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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 221 232
Rank change year-on-year -43 +11 -24
Contract jobs citing Kanban 514 407 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.24% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.37% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 290 306
10th Percentile £387 £340 £360
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +5.12% -7.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.20
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £64.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +7.91% -18.24%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £74.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -4.14%

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 45,937 29,792 32,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.51% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,939 18,514 20,418
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,060 1,790 1,498
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.36% -47.67% +7.50%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -49 423 £520 +4.00% 328
UK excluding London -24 243 £488 +5.12% 176
London -73 209 £550 - 178
Work from Home -42 138 £513 +2.50% 365
North of England -57 76 £474 +10.49% 56
Midlands -19 53 £475 +10.21% 25
West Midlands -11 48 £475 -5.00% 21
South East -42 42 £600 +45.45% 36
Scotland -15 39 £475 -9.52% 9
North East -11 31 £450 -20.00% 9
North West -50 28 £550 +37.50% 30
Yorkshire -63 17 £500 +9.89% 17
East of England -9 15 £375 -23.94% 11
South West -33 14 £498 +17.06% 30
Wales -15 4 £513 +9.33% 5
East Midlands -28 4 £402 +12.29% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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
1 128 (24.90%) Confluence
2 14 (2.72%) CMS
3 13 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.75%) Apache
6 6 (1.17%) SAS
7 5 (0.97%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.56%) Trello
5 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.78%) Notion
7 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Magento
2 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.19%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.19%) Primavera
6 1 (0.19%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 182 (35.41%) Azure
2 151 (29.38%) AWS
3 96 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (7.39%) Amazon S3
4 38 (7.39%) GitHub
4 38 (7.39%) Power Platform
5 36 (7.00%) GCP
6 24 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (4.67%) Serverless
7 20 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (3.50%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.92%) SaaS
11 12 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.33%) Miro
12 11 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.14%) AWS KMS
12 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (1.95%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Network Security
2 4 (0.78%) MQTT
3 3 (0.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.58%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) AMQP
5 1 (0.19%) BGP
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.19%) MPLS
5 1 (0.19%) OSPF
5 1 (0.19%) RS-232
5 1 (0.19%) RS-422
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.19%) SONET
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (5.64%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.25%) Power BI
4 26 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 17 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.14%) Tableau
9 9 (1.75%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.56%) Big Data
10 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.97%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.97%) Data Hub
13 4 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.78%) Looker
13 4 (0.78%) Presto
Development Applications
1 195 (37.94%) JIRA
2 80 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 57 (11.09%) Git
4 37 (7.20%) GitLab
5 25 (4.86%) SonarQube
6 21 (4.09%) JUnit
6 21 (4.09%) Maven
6 21 (4.09%) Selenium
7 19 (3.70%) Mockito
8 18 (3.50%) Postman
9 12 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.95%) fastlane
11 9 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.75%) Subversion
12 7 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.36%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.36%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.17%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.17%) REST Assured
General
1 229 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 151 (29.38%) Public Sector
3 124 (24.12%) Finance
4 96 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.78%) Banking
6 37 (7.20%) Marketing
7 29 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.67%) Retail
9 23 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.56%) Legal
12 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.36%) Front Office
14 5 (0.97%) Games
14 5 (0.97%) Local Government
14 5 (0.97%) Military
14 5 (0.97%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (16.93%) Analyst
2 75 (14.59%) Developer
3 58 (11.28%) Senior
4 51 (9.92%) Delivery Manager
4 51 (9.92%) Scrum Master
5 49 (9.53%) Business Analyst
6 36 (7.00%) Lead
7 32 (6.23%) Project Manager
8 29 (5.64%) Product Owner
9 27 (5.25%) Java Developer
10 26 (5.06%) Architect
11 25 (4.86%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.47%) Technical Analyst
13 22 (4.28%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.89%) Product Manager
15 15 (2.92%) Agile Coach
16 14 (2.72%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.53%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 13 (2.53%) Technical Manager
18 12 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.51%) RESTful
2 43 (8.37%) REST
3 40 (7.78%) Spring
4 39 (7.59%) Spring Boot
5 36 (7.00%) Terraform
6 24 (4.67%) Kafka
7 22 (4.28%) AngularJS
8 20 (3.89%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (3.89%) Hibernate
8 20 (3.89%) JPA
8 20 (3.89%) SOAP
9 19 (3.70%) Web Services
10 17 (3.31%) CSS
10 17 (3.31%) HTML
10 17 (3.31%) Spring Cloud
11 15 (2.92%) Node.js
12 13 (2.53%) Play Framework
13 12 (2.33%) JSON
14 11 (2.14%) Playwright
14 11 (2.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 156 (30.35%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.14%) PMI
9 10 (1.95%) Life Science
10 9 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.75%) NHS
11 8 (1.56%) Blog
11 8 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.36%) Replication
13 6 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.84%) Linux
2 12 (2.33%) Android
3 10 (1.95%) Unix
4 7 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.17%) Windows
6 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (97.67%) Agile
2 458 (89.11%) Scrum
3 202 (39.30%) DevOps
4 188 (36.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 159 (30.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 145 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 143 (27.82%) Sprint Planning
8 113 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (20.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 100 (19.46%) User Stories
11 88 (17.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 81 (15.76%) Sprint Retrospective
13 80 (15.56%) Decision-Making
14 77 (14.98%) TDD
15 76 (14.79%) Microservices
15 76 (14.79%) Test Automation
16 71 (13.81%) Roadmaps
17 70 (13.62%) Acceptance Criteria
18 67 (13.04%) Analytics
19 66 (12.84%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 88 (17.12%) Java
2 70 (13.62%) SQL
3 62 (12.06%) Python
4 32 (6.23%) TypeScript
5 31 (6.03%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.09%) Scala
7 14 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.53%) C#
9 9 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.17%) Bash
10 6 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.97%) Swift
12 4 (0.78%) R
12 4 (0.78%) Rust
13 3 (0.58%) C++
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) Groovy
14 2 (0.39%) Korn
14 2 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 138 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 114 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.67%) Degree
4 39 (7.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.56%) PMP
8 7 (1.36%) CSPO
9 6 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.17%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (0.97%) CISSP
10 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.78%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.58%) CBAP
12 3 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.58%) IIBA
12 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (13.42%) QA
2 40 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.09%) WCAG
4 14 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.56%) GxP
5 8 (1.56%) PMO
6 6 (1.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.78%) GDPR
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.78%) NIST
8 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.39%) SEPA
9 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.19%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 54 (10.51%) Docker
2 8 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.37%) Grafana
3 19 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.75%) Ansible
5 8 (1.56%) Kibana
5 8 (1.56%) Puppet
6 4 (0.78%) Podman
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) Control-M
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) logstash
8 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
8 1 (0.19%) Rancher
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.67%) Oracle
3 21 (4.09%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.89%) Atlassian
5 18 (3.50%) Splunk
6 17 (3.31%) Google
7 16 (3.11%) Databricks
8 15 (2.92%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.53%) IBM
10 12 (2.33%) SAP
11 8 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.56%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.17%) Workday
13 5 (0.97%) Apple
13 5 (0.97%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.97%) BMC
13 5 (0.97%) Refinitiv
14 4 (0.78%) Remedy
14 4 (0.78%) Tenable
14 4 (0.78%) VMware