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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 261 226
Rank change year-on-year +42 -35 -80
Contract jobs citing Kanban 462 351 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 0.97% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.11% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 249 345
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £582 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.65% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £32.78 £31.21 £54.20
25th Percentile £35.81 £37.34 £57.50
Median hourly rate £41.25 £50.24 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -40.90% +24.83%
75th Percentile £46.31 £65.69 -
90th Percentile £49.13 £73.36 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £73.23 £85.00
% change year-on-year -30.35% -13.85% +21.43%

All Process and 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 32,500 31,582 39,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.05% 87.42% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,460 19,152 26,649
10th Percentile £300 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,551
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

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 5 December 2025. 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 +46 385 £515 +2.95% 150
London +70 227 £550 +4.76% 31
UK excluding London -19 181 £475 -4.43% 140
Work from Home -15 114 £508 +6.62% 129
North of England -8 57 £475 -5.00% 37
Midlands +2 36 £413 -25.47% 23
Yorkshire -6 35 £475 -5.00% 12
Scotland -6 33 £533 +20.14% 6
South East -36 30 £486 -2.75% 38
East Midlands - 24 £360 - 9
North West -10 18 £414 -4.12% 25
South West -4 12 £550 +4.76% 21
West Midlands -20 12 £470 -15.09% 14
Wales 0 10 £475 -7.32% 7
North East -5 4 £545 +32.93%
East of England -18 4 £459 +11.27% 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 81 (17.53%) Confluence
2 7 (1.52%) CMS
3 6 (1.30%) Apache
3 6 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.08%) nginx
5 4 (0.87%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.87%) Mule
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.38%) Trello
4 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.43%) Sketch
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Finacle
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 117 (25.32%) Azure
2 90 (19.48%) AWS
3 63 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (9.31%) GCP
5 40 (8.66%) GitHub
6 34 (7.36%) Power Platform
7 29 (6.28%) Serverless
8 21 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 20 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.46%) Miro
11 15 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.16%) SaaS
14 9 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.52%) Figma
15 7 (1.52%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.08%) DNS
2 4 (0.87%) AMQP
2 4 (0.87%) DSL
2 4 (0.87%) Firewall
2 4 (0.87%) HTTP
3 3 (0.65%) NAS
3 3 (0.65%) SAN
4 2 (0.43%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.63%) Power BI
2 24 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.46%) Tableau
4 12 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (2.16%) Data Vault
6 10 (2.16%) Metadata
6 10 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.95%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.73%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.30%) MySQL
10 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.87%) Big Data
11 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 157 (33.98%) JIRA
2 65 (14.07%) Git
3 54 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.28%) GitLab
5 28 (6.06%) Postman
6 17 (3.68%) Selenium
7 16 (3.46%) Bitbucket
7 16 (3.46%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.38%) SoapUI
9 10 (2.16%) ERwin
10 9 (1.95%) ER Studio
10 9 (1.95%) PowerDesigner
11 8 (1.73%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.73%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.52%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.52%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.30%) JUnit
14 5 (1.08%) Subversion
14 5 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.87%) NUnit
General
1 214 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 108 (23.38%) Finance
3 64 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.58%) Banking
6 21 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.11%) Front Office
8 13 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.38%) Retail
10 10 (2.16%) Marketing
10 10 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.08%) Legal
14 5 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.87%) Billing
16 3 (0.65%) Local Government
16 3 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (19.05%) Analyst
2 70 (15.15%) Developer
3 55 (11.90%) Business Analyst
4 46 (9.96%) Senior
5 42 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 37 (8.01%) Scrum Master
7 35 (7.58%) Delivery Manager
8 30 (6.49%) Lead
9 24 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 15 (3.25%) Agile Project Manager
10 15 (3.25%) Test Analyst
