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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 214 226
Rank change year-on-year -56 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing Kanban 517 410 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.24% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.37% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 293 310
10th Percentile £387 £340 £362
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +7.56% -10.00% -
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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
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 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -52 426 £520 +4.00% 242
UK excluding London -38 244 £484 +7.56% 149
London -69 211 £550 - 116
Work from Home -39 137 £515 +3.00% 135
North of England -59 76 £474 +11.92% 51
Midlands -27 53 £475 +10.98% 19
West Midlands -7 48 £475 -5.00% 16
South East -44 42 £600 +23.71% 34
Scotland -28 39 £475 -5.00% 5
North East -17 30 £450 -20.00% 9
North West -48 28 £550 +37.50% 28
Yorkshire -68 18 £500 +11.11% 14
East of England -15 16 £450 -8.72% 6
South West -33 14 £498 +17.06% 28
Wales -12 4 £513 +9.33% 5
East Midlands -27 4 £402 +12.29% 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
1 131 (25.34%) Confluence
2 16 (3.09%) CMS
3 13 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.74%) Apache
6 6 (1.16%) 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 27 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.55%) Trello
5 6 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.77%) Notion
7 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.55%) Magento
2 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.77%) 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
5 2 (0.39%) Shopify
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%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 180 (34.82%) Azure
2 150 (29.01%) AWS
3 96 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (7.54%) Power Platform
5 38 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 36 (6.96%) GCP
6 36 (6.96%) GitHub
7 24 (4.64%) Serverless
8 22 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (3.48%) Snowflake
12 15 (2.90%) SaaS
13 12 (2.32%) Miro
14 11 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.13%) AWS KMS
14 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.16%) Network Security
2 4 (0.77%) 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%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
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%) 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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.42%) MongoDB
2 28 (5.42%) Power BI
3 26 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 17 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.13%) Tableau
9 9 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.55%) Big Data
10 8 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.35%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.97%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.97%) Data Hub
12 5 (0.97%) Looker
13 4 (0.77%) MySQL
13 4 (0.77%) Presto
Development Applications
1 197 (38.10%) JIRA
2 81 (15.67%) Jenkins
3 58 (11.22%) Git
4 38 (7.35%) GitLab
5 25 (4.84%) SonarQube
6 21 (4.06%) JUnit
6 21 (4.06%) Maven
6 21 (4.06%) Selenium
7 20 (3.87%) Postman
8 19 (3.68%) Mockito
9 12 (2.32%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.93%) fastlane
11 9 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.74%) Subversion
12 7 (1.35%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.35%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.35%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.16%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.16%) REST Assured
General
1 231 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 149 (28.82%) Public Sector
3 124 (23.98%) Finance
4 99 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.93%) Banking
6 40 (7.74%) Marketing
7 30 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.84%) Retail
9 22 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.93%) Legal
13 9 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.35%) Front Office
15 5 (0.97%) Games
15 5 (0.97%) Local Government
15 5 (0.97%) Military
15 5 (0.97%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (17.41%) Analyst
2 75 (14.51%) Developer
3 57 (11.03%) Senior
4 52 (10.06%) Scrum Master
5 51 (9.86%) Delivery Manager
6 50 (9.67%) Business Analyst
7 37 (7.16%) Lead
8 31 (6.00%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.80%) Product Owner
10 27 (5.22%) Java Developer
11 26 (5.03%) Architect
12 24 (4.64%) Data Engineer
12 24 (4.64%) Technical Analyst
13 21 (4.06%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.68%) Product Manager
15 15 (2.90%) Agile Coach
16 13 (2.51%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 13 (2.51%) Software Developer
16 13 (2.51%) Systems Analyst
16 13 (2.51%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.25%) RESTful
2 43 (8.32%) REST
3 39 (7.54%) Spring
4 38 (7.35%) Spring Boot
5 34 (6.58%) Terraform
6 24 (4.64%) Kafka
7 22 (4.26%) AngularJS
8 20 (3.87%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (3.87%) Hibernate
8 20 (3.87%) JPA
8 20 (3.87%) SOAP
9 19 (3.68%) Web Services
10 17 (3.29%) CSS
10 17 (3.29%) HTML
10 17 (3.29%) Spring Cloud
11 15 (2.90%) Node.js
12 12 (2.32%) AWS CDK
12 12 (2.32%) JSON
12 12 (2.32%) Play Framework
13 11 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 157 (30.37%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.93%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.32%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.13%) Life Science
8 11 (2.13%) PMI
9 10 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.74%) NHS
11 8 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.35%) Blog
12 7 (1.35%) Replication
13 6 (1.16%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.80%) Linux
2 12 (2.32%) Android
3 10 (1.93%) Unix
4 7 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.16%) 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
1 505 (97.68%) Agile
2 460 (88.97%) Scrum
3 204 (39.46%) DevOps
4 188 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 159 (30.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 145 (28.05%) Sprint Planning
7 143 (27.66%) CI/CD
8 114 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (20.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 101 (19.54%) User Stories
11 89 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 82 (15.86%) Sprint Retrospective
13 81 (15.67%) Decision-Making
14 77 (14.89%) Microservices
15 76 (14.70%) TDD
15 76 (14.70%) Test Automation
16 72 (13.93%) Acceptance Criteria
16 72 (13.93%) Roadmaps
17 68 (13.15%) Analytics
18 66 (12.77%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 87 (16.83%) Java
2 72 (13.93%) SQL
3 62 (11.99%) Python
4 33 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 31 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.87%) Scala
7 13 (2.51%) C#
7 13 (2.51%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.74%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.16%) Bash
9 6 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.97%) Swift
11 4 (0.77%) R
11 4 (0.77%) Rust
12 3 (0.58%) C++
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) Groovy
13 2 (0.39%) SOQL
14 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 138 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 113 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.99%) Degree
4 38 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.68%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.55%) PMP
9 7 (1.35%) CSPO
10 6 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (0.97%) CISSP
11 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.58%) CBAP
13 3 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.58%) IIBA
13 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.54%) QA
2 39 (7.54%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.87%) WCAG
4 14 (2.71%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.74%) GxP
6 8 (1.55%) PMO
7 7 (1.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.77%) GDPR
9 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.77%) NIST
10 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.39%) SEPA
11 2 (0.39%) SLA
11 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.19%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 54 (10.44%) Docker
2 8 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.12%) Grafana
3 19 (3.68%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.55%) Ansible
4 8 (1.55%) Kibana
4 8 (1.55%) Puppet
5 4 (0.77%) Podman
6 2 (0.39%) Argo
6 2 (0.39%) Control-M
6 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Foglight
7 1 (0.19%) logstash
7 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
7 1 (0.19%) Rancher
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.64%) Oracle
3 22 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.06%) Atlassian
5 17 (3.29%) Google
5 17 (3.29%) Splunk
6 16 (3.09%) Databricks
7 14 (2.71%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.51%) IBM
8 13 (2.51%) SAP
9 9 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.55%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.16%) Workday
12 5 (0.97%) Apple
12 5 (0.97%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.97%) BMC
12 5 (0.97%) Refinitiv
13 4 (0.77%) Adobe
13 4 (0.77%) Remedy
13 4 (0.77%) Tenable