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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 269 221
Rank change year-on-year +46 -48 -76
Contract jobs citing Kanban 460 337 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 0.94% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.08% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 238 353
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £600
90th Percentile £698 £686 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.10% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £32.78 - £54.20
25th Percentile £35.81 £27.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £41.25 £27.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -67.94% +24.83%
75th Percentile £46.31 £27.38 -
90th Percentile £49.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.43%

All Process and 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 32,041 31,135 40,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.06% 87.25% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,133 18,828 26,941
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 1,103 1,555
10th Percentile £14.58 £15.22 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.83
% change year-on-year -29.69% -25.84% +37.15%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

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 2 December 2025. 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 +54 385 £500 - 184
London +74 225 £540 +2.86% 55
UK excluding London -14 183 £475 -5.00% 181
Work from Home -13 115 £505 +6.04% 157
North of England -15 58 £475 -5.00% 41
Midlands +2 36 £407 -26.42% 21
Yorkshire -10 35 £475 -5.00% 13
Scotland -5 33 £543 +20.67% 17
South East -28 30 £486 -2.75% 57
East Midlands - 24 £360 - 8
North West -13 19 £400 -7.25% 28
South West +3 13 £544 +3.57% 25
West Midlands -22 12 £450 -18.70% 13
Wales +3 10 £475 -7.32% 11
North East -6 4 £545 +32.93%
East of England -15 4 £459 +11.27% 9

