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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 242 249
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -89
Contract jobs citing Kanban 449 339 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.10% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.23% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 230 310
10th Percentile £358 £363 £388
25th Percentile £413 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.75%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £651 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £25.81 -
25th Percentile - £26.66 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £37.63 £52.94
Median % change year-on-year +99.34% -28.93% -32.99%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £71.88
90th Percentile - £69.33 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £60.61 £52.94
% change year-on-year +23.74% +14.49% -37.72%

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 35,362 27,619 38,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 89.84% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,059 25,415
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 859 2,186
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.30 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 22 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 22 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 +19 371 £505 -1.46% 191
UK excluding London -46 205 £475 -5.00% 155
London +40 201 £535 +1.90% 60
Work from Home -44 107 £500 +9.89% 136
North of England -25 56 £468 -0.27% 49
Midlands -12 49 £450 -21.74% 15
South East -48 37 £525 +5.00% 61
Scotland -14 35 £469 +8.13% 2
West Midlands -41 29 £483 -16.09% 14
North West -9 28 £408 -6.74% 26
Yorkshire -46 22 £525 +5.00% 19
East Midlands -8 20 £358 - 1
South West -17 19 £525 -7.08% 17
East of England -21 9 £513 +24.30% 11
North East -13 8 £541 - 4
Wales -7 5 £509 -3.05% 3

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 95 (21.16%) Confluence
2 13 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.00%) Apache
3 9 (2.00%) CMS
4 5 (1.11%) nginx
4 5 (1.11%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (4.45%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.34%) Trello
3 5 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Finacle
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (23.16%) Azure
2 88 (19.60%) AWS
3 56 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.35%) GCP
5 33 (7.35%) GitHub
6 22 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (4.45%) Serverless
8 18 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.56%) Miro
10 15 (3.34%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.23%) SaaS
14 9 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.78%) Figma
16 7 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.78%) HTTP
2 5 (1.11%) Firewall
3 3 (0.67%) BGP
3 3 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.67%) DNS
3 3 (0.67%) FTP
3 3 (0.67%) OSPF
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.22%) SAN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.35%) Power BI
2 24 (5.35%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.45%) MongoDB
4 19 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.56%) Metadata
6 15 (3.34%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 11 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.45%) Hadoop
8 11 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.00%) Big Data
10 8 (1.78%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.78%) Data Vault
10 8 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.78%) Tableau
11 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 149 (33.18%) JIRA
2 64 (14.25%) Git
3 33 (7.35%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.79%) GitLab
5 18 (4.01%) Postman
6 16 (3.56%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.23%) Mockito
9 9 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.00%) ERwin
9 9 (2.00%) Selenium
10 8 (1.78%) ER Studio
10 8 (1.78%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (1.56%) JUnit
11 7 (1.56%) Maven
12 6 (1.34%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.34%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.11%) ScalaTest
13 5 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
General
1 172 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 105 (23.39%) Finance
3 73 (16.26%) Public Sector
4 61 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.02%) Banking
6 24 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (3.79%) Front Office
8 12 (2.67%) Legal
8 12 (2.67%) Retail
9 11 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.00%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.78%) Marketing
12 6 (1.34%) Automotive
13 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Aviation
15 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 70 (15.59%) Analyst
2 64 (14.25%) Developer
3 51 (11.36%) Business Analyst
4 48 (10.69%) Senior
5 44 (9.80%) Project Manager
6 40 (8.91%) Scrum Master
7 39 (8.69%) Delivery Manager
8 34 (7.57%) Lead
9 33 (7.35%) Java Developer
10 18 (4.01%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.34%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.12%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.67%) Agile Project Manager
14 12 (2.67%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.45%) Technical Analyst
16 10 (2.23%) Data Modeller
16 10 (2.23%) Product Owner
17 9 (2.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.91%) REST
2 29 (6.46%) React
3 27 (6.01%) Spring
4 26 (5.79%) Spring Boot
5 20 (4.45%) Kafka
5 20 (4.45%) RESTful
6 19 (4.23%) Node.js
7 18 (4.01%) AngularJS
7 18 (4.01%) JSON
8 17 (3.79%) .NET
9 15 (3.34%) HTML
10 13 (2.90%) CSS
11 12 (2.67%) Playwright
12 11 (2.45%) XML
13 10 (2.23%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.23%) Web Services
14 8 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
15 7 (1.56%) FastAPI
15 7 (1.56%) OAuth
15 7 (1.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 109 (24.28%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.57%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.57%) PMI
3 23 (5.12%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.68%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.01%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.79%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.78%) Derivative
11 7 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.56%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.56%) Wiki
12 6 (1.34%) NHS
13 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.11%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.11%) FMCG
13 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.90%) Linux
2 21 (4.68%) Windows
3 11 (2.45%) Unix
4 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.89%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (94.88%) Agile
2 394 (87.75%) Scrum
3 132 (29.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 118 (26.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 117 (26.06%) DevOps
6 115 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (24.28%) CI/CD
7 109 (24.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 69 (15.37%) Roadmaps
9 68 (15.14%) Test Automation
10 66 (14.70%) TDD
10 66 (14.70%) User Stories
11 65 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 59 (13.14%) Sprint Planning
13 58 (12.92%) Analytics
14 55 (12.25%) Microservices
15 51 (11.36%) Decision-Making
15 51 (11.36%) Project Management
16 47 (10.47%) Acceptance Criteria
17 46 (10.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (18.04%) SQL
2 79 (17.59%) Java
3 58 (12.92%) Python
4 32 (7.13%) C#
5 30 (6.68%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.01%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.78%) Bash
8 8 (1.78%) Perl
8 8 (1.78%) Scala
8 8 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.56%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.34%) C++
10 6 (1.34%) Go
10 6 (1.34%) Ruby
11 4 (0.89%) Bicep
12 3 (0.67%) R
12 3 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 68 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.58%) Degree
4 29 (6.46%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (3.56%) PMP
7 15 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.23%) CISSP
9 10 (2.23%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.78%) CBAP
10 8 (1.78%) MBA
11 7 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.56%) CISM
11 7 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 6 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.11%) CISA
13 5 (1.11%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (17.82%) QA
2 29 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.12%) GDPR
5 11 (2.45%) PMO
6 10 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.78%) Basel III
7 8 (1.78%) ISO 8583
7 8 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.34%) NIST
8 6 (1.34%) PSD2
9 5 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.89%) GRC
10 4 (0.89%) WCAG
11 3 (0.67%) COBIT
11 3 (0.67%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (8.91%) Docker
2 3 (0.67%) Postfix
2 3 (0.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.45%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.24%) Terraform
3 23 (5.12%) Grafana
4 13 (2.90%) Ansible
5 7 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.11%) Rancher
7 4 (0.89%) Argo
7 4 (0.89%) Consul
7 4 (0.89%) Packer
8 3 (0.67%) Nagios
8 3 (0.67%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.22%) Foglight
9 1 (0.22%) Podman
9 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.22%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) vMotion
9 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.35%) Oracle
3 16 (3.56%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.67%) Databricks
5 11 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.23%) SAP
7 8 (1.78%) CA Agile Central
7 8 (1.78%) Splunk
8 6 (1.34%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.34%) Spotify
9 5 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.11%) Sparx
10 4 (0.89%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.89%) Cisco
10 4 (0.89%) VMware
11 3 (0.67%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.67%) Informatica
11 3 (0.67%) Juniper
11 3 (0.67%) PagerDuty