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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 220 228
Rank change year-on-year -51 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing Kanban 508 400 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.24% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.37% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 285 314
10th Percentile £388 £340 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.30% -1.67%
75th Percentile £588 £593 £588
90th Percentile £675 £695 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.20
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £64.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +7.91% -18.24%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £74.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -4.14%

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 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -53 419 £519 +3.75% 478
UK excluding London -21 238 £488 +8.33% 286
London -77 210 £550 - 240
Work from Home -38 135 £520 +4.00% 304
North of England -67 73 £481 +13.46% 97
Midlands -25 50 £475 +10.98% 42
West Midlands -14 45 £475 -5.00% 32
South East -50 42 £600 +23.71% 51
Scotland -10 38 £475 -5.00% 16
North East -9 29 £450 -20.00% 12
North West -42 26 £556 +39.06% 61
Yorkshire -65 18 £500 +11.11% 24
East of England -4 17 £438 -11.26% 15
South West -36 14 £498 +17.06% 47
Wales -15 4 £513 +9.33% 10
East Midlands -31 4 £402 +12.29% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 11

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
1 128 (25.20%) Confluence
2 16 (3.15%) CMS
3 13 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.77%) Apache
6 6 (1.18%) SAS
7 5 (0.98%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.57%) Trello
5 6 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.79%) Notion
7 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Magento
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 178 (35.04%) Azure
2 142 (27.95%) AWS
3 96 (18.90%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.28%) Amazon S3
4 37 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 35 (6.89%) GCP
6 33 (6.50%) GitHub
7 24 (4.72%) Serverless
8 20 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (3.54%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.95%) SaaS
11 12 (2.36%) Miro
12 11 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (1.97%) AWS KMS
13 10 (1.97%) Firebase
13 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.18%) Network Security
2 4 (0.79%) MQTT
3 3 (0.59%) Firewall
3 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
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%) MPLS
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) RS-232
5 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.20%) SONET
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 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.51%) Power BI
3 26 (5.12%) MongoDB
4 25 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.17%) Tableau
10 9 (1.77%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.57%) Big Data
11 8 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.38%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.98%) Apache Hudi
13 5 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.98%) Data Hub
13 5 (0.98%) Looker
14 4 (0.79%) MySQL
14 4 (0.79%) Presto
Development Applications
1 190 (37.40%) JIRA
2 76 (14.96%) Jenkins
3 55 (10.83%) Git
4 36 (7.09%) GitLab
5 23 (4.53%) SonarQube
6 20 (3.94%) Postman
6 20 (3.94%) Selenium
7 18 (3.54%) JUnit
8 17 (3.35%) Maven
8 17 (3.35%) Mockito
9 12 (2.36%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.97%) fastlane
11 9 (1.77%) Subversion
12 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.38%) DbUnit
13 7 (1.38%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.18%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.18%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.18%) jMock
14 6 (1.18%) REST Assured
General
1 228 (44.88%) Social Skills
2 145 (28.54%) Public Sector
3 120 (23.62%) Finance
4 96 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.87%) Marketing
6 39 (7.68%) Banking
7 27 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.92%) Retail
9 21 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.97%) Legal
12 10 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.38%) Front Office
14 5 (0.98%) Games
14 5 (0.98%) Local Government
14 5 (0.98%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.79%) Aviation
15 4 (0.79%) Military
15 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (17.91%) Analyst
2 70 (13.78%) Developer
3 55 (10.83%) Senior
4 52 (10.24%) Scrum Master
5 51 (10.04%) Business Analyst
6 48 (9.45%) Delivery Manager
7 37 (7.28%) Lead
8 31 (6.10%) Product Owner
8 31 (6.10%) Project Manager
9 25 (4.92%) Architect
10 24 (4.72%) Technical Analyst
11 23 (4.53%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 20 (3.94%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.74%) Product Manager
14 15 (2.95%) Agile Coach
15 13 (2.56%) Systems Analyst
16 12 (2.36%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 12 (2.36%) Software Developer
16 12 (2.36%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.84%) RESTful
2 40 (7.87%) REST
3 35 (6.89%) Spring
4 34 (6.69%) Spring Boot
5 32 (6.30%) Terraform
6 23 (4.53%) Kafka
7 19 (3.74%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.54%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (3.54%) SOAP
9 17 (3.35%) CSS
9 17 (3.35%) Hibernate
9 17 (3.35%) HTML
9 17 (3.35%) JPA
9 17 (3.35%) Web Services
10 15 (2.95%) Node.js
10 15 (2.95%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (2.36%) AWS CDK
11 12 (2.36%) JSON
12 11 (2.17%) Play Framework
12 11 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 156 (30.71%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.68%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.36%) Life Science
6 12 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.17%) PMI
7 11 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.77%) NHS
10 8 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.38%) Replication
12 6 (1.18%) Blog
12 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
13 5 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.91%) Linux
2 12 (2.36%) Android
3 10 (1.97%) Unix
4 7 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.18%) Windows
6 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (97.64%) Agile
2 452 (88.98%) Scrum
3 202 (39.76%) DevOps
4 183 (36.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 155 (30.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 142 (27.95%) Sprint Planning
7 137 (26.97%) CI/CD
8 109 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (20.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 99 (19.49%) User Stories
11 90 (17.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 81 (15.94%) Decision-Making
13 80 (15.75%) Sprint Retrospective
14 75 (14.76%) Microservices
15 73 (14.37%) Acceptance Criteria
15 73 (14.37%) Roadmaps
16 71 (13.98%) TDD
16 71 (13.98%) Test Automation
17 69 (13.58%) Analytics
18 65 (12.80%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 83 (16.34%) Java
2 72 (14.17%) SQL
3 61 (12.01%) Python
4 31 (6.10%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.91%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.74%) Scala
7 14 (2.76%) C#
8 13 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.18%) Bash
10 6 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.98%) Swift
12 4 (0.79%) Rust
13 3 (0.59%) C++
13 3 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) Groovy
14 2 (0.39%) SOQL
15 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 133 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 108 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 61 (12.01%) Degree
4 37 (7.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.74%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.57%) PMP
9 7 (1.38%) CSPO
10 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (0.98%) CISSP
11 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.59%) CBAP
12 3 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) IIBA
12 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.78%) QA
2 39 (7.68%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.94%) WCAG
4 14 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.97%) GxP
6 8 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 8 (1.57%) PMO
7 6 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.79%) GDPR
8 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.79%) NIST
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.39%) SEPA
10 2 (0.39%) SLA
10 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) GRC
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 49 (9.65%) Docker
2 8 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.68%) Grafana
3 17 (3.35%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.57%) Ansible
4 8 (1.57%) Kibana
4 8 (1.57%) Puppet
5 4 (0.79%) Podman
6 2 (0.39%) Argo
6 2 (0.39%) Control-M
6 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) Foglight
7 1 (0.20%) logstash
7 1 (0.20%) PTC Integrity
7 1 (0.20%) Rancher
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.72%) Oracle
3 23 (4.53%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.94%) Atlassian
5 17 (3.35%) Google
6 16 (3.15%) Databricks
6 16 (3.15%) Splunk
7 14 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.56%) IBM
9 12 (2.36%) SAP
10 9 (1.77%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.18%) Workday
13 5 (0.98%) Apple
13 5 (0.98%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.98%) BMC
13 5 (0.98%) Refinitiv
14 4 (0.79%) Adobe
14 4 (0.79%) Remedy
14 4 (0.79%) Tenable