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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 239 210
Rank change year-on-year -12 -29 -43
Contract jobs citing Kanban 468 330 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.13% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.25% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 235 319
10th Percentile £358 £340 £363
25th Percentile £415 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £494 £544
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -9.19% +3.62%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £480 £508
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.51% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £63.80 £26.38 -
25th Percentile £68.00 £37.56 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.23 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +26.38% -27.58%
75th Percentile - £77.98 £74.88
90th Percentile - £78.58 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £57.94
% change year-on-year - +29.44% -31.84%

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 40,077 26,470 37,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.96% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,204 17,026 23,967
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,075 2,431
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.88% -27.07% +7.14%

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 8 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
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 8 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 0 386 £517 +2.11% 178
UK excluding London -7 240 £492 +2.50% 152
London -18 183 £550 +6.02% 54
Work from Home -47 113 £500 +13.64% 109
North of England -28 68 £458 +14.50% 58
Midlands -21 61 £459 -9.29% 12
West Midlands -19 47 £475 -7.23% 8
South East -51 45 £560 +12.00% 39
Scotland -8 38 £473 +5.00% 12
North West -15 37 £442 +20.18% 23
Yorkshire -43 24 £500 +25.00% 18
South West -29 16 £475 -15.93% 12
East Midlands -17 14 £340 -5.03% 4
East of England -18 13 £475 +0.05% 12
North East -9 9 £450 -20.00% 17
Wales -7 5 £509 -3.05% 9

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
1 108 (23.08%) Confluence
2 23 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.27%) CMS
4 9 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.71%) Apache
6 6 (1.28%) SAS
7 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.50%) Trello
4 6 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.43%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.43%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 128 (27.35%) Azure
2 104 (22.22%) AWS
3 61 (13.03%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.12%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.62%) Amazon S3
6 27 (5.77%) GCP
6 27 (5.77%) GitHub
7 21 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (4.06%) Serverless
10 17 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.99%) Miro
13 13 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.56%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.56%) Route 53
15 10 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.71%) Firewall
1 8 (1.71%) HTTP
2 6 (1.28%) Network Security
3 3 (0.64%) BGP
3 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.64%) FTP
3 3 (0.64%) NGFW
3 3 (0.64%) OSPF
3 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.21%) SAN
4 1 (0.21%) SONET
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 32 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.62%) Power BI
4 24 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (4.91%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.91%) SQL Server
6 17 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (3.21%) Big Data
8 13 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.78%) Hadoop
9 12 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (2.14%) Tableau
11 7 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.28%) Looker
12 6 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 149 (31.84%) JIRA
2 57 (12.18%) Git
3 47 (10.04%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.41%) GitLab
5 29 (6.20%) Postman
6 16 (3.42%) Mockito
7 14 (2.99%) Maven
8 13 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.78%) Selenium
9 12 (2.56%) JUnit
9 12 (2.56%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.92%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.92%) jMock
10 9 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.85%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.85%) Xcode
General
1 185 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 109 (23.29%) Finance
3 85 (18.16%) Public Sector
4 81 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (10.26%) Banking
6 25 (5.34%) Marketing
7 16 (3.42%) Legal
8 12 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.35%) Retail
10 10 (2.14%) Front Office
10 10 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (1.71%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.50%) Automotive
12 7 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Local Government
13 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.85%) Aviation
14 4 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (17.09%) Analyst
2 50 (10.68%) Developer
2 50 (10.68%) Senior
3 48 (10.26%) Business Analyst
3 48 (10.26%) Scrum Master
4 46 (9.83%) Project Manager
5 42 (8.97%) Lead
6 37 (7.91%) Delivery Manager
7 31 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.98%) Java Developer
9 17 (3.63%) Technical Analyst
10 14 (2.99%) Software Engineer
11 13 (2.78%) Agile Coach
11 13 (2.78%) Architect
11 13 (2.78%) Product Owner
12 12 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.56%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.56%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.05%) Spring
2 32 (6.84%) REST
3 28 (5.98%) RESTful
4 27 (5.77%) Spring Boot
5 22 (4.70%) Node.js
6 19 (4.06%) React
7 18 (3.85%) Kafka
8 17 (3.63%) AngularJS
8 17 (3.63%) HTML
9 15 (3.21%) CSS
9 15 (3.21%) JSON
9 15 (3.21%) Web Services
10 14 (2.99%) .NET
10 14 (2.99%) Playwright
11 13 (2.78%) SOAP
12 12 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (2.56%) Hibernate
12 12 (2.56%) JPA
12 12 (2.56%) Spring Batch
12 12 (2.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 127 (27.14%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.70%) PMI
5 21 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.78%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.50%) Wiki
11 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.85%) Life Science
13 4 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.26%) Linux
2 13 (2.78%) Unix
2 13 (2.78%) Windows
3 6 (1.28%) Android
3 6 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (95.09%) Agile
2 414 (88.46%) Scrum
3 149 (31.84%) DevOps
4 129 (27.56%) CI/CD
4 129 (27.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 127 (27.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 106 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (21.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 86 (18.38%) Sprint Planning
9 72 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 71 (15.17%) Test Automation
11 67 (14.32%) Microservices
12 61 (13.03%) Decision-Making
12 61 (13.03%) Migration
12 61 (13.03%) User Stories
13 60 (12.82%) Roadmaps
14 56 (11.97%) Acceptance Criteria
14 56 (11.97%) Project Management
14 56 (11.97%) TDD
15 55 (11.75%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.22%) SQL
2 75 (16.03%) Java
3 65 (13.89%) Python
4 30 (6.41%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.49%) C#
6 15 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.14%) Scala
8 9 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.50%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.50%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.28%) Bash
10 6 (1.28%) Go
10 6 (1.28%) Perl
10 6 (1.28%) Ruby
11 5 (1.07%) R
12 4 (0.85%) Bicep
12 4 (0.85%) Swift
13 3 (0.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 114 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.90%) Degree
4 31 (6.62%) PMI Certification
5 26 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.34%) PMP
7 16 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.56%) CISSP
9 12 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
10 11 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.71%) MBA
12 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.07%) CISM
13 5 (1.07%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (17.09%) QA
2 25 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.63%) GDPR
5 14 (2.99%) PMO
6 9 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.71%) Basel III
7 8 (1.71%) NIST
8 7 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.28%) WCAG
10 5 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.07%) SLA
11 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.85%) NCSC
12 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (9.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.71%) Postfix
3 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.41%) Grafana
3 25 (5.34%) Terraform
4 11 (2.35%) Ansible
5 10 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.07%) Kibana
7 4 (0.85%) Rancher
8 3 (0.64%) Argo
8 3 (0.64%) CASB
8 3 (0.64%) Foglight
9 2 (0.43%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vMotion
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.77%) Oracle
3 17 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.21%) Atlassian
5 15 (3.21%) Splunk
6 12 (2.56%) Databricks
6 12 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (2.35%) SAP
8 6 (1.28%) Bloomberg
8 6 (1.28%) Cisco
8 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.28%) Refinitiv
8 6 (1.28%) Spotify
9 5 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.85%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.85%) Okta
10 4 (0.85%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.85%) VMware
11 3 (0.64%) Juniper