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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 231 251
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -84
Contract jobs citing Kanban 465 335 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.13% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.25% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 222 295
10th Percentile £358 £358 £368
25th Percentile £413 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £668 £656 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.57% +1.60%
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% -42.65%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £75.00
90th Percentile - £69.33 £78.00
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 36,537 26,694 38,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 90.29% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,174 17,018 25,183
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,160 902 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.10 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £31.76 £31.80
% change year-on-year -16.40% -0.13% -9.14%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +16 387 £513 - 262
UK excluding London -29 219 £475 -5.00% 204
London +35 205 £525 +2.44% 86
Work from Home -54 108 £500 +12.74% 170
North of England -19 63 £475 +10.53% 55
Midlands -25 53 £450 -23.40% 21
South East -53 37 £525 +5.00% 61
Scotland +1 36 £463 +5.71% 10
West Midlands -38 33 £475 -19.15% 16
North West -14 30 £431 +7.21% 26
Yorkshire -38 27 £500 +8.46% 21
East Midlands -12 20 £358 - 4
South West -19 20 £525 -7.08% 32
East of England -26 10 £476 +15.27% 17
North East -6 8 £541 - 8
Wales -5 5 £509 -3.05% 5

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
1 103 (22.15%) Confluence
2 17 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.37%) CMS
4 9 (1.94%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) nginx
5 5 (1.08%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.72%) Trello
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.65%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (22.80%) Azure
2 92 (19.78%) AWS
3 56 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.96%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.67%) GCP
6 30 (6.45%) GitHub
7 20 (4.30%) Amazon S3
7 20 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.09%) Serverless
9 17 (3.66%) Miro
10 14 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.58%) Snowflake
12 10 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (1.94%) SaaS
14 8 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.94%) Firewall
2 8 (1.72%) HTTP
3 6 (1.29%) Network Security
4 3 (0.65%) BGP
4 3 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.65%) DNS
4 3 (0.65%) FTP
4 3 (0.65%) NGFW
4 3 (0.65%) OSPF
4 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.22%) SAN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.02%) Power BI
3 22 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.30%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 15 (3.23%) Metadata
8 11 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.94%) Big Data
9 9 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.72%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.72%) Tableau
11 7 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 155 (33.33%) JIRA
2 66 (14.19%) Git
3 37 (7.96%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.59%) GitLab
5 20 (4.30%) Postman
6 16 (3.44%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.58%) Mockito
8 11 (2.37%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.15%) Selenium
10 9 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.94%) JUnit
10 9 (1.94%) Maven
11 8 (1.72%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.08%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.08%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.08%) ERwin
13 5 (1.08%) jMock
13 5 (1.08%) ScalaTest
General
1 180 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 114 (24.52%) Finance
3 77 (16.56%) Public Sector
4 73 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (10.75%) Banking
6 22 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (3.87%) Front Office
8 12 (2.58%) Legal
8 12 (2.58%) Retail
9 11 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.37%) Marketing
10 9 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (1.94%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.29%) Automotive
11 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 72 (15.48%) Analyst
2 58 (12.47%) Developer
3 51 (10.97%) Business Analyst
4 48 (10.32%) Project Manager
5 44 (9.46%) Scrum Master
5 44 (9.46%) Senior
6 40 (8.60%) Delivery Manager
7 39 (8.39%) Lead
8 33 (7.10%) Java Developer
9 21 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.23%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.58%) Product Manager
11 12 (2.58%) Product Owner
11 12 (2.58%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (2.37%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (2.15%) Agile Scrum Master
13 10 (2.15%) Senior Manager
14 9 (1.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.82%) REST
2 30 (6.45%) Spring
3 27 (5.81%) Spring Boot
4 25 (5.38%) React
5 21 (4.52%) RESTful
6 20 (4.30%) Kafka
6 20 (4.30%) Node.js
7 18 (3.87%) AngularJS
8 17 (3.66%) .NET
8 17 (3.66%) JSON
9 13 (2.80%) HTML
9 13 (2.80%) Playwright
10 12 (2.58%) Web Services
11 11 (2.37%) CSS
11 11 (2.37%) XML
12 10 (2.15%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.51%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.51%) PyTorch
13 7 (1.51%) SailPoint
13 7 (1.51%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 112 (24.09%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.10%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.59%) PMI
4 17 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.66%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.72%) Derivative
10 7 (1.51%) NHS
10 7 (1.51%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.51%) Wiki
11 6 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.08%) FMCG
12 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.10%) Linux
2 20 (4.30%) Windows
3 11 (2.37%) Unix
4 7 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.86%) Android
6 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.65%) VMS
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (94.84%) Agile
2 407 (87.53%) Scrum
3 135 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (26.88%) DevOps
5 124 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 123 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (25.38%) CI/CD
8 113 (24.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 72 (15.48%) Roadmaps
10 70 (15.05%) Test Automation
11 68 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 67 (14.41%) TDD
13 66 (14.19%) Sprint Planning
13 66 (14.19%) User Stories
14 61 (13.12%) Project Management
15 58 (12.47%) Microservices
16 56 (12.04%) Decision-Making
17 53 (11.40%) Analytics
18 52 (11.18%) Acceptance Criteria
19 50 (10.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 92 (19.78%) SQL
2 78 (16.77%) Java
3 65 (13.98%) Python
4 31 (6.67%) C#
5 26 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.94%) Bash
8 9 (1.94%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.72%) Perl
9 8 (1.72%) Scala
10 7 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.51%) Go
10 7 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.29%) Ruby
12 5 (1.08%) C++
12 5 (1.08%) R
13 4 (0.86%) Bicep
14 3 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 72 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 55 (11.83%) Degree
4 34 (7.31%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.16%) PMP
6 23 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (3.44%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.80%) CISSP
11 10 (2.15%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (1.72%) CBAP
12 8 (1.72%) CISM
12 8 (1.72%) MBA
13 7 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (1.29%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.08%) CISA
15 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
15 5 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (17.85%) QA
2 29 (6.24%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.66%) GDPR
5 16 (3.44%) PMO
6 13 (2.80%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (2.15%) NIST
9 8 (1.72%) Basel III
9 8 (1.72%) ISO 8583
10 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.29%) PSD2
11 5 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.86%) GRC
13 3 (0.65%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.65%) NCSC
13 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (8.60%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Postfix
3 3 (0.65%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.45%) Terraform
3 24 (5.16%) Grafana
4 13 (2.80%) Ansible
5 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.29%) Rancher
7 4 (0.86%) Argo
7 4 (0.86%) Consul
7 4 (0.86%) Packer
7 4 (0.86%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.65%) CASB
8 3 (0.65%) Nagios
9 2 (0.43%) Foglight
10 1 (0.22%) Podman
10 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
10 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) vMotion
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.16%) Oracle
3 20 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.66%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.80%) Splunk
6 12 (2.58%) Databricks
7 11 (2.37%) SAP
8 10 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.94%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.51%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.51%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.29%) Cisco
11 6 (1.29%) Spotify
12 4 (0.86%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.86%) Okta
12 4 (0.86%) VMware
13 3 (0.65%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.65%) Charles River
13 3 (0.65%) Juniper
13 3 (0.65%) Murex