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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 239 219
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 -36
Contract jobs citing Kanban 530 328 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.10% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.21% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 224 330
10th Percentile £363 £343 £365
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £590
90th Percentile £655 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +1.16% -6.36% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £43.38 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £63.56 £48.75 £45.88
Median hourly rate £73.75 £63.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -5.97% -16.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £76.88 £74.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.13 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +11.94% -7.59%

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 42,996 27,186 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.90% 91.05% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,808 17,251 23,716
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,575 1,262 2,618
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +26 442 £500 +0.05% 134
UK excluding London +7 275 £481 +1.16% 111
London -24 208 £547 -0.55% 52
Work from Home -37 132 £500 +13.64% 83
North of England -27 85 £455 +13.63% 37
Midlands -16 60 £466 -6.82% 11
West Midlands -23 51 £475 -5.00% 10
South East -41 49 £575 +16.40% 35
Scotland +3 44 £472 +4.89% 4
North West -23 37 £494 +23.44% 18
Yorkshire -49 29 £500 +25.00% 10
North East -17 19 £450 -20.00% 9
South West -17 18 £475 -12.24% 9
East of England -19 15 £475 - 9
East Midlands -12 8 £340 -5.03% 1
Wales -14 4 £513 +1.23% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 122 (23.02%) Confluence
2 26 (4.91%) CMS
3 23 (4.34%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.70%) Apache
4 9 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.13%) SAS
6 5 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.75%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.32%) Trello
5 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.57%) Notion
7 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.75%) Magento
1 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.38%) SAP Retail
3 2 (0.38%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Primavera
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 161 (30.38%) Azure
2 136 (25.66%) AWS
3 82 (15.47%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.92%) Power Platform
5 41 (7.74%) Amazon S3
6 30 (5.66%) GCP
7 28 (5.28%) GitHub
8 25 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (4.72%) Serverless
9 20 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.02%) AWS KMS
12 16 (3.02%) Route 53
13 14 (2.64%) Miro
14 11 (2.08%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.89%) Firebase
15 10 (1.89%) SaaS
16 9 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.08%) Network Security
2 10 (1.89%) Firewall
3 7 (1.32%) HTTP
4 4 (0.75%) MQTT
5 3 (0.57%) BGP
5 3 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.57%) NGFW
5 3 (0.57%) OSPF
5 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.38%) DNS
7 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.19%) FTP
7 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.19%) RS-232
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) SONET
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.17%) NoSQL
2 35 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (6.04%) Power BI
4 28 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.53%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.15%) SQL Server
7 21 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 20 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.21%) Relational Database
10 16 (3.02%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.45%) Big Data
11 13 (2.45%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.45%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.26%) Tableau
13 10 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.32%) Metadata
14 7 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.13%) Looker
16 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 173 (32.64%) JIRA
2 66 (12.45%) Jenkins
3 65 (12.26%) Git
4 31 (5.85%) GitLab
5 30 (5.66%) Postman
6 20 (3.77%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.58%) Mockito
8 18 (3.40%) Selenium
9 17 (3.21%) Maven
10 16 (3.02%) JUnit
11 12 (2.26%) DbUnit
12 11 (2.08%) jMock
13 10 (1.89%) fastlane
14 9 (1.70%) Android Studio
14 9 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.70%) Cypress.io
14 9 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (1.51%) Cucumber
15 8 (1.51%) Xcode
16 7 (1.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 221 (41.70%) Social Skills
2 130 (24.53%) Public Sector
3 117 (22.08%) Finance
4 100 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.30%) Banking
6 34 (6.42%) Marketing
7 21 (3.96%) Retail
8 17 (3.21%) Legal
9 15 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.70%) Automotive
