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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 224 222
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 -30
Contract jobs citing Kanban 550 411 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.25% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.38% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 292 312
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 £652 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +7.91% -9.00% -
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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -29 461 £518 +3.50% 236
UK excluding London -6 260 £491 +7.91% 132
London -44 239 £550 +1.85% 118
Work from Home -55 139 £517 +14.82% 143
North of England -57 75 £500 +17.10% 48
Midlands -23 58 £467 +9.07% 15
West Midlands -15 53 £475 -5.00% 8
South East -51 45 £600 +21.46% 31
Scotland 0 44 £475 -3.85% 9
North West -30 27 £550 +30.95% 20
North East -19 24 £450 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire -59 24 £500 +11.86% 14
South West -22 19 £483 +0.26% 17
East of England -6 15 £363 -23.68% 7
Wales -12 4 £513 +9.33% 6
East Midlands -20 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
1 127 (23.09%) Confluence
2 19 (3.45%) CMS
3 18 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.27%) Apache
7 6 (1.09%) SAS
8 5 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.64%) Trello
5 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.73%) Notion
7 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Magento
2 5 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.36%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.36%) 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
1 190 (34.55%) Azure
2 148 (26.91%) AWS
3 99 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.64%) Amazon S3
5 39 (7.09%) Power Platform
6 38 (6.91%) GCP
7 26 (4.73%) Serverless
8 23 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (4.18%) GitHub
9 20 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (2.91%) Snowflake
11 15 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.73%) AWS KMS
12 14 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.55%) Route 53
13 13 (2.36%) Miro
14 12 (2.18%) SaaS
15 10 (1.82%) Firebase
16 9 (1.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) Network Security
2 7 (1.27%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) MQTT
4 3 (0.55%) NGFW
5 2 (0.36%) DNS
5 2 (0.36%) FTP
5 2 (0.36%) HTTP
6 1 (0.18%) BGP
6 1 (0.18%) DHCP
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.18%) MPLS
6 1 (0.18%) OSPF
6 1 (0.18%) RS-232
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 36 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.18%) NoSQL
3 29 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (5.27%) Power BI
4 27 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (4.18%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.55%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.36%) Tableau
10 11 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.64%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.64%) Looker
11 9 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.45%) Big Data
12 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.91%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.91%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 187 (34.00%) JIRA
2 78 (14.18%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.91%) Git
4 36 (6.55%) GitLab
5 23 (4.18%) Postman
6 22 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.82%) Selenium
8 17 (3.09%) JUnit
9 16 (2.91%) Maven
9 16 (2.91%) Mockito
10 12 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.82%) DbUnit
11 10 (1.82%) fastlane
12 9 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.64%) jMock
12 9 (1.64%) Subversion
13 8 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.27%) Android Studio
14 7 (1.27%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 236 (42.91%) Social Skills
2 151 (27.45%) Public Sector
3 132 (24.00%) Finance
4 106 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (8.18%) Banking
6 41 (7.45%) Marketing
7 24 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (4.18%) Retail
9 15 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.18%) Legal
12 11 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.82%) Front Office
14 7 (1.27%) Local Government
15 6 (1.09%) Automotive
15 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Games
16 5 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (16.55%) Analyst
2 69 (12.55%) Developer
3 58 (10.55%) Scrum Master
4 55 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 54 (9.82%) Senior
6 48 (8.73%) Business Analyst
6 48 (8.73%) Lead
7 35 (6.36%) Project Manager
8 32 (5.82%) Product Owner
9 31 (5.64%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 25 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
11 24 (4.36%) Architect
12 16 (2.91%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 16 (2.91%) Product Manager
13 15 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 14 (2.55%) Agile Coach
14 14 (2.55%) Systems Analyst
15 13 (2.36%) Security Engineer
16 12 (2.18%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.00%) RESTful
2 39 (7.09%) REST
3 38 (6.91%) Spring
4 36 (6.55%) Spring Boot
5 23 (4.18%) Kafka
6 20 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.45%) Node.js
8 17 (3.09%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (3.09%) SOAP
8 17 (3.09%) Web Services
9 16 (2.91%) CSS
9 16 (2.91%) Hibernate
9 16 (2.91%) HTML
9 16 (2.91%) JPA
10 15 (2.73%) JSON
11 14 (2.55%) .NET
11 14 (2.55%) AWS CDK
11 14 (2.55%) Spring Batch
11 14 (2.55%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (2.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 155 (28.18%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.18%) Life Science
7 12 (2.18%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.00%) NHS
8 11 (2.00%) PMI
9 9 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.27%) Replication
10 7 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.36%) Linux
2 12 (2.18%) Android
3 9 (1.64%) Unix
4 8 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.09%) Windows
6 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) 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
1 528 (96.00%) Agile
2 483 (87.82%) Scrum
3 219 (39.82%) DevOps
4 183 (33.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 156 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 146 (26.55%) CI/CD
7 131 (23.82%) Sprint Planning
8 123 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (19.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 91 (16.55%) User Stories
11 87 (15.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 86 (15.64%) Decision-Making
13 85 (15.45%) Microservices
14 81 (14.73%) Sprint Retrospective
15 77 (14.00%) Roadmaps
16 74 (13.45%) Acceptance Criteria
16 74 (13.45%) Test Automation
17 73 (13.27%) TDD
18 72 (13.09%) Analytics
19 65 (11.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 106 (19.27%) SQL
2 92 (16.73%) Java
3 78 (14.18%) Python
4 31 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.73%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.64%) C#
7 13 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.18%) Scala
9 11 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 11 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.09%) Bash
10 6 (1.09%) Swift
11 5 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.91%) R
11 5 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.73%) Bicep
12 4 (0.73%) Rust
13 3 (0.55%) C++
13 3 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 143 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 114 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.82%) Degree
4 40 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (4.18%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.91%) PMP
8 14 (2.55%) CISSP
9 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.27%) CSPO
10 6 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.09%) CISM
11 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.91%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.91%) IIBA
11 5 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.82%) QA
2 34 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.09%) WCAG
4 15 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.55%) PMO
6 12 (2.18%) GDPR
7 11 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.82%) GxP
9 9 (1.64%) NIST
10 8 (1.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 6 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.91%) SLA
13 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.73%) NCSC
13 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (9.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.27%) Postfix
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.45%) Grafana
3 25 (4.55%) Terraform
4 11 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.45%) Kibana
6 7 (1.27%) Ansible
6 7 (1.27%) Puppet
7 4 (0.73%) Podman
8 3 (0.55%) CASB
8 3 (0.55%) Foglight
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.36%) 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 53 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.64%) Oracle
3 22 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.27%) SAP
6 17 (3.09%) Google
7 16 (2.91%) Splunk
8 15 (2.73%) Databricks
8 15 (2.73%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.55%) Dynatrace
10 13 (2.36%) IBM
10 13 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (1.27%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.27%) Refinitiv
12 6 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (1.09%) Workday
13 5 (0.91%) Apple
13 5 (0.91%) BMC
13 5 (0.91%) Spotify
14 4 (0.73%) Red Hat