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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 239 249
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -89
Contract jobs citing Kanban 438 335 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.08% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.21% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 226 311
10th Percentile £358 £361 £394
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -4.76% -3.54%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £681 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £25.81 -
25th Percentile - £26.66 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £37.63 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +99.34% -17.99% -41.12%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £62.50
90th Percentile - £69.33 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £60.61 £45.88
% change year-on-year +23.74% +32.11% -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 34,907 27,716 39,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.98% 89.51% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,112 17,001 25,591
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 852 2,127
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +7.69%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +15 357 £513 +0.89% 182
UK excluding London -37 198 £475 -5.00% 148
London +27 194 £540 +3.60% 56
Work from Home -45 106 £500 +11.11% 140
North of England -19 56 £453 +3.54% 44
Midlands -21 42 £436 -24.26% 17
Scotland -10 37 £470 +5.92% 2
South East -44 37 £525 +5.00% 54
North West -9 30 £401 +9.26% 25
West Midlands -35 22 £490 -14.78% 15
East Midlands -7 20 £358 - 2
Yorkshire -46 20 £513 +2.50% 15
South West -10 16 £550 -0.90% 15
East of England -18 10 £493 +19.52% 15
North East -6 8 £541 - 4
Wales -7 5 £509 -3.05% 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 95 (21.69%) Confluence
2 10 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.05%) Apache
3 9 (2.05%) CMS
4 5 (1.14%) nginx
5 4 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.91%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (4.79%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.37%) Trello
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.46%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Finacle
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (23.74%) Azure
2 85 (19.41%) AWS
3 55 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.90%) Power Platform
5 34 (7.76%) GCP
5 34 (7.76%) GitHub
6 23 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.02%) Serverless
8 18 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.88%) Snowflake
10 16 (3.65%) Miro
11 14 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.05%) Figma
14 9 (2.05%) SaaS
15 7 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.83%) HTTP
2 5 (1.14%) Firewall
3 3 (0.68%) BGP
3 3 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.68%) DNS
3 3 (0.68%) OSPF
3 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.46%) FTP
4 2 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) SAN
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.62%) Power BI
2 21 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.34%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.42%) Metadata
7 13 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (2.28%) Data Vault
8 10 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.05%) Big Data
9 9 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.83%) Tableau
11 6 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 152 (34.70%) JIRA
2 60 (13.70%) Git
3 34 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.94%) GitLab
5 18 (4.11%) Postman
6 16 (3.65%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.74%) Selenium
8 10 (2.28%) ERwin
9 9 (2.05%) ER Studio
9 9 (2.05%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.83%) Mockito
11 6 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.37%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.14%) JUnit
12 5 (1.14%) Maven
12 5 (1.14%) ScalaTest
12 5 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.91%) JMeter
General
1 174 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 105 (23.97%) Finance
3 72 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 54 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (10.50%) Banking
6 23 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (4.11%) Front Office
8 12 (2.74%) Legal
8 12 (2.74%) Retail
9 11 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.05%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.05%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.60%) Marketing
12 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Aviation
14 3 (0.68%) Billing
14 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 73 (16.67%) Analyst
2 64 (14.61%) Developer
3 51 (11.64%) Business Analyst
4 50 (11.42%) Senior
5 45 (10.27%) Project Manager
6 36 (8.22%) Delivery Manager
7 35 (7.99%) Scrum Master
8 31 (7.08%) Java Developer
9 27 (6.16%) Lead
10 15 (3.42%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.20%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.20%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (2.74%) Agile Project Manager
13 12 (2.74%) Data Modeller
13 12 (2.74%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.51%) Test Analyst
15 10 (2.28%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.68%) REST
2 29 (6.62%) React
3 25 (5.71%) Spring
4 24 (5.48%) Spring Boot
5 22 (5.02%) Kafka
6 18 (4.11%) JSON
6 18 (4.11%) RESTful
7 17 (3.88%) .NET
7 17 (3.88%) Node.js
8 16 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.42%) HTML
10 13 (2.97%) CSS
11 12 (2.74%) Playwright
12 11 (2.51%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.28%) XML
14 9 (2.05%) PyTorch
15 8 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (1.83%) Web Services
16 7 (1.60%) FastAPI
16 7 (1.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (25.57%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.71%) PMI
3 23 (5.25%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.79%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.11%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.88%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.83%) Derivative
11 7 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.37%) FMCG
12 6 (1.37%) NHS
12 6 (1.37%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.37%) Wiki
13 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.16%) Linux
2 22 (5.02%) Windows
3 11 (2.51%) Unix
4 6 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Android
5 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.46%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (95.43%) Agile
2 386 (88.13%) Scrum
3 132 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (26.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (25.34%) DevOps
7 110 (25.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 104 (23.74%) CI/CD
9 68 (15.53%) User Stories
10 66 (15.07%) Roadmaps
10 66 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 66 (15.07%) Test Automation
11 64 (14.61%) TDD
12 62 (14.16%) Sprint Planning
13 53 (12.10%) Analytics
14 52 (11.87%) Microservices
14 52 (11.87%) Project Management
15 48 (10.96%) Acceptance Criteria
15 48 (10.96%) Decision-Making
16 46 (10.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 80 (18.26%) Java
2 72 (16.44%) SQL
3 57 (13.01%) Python
4 33 (7.53%) C#
5 30 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.34%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.83%) Scala
9 7 (1.60%) Bash
9 7 (1.60%) Perl
10 6 (1.37%) C++
10 6 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.37%) Go
10 6 (1.37%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.37%) Ruby
10 6 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.91%) Bicep
12 3 (0.68%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.42%) Degree
4 29 (6.62%) PMI Certification
5 22 (5.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (3.88%) PMP
7 15 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.42%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.28%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.83%) CBAP
10 8 (1.83%) CISSP
10 8 (1.83%) MBA
11 6 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.37%) CISM
11 6 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.14%) CISA
12 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (18.49%) QA
2 30 (6.85%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.74%) GDPR
5 11 (2.51%) PMO
6 10 (2.28%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.83%) Basel III
7 8 (1.83%) ISO 8583
8 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.60%) PSD2
9 5 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (1.14%) NIST
10 4 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.91%) GRC
10 4 (0.91%) WCAG
11 3 (0.68%) COBIT
11 3 (0.68%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.68%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.46%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 41 (9.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.46%) Postfix
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.46%) vSphere
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.39%) Terraform
3 23 (5.25%) Grafana
4 13 (2.97%) Ansible
5 7 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.14%) Rancher
7 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 4 (0.91%) Consul
7 4 (0.91%) Packer
8 3 (0.68%) Nagios
8 3 (0.68%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.23%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) vMotion
9 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.48%) Oracle
3 15 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.20%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.74%) Databricks
6 11 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (1.60%) SAP
8 6 (1.37%) Sparx
9 5 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.14%) Splunk
10 4 (0.91%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.91%) Cisco
10 4 (0.91%) VMware
11 3 (0.68%) Arista
11 3 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (0.68%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.68%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.68%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.68%) Spotify