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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 221 214
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 -24
Contract jobs citing Kanban 566 405 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.23% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.36% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 287 313
10th Percentile £387 £340 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -5.90% +1.94%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £600
90th Percentile £658 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +5.96% -7.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.90
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +4.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £77.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £78.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.17% -15.29%

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 45,557 29,755 33,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.46% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,078 18,625 21,348
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,814 1,660 1,859
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.32 £18.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.10 £41.25
% change year-on-year +90.30% -44.00% +7.56%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -13 475 £519 +3.75% 232
UK excluding London +1 268 £489 +5.96% 131
London -37 246 £550 +0.92% 117
Work from Home -55 144 £525 +16.67% 138
North of England -57 80 £500 +17.10% 49
Midlands -17 58 £467 +5.98% 15
West Midlands -12 53 £475 -5.00% 8
South East -39 46 £600 +21.46% 30
Scotland +3 45 £475 -3.85% 10
North West -33 31 £538 +27.98% 21
Yorkshire -52 25 £500 +11.86% 14
North East -20 24 £450 -20.00% 15
South West -30 19 £483 +0.26% 17
East of England -1 16 £425 -10.53% 6
Wales -14 4 £513 +9.33% 6
East Midlands -18 4 £402 +12.29% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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
1 128 (22.61%) Confluence
2 21 (3.71%) CMS
3 20 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.24%) Apache
7 6 (1.06%) SAS
8 5 (0.88%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.53%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.59%) Trello
5 7 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.71%) Notion
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Magento
2 5 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.35%) Shopify
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.18%) Primavera
6 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.18%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 194 (34.28%) Azure
2 149 (26.33%) AWS
3 101 (17.84%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.42%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 38 (6.71%) GCP
7 26 (4.59%) Serverless
8 24 (4.24%) GitHub
9 23 (4.06%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 15 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.65%) AWS KMS
12 15 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (2.65%) Miro
13 14 (2.47%) Route 53
14 12 (2.12%) SaaS
15 10 (1.77%) Firebase
16 9 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.77%) Network Security
2 7 (1.24%) Firewall
3 4 (0.71%) MQTT
4 3 (0.53%) NGFW
5 2 (0.35%) DNS
5 2 (0.35%) FTP
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) BGP
6 1 (0.18%) DHCP
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.18%) MPLS
6 1 (0.18%) OSPF
6 1 (0.18%) RS-232
6 1 (0.18%) RS-422
6 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.18%) SONET
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.18%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.01%) NoSQL
3 30 (5.30%) Power BI
4 29 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 14 (2.47%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.30%) Tableau
11 12 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.77%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.59%) Big Data
13 9 (1.59%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.59%) Looker
13 9 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 189 (33.39%) JIRA
2 79 (13.96%) Jenkins
3 62 (10.95%) Git
4 38 (6.71%) GitLab
5 24 (4.24%) Postman
6 22 (3.89%) Selenium
6 22 (3.89%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.00%) JUnit
8 16 (2.83%) Maven
8 16 (2.83%) Mockito
9 12 (2.12%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.77%) DbUnit
10 10 (1.77%) fastlane
11 9 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.59%) jMock
11 9 (1.59%) Subversion
12 8 (1.41%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.24%) Android Studio
13 7 (1.24%) Zephyr
General
1 246 (43.46%) Social Skills
2 151 (26.68%) Public Sector
3 137 (24.20%) Finance
4 107 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (8.13%) Banking
6 42 (7.42%) Marketing
7 24 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (4.24%) Retail
8 15 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.12%) Legal
11 11 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.77%) Front Office
13 7 (1.24%) Local Government
