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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 220 216
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 -24
Contract jobs citing Kanban 576 398 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.21% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.34% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 285 327
10th Percentile £374 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% -5.90% +0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £658 £678 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +4.81% -6.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £34.20 £39.38 £50.87
25th Percentile £47.24 £48.75 £58.35
Median hourly rate £69.75 £63.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -9.35% -13.13%
75th Percentile £74.69 £76.88 £75.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.13 £78.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -2 485 £517 +3.42% 134
UK excluding London -6 280 £490 +4.81% 101
London -14 243 £550 - 63
Work from Home -36 145 £521 +15.74% 84
North of England -44 86 £467 +10.01% 31
Midlands -16 60 £467 +3.74% 11
West Midlands -11 54 £475 -5.00% 8
South East -53 49 £600 +21.46% 36
Scotland +9 43 £475 -2.46% 6
North West -29 37 £513 +25.00% 13
Yorkshire -57 25 £500 +11.86% 9
North East -17 24 £450 -20.00% 10
South West -24 20 £483 +0.26% 8
East of England -2 18 £450 -5.26% 6
East Midlands -17 5 £402 +11.67% 3
Wales -17 4 £513 +5.13% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 130 (22.57%) Confluence
2 22 (3.82%) CMS
3 20 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.39%) Apache
7 6 (1.04%) SAS
8 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.69%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.56%) Trello
5 8 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.69%) Notion
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Magento
2 5 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.35%) Shopify
5 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.17%) Primavera
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.17%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 195 (33.85%) Azure
2 149 (25.87%) AWS
3 100 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (7.81%) Amazon S3
5 44 (7.64%) Power Platform
6 39 (6.77%) GCP
7 30 (5.21%) Serverless
8 27 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
9 24 (4.17%) GitHub
10 22 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (2.95%) AWS KMS
13 16 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.78%) Miro
13 16 (2.78%) Route 53
14 15 (2.60%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.91%) SaaS
16 10 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.74%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.74%) Network Security
2 7 (1.22%) Firewall
3 4 (0.69%) HTTP
3 4 (0.69%) MQTT
4 3 (0.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.52%) NGFW
5 2 (0.35%) DHCP
5 2 (0.35%) FTP
5 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.17%) RS-232
6 1 (0.17%) RS-422
6 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.17%) SONET
6 1 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.17%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (6.08%) NoSQL
3 32 (5.56%) Power BI
4 30 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.08%) Tableau
10 11 (1.91%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.91%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.74%) Big Data
11 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.39%) Looker
13 7 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 193 (33.51%) JIRA
2 78 (13.54%) Jenkins
3 67 (11.63%) Git
4 34 (5.90%) GitLab
5 25 (4.34%) Postman
6 21 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.47%) Selenium
8 18 (3.13%) JUnit
9 17 (2.95%) Maven
9 17 (2.95%) Mockito
10 12 (2.08%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.91%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.91%) jMock
12 10 (1.74%) fastlane
13 9 (1.56%) Android Studio
13 9 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.56%) Cucumber
13 9 (1.56%) Subversion
14 8 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 247 (42.88%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.52%) Public Sector
3 137 (23.78%) Finance
4 108 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.51%) Banking
6 41 (7.12%) Marketing
7 25 (4.34%) Retail
8 22 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.60%) Legal
10 14 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.74%) Front Office
14 7 (1.22%) Automotive
14 7 (1.22%) Local Government
15 6 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.87%) Games
16 5 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (17.36%) Analyst
2 72 (12.50%) Developer
3 63 (10.94%) Scrum Master
4 60 (10.42%) Senior
5 54 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
6 52 (9.03%) Business Analyst
7 47 (8.16%) Lead
8 37 (6.42%) Project Manager
9 31 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 30 (5.21%) Product Owner
11 29 (5.03%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
13 23 (3.99%) Architect
14 18 (3.13%) Product Manager
15 16 (2.78%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.60%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 14 (2.43%) Agile Coach
17 14 (2.43%) Systems Analyst
18 13 (2.26%) Security Engineer
18 13 (2.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.81%) RESTful
2 40 (6.94%) REST
3 37 (6.42%) Spring
4 35 (6.08%) Spring Boot
5 24 (4.17%) Kafka
6 22 (3.82%) Node.js
7 21 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.30%) JSON
9 18 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (3.13%) SOAP
9 18 (3.13%) Web Services
10 17 (2.95%) CSS
10 17 (2.95%) Hibernate
10 17 (2.95%) HTML
10 17 (2.95%) JPA
11 16 (2.78%) AWS CDK
11 16 (2.78%) Spring Batch
11 16 (2.78%) Spring Integration
12 15 (2.60%) .NET
12 15 (2.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 158 (27.43%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 17 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.26%) PMI
8 12 (2.08%) Life Science
9 10 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.74%) NHS
10 8 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.22%) Replication
11 7 (1.22%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.04%) Wiki
13 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.60%) Linux
2 14 (2.43%) Android
3 10 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.74%) Unix
4 9 (1.56%) Windows
5 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (95.83%) Agile
2 508 (88.19%) Scrum
3 223 (38.72%) DevOps
4 188 (32.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 170 (29.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 152 (26.39%) CI/CD
7 131 (22.74%) Sprint Planning
8 127 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (19.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 93 (16.15%) User Stories
11 92 (15.97%) Decision-Making
12 90 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 89 (15.45%) Microservices
14 81 (14.06%) Roadmaps
14 81 (14.06%) Sprint Retrospective
15 79 (13.72%) Acceptance Criteria
16 78 (13.54%) TDD
17 77 (13.37%) Test Automation
18 73 (12.67%) Analytics
19 68 (11.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 109 (18.92%) SQL
2 93 (16.15%) Java
3 80 (13.89%) Python
4 33 (5.73%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.65%) C#
7 14 (2.43%) Kotlin
8 13 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.74%) Scala
11 8 (1.39%) Swift
12 7 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.04%) Bash
13 6 (1.04%) Bicep
14 4 (0.69%) Go
14 4 (0.69%) Perl
14 4 (0.69%) R
14 4 (0.69%) Rust
15 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 120 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 68 (11.81%) Degree
4 41 (7.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 20 (3.47%) PMP
7 17 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.60%) CISSP
8 15 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.22%) CSPO
12 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.04%) CISM
13 5 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 5 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.02%) QA
2 36 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.95%) WCAG
4 15 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.60%) PMO
5 14 (2.43%) GDPR
6 11 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.74%) GxP
8 9 (1.56%) NIST
9 8 (1.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 5 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.87%) SLA
11 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.69%) NCSC
11 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (9.90%) Docker
2 9 (1.56%) Postfix
3 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.38%) Grafana
2 31 (5.38%) Terraform
3 11 (1.91%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.39%) Ansible
5 6 (1.04%) Puppet
6 5 (0.87%) Kibana
7 4 (0.69%) Podman
8 3 (0.52%) CASB
8 3 (0.52%) Foglight
9 2 (0.35%) Argo
9 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.38%) Oracle
3 26 (4.51%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.95%) Google
5 17 (2.95%) SAP
5 17 (2.95%) Splunk
6 16 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.60%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (2.43%) Databricks
8 14 (2.43%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.26%) IBM
10 7 (1.22%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.22%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (1.04%) Workday
12 5 (0.87%) BMC
12 5 (0.87%) New Relic
12 5 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.87%) Spotify