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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 227 230
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 -61
Contract jobs citing Kanban 467 341 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.16% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.28% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 229 304
10th Percentile £358 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +0.93%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £600
90th Percentile £668 £651 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £508
% change year-on-year -4.43% -2.17% +1.60%
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 37,130 26,538 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.00% 90.38% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,530 17,031 25,049
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 £745 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,210 919 2,337
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.62 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% +0.83% -10.07%

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 17 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 17 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 +4 393 £517 +0.82% 196
UK excluding London -33 220 £475 -4.43% 158
London +19 206 £533 +3.40% 61
Work from Home -56 107 £500 +13.19% 118
North of England -24 65 £475 +18.75% 56
Midlands -15 52 £450 -23.40% 15
South East -48 40 £525 +5.00% 46
West Midlands -41 34 £475 -19.15% 14
Scotland -1 32 £400 -8.57% 6
North West -10 32 £435 +18.39% 32
Yorkshire -38 27 £500 +21.65% 14
South West -17 20 £525 -7.08% 23
East Midlands -14 18 £354 - 1
East of England -22 11 £475 +15.21% 7
North East -4 8 £541 - 10
Wales -12 5 £509 -3.05% 2

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 (22.91%) Confluence
2 17 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.78%) CMS
4 8 (1.71%) Apache
5 5 (1.07%) nginx
5 5 (1.07%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 21 (4.50%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.71%) 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 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.64%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Shopify
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (22.91%) Azure
2 85 (18.20%) AWS
3 57 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.64%) GitHub
6 29 (6.21%) GCP
7 21 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (3.64%) Miro
9 16 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.21%) Serverless
11 14 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.93%) SaaS
14 9 (1.93%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.71%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.93%) Firewall
2 6 (1.28%) HTTP
2 6 (1.28%) 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 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 29 (6.21%) Power BI
3 22 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.21%) Hadoop
8 14 (3.00%) Metadata
9 11 (2.36%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.93%) Big Data
11 9 (1.93%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.71%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.71%) Tableau
13 7 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 157 (33.62%) JIRA
2 66 (14.13%) Git
3 39 (8.35%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.78%) GitLab
5 22 (4.71%) Postman
6 16 (3.43%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.57%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.57%) Mockito
8 10 (2.14%) Selenium
9 9 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (1.93%) JUnit
9 9 (1.93%) Maven
10 8 (1.71%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.07%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.07%) jMock
13 5 (1.07%) ScalaTest
14 4 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 183 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.20%) Finance
3 79 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 78 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.49%) Banking
6 21 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (3.64%) Front Office
8 14 (3.00%) Legal
8 14 (3.00%) Marketing
9 13 (2.78%) Retail
10 11 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.93%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (1.93%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.28%) Automotive
13 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.86%) Aviation
15 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (16.06%) Analyst
2 58 (12.42%) Developer
3 52 (11.13%) Business Analyst
4 49 (10.49%) Project Manager
5 47 (10.06%) Scrum Master
6 43 (9.21%) Senior
7 39 (8.35%) Lead
8 37 (7.92%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 21 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.00%) Software Engineer
12 13 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.78%) Product Owner
12 13 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
13 12 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.36%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 10 (2.14%) Agile Scrum Master
15 10 (2.14%) Senior Manager
16 9 (1.93%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.92%) REST
2 31 (6.64%) Spring
3 27 (5.78%) Spring Boot
4 26 (5.57%) React
5 21 (4.50%) Node.js
5 21 (4.50%) RESTful
6 20 (4.28%) Kafka
7 17 (3.64%) .NET
7 17 (3.64%) AngularJS
8 15 (3.21%) JSON
9 14 (3.00%) Playwright
10 13 (2.78%) HTML
11 11 (2.36%) CSS
11 11 (2.36%) Web Services
11 11 (2.36%) XML
12 7 (1.50%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (1.50%) Hibernate
12 7 (1.50%) JPA
12 7 (1.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 117 (25.05%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.57%) PMI
4 17 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.50%) Derivative
10 7 (1.50%) NHS
10 7 (1.50%) Wiki
11 6 (1.28%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.28%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.07%) FMCG
12 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.28%) Linux
2 20 (4.28%) 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
1 443 (94.86%) Agile
2 406 (86.94%) Scrum
3 136 (29.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 131 (28.05%) DevOps
5 129 (27.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 122 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (25.91%) CI/CD
8 115 (24.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 71 (15.20%) Roadmaps
9 71 (15.20%) Sprint Planning
9 71 (15.20%) Test Automation
10 69 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 68 (14.56%) User Stories
12 65 (13.92%) TDD
13 63 (13.49%) Microservices
13 63 (13.49%) Project Management
14 57 (12.21%) Acceptance Criteria
14 57 (12.21%) Decision-Making
15 52 (11.13%) Migration
16 51 (10.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 93 (19.91%) SQL
2 78 (16.70%) Java
3 63 (13.49%) Python
4 30 (6.42%) C#
5 26 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.21%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.93%) Bash
8 9 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.71%) Perl
9 8 (1.71%) Scala
10 7 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.50%) Go
10 7 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.28%) Ruby
12 5 (1.07%) R
13 4 (0.86%) Bicep
13 4 (0.86%) C++
14 3 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 101 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 73 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 55 (11.78%) Degree
4 35 (7.49%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.35%) PMP
6 22 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.00%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.78%) CISSP
11 11 (2.36%) SAFe Agilist
12 8 (1.71%) CBAP
12 8 (1.71%) CISM
12 8 (1.71%) MBA
13 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.07%) CISA
15 5 (1.07%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (18.20%) QA
2 24 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.64%) GDPR
5 16 (3.43%) PMO
6 11 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.14%) NIST
8 8 (1.71%) Basel III
8 8 (1.71%) ISO 8583
9 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.28%) PSD2
10 5 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.86%) GRC
11 4 (0.86%) SLA
12 3 (0.64%) COBIT
12 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (9.21%) 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 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.85%) Terraform
3 20 (4.28%) Grafana
4 13 (2.78%) Ansible
5 8 (1.71%) 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 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.14%) Oracle
3 22 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.78%) Splunk
6 12 (2.57%) SAP
7 11 (2.36%) Databricks
7 11 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.93%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.28%) Cisco
10 6 (1.28%) Spotify
11 4 (0.86%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.86%) Okta
11 4 (0.86%) VMware
12 3 (0.64%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.64%) Charles River
12 3 (0.64%) Murex
12 3 (0.64%) Sitecore