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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 236 217
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 -41
Contract jobs citing Kanban 497 319 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.10% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.21% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 226 318
10th Percentile £360 £340 £376
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £544
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -9.79% +3.62%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £600
90th Percentile £638 £644 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £509
% change year-on-year - -6.59% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £39.85 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £53.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.11 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +10.62% -15.19%
75th Percentile - £78.23 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.61 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -4.29%

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 41,610 26,282 36,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 91.03% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,026 16,812 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,481 1,100 2,513
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.88 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

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 30 May 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 +12 414 £510 -0.49% 95
UK excluding London +2 260 £475 - 83
London -18 191 £550 +1.85% 28
Work from Home -59 123 £500 +13.64% 69
North of England -35 76 £450 +12.50% 30
Midlands -11 65 £465 -7.00% 6
West Midlands -28 53 £475 -5.00% 3
South East -41 50 £575 +15.00% 23
Scotland -1 41 £469 +4.22% 3
North West -27 34 £450 +15.38% 12
Yorkshire -54 28 £480 +20.00% 5
South West -24 17 £475 -15.93% 6
North East -9 16 £450 -20.00% 13
East of England -17 15 £475 - 8
East Midlands -15 11 £354 -1.12% 3
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 2

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
1 110 (22.13%) Confluence
2 24 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.63%) CMS
4 9 (1.81%) Apache
4 9 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.21%) SAS
6 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (3.82%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.41%) Trello
4 6 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.40%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.80%) Magento
2 2 (0.40%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.40%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Primavera
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 147 (29.58%) Azure
2 124 (24.95%) AWS
3 72 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (8.85%) Amazon S3
5 41 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 29 (5.84%) GCP
7 27 (5.43%) GitHub
7 27 (5.43%) Serverless
8 26 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.22%) AWS KMS
13 16 (3.22%) Route 53
14 14 (2.82%) Miro
15 12 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (2.21%) Snowflake
17 10 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.61%) Firewall
1 8 (1.61%) HTTP
1 8 (1.61%) Network Security
2 3 (0.60%) BGP
2 3 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (0.60%) NGFW
2 3 (0.60%) OSPF
2 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.40%) FTP
3 2 (0.40%) MQTT
4 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.20%) SAN
4 1 (0.20%) SONET
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.05%) NoSQL
2 38 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (6.64%) Power BI
4 31 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (5.23%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.83%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.42%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.82%) Big Data
10 14 (2.82%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.82%) Hadoop
10 14 (2.82%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.21%) Tableau
12 10 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.61%) Metadata
14 7 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.21%) Looker
Development Applications
1 155 (31.19%) JIRA
2 65 (13.08%) Git
3 62 (12.47%) Jenkins
4 33 (6.64%) GitLab
5 26 (5.23%) Postman
6 20 (4.02%) Mockito
7 18 (3.62%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.42%) Maven
9 16 (3.22%) JUnit
10 15 (3.02%) Selenium
11 12 (2.41%) DbUnit
12 11 (2.21%) jMock
13 9 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.81%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.61%) Android Studio
14 8 (1.61%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.41%) fastlane
16 6 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 207 (41.65%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.33%) Public Sector
3 109 (21.93%) Finance
4 89 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.25%) Banking
6 31 (6.24%) Marketing
7 18 (3.62%) Legal
8 17 (3.42%) Retail
9 14 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.01%) Front Office
11 10 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.61%) Automotive
12 8 (1.61%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.01%) Aviation
15 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.01%) Local Government
15 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (16.70%) Analyst
2 66 (13.28%) Developer
3 61 (12.27%) Senior
4 51 (10.26%) Business Analyst
5 47 (9.46%) Scrum Master
6 46 (9.26%) Delivery Manager
7 43 (8.65%) Lead
8 42 (8.45%) Project Manager
9 32 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 32 (6.44%) Java Developer
10 18 (3.62%) Technical Analyst
11 17 (3.42%) Architect
12 15 (3.02%) Product Owner
12 15 (3.02%) Software Engineer
13 14 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.82%) Senior Developer
13 14 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.62%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.41%) Agile Coach
15 12 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.45%) RESTful
2 39 (7.85%) Spring
3 36 (7.24%) REST
4 33 (6.64%) Spring Boot
5 22 (4.43%) Node.js
6 20 (4.02%) AngularJS
6 20 (4.02%) Web Services
7 19 (3.82%) Kafka
8 18 (3.62%) React
9 17 (3.42%) HTML
9 17 (3.42%) SOAP
10 16 (3.22%) .NET
10 16 (3.22%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (3.22%) AWS CDK
10 16 (3.22%) Hibernate
10 16 (3.22%) JPA
10 16 (3.22%) JSON
10 16 (3.22%) Spring Batch
10 16 (3.22%) Spring Integration
11 15 (3.02%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 133 (26.76%) Product Ownership
2 40 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.42%) PMI
6 14 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.61%) Life Science
11 7 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.21%) NHS
12 6 (1.21%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.21%) Wiki
13 5 (1.01%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.44%) Linux
2 12 (2.41%) Unix
2 12 (2.41%) Windows
3 11 (2.21%) Android
4 8 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (95.37%) Agile
2 436 (87.73%) Scrum
3 171 (34.41%) DevOps
4 142 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 139 (27.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (26.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 109 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (19.92%) Sprint Planning
9 98 (19.72%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 81 (16.30%) Microservices
11 80 (16.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 71 (14.29%) TDD
13 69 (13.88%) Test Automation
14 66 (13.28%) Decision-Making
15 65 (13.08%) User Stories
16 64 (12.88%) Migration
17 63 (12.68%) Roadmaps
18 61 (12.27%) Project Management
18 61 (12.27%) Sprint Retrospective
19 60 (12.07%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 107 (21.53%) SQL
2 90 (18.11%) Java
3 71 (14.29%) Python
4 36 (7.24%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.43%) C#
6 21 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.41%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.81%) Scala
9 7 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.21%) Go
10 6 (1.21%) Perl
10 6 (1.21%) Swift
11 5 (1.01%) Bash
11 5 (1.01%) R
12 4 (0.80%) Bicep
13 3 (0.60%) C++
13 3 (0.60%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 122 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 95 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 54 (10.87%) Degree
4 31 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (5.23%) PMI Certification
6 24 (4.83%) PMP
7 16 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.41%) CISSP
10 11 (2.21%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.01%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (1.41%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.41%) MBA
13 6 (1.21%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.01%) CISM
14 5 (1.01%) CSPO
14 5 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 4 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (14.89%) QA
2 32 (6.44%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.82%) GDPR
5 14 (2.82%) PMO
6 11 (2.21%) WCAG
7 10 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.81%) NIST
9 7 (1.41%) Basel III
10 5 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.01%) SLA
11 4 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.80%) GxP
11 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.80%) NCSC
11 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (9.86%) Docker
2 9 (1.81%) Postfix
3 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.64%) Grafana
3 27 (5.43%) Terraform
4 11 (2.21%) Ansible
4 11 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.01%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) CASB
6 3 (0.60%) Foglight
6 3 (0.60%) Rancher
7 2 (0.40%) Argo
7 2 (0.40%) Podman
7 2 (0.40%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Nagios
8 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) vMotion
8 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.24%) Oracle
3 18 (3.62%) Atlassian
4 17 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.22%) Databricks
6 15 (3.02%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (3.02%) Splunk
7 14 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.21%) SAP
9 9 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.41%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.41%) Google
10 7 (1.41%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.21%) Cisco
11 6 (1.21%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.01%) Spotify
13 4 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.80%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.80%) Okta
13 4 (0.80%) VMware