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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 229 214
Rank change year-on-year -6 -15 -38
Contract jobs citing Kanban 552 370 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.28% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 255 331
10th Percentile £363 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.30% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £574 £595
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £470 £503
% change year-on-year +2.23% -6.47% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £43.38 £28.55 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £39.38 £45.88
Median hourly rate £73.75 £51.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -23.88% -16.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.00 £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 43,975 28,802 36,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.72% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,325 18,167 23,595
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,639 1,417 2,517
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +8.91%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -10 458 £513 +2.50% 191
UK excluding London -11 277 £481 +2.23% 121
London -28 224 £550 +4.76% 89
Work from Home -35 141 £500 +13.64% 115
North of England -36 82 £455 +10.85% 42
Midlands -22 58 £475 -1.55% 16
West Midlands -24 52 £475 -5.00% 15
Scotland +1 48 £463 +2.78% 5
South East -39 48 £575 +16.40% 34
North West -22 36 £494 +23.44% 27
Yorkshire -55 27 £500 +11.11% 8
East of England -12 19 £475 - 9
North East -18 19 £450 -20.00% 7
South West -11 18 £475 -11.63% 11
East Midlands -18 5 £402 +2.42% 1
Wales -19 4 £513 +5.13% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 122 (22.10%) Confluence
2 26 (4.71%) CMS
3 23 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.63%) Apache
4 9 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.09%) SAS
5 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.09%) Trello
6 3 (0.54%) Notion
7 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Magento
2 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.36%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.36%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 177 (32.07%) Azure
2 144 (26.09%) AWS
3 90 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.61%) Amazon S3
5 39 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 35 (6.34%) GCP
7 27 (4.89%) Serverless
8 26 (4.71%) GitHub
9 25 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.90%) AWS KMS
13 16 (2.90%) Route 53
14 14 (2.54%) Miro
15 13 (2.36%) SaaS
16 11 (1.99%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.81%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.99%) Network Security
2 10 (1.81%) Firewall
3 5 (0.91%) HTTP
4 4 (0.72%) MQTT
5 3 (0.54%) BGP
5 3 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.54%) NGFW
5 3 (0.54%) OSPF
5 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.18%) RS-232
7 1 (0.18%) RS-422
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) SONET
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.70%) NoSQL
2 33 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (5.07%) Power BI
4 25 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.99%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 21 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.90%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.36%) Big Data
9 13 (2.36%) Hadoop
10 12 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.81%) Tableau
12 7 (1.27%) Metadata
12 7 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.09%) Looker
14 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 174 (31.52%) JIRA
2 70 (12.68%) Jenkins
3 69 (12.50%) Git
4 31 (5.62%) Postman
5 29 (5.25%) GitLab
6 20 (3.62%) Selenium
6 20 (3.62%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.08%) Maven
7 17 (3.08%) Mockito
8 16 (2.90%) JUnit
9 12 (2.17%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.17%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.99%) jMock
11 10 (1.81%) fastlane
12 9 (1.63%) Android Studio
12 9 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.45%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.45%) Xcode
14 7 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 232 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 137 (24.82%) Public Sector
3 123 (22.28%) Finance
4 106 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.97%) Banking
6 38 (6.88%) Marketing
7 24 (4.35%) Retail
8 18 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.90%) Legal
10 13 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.63%) Automotive
14 9 (1.63%) Front Office
15 6 (1.09%) Local Government
15 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Aviation
16 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (17.03%) Analyst
2 74 (13.41%) Developer
3 60 (10.87%) Scrum Master
4 59 (10.69%) Senior
5 52 (9.42%) Business Analyst
6 50 (9.06%) Delivery Manager
7 40 (7.25%) Lead
8 36 (6.52%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 29 (5.25%) Java Developer
10 29 (5.25%) Product Owner
11 24 (4.35%) Architect
11 24 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
12 15 (2.72%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.72%) Software Engineer
13 14 (2.54%) Product Manager
13 14 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
14 13 (2.36%) Security Engineer
15 12 (2.17%) Agile Coach
15 12 (2.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.42%) RESTful
2 38 (6.88%) Spring
3 37 (6.70%) REST
4 35 (6.34%) Spring Boot
5 21 (3.80%) Node.js
6 20 (3.62%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.44%) .NET
7 19 (3.44%) Kafka
7 19 (3.44%) Web Services
8 17 (3.08%) CSS
8 17 (3.08%) HTML
8 17 (3.08%) JSON
8 17 (3.08%) SOAP
9 16 (2.90%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (2.90%) AWS CDK
9 16 (2.90%) Hibernate
9 16 (2.90%) JPA
9 16 (2.90%) React
9 16 (2.90%) Spring Batch
9 16 (2.90%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 159 (28.80%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.43%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.26%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.72%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.17%) Life Science
9 9 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.63%) PMI
10 8 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.45%) NHS
11 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.09%) Wiki
13 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.70%) Linux
2 14 (2.54%) Android
3 10 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.63%) Unix
4 9 (1.63%) Windows
5 6 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (96.38%) Agile
2 482 (87.32%) Scrum
3 208 (37.68%) DevOps
4 164 (29.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 156 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (27.17%) CI/CD
7 122 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (21.38%) Sprint Planning
9 104 (18.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 89 (16.12%) Microservices
11 87 (15.76%) User Stories
12 86 (15.58%) Decision-Making
13 81 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 77 (13.95%) TDD
15 75 (13.59%) Test Automation
16 74 (13.41%) Roadmaps
17 73 (13.22%) Sprint Retrospective
18 71 (12.86%) Acceptance Criteria
18 71 (12.86%) Analytics
19 63 (11.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 113 (20.47%) SQL
2 94 (17.03%) Java
3 76 (13.77%) Python
4 36 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.17%) C#
6 21 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.54%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.54%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.63%) Scala
10 8 (1.45%) Swift
11 7 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.09%) Go
12 6 (1.09%) Perl
13 5 (0.91%) R
14 4 (0.72%) Bash
14 4 (0.72%) Bicep
14 4 (0.72%) C++
14 4 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 143 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 116 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.96%) Degree
4 32 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (3.62%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.44%) PMP
7 17 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.72%) CISSP
9 13 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.09%) CISM
12 6 (1.09%) CSPO
12 6 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 4 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.13%) QA
2 34 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.08%) GDPR
4 16 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.90%) PMO
5 14 (2.54%) WCAG
6 11 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.81%) GxP
8 9 (1.63%) NIST
9 8 (1.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.91%) SLA
11 4 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.72%) NCSC
11 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (9.06%) Docker
2 9 (1.63%) Postfix
3 3 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.36%) vSphere
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.80%) Grafana
3 27 (4.89%) Terraform
4 11 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.81%) Ansible
6 5 (0.91%) Kibana
7 4 (0.72%) Podman
7 4 (0.72%) Puppet
8 3 (0.54%) CASB
8 3 (0.54%) Foglight
9 2 (0.36%) Rancher
10 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.18%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) vMotion
10 1 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.80%) Oracle
3 25 (4.53%) Atlassian
4 18 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.08%) Splunk
6 15 (2.72%) Google
6 15 (2.72%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.54%) Databricks
7 14 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.36%) SAP
9 8 (1.45%) IBM
10 7 (1.27%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.27%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.09%) Cisco
11 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.91%) Apple
12 5 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (0.91%) New Relic
12 5 (0.91%) VMware