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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 244 215
Rank change year-on-year -5 -29 -55
Contract jobs citing Kanban 480 320 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.08% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.19% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 224 314
10th Percentile £358 £343 £377
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £494 £541
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -8.73% +3.10%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £488 £515
% change year-on-year -0.77% -5.34% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £62.40 £26.38 -
25th Percentile £64.50 £37.56 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £73.23 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +59.60% -42.65%
75th Percentile £74.50 £77.98 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.80 £78.58 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +63.47% -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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +16 398 £525 +5.00% 143
UK excluding London +2 240 £484 -0.77% 122
London -10 192 £550 +7.32% 44
Work from Home -35 115 £500 +13.64% 127
North of England -32 69 £460 +15.00% 40
Midlands -9 59 £455 -16.28% 10
South East -49 46 £555 +11.00% 43
West Midlands -21 45 £475 -12.60% 8
Scotland +2 36 £466 +3.50% 4
North West -16 36 £435 +18.07% 23
Yorkshire -52 25 £500 +25.00% 10
South West -32 17 £525 -7.08% 12
East Midlands -20 14 £340 - 2
East of England -26 14 £463 -2.63% 8
North East -9 10 £494 - 7
Wales -6 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
1 112 (23.33%) Confluence
2 22 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.75%) CMS
4 9 (1.88%) Apache
4 9 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.25%) SAS
6 5 (1.04%) nginx
6 5 (1.04%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.46%) Trello
3 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.42%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (25.42%) Azure
2 108 (22.50%) AWS
3 60 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 30 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 30 (6.25%) GCP
5 30 (6.25%) GitHub
6 22 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (3.96%) Serverless
9 17 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (3.33%) Miro
11 15 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.50%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.50%) Route 53
15 11 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.88%) Firewall
2 8 (1.67%) HTTP
3 6 (1.25%) Network Security
4 3 (0.63%) BGP
4 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.63%) DNS
4 3 (0.63%) FTP
4 3 (0.63%) NGFW
4 3 (0.63%) OSPF
4 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) SONET
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.71%) NoSQL
2 30 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.42%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.42%) Power BI
4 24 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (4.79%) SQL Server
6 17 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (3.33%) Big Data
7 16 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.92%) Hadoop
9 12 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.46%) Metadata
11 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (1.46%) Tableau
12 6 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 155 (32.29%) JIRA
2 64 (13.33%) Git
3 49 (10.21%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.67%) GitLab
5 27 (5.63%) Postman
6 17 (3.54%) Mockito
7 14 (2.92%) Maven
8 13 (2.71%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.71%) JUnit
9 12 (2.50%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.29%) Selenium
11 9 (1.88%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.88%) DbUnit
11 9 (1.88%) jMock
11 9 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.25%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.04%) ScalaTest
15 5 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 190 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 106 (22.08%) Finance
3 93 (19.38%) Public Sector
4 79 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (10.00%) Banking
6 21 (4.38%) Marketing
7 15 (3.13%) Front Office
7 15 (3.13%) Legal
8 14 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.08%) Retail
10 9 (1.88%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (1.88%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.46%) Automotive
12 7 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.04%) Local Government
14 4 (0.83%) Aviation
14 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (15.42%) Analyst
2 57 (11.88%) Developer
2 57 (11.88%) Scrum Master
3 44 (9.17%) Business Analyst
3 44 (9.17%) Project Manager
3 44 (9.17%) Senior
4 43 (8.96%) Lead
5 39 (8.13%) Delivery Manager
6 35 (7.29%) Java Developer
7 28 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 14 (2.92%) Software Engineer
8 14 (2.92%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (2.71%) Architect
10 12 (2.50%) Agile Coach
10 12 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (2.50%) Security Engineer
11 11 (2.29%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 11 (2.29%) Senior Developer
12 10 (2.08%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.71%) Spring
2 35 (7.29%) REST
3 31 (6.46%) Spring Boot
4 29 (6.04%) RESTful
5 23 (4.79%) Node.js
6 21 (4.38%) React
7 20 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.17%) Kafka
8 17 (3.54%) HTML
9 15 (3.13%) CSS
9 15 (3.13%) JSON
9 15 (3.13%) Web Services
10 13 (2.71%) .NET
10 13 (2.71%) Playwright
10 13 (2.71%) SOAP
11 12 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (2.50%) Hibernate
11 12 (2.50%) JPA
11 12 (2.50%) Spring Batch
11 12 (2.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 126 (26.25%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.38%) PMI
5 20 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.92%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.46%) Wiki
10 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.25%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.83%) Life Science
12 4 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.96%) Linux
2 17 (3.54%) Unix
3 13 (2.71%) Windows
4 7 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.83%) Android
5 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.83%) VMS
6 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (95.21%) Agile
2 427 (88.96%) Scrum
3 149 (31.04%) DevOps
4 138 (28.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (27.50%) CI/CD
6 128 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 116 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (21.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 84 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
10 74 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 72 (15.00%) Microservices
12 69 (14.38%) Test Automation
13 65 (13.54%) Roadmaps
13 65 (13.54%) TDD
14 62 (12.92%) Migration
14 62 (12.92%) Project Management
15 61 (12.71%) Decision-Making
16 59 (12.29%) User Stories
17 58 (12.08%) Analytics
18 55 (11.46%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.63%) SQL
2 87 (18.13%) Java
3 68 (14.17%) Python
4 30 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.21%) C#
6 16 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.71%) Scala
8 11 (2.29%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.67%) Bash
11 7 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.46%) Perl
11 7 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.25%) Go
12 6 (1.25%) Ruby
13 5 (1.04%) R
14 4 (0.83%) Bicep
14 4 (0.83%) Swift
15 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 122 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 92 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.63%) Degree
4 30 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 28 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.21%) PMP
7 18 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.50%) CISSP
9 12 (2.50%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.29%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.67%) MBA
12 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (1.04%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.04%) CISM
14 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (17.29%) QA
2 22 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.54%) GDPR
5 14 (2.92%) PMO
6 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.67%) Basel III
7 8 (1.67%) NIST
8 7 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.04%) WCAG
10 4 (0.83%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.83%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.83%) NCSC
10 4 (0.83%) SLA
11 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 53 (11.04%) Docker
2 8 (1.67%) Postfix
3 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 35 (7.29%) Terraform
3 31 (6.46%) Grafana
4 12 (2.50%) Ansible
5 11 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.46%) Rancher
7 5 (1.04%) Kibana
8 4 (0.83%) Argo
8 4 (0.83%) Consul
8 4 (0.83%) Packer
9 3 (0.63%) CASB
9 3 (0.63%) Foglight
9 3 (0.63%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vMotion
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.63%) Oracle
3 16 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.13%) Splunk
5 12 (2.50%) Databricks
5 12 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (2.08%) SAP
7 8 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
7 8 (1.67%) Spotify
8 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.25%) Cisco
10 4 (0.83%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.83%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.83%) Okta
10 4 (0.83%) Refinitiv
10 4 (0.83%) VMware
11 3 (0.63%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.63%) Palo Alto