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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 206 209
Rank change year-on-year -46 +3 -17
Contract jobs citing Kanban 539 414 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.26% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.39% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 294 311
10th Percentile £388 £340 £363
25th Percentile £425 £407 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £600
90th Percentile £659 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.90
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +4.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £77.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £78.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.17% -15.29%

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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -34 452 £525 +5.00% 330
UK excluding London -18 249 £500 +8.11% 155
London -40 233 £550 - 200
Work from Home -42 134 £525 +14.38% 178
North of England -51 76 £500 +16.82% 44
Midlands -21 54 £475 +10.98% 17
West Midlands -17 49 £475 -5.00% 10
South East -51 42 £600 +21.46% 45
Scotland +1 39 £475 -4.43% 10
North West -35 27 £556 +35.67% 18
North East -19 25 £450 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -57 24 £500 +11.11% 15
South West -33 19 £483 +0.26% 23
East of England -6 15 £363 -35.56% 10
Wales -16 4 £513 +9.33% 8
East Midlands -30 4 £402 +12.29% 7
Northern Ireland - 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
1 128 (23.75%) Confluence
2 19 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.53%) CMS
3 11 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.48%) Apache
6 6 (1.11%) SAS
7 5 (0.93%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.67%) Trello
5 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Notion
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Magento
2 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.37%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.37%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.19%) Primavera
6 1 (0.19%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.19%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 184 (34.14%) Azure
2 148 (27.46%) AWS
3 95 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.79%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 38 (7.05%) GCP
7 26 (4.82%) GitHub
8 25 (4.64%) Serverless
9 22 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.97%) Snowflake
12 15 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.60%) AWS KMS
14 13 (2.41%) Route 53
15 12 (2.23%) Miro
15 12 (2.23%) SaaS
16 10 (1.86%) Firebase
17 9 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.86%) Network Security
2 7 (1.30%) Firewall
3 4 (0.74%) MQTT
4 3 (0.56%) NGFW
5 2 (0.37%) DNS
5 2 (0.37%) FTP
5 2 (0.37%) HTTP
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.19%) MPLS
6 1 (0.19%) OSPF
6 1 (0.19%) RS-232
6 1 (0.19%) RS-422
6 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.19%) SONET
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.31%) NoSQL
3 31 (5.75%) Power BI
4 27 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (2.41%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.04%) Tableau
10 9 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.67%) Looker
11 8 (1.48%) Big Data
12 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.93%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 187 (34.69%) JIRA
2 77 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 56 (10.39%) Git
4 37 (6.86%) GitLab
5 23 (4.27%) Postman
6 21 (3.90%) Selenium
6 21 (3.90%) SonarQube
7 16 (2.97%) JUnit
8 15 (2.78%) Maven
8 15 (2.78%) Mockito
9 12 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.86%) DbUnit
10 10 (1.86%) fastlane
11 9 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.67%) jMock
11 9 (1.67%) Subversion
12 8 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.30%) Android Studio
13 7 (1.30%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 230 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 147 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 125 (23.19%) Finance
4 106 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.79%) Banking
5 42 (7.79%) Marketing
6 24 (4.45%) Retail
7 23 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Legal
10 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.86%) Front Office
12 6 (1.11%) Automotive
12 6 (1.11%) Local Government
12 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Games
13 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (17.44%) Analyst
2 67 (12.43%) Developer
3 58 (10.76%) Scrum Master
4 55 (10.20%) Delivery Manager
5 53 (9.83%) Senior
6 52 (9.65%) Business Analyst
7 45 (8.35%) Lead
8 35 (6.49%) Project Manager
9 31 (5.75%) Product Owner
10 29 (5.38%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.64%) Architect
11 25 (4.64%) Technical Analyst
12 23 (4.27%) Java Developer
13 17 (3.15%) Product Manager
14 15 (2.78%) Agile Coach
14 15 (2.78%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 14 (2.60%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.60%) Systems Analyst
16 12 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 12 (2.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.16%) RESTful
2 38 (7.05%) REST
3 35 (6.49%) Spring
4 33 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 23 (4.27%) Kafka
6 18 (3.34%) Node.js
7 17 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 16 (2.97%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (2.97%) CSS
8 16 (2.97%) HTML
8 16 (2.97%) SOAP
8 16 (2.97%) Web Services
9 15 (2.78%) Hibernate
9 15 (2.78%) JPA
10 14 (2.60%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.41%) Spring Batch
11 13 (2.41%) Spring Cloud
11 13 (2.41%) Spring Integration
12 12 (2.23%) JSON
12 12 (2.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 158 (29.31%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.97%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.23%) Life Science
8 12 (2.23%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.04%) PMI
10 10 (1.86%) NHS
11 9 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.30%) Replication
12 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.93%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.31%) Linux
2 12 (2.23%) Android
3 9 (1.67%) Unix
4 8 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.11%) Windows
6 2 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (97.03%) Agile
2 481 (89.24%) Scrum
3 213 (39.52%) DevOps
4 186 (34.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 150 (27.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (26.53%) CI/CD
7 136 (25.23%) Sprint Planning
8 118 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (20.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 96 (17.81%) User Stories
11 90 (16.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 85 (15.77%) Decision-Making
13 81 (15.03%) Sprint Retrospective
14 79 (14.66%) Acceptance Criteria
15 78 (14.47%) Microservices
16 75 (13.91%) Test Automation
17 74 (13.73%) Analytics
17 74 (13.73%) Roadmaps
18 69 (12.80%) TDD
19 60 (11.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (17.63%) SQL
2 88 (16.33%) Java
3 75 (13.91%) Python
4 31 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.82%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.78%) Scala
7 14 (2.60%) C#
8 12 (2.23%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.86%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.11%) Bash
11 6 (1.11%) Swift
12 5 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.93%) R
13 4 (0.74%) Rust
14 3 (0.56%) C++
15 2 (0.37%) Bicep
15 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.37%) Go
15 2 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 140 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 112 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 65 (12.06%) Degree
4 40 (7.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (4.27%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.97%) PMP
8 10 (1.86%) CISSP
9 7 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.30%) CSPO
10 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.74%) IIBA
11 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.56%) CBAP
12 3 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.99%) QA
2 36 (6.68%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.15%) WCAG
4 15 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.41%) PMO
6 10 (1.86%) GDPR
6 10 (1.86%) GxP
7 9 (1.67%) NIST
8 8 (1.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.56%) SLA
13 2 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (9.28%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.30%) Postfix
4 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.75%) Grafana
3 28 (5.19%) Terraform
4 11 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.48%) Kibana
5 8 (1.48%) Puppet
6 7 (1.30%) Ansible
7 4 (0.74%) Podman
8 3 (0.56%) CASB
8 3 (0.56%) Foglight
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 2 (0.37%) Control-M
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.19%) Oracle
3 22 (4.08%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.71%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.34%) Splunk
6 17 (3.15%) Google
6 17 (3.15%) SAP
7 16 (2.97%) Databricks
8 14 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.41%) IBM
10 12 (2.23%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.30%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.30%) Refinitiv
12 6 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (1.11%) Workday
13 5 (0.93%) Apple
13 5 (0.93%) BMC
13 5 (0.93%) Spotify
14 4 (0.74%) Remedy