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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 236 256
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -102
Contract jobs citing Kanban 417 332 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.07% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.19% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 220 317
10th Percentile £358 £362 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -5.66% -2.39%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £657 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.90% - -0.99%
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% -41.12%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £62.50
90th Percentile - £69.33 £70.00
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 33,986 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,549 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,070 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% -9.97% +11.43%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +5 341 £507 -1.12% 205
UK excluding London -55 186 £476 -4.90% 155
London +36 182 £550 +5.52% 75
Work from Home -49 93 £500 +10.50% 152
North of England -23 56 £475 -5.00% 48
Midlands -19 40 £425 -26.09% 13
South East -48 33 £500 - 60
Scotland -15 31 £525 +16.67% 3
North West -9 27 £373 -5.95% 31
Yorkshire -39 24 £500 - 14
East Midlands -6 22 £358 -
West Midlands -34 18 £501 -12.96% 13
South West -13 16 £550 -0.90% 12
East of England -18 10 £493 +19.52% 18
North East -8 7 £545 - 3
Wales -2 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 96 (23.02%) Confluence
2 9 (2.16%) Apache
3 8 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.92%) CMS
4 5 (1.20%) nginx
5 4 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (4.56%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.68%) Trello
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Finacle
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (23.74%) Azure
2 81 (19.42%) AWS
3 53 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.63%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.39%) GCP
5 35 (8.39%) GitHub
6 22 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (4.80%) Serverless
8 17 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.08%) Snowflake
9 14 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.12%) Miro
11 11 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.16%) SaaS
13 8 (1.92%) Figma
14 7 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.92%) HTTP
2 5 (1.20%) Firewall
3 3 (0.72%) BGP
3 3 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.72%) DNS
3 3 (0.72%) OSPF
3 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.48%) FTP
4 2 (0.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.47%) Power BI
2 21 (5.04%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.36%) Metadata
5 14 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 12 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.40%) Data Vault
10 9 (2.16%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.92%) Big Data
12 7 (1.68%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.44%) Tableau
14 5 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.20%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 150 (35.97%) JIRA
2 53 (12.71%) Git
3 34 (8.15%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.76%) GitLab
5 18 (4.32%) Postman
6 17 (4.08%) Cucumber
7 14 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.12%) Selenium
9 10 (2.40%) ERwin
10 9 (2.16%) ER Studio
10 9 (2.16%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (1.92%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.68%) Mockito
13 6 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.44%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.20%) ScalaTest
15 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.96%) Maven
15 4 (0.96%) ScriptRunner
General
1 165 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 94 (22.54%) Finance
3 69 (16.55%) Public Sector
4 48 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.79%) Banking
6 22 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (4.32%) Front Office
8 11 (2.64%) Legal
8 11 (2.64%) Retail
9 9 (2.16%) Corporate Banking
9 9 (2.16%) Retail Banking
10 8 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.92%) Marketing
10 8 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Automotive
13 3 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 71 (17.03%) Analyst
2 63 (15.11%) Developer
3 49 (11.75%) Senior
4 47 (11.27%) Business Analyst
5 44 (10.55%) Project Manager
6 39 (9.35%) Delivery Manager
7 35 (8.39%) Scrum Master
8 31 (7.43%) Java Developer
9 27 (6.47%) Lead
10 15 (3.60%) Senior Manager
11 14 (3.36%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.12%) Agile Project Manager
13 12 (2.88%) Data Modeller
13 12 (2.88%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.64%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (2.64%) Test Analyst
15 10 (2.40%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.40%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.87%) REST
2 30 (7.19%) React
3 22 (5.28%) Spring
4 21 (5.04%) Spring Boot
5 20 (4.80%) Kafka
5 20 (4.80%) RESTful
6 17 (4.08%) HTML
6 17 (4.08%) Node.js
7 15 (3.60%) CSS
7 15 (3.60%) JSON
8 13 (3.12%) .NET
8 13 (3.12%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.64%) AWS CDK
10 10 (2.40%) Playwright
11 9 (2.16%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (1.68%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.68%) OAuth
13 7 (1.68%) Web Services
13 7 (1.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (26.38%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.24%) PMI
3 25 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.28%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.32%) Virtual Team
6 16 (3.84%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.92%) Derivative
11 7 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.44%) FMCG
13 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.20%) NHS
13 5 (1.20%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.20%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.52%) Linux
2 21 (5.04%) Windows
3 10 (2.40%) Unix
4 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.72%) Android
5 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (96.88%) Agile
2 376 (90.17%) Scrum
3 128 (30.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 118 (28.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 113 (27.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 105 (25.18%) DevOps
6 105 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (23.26%) CI/CD
8 69 (16.55%) User Stories
9 66 (15.83%) Sprint Planning
10 65 (15.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 65 (15.59%) Test Automation
11 64 (15.35%) Roadmaps
12 55 (13.19%) TDD
13 53 (12.71%) Project Management
14 52 (12.47%) Analytics
15 48 (11.51%) Coaching
15 48 (11.51%) Microservices
16 45 (10.79%) Decision-Making
17 44 (10.55%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.71%) Java
2 64 (15.35%) SQL
3 52 (12.47%) Python
4 31 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.24%) C#
6 19 (4.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.12%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.92%) Scala
9 7 (1.68%) Bash
10 6 (1.44%) C++
10 6 (1.44%) Ruby
11 5 (1.20%) Go
11 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.20%) Perl
12 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.72%) R
14 2 (0.48%) Korn
14 2 (0.48%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 77 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.99%) Degree
4 30 (7.19%) PMI Certification
5 25 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.08%) PMP
7 15 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.64%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (2.16%) CBAP
11 8 (1.92%) MBA
12 6 (1.44%) CISSP
13 5 (1.20%) CISA
13 5 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.96%) CSPO
14 4 (0.96%) ISEB
14 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (17.51%) QA
2 29 (6.95%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.32%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.64%) GDPR
5 10 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.40%) PMO
6 9 (2.16%) PSD2
7 8 (1.92%) Basel III
8 6 (1.44%) ISO 8583
9 5 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (1.20%) NIST
10 4 (0.96%) GRC
10 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.96%) WCAG
11 3 (0.72%) COBIT
11 3 (0.72%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (9.11%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.48%) Postfix
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.48%) vSphere
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.00%) Terraform
3 22 (5.28%) Grafana
4 13 (3.12%) Ansible
5 7 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.20%) Rancher
7 4 (0.96%) Argo
7 4 (0.96%) Consul
7 4 (0.96%) Packer
8 3 (0.72%) Nagios
8 3 (0.72%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.24%) Podman
9 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.24%) vMotion
9 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.04%) Oracle
3 16 (3.84%) Atlassian
4 13 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.64%) Databricks
7 7 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.44%) Sparx
9 5 (1.20%) SAP
9 5 (1.20%) Splunk
10 4 (0.96%) Cisco
10 4 (0.96%) Spotify
10 4 (0.96%) VMware
11 3 (0.72%) Arista
11 3 (0.72%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.72%) Google
11 3 (0.72%) Informatica
11 3 (0.72%) Juniper
11 3 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.72%) Rapid7