Kanban Contract Job Trends

Kanban
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kanban skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 233 218
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 -85
Contract jobs citing Kanban 403 400 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.23% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 301 412
10th Percentile £346 £360 £400
25th Percentile £413 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £596 £584 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £38.85 £63.20 £55.30
25th Percentile £51.00 £64.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £69.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -18.24% +13.33%
75th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.20 £90.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £69.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +7.91% -4.14% -3.33%

All Process and 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 29,563 32,568 44,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.50% 85.63% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,358 20,001 30,324
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 1,464 1,557
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%
75th Percentile £44.35 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -47.37% +5.94% +75.90%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +22 333 £500 -4.76% 413
London +37 194 £550 +2.09% 168
UK excluding London -7 157 £465 -7.00% 318
Work from Home -8 110 £500 - 295
North of England +22 64 £429 -22.00% 72
Yorkshire +12 41 £455 -17.27% 18
Midlands +7 29 £431 +11.37% 60
Scotland -20 29 £525 +10.53% 13
North West 0 22 £400 -7.25% 51
South East -20 22 £413 -17.50% 122
East Midlands +7 16 £358 -0.56% 29
West Midlands -4 13 £500 -4.76% 28
South West +17 5 £425 -27.97% 16
Wales +5 5 £469 -6.48% 6
East of England 0 3 £493 -10.36% 29
North East -6 1 £563 +37.20% 3

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (16.13%) Confluence
2 8 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.49%) CMS
3 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.99%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.99%) Mule
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.22%) Trello
3 15 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.99%) Endur
2 4 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.50%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Finacle
4 1 (0.25%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.25%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 117 (29.03%) Azure
2 90 (22.33%) AWS
3 55 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (9.93%) GCP
5 37 (9.18%) GitHub
6 32 (7.94%) Power Platform
7 30 (7.44%) Serverless
8 20 (4.96%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.23%) Snowflake
12 12 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.98%) SaaS
13 11 (2.73%) Miro
14 10 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.48%) PowerApps
15 9 (2.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.99%) DNS
2 7 (1.74%) Firewall
2 7 (1.74%) NAS
2 7 (1.74%) SAN
3 5 (1.24%) HTTP
3 5 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.99%) AMQP
4 4 (0.99%) DSL
5 2 (0.50%) SSL
5 2 (0.50%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.50%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.21%) Power BI
3 14 (3.47%) Tableau
4 13 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.98%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.99%) MySQL
9 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.74%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.74%) DB2
11 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.74%) Power Query
11 3 (0.74%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.74%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 132 (32.75%) JIRA
2 82 (20.35%) Git
3 65 (16.13%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.46%) Postman
5 21 (5.21%) GitLab
6 18 (4.47%) Selenium
7 12 (2.98%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.98%) JUnit
8 10 (2.48%) SoapUI
8 10 (2.48%) Subversion
9 8 (1.99%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.99%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.99%) Maven
9 8 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.74%) Mockito
10 7 (1.74%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (1.49%) ER Studio
11 6 (1.49%) jMock
General
1 196 (48.64%) Social Skills
2 104 (25.81%) Finance
3 58 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 51 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (8.19%) Banking
6 13 (3.23%) Front Office
7 12 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.73%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.48%) Retail
10 9 (2.23%) Marketing
10 9 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.99%) Legal
12 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.99%) Local Government
14 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.50%) Back Office
15 2 (0.50%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 81 (20.10%) Developer
2 70 (17.37%) Analyst
3 45 (11.17%) Business Analyst
4 41 (10.17%) Senior
5 37 (9.18%) Project Manager
6 34 (8.44%) Delivery Manager
7 26 (6.45%) Lead
8 23 (5.71%) Java Developer
9 20 (4.96%) Scrum Master
10 17 (4.22%) Architect
11 13 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.23%) Technical Manager
12 12 (2.98%) Python Developer
12 12 (2.98%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.48%) Agile Project Manager
13 10 (2.48%) Engineering Manager
13 10 (2.48%) IT Manager
13 10 (2.48%) IT Project Manager
13 10 (2.48%) Product Manager
14 9 (2.23%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.41%) REST
2 31 (7.69%) Kafka
3 29 (7.20%) HTML
3 29 (7.20%) React
4 27 (6.70%) CSS
5 26 (6.45%) .NET
5 26 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 26 (6.45%) Spring
6 24 (5.96%) RESTful
7 21 (5.21%) Spring Boot
8 19 (4.71%) SOAP
9 16 (3.97%) Middleware
9 16 (3.97%) Web Services
10 15 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (3.23%) JSON
11 13 (3.23%) OAuth
12 12 (2.98%) Node.js
13 11 (2.73%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.73%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (2.73%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.36%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.48%) Derivative
9 10 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.99%) Clustering
14 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.70%) Linux
2 16 (3.97%) Windows
3 9 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.24%) Unix
5 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.50%) Android
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.50%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (95.53%) Agile
2 367 (91.07%) Scrum
3 126 (31.27%) CI/CD
4 120 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (29.03%) DevOps
6 102 (25.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (19.60%) Microservices
9 75 (18.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 66 (16.38%) TDD
11 65 (16.13%) Roadmaps
12 61 (15.14%) Test Automation
13 60 (14.89%) User Stories
14 50 (12.41%) Sprint Planning
15 45 (11.17%) BDD
15 45 (11.17%) Project Management
16 42 (10.42%) Decision-Making
17 41 (10.17%) Migration
17 41 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 39 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.59%) Java
2 80 (19.85%) Python
3 64 (15.88%) SQL
4 53 (13.15%) JavaScript
5 37 (9.18%) C#
6 24 (5.96%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.47%) C++
9 15 (3.72%) Go
10 10 (2.48%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.23%) Groovy
12 8 (1.99%) Bash
13 4 (0.99%) DataWeave
13 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.74%) Bicep
14 3 (0.74%) Perl
15 2 (0.50%) VBA
15 2 (0.50%) VBScript
16 1 (0.25%) ABAP
16 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (12.16%) Degree
2 34 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.97%) CISSP
6 14 (3.47%) CISM
7 13 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.48%) ISTQB
8 10 (2.48%) PMP
9 8 (1.99%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.74%) CISA
11 6 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.99%) CSPO
13 4 (0.99%) ISEB
14 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.50%) CBAP
15 2 (0.50%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.44%) QA
2 15 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.98%) GDPR
4 12 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.98%) NIST
5 9 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.23%) PMO
6 6 (1.49%) COBIT
6 6 (1.49%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (1.24%) WCAG
8 4 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.99%) PSD2
9 3 (0.74%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 59 (14.64%) Docker
2 14 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.74%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.74%) vSphere
4 6 (1.49%) Postfix
5 3 (0.74%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.19%) Ansible
3 26 (6.45%) Terraform
4 21 (5.21%) Grafana
5 12 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.99%) Puppet
7 7 (1.74%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.74%) vRealize
8 6 (1.49%) RSA Archer
9 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.74%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.74%) Podman
10 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.74%) SELinux
11 2 (0.50%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.50%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.50%) Nagios
11 2 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.50%) SCCM
11 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.96%) Oracle
3 16 (3.97%) Google
4 13 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.48%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.99%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (1.99%) Thycotic
9 7 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (1.74%) VMware
10 6 (1.49%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.49%) Splunk
11 5 (1.24%) Databricks
11 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.24%) OneLogin
11 5 (1.24%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.24%) SAP