12 9 (1.70%) Front Office
13 7 (1.32%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.94%) Local Government
15 5 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (17.17%) Analyst
2 68 (12.83%) Developer
3 57 (10.75%) Senior
4 54 (10.19%) Business Analyst
5 52 (9.81%) Scrum Master
6 51 (9.62%) Delivery Manager
7 41 (7.74%) Lead
8 38 (7.17%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.66%) Data Engineer
9 30 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 24 (4.53%) Product Owner
11 22 (4.15%) Architect
12 20 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.83%) Software Engineer
14 14 (2.64%) Senior Developer
14 14 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
15 13 (2.45%) Agile Coach
15 13 (2.45%) Product Manager
15 13 (2.45%) Security Engineer
16 12 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.87%) RESTful
2 38 (7.17%) Spring
3 35 (6.60%) REST
4 33 (6.23%) Spring Boot
5 20 (3.77%) AngularJS
5 20 (3.77%) Node.js
5 20 (3.77%) Web Services
6 18 (3.40%) Kafka
7 17 (3.21%) HTML
7 17 (3.21%) SOAP
8 16 (3.02%) .NET
8 16 (3.02%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (3.02%) Hibernate
8 16 (3.02%) JPA
8 16 (3.02%) React
8 16 (3.02%) Spring Batch
8 16 (3.02%) Spring Integration
9 15 (2.83%) AWS CDK
9 15 (2.83%) CSS
10 14 (2.64%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 154 (29.06%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.45%) PMI
8 11 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.32%) Life Science
9 7 (1.32%) NHS
9 7 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.13%) Wiki
11 5 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.17%) Linux
2 12 (2.26%) Android
3 10 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.89%) Unix
3 10 (1.89%) Windows
4 6 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (96.23%) Agile
2 461 (86.98%) Scrum
3 196 (36.98%) DevOps
4 159 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 149 (28.11%) CI/CD
6 147 (27.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 114 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 104 (19.62%) Sprint Planning
10 85 (16.04%) Microservices
11 83 (15.66%) Decision-Making
12 80 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 76 (14.34%) User Stories
14 74 (13.96%) Test Automation
15 73 (13.77%) TDD
16 70 (13.21%) Roadmaps
17 67 (12.64%) Sprint Retrospective
18 65 (12.26%) Analytics
19 62 (11.70%) Acceptance Criteria
20 60 (11.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.38%) SQL
2 91 (17.17%) Java
3 75 (14.15%) Python
4 36 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.15%) C#
6 20 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.64%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.51%) Scala
10 8 (1.51%) Swift
11 7 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.13%) Go
12 6 (1.13%) Perl
13 5 (0.94%) R
14 4 (0.75%) Bash
14 4 (0.75%) Bicep
14 4 (0.75%) C++
14 4 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 138 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 112 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.94%) Degree
4 33 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.15%) PMI Certification
6 21 (3.96%) PMP
7 16 (3.02%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.83%) CISSP
9 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.51%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.13%) CISM
14 5 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (0.94%) MBA
15 4 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (14.15%) QA
2 32 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.21%) GDPR
4 15 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.64%) PMO
6 13 (2.45%) WCAG
7 11 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.70%) NIST
9 5 (0.94%) Basel III
9 5 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.94%) GxP
9 5 (0.94%) SLA
10 4 (0.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 4 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.75%) NCSC
10 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (9.06%) Docker
2 9 (1.70%) Postfix
3 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.04%) Grafana
3 27 (5.09%) Terraform
4 11 (2.08%) Ansible
4 11 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.94%) Kibana
6 4 (0.75%) Podman
6 4 (0.75%) Puppet
7 3 (0.57%) CASB
7 3 (0.57%) Foglight
8 2 (0.38%) Rancher
9 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
9 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) vMotion
9 1 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.04%) Oracle
3 28 (5.28%) Atlassian
4 21 (3.96%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.02%) Splunk
6 15 (2.83%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (2.64%) Databricks
7 14 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.45%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.45%) SAP
9 11 (2.08%) Google
10 7 (1.32%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.32%) IBM
10 7 (1.32%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.13%) Cisco
11 6 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.94%) Apple
12 5 (0.94%) Spotify
13 4 (0.75%) VMware