11 13 (2.81%) Architect
11 13 (2.81%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.60%) Data Modeller
12 12 (2.60%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.60%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.38%) Angular Developer
14 10 (2.16%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.16%) Product Owner
14 10 (2.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.82%) REST
2 32 (6.93%) React
3 26 (5.63%) HTML
4 25 (5.41%) Kafka
5 24 (5.19%) CSS
6 20 (4.33%) AngularJS
7 18 (3.90%) Spring
7 18 (3.90%) Spring Boot
8 17 (3.68%) .NET
8 17 (3.68%) Playwright
9 16 (3.46%) RESTful
10 12 (2.60%) AWS CDK
10 12 (2.60%) OAuth
10 12 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (2.60%) SOAP
11 11 (2.38%) JSON
11 11 (2.38%) Node.js
11 11 (2.38%) Web Services
12 10 (2.16%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.16%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 92 (19.91%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.68%) PMI
6 16 (3.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.03%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.16%) Derivative
9 10 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.52%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.52%) NHS
12 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.30%) FMCG
13 5 (1.08%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.84%) Linux
2 21 (4.55%) Windows
3 11 (2.38%) Unix
4 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.87%) VMS
6 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Android
7 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (96.10%) Agile
2 421 (91.13%) Scrum
3 127 (27.49%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (26.62%) DevOps
5 119 (25.76%) CI/CD
6 106 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 103 (22.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 80 (17.32%) Test Automation
9 72 (15.58%) User Stories
10 71 (15.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 70 (15.15%) Roadmaps
12 67 (14.50%) Sprint Planning
13 66 (14.29%) Microservices
14 65 (14.07%) TDD
15 51 (11.04%) Project Delivery
16 49 (10.61%) Coaching
16 49 (10.61%) Project Management
17 47 (10.17%) Waterfall
18 45 (9.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 83 (17.97%) Java
2 73 (15.80%) Python
3 59 (12.77%) SQL
4 38 (8.23%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.49%) C#
6 24 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.81%) C++
9 12 (2.60%) Bash
10 8 (1.73%) Go
11 7 (1.52%) Ruby
12 5 (1.08%) Scala
13 4 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.87%) DataWeave
13 4 (0.87%) Perl
13 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.43%) Groovy
14 2 (0.43%) Korn
15 1 (0.22%) Bicep
15 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.47%) Degree
3 41 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.55%) PMI Certification
6 20 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (4.11%) CISSP
8 17 (3.68%) CISM
9 14 (3.03%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.38%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.16%) CISA
11 10 (2.16%) ISTQB
12 9 (1.95%) CBAP
12 9 (1.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 8 (1.73%) PMP
14 5 (1.08%) CSPO
15 4 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.20%) QA
2 23 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.68%) NIST
4 16 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 15 (3.25%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.60%) GDPR
7 11 (2.38%) PMO
8 9 (1.95%) COBIT
8 9 (1.95%) NIST 800
8 9 (1.95%) PSD2
9 8 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (1.52%) GRC
11 6 (1.30%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.65%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.65%) WCAG
13 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.43%) Basel III
13 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (12.55%) Docker
2 8 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.65%) vSphere
4 2 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (12.55%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.36%) Terraform
3 24 (5.19%) Ansible
4 17 (3.68%) Grafana
5 9 (1.95%) RSA Archer
6 6 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.08%) Rancher
8 4 (0.87%) Consul
8 4 (0.87%) Nagios
8 4 (0.87%) Packer
8 4 (0.87%) Podman
9 3 (0.65%) Argo
9 3 (0.65%) Puppet
9 3 (0.65%) SELinux
9 3 (0.65%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.65%) vRealize
10 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 71 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.90%) Oracle
4 16 (3.46%) Google
5 15 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.95%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.73%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (1.73%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.73%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.73%) SAP
8 8 (1.73%) Thycotic
9 7 (1.52%) Databricks
10 6 (1.30%) Sparx
11 5 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.08%) OneLogin
12 4 (0.87%) Splunk
12 4 (0.87%) Spotify
13 3 (0.65%) VMware