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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 229 235
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -64
Contract jobs citing Kanban 466 348 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.19% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.31% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 233 302
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -8.52% +0.93%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £600
90th Percentile £668 £650 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £508
% change year-on-year -4.43% -2.12% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £25.81 -
25th Percentile - £26.66 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £37.63 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +99.34% -17.99% -42.65%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £75.00
90th Percentile - £69.33 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £60.61 £45.88
% change year-on-year +23.74% +32.11% -46.02%

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 37,265 26,485 38,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 90.43% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 17,037 25,025
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 922 2,327
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £30.91
% change year-on-year -13.41% +2.74% -11.68%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +8 393 £517 +0.92% 189
UK excluding London -27 223 £475 -4.43% 139
London +11 202 £535 +4.39% 66
Work from Home -62 107 £500 +13.64% 116
North of England -27 68 £475 +18.75% 49
Midlands -27 52 £450 -23.40% 13
South East -55 40 £525 +5.00% 38
North West -9 34 £435 +18.39% 26
West Midlands -35 34 £475 -19.15% 12
Scotland -6 32 £400 -8.57% 5
Yorkshire -42 27 £500 +25.00% 13
South West -13 20 £525 -7.08% 20
East Midlands -18 18 £354 - 1
East of England -14 11 £475 +15.21% 11
North East 0 9 £538 - 10
Wales -12 5 £509 -3.05% 1

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 (22.96%) Confluence
2 17 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.00%) CMS
4 7 (1.50%) Apache
5 5 (1.07%) nginx
5 5 (1.07%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 21 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.72%) Trello
3 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.43%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.64%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (23.39%) Azure
2 86 (18.45%) AWS
3 57 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.65%) GitHub
6 30 (6.44%) GCP
7 21 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (3.65%) Miro
9 16 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.22%) Serverless
11 14 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.93%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.72%) Figma
15 8 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.93%) Firewall
2 6 (1.29%) HTTP
2 6 (1.29%) Network Security
3 3 (0.64%) BGP
3 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
3 3 (0.64%) FTP
3 3 (0.64%) NGFW
3 3 (0.64%) OSPF
3 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.21%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.21%) SAN
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.44%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.01%) Power BI
3 22 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 16 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.22%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.22%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.79%) Metadata
8 11 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.93%) Big Data
10 9 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 160 (34.33%) JIRA
2 65 (13.95%) Git
3 39 (8.37%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.01%) GitLab
5 24 (5.15%) Postman
6 16 (3.43%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.58%) Mockito
8 11 (2.36%) Selenium
9 9 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (1.93%) JUnit
9 9 (1.93%) Maven
10 8 (1.72%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.07%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.07%) jMock
13 5 (1.07%) ScalaTest
13 5 (1.07%) Zephyr
General
1 182 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 111 (23.82%) Finance
3 79 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 77 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (10.73%) Banking
6 20 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.43%) Front Office
8 15 (3.22%) Marketing
9 14 (3.00%) Legal
10 12 (2.58%) Retail
11 11 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.93%) Corporate Banking
12 9 (1.93%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.29%) Automotive
14 6 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.86%) Aviation
16 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (16.31%) Analyst
2 55 (11.80%) Developer
3 52 (11.16%) Business Analyst
4 48 (10.30%) Project Manager
4 48 (10.30%) Scrum Master
5 43 (9.23%) Senior
6 39 (8.37%) Lead
7 36 (7.73%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (6.87%) Java Developer
9 20 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.22%) Software Engineer
11 13 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.79%) Product Owner
11 13 (2.79%) Technical Analyst
12 12 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (2.36%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 10 (2.15%) Agile Scrum Master
14 10 (2.15%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.15%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.94%) REST
2 31 (6.65%) Spring
3 27 (5.79%) Spring Boot
4 24 (5.15%) React
5 21 (4.51%) Node.js
5 21 (4.51%) RESTful
6 20 (4.29%) Kafka
7 17 (3.65%) .NET
7 17 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 15 (3.22%) JSON
8 15 (3.22%) Playwright
9 11 (2.36%) HTML
9 11 (2.36%) Web Services
9 11 (2.36%) XML
10 9 (1.93%) CSS
11 7 (1.50%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (1.50%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (1.50%) Hibernate
11 7 (1.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 118 (25.32%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.36%) PMI
5 17 (3.65%) Virtual Team
6 16 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.50%) NHS
10 7 (1.50%) Wiki
11 6 (1.29%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.07%) Derivative
12 5 (1.07%) FMCG
12 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.07%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.30%) Linux
2 20 (4.29%) Windows
3 11 (2.36%) Unix
4 7 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.86%) Android
5 4 (0.86%) VMS
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (94.64%) Agile
2 405 (86.91%) Scrum
3 136 (29.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 132 (28.33%) DevOps
5 127 (27.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 124 (26.61%) CI/CD
7 122 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (24.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 74 (15.88%) Test Automation
10 73 (15.67%) Sprint Planning
11 70 (15.02%) Roadmaps
11 70 (15.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 69 (14.81%) User Stories
13 65 (13.95%) Microservices
13 65 (13.95%) TDD
14 62 (13.30%) Project Management
15 58 (12.45%) Acceptance Criteria
16 56 (12.02%) Decision-Making
17 53 (11.37%) Migration
18 52 (11.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (19.74%) SQL
2 79 (16.95%) Java
3 62 (13.30%) Python
4 30 (6.44%) C#
5 25 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.86%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.93%) Bash
8 9 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.72%) Perl
9 8 (1.72%) Scala
10 7 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.50%) Go
10 7 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.29%) Ruby
12 4 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.86%) C++
12 4 (0.86%) R
13 3 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 103 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 74 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.37%) Degree
4 34 (7.30%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.36%) PMP
6 23 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (3.65%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.00%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.79%) CISSP
11 11 (2.36%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (1.72%) CBAP
12 8 (1.72%) CISM
12 8 (1.72%) MBA
13 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.07%) CISA
15 5 (1.07%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (18.03%) QA
2 22 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.43%) GDPR
4 16 (3.43%) PMO
5 11 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.15%) NIST
7 8 (1.72%) Basel III
7 8 (1.72%) ISO 8583
8 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (1.29%) PSD2
9 5 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.86%) GRC
10 4 (0.86%) SLA
11 3 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.64%) NCSC
11 3 (0.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (9.23%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Postfix
3 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (9.44%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.87%) Terraform
3 20 (4.29%) Grafana
4 13 (2.79%) Ansible
5 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.50%) Rancher
7 4 (0.86%) Argo
7 4 (0.86%) Consul
7 4 (0.86%) Packer
7 4 (0.86%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.64%) CASB
8 3 (0.64%) Foglight
8 3 (0.64%) Nagios
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) vMotion
9 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.15%) Oracle
3 22 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.86%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.58%) Splunk
6 11 (2.36%) Databricks
6 11 (2.36%) SAP
7 10 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.93%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.29%) Cisco
10 6 (1.29%) Spotify
11 4 (0.86%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.86%) Okta
11 4 (0.86%) VMware
12 3 (0.64%) Charles River
12 3 (0.64%) Juniper
12 3 (0.64%) Murex
12 3 (0.64%) Sitecore