8.99%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Postfix
3 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.21%) Terraform
3 24 (5.14%) Grafana
4 13 (2.78%) Ansible
5 8 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.07%) Rancher
7 4 (0.86%) Argo
7 4 (0.86%) Consul
7 4 (0.86%) Packer
8 3 (0.64%) Nagios
8 3 (0.64%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Foglight
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) vMotion
9 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.35%) Oracle
3 17 (3.64%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.57%) Databricks
6 11 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.14%) SAP
7 10 (2.14%) Splunk
8 9 (1.93%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.28%) Spotify
11 5 (1.07%) Cisco
12 4 (0.86%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.86%) Sparx
12 4 (0.86%) VMware
13 3 (0.64%) Arista
13 3 (0.64%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.64%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.64%) Rapid7