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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 224 251
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -85
Contract jobs citing Kanban 471 342 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.13% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.25% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 229 289
10th Percentile £358 £366 £375
25th Percentile £413 £415 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -6.98% -1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £651 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.62% +0.05%
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% -42.65%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £75.00
90th Percentile - £69.33 £78.00
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 36,798 27,287 38,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.45% 90.16% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,332 17,120 24,896
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.03% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,175 894 2,252
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.11
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £32.85
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.05% -6.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.81% -4.57% -4.91%

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 March 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 5 March 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 +25 394 £520 +0.97% 231
UK excluding London -40 218 £475 -5.00% 178
London +24 212 £538 +3.86% 76
Work from Home -53 106 £500 +11.11% 145
North of England -15 62 £475 +8.57% 62
Midlands -20 52 £450 -23.40% 23
South East -57 39 £525 +5.00% 43
Scotland -3 35 £463 +2.78% 10
West Midlands -33 32 £475 -19.15% 17
North West -15 30 £431 -1.43% 31
Yorkshire -47 26 £500 +8.46% 22
South West -19 21 £525 -7.08% 24
East Midlands -10 20 £358 - 6
East of England -22 9 £513 +24.30% 11
North East -3 8 £541 - 9
Wales -6 5 £509 -3.05% 4

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
1 101 (21.44%) Confluence
2 17 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.34%) CMS
4 9 (1.91%) Apache
5 5 (1.06%) nginx
5 5 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (4.25%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.49%) Trello
3 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.42%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.70%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (22.93%) Azure
2 93 (19.75%) AWS
3 56 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.01%) GCP
6 31 (6.58%) GitHub
7 21 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.82%) Serverless
10 16 (3.40%) Miro
11 14 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (2.97%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.91%) SaaS
15 8 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.91%) Firewall
2 8 (1.70%) HTTP
3 6 (1.27%) Network Security
4 3 (0.64%) BGP
4 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.64%) DNS
4 3 (0.64%) FTP
4 3 (0.64%) NGFW
4 3 (0.64%) OSPF
4 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.79%) Power BI
2 30 (6.37%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.25%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.40%) Metadata
7 15 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.18%) Hadoop
8 13 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.91%) Big Data
10 9 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.70%) Tableau
12 7 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 156 (33.12%) JIRA
2 65 (13.80%) Git
3 35 (7.43%) Jenkins
4 25 (5.31%) GitLab
5 20 (4.25%) Postman
6 16 (3.40%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.55%) Mockito
8 11 (2.34%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.12%) Selenium
10 9 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.91%) JUnit
10 9 (1.91%) Maven
11 8 (1.70%) ERwin
11 8 (1.70%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.49%) ER Studio
12 7 (1.49%) PowerDesigner
13 6 (1.27%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.06%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.06%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 176 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 115 (24.42%) Finance
3 77 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 69 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.40%) Banking
6 22 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (3.82%) Front Office
8 12 (2.55%) Retail
9 11 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.34%) Legal
9 11 (2.34%) Marketing
10 10 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.91%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (1.91%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.27%) Automotive
13 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.64%) Aviation
15 3 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 72 (15.29%) Analyst
2 61 (12.95%) Developer
3 51 (10.83%) Business Analyst
3 51 (10.83%) Project Manager
4 49 (10.40%) Senior
5 43 (9.13%) Scrum Master
6 40 (8.49%) Delivery Manager
7 38 (8.07%) Lead
8 33 (7.01%) Java Developer
9 21 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.18%) Software Engineer
11 14 (2.97%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.76%) Product Owner
13 12 (2.55%) Agile Project Manager
13 12 (2.55%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.55%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (2.34%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.34%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (2.12%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.70%) REST
2 29 (6.16%) Spring
3 27 (5.73%) React
3 27 (5.73%) Spring Boot
4 21 (4.46%) RESTful
5 20 (4.25%) Kafka
6 19 (4.03%) Node.js
7 18 (3.82%) AngularJS
8 17 (3.61%) JSON
9 16 (3.40%) .NET
10 14 (2.97%) HTML
11 13 (2.76%) Playwright
12 12 (2.55%) CSS
12 12 (2.55%) Web Services
13 11 (2.34%) XML
14 9 (1.91%) AWS CDK
15 7 (1.49%) FastAPI
15 7 (1.49%) PyTorch
15 7 (1.49%) SailPoint
15 7 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 116 (24.63%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.52%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.52%) PMI
4 21 (4.46%) Virtual Team
5 20 (4.25%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.40%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.70%) Derivative
12 7 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.49%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.49%) Wiki
13 6 (1.27%) NHS
14 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.06%) FMCG
14 5 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.79%) Linux
2 20 (4.25%) Windows
3 11 (2.34%) Unix
4 7 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.85%) Android
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (94.90%) Agile
2 414 (87.90%) Scrum
3 132 (28.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 130 (27.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 124 (26.33%) DevOps
6 123 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (24.84%) CI/CD
8 115 (24.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 72 (15.29%) Roadmaps
10 70 (14.86%) Test Automation
11 69 (14.65%) User Stories
12 66 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 66 (14.01%) TDD
13 63 (13.38%) Sprint Planning
14 60 (12.74%) Analytics
14 60 (12.74%) Project Management
15 57 (12.10%) Microservices
16 54 (11.46%) Decision-Making
17 52 (11.04%) Acceptance Criteria
18 49 (10.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 91 (19.32%) SQL
2 79 (16.77%) Java
3 66 (14.01%) Python
4 31 (6.58%) C#
5 28 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.91%) Bash
8 9 (1.91%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.70%) Perl
9 8 (1.70%) Scala
10 7 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.49%) Go
10 7 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.27%) Ruby
12 5 (1.06%) C++
12 5 (1.06%) R
13 4 (0.85%) Bicep
14 3 (0.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 98 (20.81%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 54 (11.46%) Degree
4 34 (7.22%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.10%) PMP
6 23 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (3.61%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (3.40%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.76%) CISSP
10 10 (2.12%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.70%) CBAP
11 8 (1.70%) CISM
11 8 (1.70%) MBA
12 7 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 6 (1.27%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.06%) CISA
14 5 (1.06%) CSPO
14 5 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (17.20%) QA
2 30 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.03%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.61%) GDPR
5 16 (3.40%) PMO
6 13 (2.76%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (2.12%) NIST
9 8 (1.70%) Basel III
9 8 (1.70%) ISO 8583
10 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.27%) PSD2
11 5 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.85%) GRC
13 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.64%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.64%) NCSC
13 3 (0.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (8.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Postfix
3 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.16%) Terraform
3 24 (5.10%) Grafana
4 13 (2.76%) Ansible
5 8 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.06%) Rancher
7 4 (0.85%) Argo
7 4 (0.85%) Consul
7 4 (0.85%) Packer
7 4 (0.85%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.64%) CASB
8 3 (0.64%) Nagios
9 1 (0.21%) Foglight
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) vMotion
9 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.31%) Oracle
3 19 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.61%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.76%) Splunk
6 12 (2.55%) Databricks
7 11 (2.34%) SAP
8 10 (2.12%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.91%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.49%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.27%) Cisco
11 6 (1.27%) Spotify
12 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.85%) Okta
12 4 (0.85%) Sparx
12 4 (0.85%) VMware
13 3 (0.64%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.64%) Informatica
13 3 (0.64%) Juniper