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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 245 216
Rank change year-on-year +5 -29 -35
Contract jobs citing Kanban 530 332 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.11% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.22% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 226 329
10th Percentile £363 £345 £373
25th Percentile £425 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £600
90th Percentile £658 £688 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.36% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £43.38 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £48.75 £45.88
Median hourly rate £73.75 £63.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -5.97% -16.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £76.88 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.13 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -7.59%

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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +5 439 £500 +0.05% 140
UK excluding London +15 275 £476 +0.11% 100
London -27 207 £550 - 60
Work from Home -31 132 £500 +13.64% 76
North of England -28 82 £455 +13.63% 39
Midlands -8 61 £465 -7.00% 11
West Midlands -21 51 £475 -5.00% 10
South East -39 49 £575 +16.40% 28
Scotland -1 46 £466 +3.50% 3
North West -21 36 £494 +23.44% 19
Yorkshire -44 27 £500 +25.00% 11
North East -17 19 £450 -20.00% 9
South West -21 18 £475 -12.24% 8
East of England -13 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -11 9 £340 -5.03% 1
Wales -15 4 £513 +1.23% 2
Northern Ireland - 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
1 125 (23.58%) Confluence
2 26 (4.91%) CMS
3 23 (4.34%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.70%) Apache
4 9 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.13%) SAS
6 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.75%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.32%) Trello
5 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.57%) Notion
7 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Magento
1 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.38%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.38%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Primavera
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 165 (31.13%) Azure
2 137 (25.85%) AWS
3 85 (16.04%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.92%) Power Platform
5 41 (7.74%) Amazon S3
6 30 (5.66%) GCP
7 28 (5.28%) GitHub
8 25 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (4.72%) Serverless
9 20 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.02%) AWS KMS
12 16 (3.02%) Route 53
13 14 (2.64%) Miro
14 11 (2.08%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.89%) Firebase
15 10 (1.89%) SaaS
16 9 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.08%) Network Security
2 10 (1.89%) Firewall
3 7 (1.32%) HTTP
4 4 (0.75%) MQTT
5 3 (0.57%) BGP
5 3 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.57%) NGFW
5 3 (0.57%) OSPF
5 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.38%) DNS
7 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.19%) FTP
7 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.19%) RS-232
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) SONET
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.17%) NoSQL
2 35 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.04%) Power BI
4 28 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.53%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.15%) SQL Server
7 21 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 20 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.21%) Relational Database
10 16 (3.02%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.45%) Big Data
11 13 (2.45%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.45%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.26%) Tableau
13 10 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.32%) Metadata
14 7 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.13%) Looker
16 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 176 (33.21%) JIRA
2 66 (12.45%) Jenkins
3 64 (12.08%) Git
4 31 (5.85%) GitLab
5 30 (5.66%) Postman
6 20 (3.77%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.58%) Mockito
8 18 (3.40%) Selenium
9 17 (3.21%) Maven
10 16 (3.02%) JUnit
11 12 (2.26%) DbUnit
12 11 (2.08%) jMock
13 10 (1.89%) fastlane
14 9 (1.70%) Android Studio
14 9 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.70%) Cypress.io
14 9 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (1.51%) Xcode
16 7 (1.32%) Bitbucket
16 7 (1.32%) Cucumber
General
1 221 (41.70%) Social Skills
2 131 (24.72%) Public Sector
3 119 (22.45%) Finance
4 100 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.06%) Banking
6 34 (6.42%) Marketing
7 20 (3.77%) Retail
8 17 (3.21%) Legal
9 15 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.70%) Automotive
13 8 (1.51%) Front Office
14 7 (1.32%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.94%) Local Government
16 5 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (16.98%) Analyst
2 68 (12.83%) Developer
3 57 (10.75%) Senior
4 56 (10.57%) Scrum Master
5 53 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 49 (9.25%) Delivery Manager
7 41 (7.74%) Lead
8 37 (6.98%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 29 (5.47%) Java Developer
11 24 (4.53%) Product Owner
12 22 (4.15%) Architect
13 20 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
14 15 (2.83%) Software Engineer
15 14 (2.64%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
16 13 (2.45%) Agile Coach
16 13 (2.45%) Security Engineer
17 12 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
17 12 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.87%) RESTful
2 38 (7.17%) Spring
3 34 (6.42%) REST
4 33 (6.23%) Spring Boot
5 21 (3.96%) Node.js
6 20 (3.77%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.58%) Web Services
8 18 (3.40%) Kafka
9 17 (3.21%) .NET
9 17 (3.21%) HTML
9 17 (3.21%) SOAP
10 16 (3.02%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (3.02%) Hibernate
10 16 (3.02%) JPA
10 16 (3.02%) React
10 16 (3.02%) Spring Batch
10 16 (3.02%) Spring Integration
11 15 (2.83%) AWS CDK
11 15 (2.83%) CSS
12 14 (2.64%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 155 (29.25%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.45%) PMI
8 11 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.32%) Life Science
9 7 (1.32%) NHS
9 7 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.13%) Wiki
11 5 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.17%) Linux
2 12 (2.26%) Android
3 10 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.89%) Unix
3 10 (1.89%) Windows
4 6 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (96.23%) Agile
2 461 (86.98%) Scrum
3 200 (37.74%) DevOps
4 161 (30.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 151 (28.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (28.30%) CI/CD
7 115 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (20.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 107 (20.19%) Sprint Planning
10 86 (16.23%) Microservices
11 82 (15.47%) Decision-Making
12 79 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 76 (14.34%) User Stories
14 74 (13.96%) Test Automation
15 73 (13.77%) TDD
16 70 (13.21%) Sprint Retrospective
17 69 (13.02%) Roadmaps
18 65 (12.26%) Analytics
19 62 (11.70%) Acceptance Criteria
20 60 (11.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 107 (20.19%) SQL
2 90 (16.98%) Java
3 74 (13.96%) Python
4 36 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.34%) C#
6 20 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.64%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.51%) Scala
10 8 (1.51%) Swift
11 7 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.13%) Go
12 6 (1.13%) Perl
13 5 (0.94%) R
14 4 (0.75%) Bash
14 4 (0.75%) Bicep
14 4 (0.75%) C++
14 4 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 113 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 57 (10.75%) Degree
4 33 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.15%) PMI Certification
6 21 (3.96%) PMP
7 16 (3.02%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.83%) CISSP
9 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.51%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.13%) CISM
14 5 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.94%) MBA
15 4 (0.75%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.15%) QA
2 32 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.21%) GDPR
4 15 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.64%) PMO
6 13 (2.45%) WCAG
7 11 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.70%) NIST
9 5 (0.94%) Basel III
9 5 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.94%) GxP
9 5 (0.94%) SLA
10 4 (0.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 4 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (9.06%) Docker
2 9 (1.70%) Postfix
3 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.04%) Grafana
3 27 (5.09%) Terraform
4 11 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.89%) Ansible
6 5 (0.94%) Kibana
7 4 (0.75%) Podman
7 4 (0.75%) Puppet
8 3 (0.57%) CASB
8 3 (0.57%) Foglight
9 2 (0.38%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) vMotion
10 1 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.85%) Oracle
3 28 (5.28%) Atlassian
4 18 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.02%) Splunk
6 15 (2.83%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (2.64%) Databricks
7 14 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.45%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.45%) SAP
9 11 (2.08%) Google
10 7 (1.32%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.32%) IBM
10 7 (1.32%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.13%) Cisco
11 6 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.94%) Apple
12 5 (0.94%) Spotify
13 4 (0.75%) VMware