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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 233 219
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 -38
Contract jobs citing Kanban 551 353 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.14% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.25% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 240 330
10th Percentile £363 £340 £374
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -8.09% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £598
90th Percentile £657 £676 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £465 £503
% change year-on-year +2.80% -7.46% +0.50%
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 43,739 28,136 37,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.86% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,189 17,763 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,627 1,381 2,550
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +10 457 £513 +2.50% 197
UK excluding London -3 277 £478 +2.80% 123
London -18 223 £550 +1.85% 90
Work from Home -42 139 £500 +13.64% 118
North of England -29 82 £455 +13.63% 44
Midlands -13 59 £475 -1.55% 16
West Midlands -21 52 £475 -5.00% 15
Scotland +6 48 £463 +2.78% 5
South East -41 48 £575 +16.40% 34
North West -30 36 £494 +23.44% 29
Yorkshire -36 27 £500 +25.00% 8
North East -12 19 £450 -20.00% 7
East of England -3 18 £475 - 8
South West -21 18 £475 -11.63% 11
East Midlands -20 6 £402 +2.29% 1
Wales -14 4 £513 +1.23% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 123 (22.32%) Confluence
2 26 (4.72%) CMS
3 23 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.63%) Apache
4 9 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.09%) SAS
5 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.09%) Trello
6 3 (0.54%) Notion
7 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Magento
2 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.36%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.36%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 176 (31.94%) Azure
2 143 (25.95%) AWS
3 90 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.62%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.17%) GCP
7 27 (4.90%) GitHub
7 27 (4.90%) Serverless
8 25 (4.54%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.90%) AWS KMS
12 16 (2.90%) Route 53
13 14 (2.54%) Miro
14 12 (2.18%) SaaS
15 11 (2.00%) Snowflake
16 10 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.81%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.00%) Network Security
2 10 (1.81%) Firewall
3 6 (1.09%) HTTP
4 4 (0.73%) MQTT
5 3 (0.54%) BGP
5 3 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.54%) NGFW
5 3 (0.54%) OSPF
5 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.18%) RS-232
7 1 (0.18%) RS-422
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) SONET
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 34 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (5.26%) Power BI
4 28 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 18 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.90%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.36%) Big Data
10 13 (2.36%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.18%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.81%) Tableau
13 7 (1.27%) Metadata
13 7 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.09%) Looker
15 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (31.76%) JIRA
2 70 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 69 (12.52%) Git
4 31 (5.63%) Postman
5 29 (5.26%) GitLab
6 20 (3.63%) Selenium
6 20 (3.63%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.27%) Mockito
8 17 (3.09%) Maven
9 16 (2.90%) JUnit
10 12 (2.18%) Cypress.io
10 12 (2.18%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.00%) jMock
12 10 (1.81%) fastlane
13 9 (1.63%) Android Studio
13 9 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.45%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.45%) Xcode
15 7 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 230 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 135 (24.50%) Public Sector
3 124 (22.50%) Finance
4 104 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (8.17%) Banking
6 37 (6.72%) Marketing
7 24 (4.36%) Retail
8 18 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.90%) Legal
10 13 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.63%) Automotive
13 9 (1.63%) Front Office
13 9 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Aviation
15 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Local Government
16 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (17.06%) Analyst
2 74 (13.43%) Developer
3 60 (10.89%) Scrum Master
4 59 (10.71%) Senior
5 52 (9.44%) Business Analyst
6 50 (9.07%) Delivery Manager
7 40 (7.26%) Lead
8 37 (6.72%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.44%) Data Engineer
10 28 (5.08%) Java Developer
10 28 (5.08%) Product Owner
11 24 (4.36%) Architect
11 24 (4.36%) Technical Analyst
12 15 (2.72%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.72%) Software Engineer
13 14 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
14 13 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 13 (2.36%) Security Engineer
15 12 (2.18%) Agile Coach
15 12 (2.18%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.44%) RESTful
2 38 (6.90%) REST
3 37 (6.72%) Spring
4 34 (6.17%) Spring Boot
5 21 (3.81%) Node.js
6 20 (3.63%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.45%) .NET
7 19 (3.45%) Kafka
7 19 (3.45%) Web Services
8 18 (3.27%) JSON
9 17 (3.09%) CSS
9 17 (3.09%) HTML
9 17 (3.09%) SOAP
10 16 (2.90%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (2.90%) AWS CDK
10 16 (2.90%) Hibernate
10 16 (2.90%) JPA
10 16 (2.90%) React
10 16 (2.90%) Spring Batch
10 16 (2.90%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 160 (29.04%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.09%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.72%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.00%) Life Science
9 10 (1.81%) PMI
10 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.27%) NHS
11 7 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.09%) Wiki
13 5 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.72%) Linux
2 14 (2.54%) Android
3 10 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.63%) Unix
4 9 (1.63%) Windows
5 6 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (96.37%) Agile
2 481 (87.30%) Scrum
3 208 (37.75%) DevOps
4 164 (29.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 156 (28.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (27.22%) CI/CD
7 120 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (21.23%) Sprint Planning
9 105 (19.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 88 (15.97%) Microservices
11 86 (15.61%) User Stories
12 85 (15.43%) Decision-Making
13 80 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 77 (13.97%) TDD
15 76 (13.79%) Test Automation
16 73 (13.25%) Sprint Retrospective
17 72 (13.07%) Roadmaps
18 70 (12.70%) Acceptance Criteria
18 70 (12.70%) Analytics
19 63 (11.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 113 (20.51%) SQL
2 93 (16.88%) Java
3 76 (13.79%) Python
4 36 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.17%) C#
6 21 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.54%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.54%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.81%) Scala
9 8 (1.45%) Swift
10 7 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.09%) Go
11 6 (1.09%) Perl
12 5 (0.91%) R
13 4 (0.73%) Bash
13 4 (0.73%) Bicep
13 4 (0.73%) C++
13 4 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 143 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 116 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 56 (10.16%) Degree
4 33 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.81%) PMI Certification
6 20 (3.63%) PMP
7 17 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.72%) CISSP
9 13 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.09%) CISM
13 6 (1.09%) CSPO
14 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
15 4 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.34%) QA
2 34 (6.17%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.09%) GDPR
4 16 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.90%) PMO
5 14 (2.54%) WCAG
6 11 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.63%) GxP
7 9 (1.63%) NIST
8 7 (1.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.91%) SLA
10 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.73%) NCSC
10 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (8.89%) Docker
2 9 (1.63%) Postfix
3 3 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.36%) vSphere
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.81%) Grafana
3 27 (4.90%) Terraform
4 11 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.81%) Ansible
6 5 (0.91%) Kibana
7 4 (0.73%) Podman
7 4 (0.73%) Puppet
8 3 (0.54%) CASB
8 3 (0.54%) Foglight
9 2 (0.36%) Rancher
10 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.18%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) vMotion
10 1 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.81%) Oracle
3 25 (4.54%) Atlassian
4 18 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.09%) Splunk
6 15 (2.72%) Google
6 15 (2.72%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.54%) Databricks
7 14 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.36%) SAP
9 8 (1.45%) IBM
10 7 (1.27%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.27%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.09%) Cisco
11 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.91%) Apple
12 5 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (0.91%) New Relic
12 5 (0.91%) VMware