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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 245 218
Rank change year-on-year +7 -27 -42
Contract jobs citing Kanban 517 327 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.10% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.21% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 223 324
10th Percentile £362 £340 £368
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +2.62%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £652 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £509
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.59% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £39.85 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £48.75 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -5.97% -16.25%
75th Percentile - £76.88 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.13 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -7.59%

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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +9 431 £500 -2.44% 380
UK excluding London +8 265 £476 +0.11% 433
London -12 207 £544 -1.09% 67
Work from Home -42 129 £500 +13.64% 410
North of England -25 80 £453 +13.25% 102
Midlands -17 59 £465 -7.00% 48
West Midlands -20 50 £475 -5.00% 24
South East -38 48 £575 +15.00% 92
Scotland -1 43 £475 +5.56% 42
North West -22 33 £481 +20.31% 48
Yorkshire -47 28 £500 +25.00% 35
North East -14 19 £450 -20.00% 19
South West -17 17 £475 -12.24% 38
East of England -14 14 £475 +0.05% 51
East Midlands -15 8 £340 -5.03% 24
Wales -12 4 £513 +1.23% 37
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 27

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
1 119 (23.02%) Confluence
2 26 (5.03%) CMS
3 23 (4.45%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.74%) Apache
4 9 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.16%) SAS
6 4 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.77%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.35%) Trello
4 6 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.58%) Notion
7 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.77%) Magento
1 4 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.39%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.39%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Primavera
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.56%) Azure
2 131 (25.34%) AWS
3 81 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.93%) Amazon S3
4 41 (7.93%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.00%) GCP
6 28 (5.42%) GitHub
7 26 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
7 26 (5.03%) Serverless
8 21 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.09%) AWS KMS
12 16 (3.09%) Route 53
13 14 (2.71%) Miro
14 11 (2.13%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.93%) Firebase
15 10 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.13%) Network Security
2 8 (1.55%) Firewall
3 7 (1.35%) HTTP
4 4 (0.77%) MQTT
5 3 (0.58%) BGP
5 3 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.58%) NGFW
5 3 (0.58%) OSPF
5 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.39%) DNS
6 2 (0.39%) FTP
7 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) SONET
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.54%) NoSQL
2 36 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.00%) Power BI
4 29 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.64%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.29%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.09%) Relational Database
11 13 (2.51%) Big Data
11 13 (2.51%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.51%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.32%) Tableau
13 10 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.35%) Metadata
14 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.16%) Looker
16 5 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 166 (32.11%) JIRA
2 66 (12.77%) Git
2 66 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 31 (6.00%) GitLab
4 30 (5.80%) Postman
5 20 (3.87%) SonarQube
6 19 (3.68%) Mockito
7 18 (3.48%) Selenium
8 17 (3.29%) Maven
9 16 (3.09%) JUnit
10 12 (2.32%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.13%) jMock
12 10 (1.93%) fastlane
13 9 (1.74%) Android Studio
13 9 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.74%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.55%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.55%) Xcode
15 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 215 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 125 (24.18%) Public Sector
3 112 (21.66%) Finance
4 95 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (8.12%) Banking
6 34 (6.58%) Marketing
7 21 (4.06%) Retail
8 18 (3.48%) Legal
9 15 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.93%) Front Office
13 9 (1.74%) Automotive
14 7 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.97%) Aviation
16 5 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.97%) Local Government
16 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (17.41%) Analyst
2 69 (13.35%) Developer
3 58 (11.22%) Senior
4 54 (10.44%) Business Analyst
5 51 (9.86%) Scrum Master
6 49 (9.48%) Delivery Manager
7 40 (7.74%) Lead
8 39 (7.54%) Project Manager
9 31 (6.00%) Java Developer
10 30 (5.80%) Data Engineer
11 20 (3.87%) Architect
11 20 (3.87%) Product Owner
12 19 (3.68%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.90%) Software Engineer
14 14 (2.71%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.51%) Agile Coach
15 13 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (2.51%) Systems Analyst
16 12 (2.32%) Full-Stack Developer
16 12 (2.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.28%) RESTful
2 39 (7.54%) Spring
3 35 (6.77%) REST
4 34 (6.58%) Spring Boot
5 21 (4.06%) Node.js
6 20 (3.87%) AngularJS
6 20 (3.87%) Kafka
6 20 (3.87%) Web Services
7 17 (3.29%) HTML
7 17 (3.29%) SOAP
8 16 (3.09%) .NET
8 16 (3.09%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (3.09%) Hibernate
8 16 (3.09%) JPA
8 16 (3.09%) React
8 16 (3.09%) Spring Batch
8 16 (3.09%) Spring Integration
9 15 (2.90%) AWS CDK
9 15 (2.90%) CSS
10 14 (2.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 149 (28.82%) Product Ownership
2 40 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.51%) PMI
8 11 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.35%) NHS
11 6 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.16%) Life Science
11 6 (1.16%) Wiki
12 5 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.35%) Linux
2 12 (2.32%) Android
3 11 (2.13%) Windows
4 10 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.93%) Unix
5 6 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (96.32%) Agile
2 449 (86.85%) Scrum
3 190 (36.75%) DevOps
4 151 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (28.43%) CI/CD
6 140 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 109 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (20.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 103 (19.92%) Sprint Planning
10 86 (16.63%) Microservices
11 80 (15.47%) Decision-Making
11 80 (15.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 74 (14.31%) TDD
12 74 (14.31%) Test Automation
13 73 (14.12%) User Stories
14 66 (12.77%) Sprint Retrospective
15 63 (12.19%) Roadmaps
16 62 (11.99%) Analytics
17 60 (11.61%) Migration
18 59 (11.41%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.89%) SQL
2 92 (17.79%) Java
3 72 (13.93%) Python
4 36 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.45%) C#
6 21 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.71%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.32%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.55%) Scala
10 8 (1.55%) Swift
11 7 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.16%) Go
12 6 (1.16%) Perl
13 5 (0.97%) R
14 4 (0.77%) Bash
14 4 (0.77%) Bicep
14 4 (0.77%) Rust
15 3 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 132 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 106 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.25%) Degree
4 31 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.26%) PMI Certification
6 21 (4.06%) PMP
7 16 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.32%) CISSP
10 10 (1.93%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.55%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.97%) CISM
14 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.97%) MBA
15 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 4 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.51%) QA
2 33 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.48%) GDPR
4 14 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.71%) PMO
4 14 (2.71%) WCAG
5 10 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.55%) NIST
7 5 (0.97%) Basel III
7 5 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.97%) SLA
8 4 (0.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.77%) GxP
8 4 (0.77%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (0.77%) NCSC
8 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (9.48%) Docker
2 9 (1.74%) Postfix
3 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.38%) Grafana
3 28 (5.42%) Terraform
4 12 (2.32%) Ansible
4 12 (2.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.97%) Kibana
6 4 (0.77%) Podman
6 4 (0.77%) Puppet
7 3 (0.58%) CASB
7 3 (0.58%) Foglight
8 2 (0.39%) Rancher
9 1 (0.19%) Argo
9 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) vMotion
9 1 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.19%) Oracle
3 27 (5.22%) Atlassian
4 21 (4.06%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.09%) Splunk
6 15 (2.90%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.71%) Databricks
8 13 (2.51%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.51%) SAP
9 9 (1.74%) Google
10 7 (1.35%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.35%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.16%) Cisco
11 6 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.97%) Apple
12 5 (0.97%) Spotify
13 4 (0.77%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.77%) VMware