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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 218 218
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 -28
Contract jobs citing Kanban 573 404 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.23% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.36% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 291 325
10th Percentile £375 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -5.90% +0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £654 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £50.87
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £58.35
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +7.91% -13.13%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £75.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £78.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -18.24%

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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
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 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 0 484 £517 +3.34% 156
UK excluding London -2 274 £489 +4.55% 113
London -21 247 £545 -1.00% 77
Work from Home -48 146 £516 +14.63% 98
North of England -43 81 £484 +14.02% 34
Midlands -23 61 £467 +5.98% 11
West Midlands -23 55 £475 -5.00% 8
South East -48 48 £600 +21.46% 32
Scotland -3 43 £463 -5.03% 8
North West -36 33 £538 +31.10% 14
Yorkshire -57 25 £500 +11.86% 10
North East -23 23 £450 -20.00% 11
South West -21 20 £483 +0.26% 15
East of England +1 17 £438 -7.89% 5
East Midlands -18 5 £402 +12.29% 3
Wales -18 4 £513 +6.49% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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
1 130 (22.69%) Confluence
2 21 (3.66%) CMS
3 19 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.05%) Apache
6 6 (1.05%) SAS
7 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.70%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.57%) Trello
5 8 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.70%) Notion
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Magento
2 5 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) Primavera
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.17%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 196 (34.21%) Azure
2 151 (26.35%) AWS
3 99 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (7.85%) Amazon S3
4 45 (7.85%) Power Platform
5 39 (6.81%) GCP
6 28 (4.89%) Serverless
7 25 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
8 24 (4.19%) GitHub
9 20 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (2.97%) AWS KMS
12 16 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.79%) Route 53
12 16 (2.79%) Snowflake
13 15 (2.62%) Miro
14 10 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.75%) Firebase
14 10 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.75%) Network Security
2 7 (1.22%) Firewall
3 4 (0.70%) MQTT
4 3 (0.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.52%) NGFW
5 2 (0.35%) DHCP
5 2 (0.35%) FTP
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.17%) BGP
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.17%) MPLS
6 1 (0.17%) OSPF
6 1 (0.17%) RS-232
6 1 (0.17%) RS-422
6 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.17%) SONET
6 1 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.17%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 33 (5.76%) Power BI
4 30 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.19%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (3.66%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.79%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.27%) Tableau
10 12 (2.09%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.92%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.75%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.57%) Big Data
13 9 (1.57%) Looker
14 7 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 193 (33.68%) JIRA
2 82 (14.31%) Jenkins
3 67 (11.69%) Git
4 37 (6.46%) GitLab
5 24 (4.19%) Postman
5 24 (4.19%) SonarQube
6 20 (3.49%) Selenium
7 19 (3.32%) JUnit
8 18 (3.14%) Maven
8 18 (3.14%) Mockito
9 12 (2.09%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.92%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.92%) jMock
11 10 (1.75%) fastlane
12 9 (1.57%) Android Studio
12 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.57%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.57%) Subversion
13 8 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.40%) Xcode
General
1 246 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 149 (26.00%) Public Sector
3 137 (23.91%) Finance
4 110 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (8.20%) Banking
6 40 (6.98%) Marketing
7 25 (4.36%) Retail
8 22 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.27%) Legal
10 13 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.75%) Front Office
13 7 (1.22%) Local Government
14 6 (1.05%) Automotive
14 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Aviation
15 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (16.93%) Analyst
2 76 (13.26%) Developer
3 60 (10.47%) Scrum Master
4 58 (10.12%) Senior
5 55 (9.60%) Delivery Manager
6 52 (9.08%) Business Analyst
7 47 (8.20%) Lead
8 36 (6.28%) Project Manager
9 33 (5.76%) Data Engineer
10 31 (5.41%) Product Owner
11 30 (5.24%) Java Developer
12 26 (4.54%) Technical Analyst
13 23 (4.01%) Architect
14 17 (2.97%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.79%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 16 (2.79%) Product Manager
16 14 (2.44%) Agile Coach
16 14 (2.44%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.27%) Security Engineer
17 13 (2.27%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.85%) RESTful
2 41 (7.16%) REST
3 40 (6.98%) Spring
4 38 (6.63%) Spring Boot
5 23 (4.01%) Kafka
5 23 (4.01%) Node.js
6 22 (3.84%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.32%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (3.32%) JSON
7 19 (3.32%) SOAP
7 19 (3.32%) Web Services
8 18 (3.14%) Hibernate
8 18 (3.14%) JPA
9 17 (2.97%) CSS
9 17 (2.97%) HTML
10 16 (2.79%) Spring Batch
10 16 (2.79%) Spring Cloud
10 16 (2.79%) Spring Integration
11 15 (2.62%) .NET
12 14 (2.44%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 159 (27.75%) Product Ownership
2 45 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.79%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.27%) PMI
9 12 (2.09%) Life Science
10 11 (1.92%) NHS
11 10 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.22%) Replication
13 7 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.05%) Wiki
15 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.63%) Linux
2 14 (2.44%) Android
3 10 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.75%) Unix
4 9 (1.57%) Windows
5 4 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (95.99%) Agile
2 503 (87.78%) Scrum
3 225 (39.27%) DevOps
4 187 (32.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 170 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 155 (27.05%) CI/CD
7 132 (23.04%) Sprint Planning
8 129 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (19.72%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 92 (16.06%) Microservices
10 92 (16.06%) User Stories
11 91 (15.88%) Decision-Making
12 88 (15.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 81 (14.14%) Sprint Retrospective
14 80 (13.96%) TDD
15 79 (13.79%) Roadmaps
16 77 (13.44%) Acceptance Criteria
16 77 (13.44%) Test Automation
17 74 (12.91%) Analytics
18 66 (11.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 111 (19.37%) SQL
2 96 (16.75%) Java
3 82 (14.31%) Python
4 36 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 27 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.66%) C#
7 14 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 13 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.92%) Scala
11 8 (1.40%) Swift
12 7 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.05%) Bash
13 6 (1.05%) Bicep
14 5 (0.87%) R
15 4 (0.70%) Perl
15 4 (0.70%) Rust
16 3 (0.52%) C++
16 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 121 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.69%) Degree
4 39 (6.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (4.54%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.32%) PMP
7 17 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.44%) CISSP
10 9 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.22%) CSPO
13 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.05%) CISM
14 5 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.26%) QA
2 33 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.97%) WCAG
4 16 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.44%) PMO
6 13 (2.27%) GDPR
7 11 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.75%) GxP
9 9 (1.57%) NIST
10 8 (1.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 5 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.87%) SLA
12 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.70%) NCSC
12 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (9.95%) Docker
2 9 (1.57%) Postfix
3 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.58%) Grafana
3 30 (5.24%) Terraform
4 11 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.40%) Ansible
5 8 (1.40%) Kibana
6 6 (1.05%) Puppet
7 4 (0.70%) Podman
8 3 (0.52%) CASB
8 3 (0.52%) Foglight
9 2 (0.35%) Argo
9 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.58%) Oracle
3 26 (4.54%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.14%) SAP
6 17 (2.97%) Google
6 17 (2.97%) Splunk
7 16 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.62%) Databricks
8 15 (2.62%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 13 (2.27%) IBM
11 7 (1.22%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.22%) Refinitiv
11 7 (1.22%) Workday
12 6 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (0.87%) BMC
13 5 (0.87%) New Relic
13 5 (0.87%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.87%) Spotify