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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 252 221
Rank change year-on-year +11 -31 -57
Contract jobs citing Kanban 482 315 466
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.07% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.18% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 222 307
10th Percentile £358 £341 £379
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -9.72% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £637 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £509
% change year-on-year -1.81% -4.87% +1.70%
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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 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 22 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 +14 401 £525 +5.00% 179
UK excluding London -1 242 £475 -1.81% 143
London +17 193 £550 +7.32% 55
Work from Home -43 115 £500 +13.64% 114
North of England -32 69 £458 +14.50% 54
Midlands -15 59 £453 -21.30% 12
South East -37 46 £555 +11.00% 44
West Midlands -21 44 £475 -17.39% 9
Scotland -7 36 £409 -9.11% 6
North West -19 36 £435 +18.07% 31
Yorkshire -48 26 £500 +21.65% 12
South West -27 19 £525 -7.89% 13
East Midlands -21 15 £340 - 2
East of England -18 14 £463 -2.63% 8
North East -11 9 £450 - 11
Wales -6 5 £509 +0.54% 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
1 114 (23.65%) Confluence
2 22 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.73%) CMS
4 8 (1.66%) Apache
4 8 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.24%) SAS
6 5 (1.04%) nginx
6 5 (1.04%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.56%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.45%) Trello
3 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.41%) 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
1 119 (24.69%) Azure
2 106 (21.99%) AWS
3 59 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 32 (6.64%) GitHub
6 29 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.81%) GCP
8 23 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (3.73%) Serverless
11 16 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.32%) Miro
12 14 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.49%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.49%) Route 53
15 11 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.87%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.87%) Firewall
2 7 (1.45%) HTTP
3 6 (1.24%) Network Security
4 3 (0.62%) BGP
4 3 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.62%) DNS
4 3 (0.62%) FTP
4 3 (0.62%) NGFW
4 3 (0.62%) OSPF
4 3 (0.62%) 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 (7.68%) NoSQL
2 31 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.39%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.19%) Power BI
5 24 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.77%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (3.53%) Big Data
8 16 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.11%) Hadoop
10 14 (2.90%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 12 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.66%) Metadata
14 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.24%) Tableau
16 5 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 157 (32.57%) JIRA
2 66 (13.69%) Git
3 51 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 33 (6.85%) GitLab
5 28 (5.81%) Postman
6 17 (3.53%) Mockito
7 14 (2.90%) Maven
8 13 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.70%) JUnit
9 12 (2.49%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.28%) Selenium
11 10 (2.07%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.87%) DbUnit
12 9 (1.87%) jMock
12 9 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
15 6 (1.24%) TeamCity
16 5 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
16 5 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 191 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.61%) Finance
3 91 (18.88%) Public Sector
4 80 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.96%) Banking
6 22 (4.56%) Marketing
7 16 (3.32%) Front Office
8 15 (3.11%) Legal
9 14 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.28%) Retail
11 9 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (1.87%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.45%) Automotive
13 7 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Aviation
14 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.04%) Local Government
15 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (15.56%) Analyst
2 58 (12.03%) Developer
2 58 (12.03%) Scrum Master
3 46 (9.54%) Business Analyst
4 43 (8.92%) Project Manager
5 42 (8.71%) Senior
6 41 (8.51%) Lead
7 39 (8.09%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (7.47%) Java Developer
9 28 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 14 (2.90%) Software Engineer
10 14 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
11 13 (2.70%) Architect
12 12 (2.49%) Agile Coach
12 12 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.49%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.28%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.28%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.07%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.68%) Spring
2 36 (7.47%) REST
3 32 (6.64%) Spring Boot
4 30 (6.22%) RESTful
5 23 (4.77%) Node.js
5 23 (4.77%) React
6 21 (4.36%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.94%) Kafka
8 18 (3.73%) HTML
9 16 (3.32%) CSS
10 15 (3.11%) JSON
10 15 (3.11%) Web Services
11 14 (2.90%) Playwright
12 13 (2.70%) .NET
13 12 (2.49%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (2.49%) Hibernate
13 12 (2.49%) JPA
13 12 (2.49%) SOAP
13 12 (2.49%) Spring Batch
13 12 (2.49%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 128 (26.56%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.68%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.39%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.36%) PMI
5 20 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.90%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.07%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.45%) Wiki
11 6 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.04%) NHS
13 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.92%) Linux
2 17 (3.53%) Unix
3 12 (2.49%) Windows
4 7 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.83%) Android
5 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.83%) VMS
6 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (94.81%) Agile
2 426 (88.38%) Scrum
3 150 (31.12%) DevOps
4 138 (28.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 133 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 129 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 118 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (21.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 84 (17.43%) Sprint Planning
10 74 (15.35%) Microservices
11 72 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 70 (14.52%) Test Automation
13 66 (13.69%) TDD
14 65 (13.49%) Roadmaps
15 62 (12.86%) Project Management
16 61 (12.66%) Migration
17 60 (12.45%) Decision-Making
18 59 (12.24%) User Stories
19 58 (12.03%) Analytics
20 55 (11.41%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.54%) SQL
2 88 (18.26%) Java
3 67 (13.90%) Python
4 31 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.19%) C#
6 17 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.70%) Scala
8 11 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.07%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.87%) Bash
11 7 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.45%) Perl
11 7 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.24%) Go
12 6 (1.24%) Ruby
13 4 (0.83%) Bicep
13 4 (0.83%) R
13 4 (0.83%) Swift
14 3 (0.62%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 122 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.58%) Degree
4 30 (6.22%) PMI Certification
5 28 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.19%) PMP
7 19 (3.94%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.49%) CISSP
9 12 (2.49%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.28%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.66%) MBA
12 7 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.24%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.24%) 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 84 (17.43%) QA
2 22 (4.56%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.36%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.53%) GDPR
5 14 (2.90%) PMO
6 9 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.66%) Basel III
7 8 (1.66%) NIST
8 7 (1.45%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.04%) WCAG
10 4 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
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 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 55 (11.41%) Docker
2 8 (1.66%) Postfix
3 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.47%) Terraform
3 31 (6.43%) Grafana
4 12 (2.49%) Ansible
5 11 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.45%) Rancher
7 5 (1.04%) Kibana
8 4 (0.83%) Argo
8 4 (0.83%) Consul
8 4 (0.83%) Packer
9 3 (0.62%) CASB
9 3 (0.62%) Foglight
9 3 (0.62%) 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 50 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.60%) Oracle
3 17 (3.53%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.11%) Splunk
6 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.49%) Databricks
7 12 (2.49%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.87%) SAP
9 8 (1.66%) CA Agile Central
9 8 (1.66%) Spotify
10 7 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.24%) Cisco
12 4 (0.83%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.83%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.83%) Okta
12 4 (0.83%) Refinitiv
12 4 (0.83%) VMware
13 3 (0.62%) Arista
13 3 (0.62%) Palo Alto