14 6 (1.06%) Automotive
14 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.88%) Games
15 5 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (17.14%) Analyst
2 69 (12.19%) Developer
3 59 (10.42%) Scrum Master
4 56 (9.89%) Delivery Manager
5 55 (9.72%) Senior
6 53 (9.36%) Business Analyst
7 48 (8.48%) Lead
8 37 (6.54%) Project Manager
9 32 (5.65%) Product Owner
10 31 (5.48%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.59%) Technical Analyst
12 25 (4.42%) Java Developer
13 24 (4.24%) Architect
14 16 (2.83%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 16 (2.83%) Product Manager
15 15 (2.65%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.47%) Agile Coach
16 14 (2.47%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.30%) Security Engineer
18 12 (2.12%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.77%) RESTful
2 39 (6.89%) REST
3 38 (6.71%) Spring
4 36 (6.36%) Spring Boot
5 24 (4.24%) Kafka
6 20 (3.53%) AngularJS
6 20 (3.53%) Node.js
7 17 (3.00%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (3.00%) SOAP
7 17 (3.00%) Web Services
8 16 (2.83%) CSS
8 16 (2.83%) Hibernate
8 16 (2.83%) HTML
8 16 (2.83%) JPA
8 16 (2.83%) JSON
9 15 (2.65%) .NET
10 14 (2.47%) Playwright
10 14 (2.47%) Spring Batch
10 14 (2.47%) Spring Cloud
10 14 (2.47%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 158 (27.92%) Product Ownership
2 46 (8.13%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.12%) Life Science
7 12 (2.12%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.94%) NHS
8 11 (1.94%) PMI
9 9 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.24%) Replication
11 7 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.54%) Linux
2 12 (2.12%) Android
3 10 (1.77%) Unix
4 8 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.24%) Windows
6 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (96.11%) Agile
2 499 (88.16%) Scrum
3 224 (39.58%) DevOps
4 187 (33.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 159 (28.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (26.50%) CI/CD
7 133 (23.50%) Sprint Planning
8 126 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (19.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 94 (16.61%) User Stories
11 90 (15.90%) Decision-Making
12 89 (15.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 87 (15.37%) Microservices
14 82 (14.49%) Sprint Retrospective
15 80 (14.13%) Acceptance Criteria
16 78 (13.78%) Roadmaps
17 77 (13.60%) Test Automation
18 75 (13.25%) Analytics
18 75 (13.25%) TDD
19 67 (11.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 107 (18.90%) SQL
2 93 (16.43%) Java
3 80 (14.13%) Python
4 32 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.59%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.71%) C#
7 13 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.12%) Scala
9 11 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.06%) Bash
10 6 (1.06%) Swift
11 5 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.88%) R
11 5 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.71%) Bicep
12 4 (0.71%) Rust
13 3 (0.53%) Go
13 3 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 145 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.66%) Degree
4 41 (7.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (4.24%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.00%) PMP
7 16 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.47%) CISSP
9 7 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.24%) CSPO
10 6 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.06%) CISM
11 5 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.88%) IIBA
11 5 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.78%) QA
2 34 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.00%) WCAG
4 16 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.47%) PMO
6 13 (2.30%) GDPR
7 11 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.77%) GxP
9 9 (1.59%) NIST
10 8 (1.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 6 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.88%) SLA
13 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.71%) NCSC
13 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (9.54%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.24%) Postfix
4 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.30%) Grafana
3 28 (4.95%) Terraform
4 11 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.41%) Kibana
6 7 (1.24%) Ansible
6 7 (1.24%) Puppet
7 4 (0.71%) Podman
8 3 (0.53%) CASB
8 3 (0.53%) Foglight
9 2 (0.35%) Argo
9 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.48%) Oracle
3 22 (3.89%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.18%) SAP
6 17 (3.00%) Google
7 16 (2.83%) Databricks
7 16 (2.83%) Splunk
8 15 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.47%) Dynatrace
10 13 (2.30%) IBM
10 13 (2.30%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (1.24%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.24%) Refinitiv
11 7 (1.24%) Workday
12 6 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (0.88%) Apple
13 5 (0.88%) BMC
13 5 (0.88%) Spotify
14 4 (0.71%) Red Hat