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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 229 216
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 -37
Contract jobs citing Kanban 473 327 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.13% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.24% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 235 316
10th Percentile £359 £340 £379
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £494 £548
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -9.77% +4.29%
75th Percentile £591 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £480 £509
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.60% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £63.80 £26.38 -
25th Percentile £68.00 £37.56 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.23 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +9.29% -14.10%
75th Percentile - £77.98 £74.75
90th Percentile - £78.58 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -10.67%

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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -9 392 £525 +2.44% 170
UK excluding London +1 243 £492 +2.50% 135
London -24 186 £550 +4.76% 58
Work from Home -47 110 £500 +13.64% 106
North of England -26 70 £458 +14.50% 58
Midlands -19 60 £466 -7.92% 11
West Midlands -23 48 £475 -7.23% 8
South East -38 48 £575 +15.00% 28
Scotland 0 38 £470 +4.44% 11
North West -11 35 £450 +22.28% 26
Yorkshire -51 24 £480 +20.00% 17
South West -23 15 £475 -15.93% 9
North East -8 13 £450 -20.00% 15
East of England -20 13 £475 +0.05% 10
East Midlands -19 12 £354 -1.12% 3
Wales -6 4 £509 -3.05% 8

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
1 107 (22.62%) Confluence
2 23 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.65%) CMS
4 9 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.48%) Apache
6 6 (1.27%) SAS
7 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.48%) Trello
4 6 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.42%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Magento
3 2 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 136 (28.75%) Azure
2 111 (23.47%) AWS
3 64 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.03%) Power Platform
5 36 (7.61%) Amazon S3
6 29 (6.13%) GCP
6 29 (6.13%) GitHub
7 22 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (4.65%) Serverless
8 20 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (2.96%) Miro
11 13 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (2.54%) AWS KMS
12 12 (2.54%) Route 53
13 10 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.11%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.69%) Firewall
1 8 (1.69%) HTTP
2 6 (1.27%) Network Security
3 3 (0.63%) BGP
3 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.63%) DNS
3 3 (0.63%) FTP
3 3 (0.63%) NGFW
3 3 (0.63%) OSPF
3 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.21%) SAN
4 1 (0.21%) SONET
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.03%) NoSQL
2 33 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (6.55%) Power BI
4 25 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (4.86%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.86%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (3.17%) Big Data
9 13 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.75%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.75%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.33%) Tableau
11 10 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 149 (31.50%) JIRA
2 56 (11.84%) Git
3 50 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.55%) Postman
5 30 (6.34%) GitLab
6 16 (3.38%) Mockito
7 14 (2.96%) Maven
8 13 (2.75%) Selenium
9 12 (2.54%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.54%) JUnit
9 12 (2.54%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.90%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.90%) jMock
10 9 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.27%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 188 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 107 (22.62%) Finance
3 95 (20.08%) Public Sector
4 78 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.30%) Banking
6 29 (6.13%) Marketing
7 16 (3.38%) Legal
8 14 (2.96%) Retail
9 12 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.11%) Front Office
12 8 (1.69%) Automotive
13 7 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.48%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.06%) Local Government
15 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (16.70%) Analyst
2 55 (11.63%) Developer
3 52 (10.99%) Senior
4 47 (9.94%) Scrum Master
5 46 (9.73%) Business Analyst
6 45 (9.51%) Lead
7 42 (8.88%) Project Manager
8 39 (8.25%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (6.77%) Data Engineer
10 28 (5.92%) Java Developer
11 17 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
12 14 (2.96%) Architect
13 13 (2.75%) Agile Coach
13 13 (2.75%) Product Owner
13 13 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.75%) Software Engineer
14 12 (2.54%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.54%) Security Engineer
14 12 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.98%) Spring
2 32 (6.77%) REST
2 32 (6.77%) RESTful
3 27 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 21 (4.44%) Node.js
5 18 (3.81%) Kafka
6 17 (3.59%) React
7 16 (3.38%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.38%) HTML
8 15 (3.17%) .NET
8 15 (3.17%) JSON
8 15 (3.17%) Web Services
9 14 (2.96%) CSS
10 13 (2.75%) Playwright
10 13 (2.75%) SOAP
11 12 (2.54%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (2.54%) Hibernate
11 12 (2.54%) JPA
11 12 (2.54%) Spring Batch
11 12 (2.54%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 127 (26.85%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.81%) PMI
6 16 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.96%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.48%) Wiki
10 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.06%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.06%) Replication
12 4 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.19%) Linux
2 13 (2.75%) Unix
2 13 (2.75%) Windows
3 9 (1.90%) Android
4 7 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (95.14%) Agile
2 420 (88.79%) Scrum
3 153 (32.35%) DevOps
4 131 (27.70%) CI/CD
5 128 (27.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 128 (27.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (19.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 89 (18.82%) Sprint Planning
9 73 (15.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 70 (14.80%) Microservices
10 70 (14.80%) Test Automation
11 61 (12.90%) Migration
11 61 (12.90%) Roadmaps
11 61 (12.90%) TDD
12 59 (12.47%) Decision-Making
12 59 (12.47%) User Stories
13 58 (12.26%) Project Management
14 57 (12.05%) Acceptance Criteria
15 56 (11.84%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 104 (21.99%) SQL
2 78 (16.49%) Java
3 66 (13.95%) Python
4 32 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.44%) C#
6 15 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.11%) Kotlin
7 10 (2.11%) Scala
8 9 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.27%) Bash
10 6 (1.27%) Go
10 6 (1.27%) Perl
10 6 (1.27%) Ruby
11 5 (1.06%) R
11 5 (1.06%) Swift
12 4 (0.85%) Bicep
13 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 116 (24.52%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.36%) Degree
4 28 (5.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (5.92%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.29%) PMP
6 18 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.54%) CISSP
8 11 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.33%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.48%) MBA
10 7 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.06%) CISM
12 5 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.06%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (15.64%) QA
2 28 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.59%) GDPR
5 14 (2.96%) PMO
6 10 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.90%) NIST
8 8 (1.69%) WCAG
9 7 (1.48%) Basel III
10 5 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.06%) SLA
11 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.85%) NCSC
11 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.42%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 43 (9.09%) Docker
2 8 (1.69%) Postfix
3 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.13%) Grafana
3 25 (5.29%) Terraform
4 11 (2.33%) Ansible
5 10 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.06%) Kibana
7 4 (0.85%) Rancher
8 3 (0.63%) Argo
8 3 (0.63%) CASB
8 3 (0.63%) Foglight
9 2 (0.42%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vMotion
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.71%) Oracle
3 18 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.17%) Atlassian
4 15 (3.17%) Splunk
5 14 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.75%) Databricks
7 12 (2.54%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (2.33%) SAP
9 7 (1.48%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.48%) Refinitiv
10 6 (1.27%) Cisco
10 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.06%) Spotify
12 4 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.85%) Okta
12 4 (0.85%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.85%) VMware