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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 244 213
Rank change year-on-year -8 -31 -49
Contract jobs citing Kanban 478 320 475
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.09% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.20% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 226 317
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £494 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -8.52% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £480 £508
% change year-on-year -0.94% -5.51% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £62.40 £26.38 -
25th Percentile £64.50 £37.56 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £73.23 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +59.60% -42.65%
75th Percentile £74.50 £77.98 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.80 £78.58 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +63.47% -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 39,989 26,597 37,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.89% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,206 17,155 24,229
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.62% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,068 2,445
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.76 £37.18
% change year-on-year +57.38% -25.34% +3.28%

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 1 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 1 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 +15 396 £525 +3.75% 154
UK excluding London -10 239 £476 -0.94% 123
London +1 192 £550 +6.02% 51
Work from Home -49 113 £500 +13.64% 97
North of England -30 69 £460 +15.00% 48
Midlands -29 60 £457 -9.68% 10
West Midlands -26 46 £475 -7.23% 8
South East -41 45 £560 +12.00% 33
North West -17 37 £442 +20.18% 28
Scotland -6 36 £466 +3.50% 7
Yorkshire -45 25 £500 +25.00% 12
South West -20 18 £500 -11.50% 13
East Midlands -19 14 £340 -5.03% 2
East of England -16 12 £475 +0.05% 7
North East -12 9 £450 -20.00% 8
Wales -6 5 £509 -3.05% 6

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
1 108 (22.59%) Confluence
2 23 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.77%) CMS
4 9 (1.88%) Apache
4 9 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.26%) SAS
6 5 (1.05%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.46%) Trello
4 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.42%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 126 (26.36%) Azure
2 103 (21.55%) AWS
3 61 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.74%) Power Platform
5 30 (6.28%) Amazon S3
5 30 (6.28%) GCP
6 28 (5.86%) GitHub
7 21 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (3.97%) Serverless
10 17 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.35%) Miro
12 15 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.51%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.51%) Route 53
15 10 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.46%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.88%) Firewall
2 8 (1.67%) HTTP
3 6 (1.26%) Network Security
4 3 (0.63%) BGP
4 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.63%) DNS
4 3 (0.63%) FTP
4 3 (0.63%) NGFW
4 3 (0.63%) OSPF
4 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) SONET
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.74%) NoSQL
2 31 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (6.07%) Power BI
4 25 (5.23%) MongoDB
5 24 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.35%) Big Data
9 14 (2.93%) Hadoop
10 13 (2.72%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.72%) DynamoDB
11 12 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.88%) Tableau
14 7 (1.46%) Metadata
14 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.26%) Looker
Development Applications
1 149 (31.17%) JIRA
2 60 (12.55%) Git
3 48 (10.04%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.28%) GitLab
5 27 (5.65%) Postman
6 17 (3.56%) Mockito
7 14 (2.93%) Maven
8 13 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.72%) JUnit
9 12 (2.51%) Selenium
9 12 (2.51%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.88%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.88%) jMock
10 9 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.67%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.05%) ScalaTest
13 5 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 188 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 110 (23.01%) Finance
3 88 (18.41%) Public Sector
4 82 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.25%) Banking
6 22 (4.60%) Marketing
7 16 (3.35%) Legal
8 15 (3.14%) Front Office
9 14 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.09%) Retail
11 9 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.67%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.46%) Automotive
13 7 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Local Government
15 4 (0.84%) Aviation
15 4 (0.84%) Billing
15 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (16.11%) Analyst
2 57 (11.92%) Developer
3 51 (10.67%) Scrum Master
4 47 (9.83%) Business Analyst
4 47 (9.83%) Project Manager
4 47 (9.83%) Senior
5 43 (9.00%) Lead
6 38 (7.95%) Delivery Manager
7 34 (7.11%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.07%) Data Engineer
9 16 (3.35%) Technical Analyst
10 14 (2.93%) Software Engineer
11 13 (2.72%) Architect
12 12 (2.51%) Agile Coach
12 12 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.51%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.51%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.30%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.30%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.53%) Spring
2 35 (7.32%) REST
3 29 (6.07%) RESTful
3 29 (6.07%) Spring Boot
4 24 (5.02%) Node.js
5 21 (4.39%) React
6 19 (3.97%) AngularJS
6 19 (3.97%) Kafka
7 18 (3.77%) HTML
8 16 (3.35%) CSS
9 15 (3.14%) JSON
9 15 (3.14%) Web Services
10 14 (2.93%) Playwright
11 13 (2.72%) .NET
11 13 (2.72%) SOAP
12 12 (2.51%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (2.51%) Hibernate
12 12 (2.51%) JPA
12 12 (2.51%) Spring Batch
12 12 (2.51%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 126 (26.36%) Product Ownership
2 33 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.44%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.39%) PMI
5 19 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.93%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.46%) Wiki
12 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.05%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.84%) Life Science
14 4 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.74%) Linux
2 16 (3.35%) Unix
3 12 (2.51%) Windows
4 7 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.26%) Android
5 6 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.84%) VMS
7 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (95.40%) Agile
2 424 (88.70%) Scrum
3 151 (31.59%) DevOps
4 135 (28.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 131 (27.41%) CI/CD
6 130 (27.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 117 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (21.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 86 (17.99%) Sprint Planning
10 73 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 71 (14.85%) Test Automation
12 69 (14.44%) Microservices
13 65 (13.60%) Roadmaps
14 64 (13.39%) Migration
15 63 (13.18%) TDD
16 62 (12.97%) Decision-Making
16 62 (12.97%) User Stories
17 58 (12.13%) Analytics
17 58 (12.13%) Project Management
18 55 (11.51%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 102 (21.34%) SQL
2 86 (17.99%) Java
3 69 (14.44%) Python
4 31 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.23%) C#
6 16 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.51%) Scala
8 11 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.67%) Bash
11 7 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.46%) Perl
11 7 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.26%) Go
12 6 (1.26%) Ruby
13 5 (1.05%) R
14 4 (0.84%) Bicep
14 4 (0.84%) Swift
15 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 117 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.88%) Degree
4 30 (6.28%) PMI Certification
5 27 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.23%) PMP
7 18 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.51%) CISSP
9 12 (2.51%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.67%) MBA
12 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.05%) CISM
14 5 (1.05%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (17.78%) QA
2 24 (5.02%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.56%) GDPR
5 14 (2.93%) PMO
6 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.67%) Basel III
7 8 (1.67%) NIST
8 7 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.26%) WCAG
10 5 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.84%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.84%) NCSC
11 4 (0.84%) SLA
12 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 47 (9.83%) Docker
2 8 (1.67%) Postfix
3 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.49%) Grafana
3 29 (6.07%) Terraform
4 12 (2.51%) Ansible
5 11 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.46%) Rancher
7 5 (1.05%) Kibana
8 4 (0.84%) Argo
9 3 (0.63%) CASB
9 3 (0.63%) Foglight
9 3 (0.63%) 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 54 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.65%) Oracle
3 17 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.35%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.14%) Splunk
6 12 (2.51%) Databricks
6 12 (2.51%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (2.30%) SAP
8 8 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.67%) Spotify
9 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.26%) Cisco
11 5 (1.05%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.05%) Refinitiv
12 4 (0.84%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.84%) Okta
12 4 (0.84%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.84%) VMware
13 3 (0.63%) Adobe