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 82 (17.83%) Confluence
2 7 (1.52%) CMS
3 6 (1.30%) Apache
3 6 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.09%) nginx
5 4 (0.87%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.87%) Mule
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.39%) Trello
4 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.09%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.43%) Sketch
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Finacle
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 116 (25.22%) Azure
2 89 (19.35%) AWS
3 62 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (9.35%) GCP
5 40 (8.70%) GitHub
6 35 (7.61%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.09%) Serverless
8 21 (4.57%) Snowflake
9 20 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.48%) Miro
11 15 (3.26%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.39%) SaaS
14 9 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.74%) Figma
16 7 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.09%) DNS
1 5 (1.09%) HTTP
2 4 (0.87%) AMQP
2 4 (0.87%) DSL
2 4 (0.87%) Firewall
3 3 (0.65%) NAS
3 3 (0.65%) SAN
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.43%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.87%) Power BI
2 24 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.48%) Tableau
4 12 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (2.17%) Data Vault
6 10 (2.17%) Metadata
6 10 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.17%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.74%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.30%) MySQL
8 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.87%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 157 (34.13%) JIRA
2 67 (14.57%) Git
3 56 (12.17%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.09%) Postman
5 26 (5.65%) GitLab
6 17 (3.70%) Selenium
7 16 (3.48%) Bitbucket
7 16 (3.48%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.39%) SoapUI
9 10 (2.17%) ERwin
10 9 (1.96%) ER Studio
10 9 (1.96%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (1.74%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.74%) JUnit
11 8 (1.74%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.52%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.52%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.09%) Subversion
13 5 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.87%) Maven
General
1 211 (45.87%) Social Skills
2 108 (23.48%) Finance
3 64 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 51 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.61%) Banking
6 21 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.35%) Front Office
8 13 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.39%) Retail
10 10 (2.17%) Marketing
10 10 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.09%) Legal
14 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.87%) Billing
16 3 (0.65%) Local Government
16 3 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (19.13%) Analyst
2 74 (16.09%) Developer
3 55 (11.96%) Business Analyst
4 45 (9.78%) Senior
5 41 (8.91%) Project Manager
6 36 (7.83%) Scrum Master
7 33 (7.17%) Delivery Manager
8 29 (6.30%) Lead
9 26 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 15 (3.26%) Agile Project Manager
10 15 (3.26%) Test Analyst
11 13 (2.83%) Architect
12 12 (2.61%) Data Modeller
12 12 (2.61%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.61%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.61%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.39%) Angular Developer
14 10 (2.17%) Product Owner
14 10 (2.17%) Senior Developer
15 9 (1.96%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.30%) REST
2 33 (7.17%) React
3 28 (6.09%) HTML
4 26 (5.65%) CSS
4 26 (5.65%) Kafka
5 22 (4.78%) AngularJS
6 20 (4.35%) Spring
6 20 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.91%) RESTful
8 17 (3.70%) .NET
8 17 (3.70%) Playwright
9 13 (2.83%) OAuth
9 13 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (2.83%) SOAP
10 12 (2.61%) JSON
10 12 (2.61%) Web Services
11 11 (2.39%) AWS CDK
11 11 (2.39%) Node.js
12 10 (2.17%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.17%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 91 (19.78%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 23 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (4.78%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.48%) PMI
7 15 (3.26%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.04%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (2.17%) Derivative
11 9 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.52%) NHS
14 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.30%) FMCG
15 5 (1.09%) Reinsurance
16 4 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.09%) Linux
2 20 (4.35%) Windows
3 10 (2.17%) Unix
4 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.87%) VMS
6 3 (0.65%) Android
6 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (96.30%) Agile
2 418 (90.87%) Scrum
3 130 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (26.52%) DevOps
5 120 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 120 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 105 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 102 (22.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 80 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 71 (15.43%) User Stories
10 69 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 68 (14.78%) Microservices
12 67 (14.57%) Sprint Planning
12 67 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 65 (14.13%) TDD
14 51 (11.09%) Project Delivery
15 46 (10.00%) Coaching
15 46 (10.00%) Project Management
15 46 (10.00%) Waterfall
16 45 (9.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 86 (18.70%) Java
2 73 (15.87%) Python
3 61 (13.26%) SQL
4 40 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 31 (6.74%) C#
6 24 (5.22%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.04%) C++
9 11 (2.39%) Bash
10 8 (1.74%) Go
11 7 (1.52%) Ruby
12 4 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.87%) DataWeave
12 4 (0.87%) Perl
12 4 (0.87%) Scala
12 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) Groovy
14 2 (0.43%) Korn
14 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.30%) Degree
3 42 (9.13%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 19 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (4.13%) CISSP
7 17 (3.70%) CISM
8 13 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.39%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.17%) CISA
10 10 (2.17%) ISTQB
11 9 (1.96%) CBAP
11 9 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 7 (1.52%) PMP
13 5 (1.09%) CSPO
14 4 (0.87%) ISEB
14 4 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.26%) QA
2 21 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.70%) NIST
4 16 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.04%) Accessibility
7 12 (2.61%) GDPR
8 11 (2.39%) PMO
9 9 (1.96%) COBIT
9 9 (1.96%) NIST 800
9 9 (1.96%) PSD2
10 8 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (1.52%) GRC
12 6 (1.30%) ISO 8583
13 4 (0.87%) WCAG
14 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.43%) Basel III
14 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (12.61%) Docker
2 7 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.65%) vSphere
4 2 (0.43%) KVM
5 1 (0.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 57 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.17%) Terraform
3 23 (5.00%) Ansible
4 16 (3.48%) Grafana
5 9 (1.96%) RSA Archer
6 7 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.87%) Consul
7 4 (0.87%) Packer
7 4 (0.87%) Podman
7 4 (0.87%) Rancher
8 3 (0.65%) Nagios
8 3 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.65%) SELinux
8 3 (0.65%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.65%) vRealize
9 2 (0.43%) Argo
9 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 69 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.78%) ServiceNow
3 19 (4.13%) Oracle
4 16 (3.48%) Google
5 15 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.61%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.96%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.74%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.74%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.74%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.74%) SAP
8 8 (1.74%) Thycotic
9 7 (1.52%) Databricks
10 6 (1.30%) Sparx
11 5 (1.09%) IBM
11 5 (1.09%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.09%) OneLogin
11 5 (1.09%) Splunk
12 4 (0.87%) Red Hat