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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 236 211
Rank change year-on-year -17 -25 -36
Contract jobs citing Kanban 477 325 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.12% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.23% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 236 320
10th Percentile £360 £345 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £548
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -9.77% +4.29%
75th Percentile £590 £561 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £520
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.79% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £63.80 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £68.00 £53.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.11 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +10.62% -15.19%
75th Percentile - £78.23 £74.75
90th Percentile - £78.61 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -10.67%

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 40,694 26,498 36,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.34% 91.04% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,533 17,004 23,615
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,106 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 21 May 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 15 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 21 May 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 +17 401 £516 +0.65% 143
UK excluding London -9 246 £475 -0.94% 117
London -11 188 £550 +4.76% 50
Work from Home -62 115 £500 +13.64% 101
North of England -32 72 £450 +12.50% 39
Midlands -5 65 £465 -8.10% 9
West Midlands -14 53 £475 -7.23% 6
South East -34 49 £575 +15.00% 31
Scotland -5 37 £470 +4.33% 9
North West -18 35 £450 +15.38% 18
Yorkshire -44 26 £480 +20.00% 10
South West -26 15 £475 -15.93% 8
North East -12 13 £450 -20.00% 11
East of England -12 13 £475 +0.05% 11
East Midlands -19 11 £354 -1.12% 3

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
1 105 (22.01%) Confluence
2 23 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.82%) CMS
3 9 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.47%) Apache
5 6 (1.26%) SAS
6 4 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.84%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (3.98%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.47%) Trello
4 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.42%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.84%) Magento
2 2 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 142 (29.77%) Azure
2 115 (24.11%) AWS
3 68 (14.26%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (8.39%) Amazon S3
5 39 (8.18%) Power Platform
6 28 (5.87%) GCP
7 26 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
8 24 (5.03%) GitHub
9 23 (4.82%) Serverless
10 21 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.35%) AWS KMS
14 16 (3.35%) Route 53
15 14 (2.94%) Miro
16 13 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.10%) Snowflake
18 9 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.68%) Firewall
1 8 (1.68%) HTTP
2 7 (1.47%) Network Security
3 3 (0.63%) BGP
3 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.63%) NGFW
3 3 (0.63%) OSPF
3 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) FTP
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%) MQTT
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) SONET
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 37 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.71%) Power BI
4 30 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (5.24%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.82%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.56%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.94%) Big Data
10 14 (2.94%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 13 (2.73%) Hadoop
12 11 (2.31%) Tableau
13 10 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.47%) Metadata
14 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.26%) Looker
Development Applications
1 149 (31.24%) JIRA
2 64 (13.42%) Git
3 57 (11.95%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.50%) GitLab
5 26 (5.45%) Postman
6 20 (4.19%) Mockito
7 17 (3.56%) Maven
7 17 (3.56%) SonarQube
8 16 (3.35%) JUnit
9 13 (2.73%) Selenium
10 12 (2.52%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.31%) jMock
12 9 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.47%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.26%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.26%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.26%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.26%) Xcode
General
1 190 (39.83%) Social Skills
2 104 (21.80%) Finance
2 104 (21.80%) Public Sector
3 85 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.60%) Banking
5 31 (6.50%) Marketing
6 17 (3.56%) Legal
7 16 (3.35%) Retail
8 13 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.10%) Front Office
11 8 (1.68%) Automotive
11 8 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (1.47%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Local Government
13 5 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Aviation
14 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (17.19%) Analyst
2 61 (12.79%) Developer
3 56 (11.74%) Senior
4 49 (10.27%) Business Analyst
5 47 (9.85%) Scrum Master
6 45 (9.43%) Lead
7 42 (8.81%) Project Manager
8 41 (8.60%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (6.71%) Data Engineer
9 32 (6.71%) Java Developer
10 18 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
11 15 (3.14%) Architect
12 14 (2.94%) Senior Developer
12 14 (2.94%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.73%) Agile Coach
13 13 (2.73%) Product Owner
14 12 (2.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.18%) RESTful
2 38 (7.97%) Spring
3 36 (7.55%) REST
4 32 (6.71%) Spring Boot
5 22 (4.61%) Node.js
6 19 (3.98%) AngularJS
6 19 (3.98%) Web Services
7 18 (3.77%) Kafka
8 17 (3.56%) React
8 17 (3.56%) SOAP
9 16 (3.35%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (3.35%) Hibernate
9 16 (3.35%) HTML
9 16 (3.35%) JPA
9 16 (3.35%) JSON
9 16 (3.35%) Spring Batch
9 16 (3.35%) Spring Integration
10 15 (3.14%) .NET
11 14 (2.94%) CSS
11 14 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 124 (26.00%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (4.61%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.77%) PMI
7 13 (2.73%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.26%) Life Science
11 6 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.26%) Wiki
12 5 (1.05%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.05%) NHS
12 5 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.76%) Linux
2 13 (2.73%) Unix
3 12 (2.52%) Windows
4 10 (2.10%) Android
5 8 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (95.18%) Agile
2 423 (88.68%) Scrum
3 162 (33.96%) DevOps
4 133 (27.88%) CI/CD
5 131 (27.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 126 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 102 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (19.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 92 (19.29%) Sprint Planning
10 76 (15.93%) Microservices
11 74 (15.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 66 (13.84%) TDD
12 66 (13.84%) Test Automation
13 64 (13.42%) Decision-Making
14 62 (13.00%) Migration
15 61 (12.79%) User Stories
16 60 (12.58%) Roadmaps
17 58 (12.16%) Project Management
18 57 (11.95%) Acceptance Criteria
19 56 (11.74%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 107 (22.43%) SQL
2 83 (17.40%) Java
3 67 (14.05%) Python
4 32 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.40%) C#
6 16 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.31%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.89%) Scala
10 7 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.26%) Go
11 6 (1.26%) Perl
11 6 (1.26%) Swift
12 5 (1.05%) Bash
12 5 (1.05%) R
13 4 (0.84%) Bicep
14 3 (0.63%) C++
14 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 119 (24.95%) Security Cleared
2 93 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.90%) Degree
4 29 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (5.66%) PMI Certification
6 24 (5.03%) PMP
7 17 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.52%) CISSP
9 11 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.10%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.10%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.47%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.47%) MBA
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.05%) CISM
13 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (14.88%) QA
2 31 (6.50%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.77%) GDPR
5 13 (2.73%) PMO
6 10 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.10%) NIST
6 10 (2.10%) WCAG
7 7 (1.47%) Basel III
8 5 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.05%) SLA
9 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.84%) NCSC
9 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 48 (10.06%) Docker
2 9 (1.89%) Postfix
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.71%) Grafana
3 26 (5.45%) Terraform
4 11 (2.31%) Ansible
5 10 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.05%) Kibana
7 3 (0.63%) CASB
7 3 (0.63%) Foglight
7 3 (0.63%) Rancher
8 2 (0.42%) Argo
8 2 (0.42%) Podman
8 2 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Nagios
9 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) vMotion
9 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.87%) Oracle
3 18 (3.77%) Atlassian
3 18 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.35%) Splunk
5 15 (3.14%) Databricks
5 15 (3.14%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.31%) SAP
8 8 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.47%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.47%) Refinitiv
10 6 (1.26%) Cisco
10 6 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.05%) Google
11 5 (1.05%) Spotify
12 4 (0.84%) IBM
12 4 (0.84%) Okta
12 4 (0.84%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.84%) VMware