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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 225 224
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -37
Contract jobs citing Kanban 568 383 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.18% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.31% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 270 321
10th Percentile £364 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -8.70% +3.37%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £600
90th Percentile £650 £676 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £461 £501
% change year-on-year +3.63% -7.98% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £34.20 £28.55 -
25th Percentile £47.24 £39.38 £45.88
Median hourly rate £69.75 £51.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.76% -23.88% -18.79%
75th Percentile £74.69 £76.25 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.94% -21.18%

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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -9 471 £512 +2.45% 293
UK excluding London -6 286 £478 +3.63% 261
London -18 229 £550 +0.92% 90
Work from Home -51 143 £500 +11.11% 259
North of England -38 83 £458 +11.03% 79
Midlands -13 64 £475 -1.55% 34
West Midlands -20 58 £475 -5.00% 16
Scotland +7 49 £469 +4.22% 24
South East -50 48 £575 +16.40% 66
North West -22 37 £488 +21.88% 39
Yorkshire -59 27 £500 +16.35% 28
East of England -2 20 £475 - 19
North East -21 19 £450 -20.00% 13
South West -19 18 £475 -11.63% 22
East Midlands -15 5 £402 +2.42% 18
Wales -15 4 £513 +5.13% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

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
1 130 (22.89%) Confluence
2 26 (4.58%) CMS
3 23 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.76%) Apache
5 9 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.06%) SAS
6 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.88%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.70%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.58%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (1.06%) Trello
7 3 (0.53%) Notion
8 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Magento
2 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.35%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.35%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 184 (32.39%) Azure
2 150 (26.41%) AWS
3 96 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (8.10%) Amazon S3
5 41 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.51%) GCP
7 29 (5.11%) Serverless
8 28 (4.93%) GitHub
9 27 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.99%) AWS KMS
14 16 (2.82%) Miro
14 16 (2.82%) Route 53
15 14 (2.46%) Snowflake
16 13 (2.29%) SaaS
17 10 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.94%) Network Security
2 10 (1.76%) Firewall
3 5 (0.88%) HTTP
4 4 (0.70%) MQTT
5 3 (0.53%) BGP
5 3 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.53%) DNS
5 3 (0.53%) NGFW
5 3 (0.53%) OSPF
5 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.18%) DHCP
6 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.18%) FTP
6 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.18%) RS-232
6 1 (0.18%) SAN
6 1 (0.18%) SONET
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.69%) NoSQL
2 35 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (5.11%) Power BI
5 25 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 21 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.82%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.29%) Big Data
9 13 (2.29%) Hadoop
10 12 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.76%) Tableau
12 8 (1.41%) Metadata
13 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 183 (32.22%) JIRA
2 74 (13.03%) Jenkins
3 71 (12.50%) Git
4 31 (5.46%) GitLab
5 30 (5.28%) Postman
6 22 (3.87%) Selenium
7 20 (3.52%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.99%) JUnit
8 17 (2.99%) Maven
8 17 (2.99%) Mockito
9 12 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.11%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.94%) jMock
11 10 (1.76%) fastlane
12 9 (1.58%) Android Studio
12 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.58%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.41%) Subversion
13 8 (1.41%) Xcode
General
1 240 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 143 (25.18%) Public Sector
3 130 (22.89%) Finance
4 108 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (7.92%) Banking
6 40 (7.04%) Marketing
7 25 (4.40%) Retail
8 20 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.64%) Legal
10 14 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.76%) Front Office
14 9 (1.58%) Automotive
15 7 (1.23%) Local Government
16 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.88%) Aviation
17 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (16.90%) Analyst
2 74 (13.03%) Developer
3 62 (10.92%) Scrum Master
3 62 (10.92%) Senior
4 53 (9.33%) Business Analyst
5 50 (8.80%) Delivery Manager
6 41 (7.22%) Lead
7 35 (6.16%) Project Manager
8 32 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 30 (5.28%) Product Owner
10 29 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.75%) Technical Analyst
12 24 (4.23%) Architect
13 18 (3.17%) Product Manager
14 16 (2.82%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.64%) Software Engineer
16 14 (2.46%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.29%) Security Engineer
17 13 (2.29%) Senior Manager
17 13 (2.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.33%) RESTful
2 40 (7.04%) Spring
3 37 (6.51%) REST
3 37 (6.51%) Spring Boot
4 22 (3.87%) Kafka
4 22 (3.87%) Node.js
5 21 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 19 (3.35%) CSS
6 19 (3.35%) HTML
6 19 (3.35%) JSON
6 19 (3.35%) Web Services
7 18 (3.17%) .NET
8 17 (2.99%) SOAP
9 16 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (2.82%) AWS CDK
9 16 (2.82%) Hibernate
9 16 (2.82%) JPA
9 16 (2.82%) React
9 16 (2.82%) Spring Batch
9 16 (2.82%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 166 (29.23%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.57%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.52%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.64%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.11%) Life Science
10 10 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.58%) NHS
11 9 (1.58%) PMI
12 8 (1.41%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.06%) Wiki
15 5 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.69%) Linux
2 14 (2.46%) Android
3 10 (1.76%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.58%) Unix
5 8 (1.41%) Windows
6 6 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (96.48%) Agile
2 498 (87.68%) Scrum
3 221 (38.91%) DevOps
4 174 (30.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 161 (28.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (27.99%) CI/CD
7 126 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (22.01%) Sprint Planning
9 108 (19.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 94 (16.55%) User Stories
11 90 (15.85%) Decision-Making
11 90 (15.85%) Microservices
12 84 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 80 (14.08%) TDD
14 78 (13.73%) Sprint Retrospective
15 77 (13.56%) Roadmaps
15 77 (13.56%) Test Automation
16 76 (13.38%) Acceptance Criteria
17 73 (12.85%) Analytics
18 66 (11.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 116 (20.42%) SQL
2 99 (17.43%) Java
3 80 (14.08%) Python
4 37 (6.51%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.05%) C#
5 23 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.46%) Kotlin
6 14 (2.46%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.76%) Scala
9 8 (1.41%) Swift
10 7 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.06%) Go
11 6 (1.06%) Perl
12 5 (0.88%) Bash
12 5 (0.88%) Bicep
12 5 (0.88%) R
13 4 (0.70%) Rust
14 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 145 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.27%) Degree
4 36 (6.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.87%) PMI Certification
6 21 (3.70%) PMP
7 17 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.64%) CISSP
9 13 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.23%) CSPO
12 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.06%) CISM
14 5 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
15 4 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.73%) QA
2 37 (6.51%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.17%) GDPR
3 18 (3.17%) PMO
4 16 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.82%) WCAG
5 11 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.76%) GxP
7 9 (1.58%) NIST
8 8 (1.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 6 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.88%) SLA
11 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.70%) NCSC
11 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (9.15%) Docker
2 9 (1.58%) Postfix
3 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.35%) vSphere
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.81%) Grafana
3 29 (5.11%) Terraform
4 12 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.76%) Ansible
6 5 (0.88%) Kibana
7 4 (0.70%) Podman
7 4 (0.70%) Puppet
8 3 (0.53%) CASB
8 3 (0.53%) Foglight
9 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
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 56 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.81%) Oracle
3 26 (4.58%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.99%) Splunk
6 16 (2.82%) Google
7 15 (2.64%) Jaspersoft
7 15 (2.64%) SAP
7 15 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.46%) Databricks
8 14 (2.46%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.41%) IBM
10 7 (1.23%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.23%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.06%) Cisco
11 6 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.88%) Apple
12 5 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (0.88%) Okta
12 5 (0.88%) Spotify