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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 223 221
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -34
Contract jobs citing Kanban 583 386 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.19% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.31% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 274 326
10th Percentile £364 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £492 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -8.04% +2.88%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £34.20 £39.38 £45.88
25th Percentile £47.24 £48.75 £50.04
Median hourly rate £69.75 £63.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -8.03% -16.97%
75th Percentile £74.69 £76.88 £74.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.49% -19.41%

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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +6 486 £515 +3.00% 95
UK excluding London -6 295 £481 +4.17% 71
London -14 236 £550 +2.09% 52
Work from Home -37 150 £505 +12.22% 47
North of England -47 84 £456 +9.55% 19
Midlands -13 65 £475 -1.55% 9
West Midlands -15 59 £475 -5.00% 6
South East -37 51 £589 +19.26% 28
Scotland +6 50 £469 +4.22% 4
North West -31 38 £494 +23.44% 8
Yorkshire -47 27 £500 +16.35% 5
South West -21 21 £475 -1.30% 4
East of England 0 20 £475 - 5
North East -15 19 £450 -20.00% 7
East Midlands -15 5 £402 +2.42% 3
Wales -17 4 £513 +5.13% 3
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
1 137 (23.50%) Confluence
2 26 (4.46%) CMS
3 23 (3.95%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.54%) Apache
4 9 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.03%) SAS
6 5 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.54%) Trello
5 3 (0.51%) Notion
6 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Magento
2 5 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.34%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.34%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.34%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 200 (34.31%) Azure
2 152 (26.07%) AWS
3 102 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 42 (7.20%) Power Platform
6 39 (6.69%) GCP
7 30 (5.15%) Serverless
8 28 (4.80%) GitHub
9 27 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.92%) AWS KMS
13 17 (2.92%) Miro
14 16 (2.74%) Route 53
15 14 (2.40%) Snowflake
16 13 (2.23%) SaaS
17 10 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.72%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.89%) Network Security
2 10 (1.72%) Firewall
3 5 (0.86%) HTTP
4 4 (0.69%) MQTT
5 3 (0.51%) BGP
5 3 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.51%) NGFW
5 3 (0.51%) OSPF
5 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.34%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.17%) DHCP
7 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-422
7 1 (0.17%) SAN
7 1 (0.17%) SONET
7 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.69%) NoSQL
2 36 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.15%) Power BI
4 25 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.23%) Big Data
8 13 (2.23%) Hadoop
9 12 (2.06%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.72%) Tableau
11 8 (1.37%) Metadata
12 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 195 (33.45%) JIRA
2 75 (12.86%) Jenkins
3 74 (12.69%) Git
4 31 (5.32%) GitLab
5 30 (5.15%) Postman
6 22 (3.77%) Selenium
7 20 (3.43%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.92%) JUnit
8 17 (2.92%) Mockito
9 16 (2.74%) Maven
10 12 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 12 (2.06%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.89%) jMock
12 10 (1.72%) fastlane
12 10 (1.72%) Subversion
13 9 (1.54%) Android Studio
13 9 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.54%) Cucumber
13 9 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.37%) Xcode
General
1 245 (42.02%) Social Skills
2 150 (25.73%) Public Sector
3 138 (23.67%) Finance
4 110 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (8.58%) Banking
6 41 (7.03%) Marketing
7 26 (4.46%) Retail
8 22 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.57%) Legal
10 14 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.72%) Front Office
14 8 (1.37%) Automotive
15 7 (1.20%) Local Government
16 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.86%) Aviation
17 5 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (16.64%) Analyst
2 75 (12.86%) Developer
3 66 (11.32%) Scrum Master
4 62 (10.63%) Senior
5 53 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
6 52 (8.92%) Business Analyst
7 42 (7.20%) Lead
8 40 (6.86%) Project Manager
9 32 (5.49%) Data Engineer
10 30 (5.15%) Product Owner
11 29 (4.97%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.63%) Technical Analyst
13 24 (4.12%) Architect
14 17 (2.92%) Product Manager
15 16 (2.74%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.40%) Software Engineer
16 14 (2.40%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.23%) Security Engineer
17 13 (2.23%) Senior Manager
17 13 (2.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.09%) RESTful
2 40 (6.86%) Spring
3 38 (6.52%) REST
4 37 (6.35%) Spring Boot
5 23 (3.95%) Kafka
6 21 (3.60%) AngularJS
6 21 (3.60%) Node.js
7 19 (3.26%) .NET
7 19 (3.26%) CSS
7 19 (3.26%) HTML
7 19 (3.26%) Web Services
8 18 (3.09%) JSON
9 17 (2.92%) React
9 17 (2.92%) SOAP
10 16 (2.74%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (2.74%) AWS CDK
10 16 (2.74%) Hibernate
10 16 (2.74%) JPA
10 16 (2.74%) Spring Batch
10 16 (2.74%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 167 (28.64%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.57%) Mobile App
8 15 (2.57%) PMI
9 12 (2.06%) Life Science
10 10 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.54%) NHS
12 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.03%) Wiki
15 5 (0.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.35%) Linux
2 14 (2.40%) Android
3 10 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.54%) Unix
5 8 (1.37%) Windows
6 6 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (96.23%) Agile
2 510 (87.48%) Scrum
3 228 (39.11%) DevOps
4 183 (31.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 170 (29.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 162 (27.79%) CI/CD
7 129 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
8 128 (21.96%) Sprint Planning
9 114 (19.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 95 (16.30%) Decision-Making
10 95 (16.30%) User Stories
11 92 (15.78%) Microservices
12 89 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 82 (14.07%) TDD
14 81 (13.89%) Sprint Retrospective
15 80 (13.72%) Test Automation
16 78 (13.38%) Acceptance Criteria
17 77 (13.21%) Roadmaps
18 75 (12.86%) Analytics
19 70 (12.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (20.24%) SQL
2 98 (16.81%) Java
3 80 (13.72%) Python
4 37 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 24 (4.12%) C#
6 23 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.40%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.72%) Scala
10 8 (1.37%) Swift
11 7 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.20%) Go
11 7 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.03%) Perl
13 5 (0.86%) Bash
13 5 (0.86%) Bicep
13 5 (0.86%) R
14 4 (0.69%) Rust
15 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 151 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 120 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 70 (12.01%) Degree
4 40 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (4.80%) PMI Certification
6 21 (3.60%) PMP
7 16 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.57%) CISSP
9 13 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.20%) CSPO
13 6 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.03%) CISM
13 6 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
14 5 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (13.89%) QA
2 36 (6.17%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.09%) GDPR
3 18 (3.09%) PMO
4 16 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.74%) WCAG
5 11 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.72%) GxP
7 9 (1.54%) NIST
8 8 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 6 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.86%) SLA
11 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.69%) NCSC
11 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (9.09%) Docker
2 9 (1.54%) Postfix
3 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.66%) Grafana
3 29 (4.97%) Terraform
4 12 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.72%) Ansible
6 5 (0.86%) Kibana
7 4 (0.69%) Podman
7 4 (0.69%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) CASB
8 3 (0.51%) Foglight
9 2 (0.34%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.17%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) vMotion
10 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.66%) Oracle
3 26 (4.46%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.43%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.92%) Splunk
6 16 (2.74%) Google
7 15 (2.57%) Jaspersoft
7 15 (2.57%) SAP
7 15 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.40%) Databricks
8 14 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.89%) IBM
10 7 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.20%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (1.03%) Cisco
11 6 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.86%) New Relic
12 5 (0.86%) Okta
12 5 (0.86%) Spotify