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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 227 229
Rank change year-on-year -51 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Kanban 503 408 383
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.24% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.37% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 297 283
10th Percentile £386 £357 £357
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £584
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 2
10th Percentile £25.73 £32.78 £63.20
25th Percentile £44.48 £35.81 £64.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £41.25 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.42% -40.65% -18.24%
75th Percentile £77.00 £46.31 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £49.13 £74.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £51.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year +42.16% -26.62% -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 46,512 29,792 32,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.47% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,938 18,529 19,417
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,382 1,881 1,250
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.14 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -72 411 £500 - 350
UK excluding London -17 229 £481 +3.33% 198
London -77 212 £531 -3.41% 165
Work from Home -27 143 £500 -0.20% 185
North of England -32 77 £488 +8.70% 59
Midlands -32 43 £463 +8.06% 23
West Midlands -25 38 £475 -5.00% 15
Scotland -15 37 £475 -10.22% 14
South East -51 37 £575 +42.86% 54
North East -12 31 £450 -19.10% 8
North West -39 26 £550 +34.15% 32
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 +7.53% 19
East of England -9 18 £450 -8.72% 12
South West -26 12 £490 +15.29% 22
Wales -16 4 £513 +9.33% 9
East Midlands -25 4 £402 +11.67% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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
1 120 (23.86%) Confluence
2 13 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.79%) CMS
5 8 (1.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 6 (1.19%) Trello
7 4 (0.80%) Notion
8 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Magento
2 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.40%) Primavera
5 2 (0.40%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 175 (34.79%) Azure
2 145 (28.83%) AWS
3 94 (18.69%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (8.75%) GitHub
5 37 (7.36%) Power Platform
6 36 (7.16%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.56%) GCP
8 26 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (4.57%) Serverless
10 19 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.58%) Snowflake
12 16 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (3.18%) SaaS
13 12 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.99%) Miro
16 9 (1.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) Network Security
2 4 (0.80%) MQTT
3 3 (0.60%) Firewall
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.20%) AMQP
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) MPLS
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) RS-232
5 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.96%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.17%) Power BI
4 25 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.19%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.79%) Tableau
11 8 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.19%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.99%) Apache Hudi
14 5 (0.99%) Big Data
14 5 (0.99%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.99%) Data Hub
15 4 (0.80%) Looker
15 4 (0.80%) Metadata
15 4 (0.80%) Presto
Development Applications
1 184 (36.58%) JIRA
2 73 (14.51%) Jenkins
3 56 (11.13%) Git
4 31 (6.16%) GitLab
5 22 (4.37%) SonarQube
6 21 (4.17%) Selenium
7 19 (3.78%) Maven
8 18 (3.58%) JUnit
9 16 (3.18%) Mockito
10 14 (2.78%) Cypress.io
11 13 (2.58%) Postman
12 10 (1.99%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.79%) Cucumber
13 9 (1.79%) Subversion
14 8 (1.59%) fastlane
14 8 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
15 7 (1.39%) Gradle
16 6 (1.19%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
17 5 (0.99%) Gatling
General
1 223 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 147 (29.22%) Public Sector
3 127 (25.25%) Finance
4 89 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (8.55%) Banking
6 30 (5.96%) Marketing
6 30 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (4.77%) Retail
8 21 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.39%) Legal
11 7 (1.39%) Local Government
12 6 (1.19%) Games
12 6 (1.19%) Military
13 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.99%) Front Office
13 5 (0.99%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (15.11%) Analyst
2 70 (13.92%) Developer
3 56 (11.13%) Delivery Manager
4 55 (10.93%) Senior
5 46 (9.15%) Business Analyst
6 38 (7.55%) Lead
6 38 (7.55%) Project Manager
6 38 (7.55%) Scrum Master
7 30 (5.96%) Product Owner
8 25 (4.97%) Architect
9 24 (4.77%) Java Developer
10 22 (4.37%) Product Manager
11 20 (3.98%) Data Engineer
12 17 (3.38%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.38%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.98%) Agile Coach
13 15 (2.98%) Software Engineer
13 15 (2.98%) Technical Manager
14 14 (2.78%) Software Developer
15 11 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.14%) RESTful
2 42 (8.35%) REST
3 38 (7.55%) Spring
4 37 (7.36%) Spring Boot
5 36 (7.16%) Terraform
6 24 (4.77%) Kafka
7 19 (3.78%) AngularJS
8 17 (3.38%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (3.38%) Hibernate
8 17 (3.38%) JPA
8 17 (3.38%) SOAP
9 16 (3.18%) Web Services
10 14 (2.78%) CSS
10 14 (2.78%) HTML
10 14 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
11 13 (2.58%) .NET
11 13 (2.58%) Node.js
11 13 (2.58%) Play Framework
12 12 (2.39%) JSON
13 11 (2.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 146 (29.03%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.78%) Life Science
5 13 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.39%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.19%) PMI
8 10 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.99%) NHS
9 9 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.59%) Blog
11 7 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.39%) Replication
12 6 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.99%) Mainframe
13 5 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.77%) Linux
2 13 (2.58%) Android
3 12 (2.39%) Windows
4 8 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Rocky
7 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (96.22%) Agile
2 448 (89.07%) Scrum
3 204 (40.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 189 (37.57%) DevOps
5 160 (31.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 151 (30.02%) CI/CD
7 127 (25.25%) Sprint Planning
8 117 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (20.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 102 (20.28%) User Stories
11 85 (16.90%) Test Automation
12 82 (16.30%) Decision-Making
13 79 (15.71%) Roadmaps
14 78 (15.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 74 (14.71%) Microservices
16 71 (14.12%) Acceptance Criteria
16 71 (14.12%) TDD
17 67 (13.32%) Sprint Retrospective
18 65 (12.92%) AI
19 63 (12.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (16.30%) Java
2 59 (11.73%) SQL
3 55 (10.93%) Python
4 32 (6.36%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.37%) Scala
7 19 (3.78%) C#
8 16 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.19%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.59%) C++
11 7 (1.39%) Bash
12 6 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.80%) R
14 4 (0.80%) Rust
14 4 (0.80%) Swift
15 3 (0.60%) Groovy
16 2 (0.40%) Bicep
16 2 (0.40%) Korn
16 2 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 118 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 99 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 64 (12.72%) Degree
4 40 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.58%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.59%) PMP
9 7 (1.39%) CSPO
10 6 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (0.80%) CBAP
12 4 (0.80%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.60%) IIBA
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.12%) QA
2 35 (6.96%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.58%) WCAG
4 13 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.79%) PMO
6 8 (1.59%) GxP
7 6 (1.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.80%) GDPR
9 4 (0.80%) NIST
10 3 (0.60%) NCSC
10 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.40%) SEPA
12 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.20%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (9.74%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) Postfix
4 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.95%) Grafana
3 17 (3.38%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.79%) Ansible
4 9 (1.79%) Puppet
5 8 (1.59%) Kibana
6 4 (0.80%) Podman
7 2 (0.40%) Argo
7 2 (0.40%) Control-M
7 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) PTC Integrity
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.98%) Atlassian
3 19 (3.78%) Oracle
4 18 (3.58%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.58%) Splunk
5 17 (3.38%) Google
6 16 (3.18%) SAP
7 15 (2.98%) Databricks
8 13 (2.58%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.58%) IBM
9 8 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.19%) Workday
11 5 (0.99%) BMC
11 5 (0.99%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (0.99%) New Relic
12 4 (0.80%) Adobe
12 4 (0.80%) Apple
12 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.80%) Remedy
12 4 (0.80%) VMware