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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 240 215
Rank change year-on-year -11 -25 -39
Contract jobs citing Kanban 501 316 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.09% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.20% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 222 322
10th Percentile £363 £340 £377
25th Percentile £422 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -7.96% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £568 £600
90th Percentile £638 £663 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £506
% change year-on-year - -6.13% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £39.85 £34.35 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £48.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.94% -16.25%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.25 £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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +16 415 £500 - 233
UK excluding London -7 259 £475 - 163
London -18 196 £533 -3.09% 92
Work from Home -31 127 £500 +13.64% 140
North of England -38 77 £452 +12.88% 63
Midlands -7 62 £462 -7.60% 14
West Midlands -19 51 £475 -5.00% 9
South East -45 48 £575 +15.00% 36
Scotland +2 43 £475 +5.56% 4
North West -17 36 £456 +14.00% 32
Yorkshire -43 27 £460 +15.00% 18
South West -19 17 £475 -14.41% 15
North East -13 16 £450 -20.00% 13
East of England -14 15 £475 - 13
East Midlands -17 10 £371 +3.63% 5
Wales -20 1 £525 - 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
1 110 (21.96%) Confluence
2 24 (4.79%) CMS
3 23 (4.59%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.80%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.20%) SAS
6 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (3.59%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.40%) Trello
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.40%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Magento
1 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.40%) Shopify
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 151 (30.14%) Azure
2 125 (24.95%) AWS
3 74 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (8.58%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 30 (5.99%) GCP
7 28 (5.59%) GitHub
8 27 (5.39%) Serverless
9 26 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (3.19%) AWS KMS
14 16 (3.19%) Route 53
15 14 (2.79%) Miro
16 11 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (2.20%) Snowflake
17 10 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.00%) Network Security
2 8 (1.60%) Firewall
2 8 (1.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) BGP
3 3 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.60%) MQTT
3 3 (0.60%) NGFW
3 3 (0.60%) OSPF
3 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.20%) SONET
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.98%) NoSQL
2 37 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.39%) Power BI
4 30 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (5.19%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.79%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.39%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.79%) Relational Database
11 13 (2.59%) Big Data
11 13 (2.59%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.59%) Hadoop
12 11 (2.20%) Tableau
13 10 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (1.60%) Metadata
15 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 153 (30.54%) JIRA
2 67 (13.37%) Git
3 62 (12.38%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.39%) GitLab
5 28 (5.59%) Postman
6 20 (3.99%) Mockito
7 19 (3.79%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.39%) Maven
8 17 (3.39%) Selenium
9 16 (3.19%) JUnit
10 12 (2.40%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.20%) jMock
12 9 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.60%) Android Studio
13 8 (1.60%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.40%) fastlane
15 6 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 210 (41.92%) Social Skills
2 117 (23.35%) Public Sector
3 108 (21.56%) Finance
4 94 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.98%) Banking
6 32 (6.39%) Marketing
7 19 (3.79%) Retail
8 18 (3.59%) Legal
9 15 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.20%) Front Office
10 11 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.60%) Automotive
13 7 (1.40%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.00%) Aviation
15 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Local Government
15 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (17.17%) Analyst
2 69 (13.77%) Developer
3 61 (12.18%) Senior
4 53 (10.58%) Business Analyst
5 47 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
5 47 (9.38%) Scrum Master
6 43 (8.58%) Lead
7 40 (7.98%) Project Manager
8 33 (6.59%) Java Developer
9 32 (6.39%) Data Engineer
10 18 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
11 17 (3.39%) Architect
12 15 (2.99%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.99%) Software Engineer
13 14 (2.79%) Agile Coach
13 14 (2.79%) Product Owner
13 14 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.59%) Senior Manager
15 12 (2.40%) Security Engineer
15 12 (2.40%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.58%) RESTful
2 39 (7.78%) Spring
3 35 (6.99%) REST
4 33 (6.59%) Spring Boot
5 22 (4.39%) Node.js
6 20 (3.99%) AngularJS
6 20 (3.99%) Kafka
6 20 (3.99%) Web Services
7 18 (3.59%) React
8 17 (3.39%) HTML
8 17 (3.39%) SOAP
9 16 (3.19%) .NET
9 16 (3.19%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (3.19%) Hibernate
9 16 (3.19%) JPA
9 16 (3.19%) JSON
9 16 (3.19%) Spring Batch
9 16 (3.19%) Spring Integration
10 15 (2.99%) AWS CDK
10 15 (2.99%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 137 (27.35%) Product Ownership
2 40 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.79%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.79%) PMI
6 14 (2.79%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.60%) Life Science
11 7 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.20%) NHS
12 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.20%) Wiki
13 5 (1.00%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.39%) Linux
2 11 (2.20%) Android
2 11 (2.20%) Unix
2 11 (2.20%) Windows
3 8 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (95.61%) Agile
2 438 (87.43%) Scrum
3 174 (34.73%) DevOps
4 143 (28.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 141 (28.14%) CI/CD
6 132 (26.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (20.56%) Sprint Planning
9 100 (19.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 83 (16.57%) Microservices
11 79 (15.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 70 (13.97%) TDD
12 70 (13.97%) Test Automation
13 68 (13.57%) User Stories
14 66 (13.17%) Decision-Making
15 64 (12.77%) Roadmaps
16 63 (12.57%) Migration
16 63 (12.57%) Sprint Retrospective
17 60 (11.98%) Acceptance Criteria
18 58 (11.58%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 109 (21.76%) SQL
2 91 (18.16%) Java
3 72 (14.37%) Python
4 36 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.59%) C#
6 21 (4.19%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.59%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.40%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.60%) Scala
11 7 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.20%) Go
12 6 (1.20%) Perl
12 6 (1.20%) R
12 6 (1.20%) Swift
13 4 (0.80%) Bash
13 4 (0.80%) Bicep
14 3 (0.60%) C++
14 3 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 99 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.38%) Degree
4 31 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (4.59%) PMI Certification
6 22 (4.39%) PMP
7 15 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.40%) CISSP
10 10 (2.00%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.80%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (1.40%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.20%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.20%) MBA
14 5 (1.00%) CISM
14 5 (1.00%) CSPO
15 4 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.37%) QA
2 32 (6.39%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.79%) GDPR
4 14 (2.79%) PMO
5 11 (2.20%) WCAG
6 10 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.60%) NIST
8 6 (1.20%) Basel III
9 5 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.00%) SLA
10 4 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 4 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.80%) GxP
10 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.80%) NCSC
10 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (9.58%) Docker
2 9 (1.80%) Postfix
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.39%) Grafana
3 28 (5.59%) Terraform
4 11 (2.20%) Ansible
4 11 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.00%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) CASB
6 3 (0.60%) Foglight
6 3 (0.60%) Podman
6 3 (0.60%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) Argo
8 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) vMotion
8 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.19%) Oracle
3 18 (3.59%) Atlassian
3 18 (3.59%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.19%) Databricks
5 15 (2.99%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.99%) Splunk
6 13 (2.59%) SAP
7 9 (1.80%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.40%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.40%) Google
8 7 (1.40%) Refinitiv
9 6 (1.20%) Cisco
9 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.00%) Spotify
11 4 (0.80%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.80%) Okta
11 4 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.80%) VMware