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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 239 219
Rank change year-on-year -8 -20 -43
Contract jobs citing Kanban 539 345 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.14% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.25% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 235 333
10th Percentile £363 £344 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -8.52% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £661 £683 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £465 £503
% change year-on-year +2.26% -7.46% +0.50%
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 43,249 27,546 37,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 91.07% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,953 17,432 23,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,594 1,315 2,564
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +17.65%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +3 448 £505 +1.00% 141
UK excluding London -3 275 £476 +2.26% 100
London -9 215 £550 - 60
Work from Home -46 135 £500 +13.64% 72
North of England -21 82 £455 +13.63% 34
Midlands -28 59 £467 -3.25% 13
West Midlands -23 51 £475 -5.00% 12
South East -40 48 £575 +16.40% 30
Scotland +2 46 £466 +3.50% 3
North West -23 36 £494 +23.44% 19
Yorkshire -39 27 £500 +25.00% 8
North East -13 19 £450 -20.00% 7
East of England -12 18 £475 - 7
South West -21 18 £475 -11.63% 11
East Midlands -10 7 £401 +2.17% 1
Wales -14 4 £513 +1.23% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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
1 126 (23.38%) Confluence
2 26 (4.82%) CMS
3 23 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.67%) Apache
4 9 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.11%) SAS
5 6 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.74%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.30%) Trello
6 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.56%) Notion
8 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Magento
2 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.37%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 170 (31.54%) Azure
2 141 (26.16%) AWS
3 86 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.61%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 33 (6.12%) GCP
7 28 (5.19%) GitHub
8 26 (4.82%) Serverless
9 25 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.97%) AWS KMS
13 16 (2.97%) Route 53
14 15 (2.78%) Miro
15 11 (2.04%) SaaS
15 11 (2.04%) Snowflake
16 10 (1.86%) Firebase
17 9 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.04%) Network Security
2 10 (1.86%) Firewall
3 7 (1.30%) HTTP
4 4 (0.74%) MQTT
5 3 (0.56%) BGP
5 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.56%) NGFW
5 3 (0.56%) OSPF
5 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.37%) 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 39 (7.24%) NoSQL
2 35 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (5.57%) Power BI
4 28 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.45%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.97%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.41%) Big Data
10 13 (2.41%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.23%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.04%) Tableau
13 10 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.30%) Metadata
14 7 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.11%) Looker
16 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 177 (32.84%) JIRA
2 69 (12.80%) Jenkins
3 66 (12.24%) Git
4 31 (5.75%) Postman
5 30 (5.57%) GitLab
6 20 (3.71%) Selenium
6 20 (3.71%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.53%) Mockito
8 17 (3.15%) Maven
9 16 (2.97%) JUnit
10 12 (2.23%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.04%) jMock
12 10 (1.86%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.86%) fastlane
13 9 (1.67%) Android Studio
13 9 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.48%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.48%) Xcode
15 6 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 225 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 132 (24.49%) Public Sector
3 122 (22.63%) Finance
4 102 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (8.91%) Banking
6 35 (6.49%) Marketing
7 22 (4.08%) Retail
8 17 (3.15%) Legal
9 16 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.67%) Automotive
12 9 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.48%) Front Office
14 5 (0.93%) Aviation
14 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Local Government
14 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (17.44%) Analyst
2 71 (13.17%) Developer
3 58 (10.76%) Scrum Master
4 57 (10.58%) Senior
5 54 (10.02%) Business Analyst
6 49 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
7 40 (7.42%) Lead
8 36 (6.68%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.57%) Data Engineer
10 29 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 27 (5.01%) Product Owner
12 22 (4.08%) Architect
12 22 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.78%) Software Engineer
14 14 (2.60%) Senior Developer
14 14 (2.60%) Systems Analyst
15 13 (2.41%) Security Engineer
16 12 (2.23%) Agile Coach
16 12 (2.23%) Product Manager
16 12 (2.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.09%) RESTful
2 37 (6.86%) Spring
3 36 (6.68%) REST
4 33 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 21 (3.90%) Node.js
6 20 (3.71%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.53%) Kafka
7 19 (3.53%) Web Services
8 18 (3.34%) .NET
9 17 (3.15%) HTML
9 17 (3.15%) SOAP
10 16 (2.97%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (2.97%) CSS
10 16 (2.97%) Hibernate
10 16 (2.97%) JPA
10 16 (2.97%) JSON
10 16 (2.97%) React
10 16 (2.97%) Spring Batch
10 16 (2.97%) Spring Integration
11 15 (2.78%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 159 (29.50%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.15%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.04%) PMI
9 10 (1.86%) Life Science
10 9 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.30%) NHS
12 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.11%) Wiki
14 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.86%) Linux
2 12 (2.23%) Android
3 10 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.67%) Unix
4 9 (1.67%) Windows
5 6 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (96.29%) Agile
2 469 (87.01%) Scrum
3 202 (37.48%) DevOps
4 160 (29.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 153 (28.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 151 (28.01%) CI/CD
7 119 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (20.96%) Sprint Planning
9 104 (19.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 87 (16.14%) Microservices
11 83 (15.40%) Decision-Making
11 83 (15.40%) User Stories
12 78 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 77 (14.29%) TDD
13 77 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 72 (13.36%) Roadmaps
15 71 (13.17%) Sprint Retrospective
16 68 (12.62%) Acceptance Criteria
17 67 (12.43%) Analytics
18 62 (11.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 112 (20.78%) SQL
2 93 (17.25%) Java
3 76 (14.10%) Python
4 36 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.27%) C#
6 20 (3.71%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.23%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.86%) Scala
10 8 (1.48%) Swift
11 7 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.11%) Go
12 6 (1.11%) Perl
13 5 (0.93%) R
14 4 (0.74%) Bash
14 4 (0.74%) Bicep
14 4 (0.74%) C++
14 4 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 140 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 113 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 56 (10.39%) Degree
4 31 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.90%) PMI Certification
6 20 (3.71%) PMP
7 16 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.78%) CISSP
9 13 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.67%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.11%) CISM
12 6 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.93%) CSPO
13 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.47%) QA
2 33 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.15%) GDPR
4 15 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.60%) PMO
6 13 (2.41%) WCAG
7 11 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.67%) NIST
9 8 (1.48%) GxP
10 7 (1.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.93%) SLA
12 4 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.74%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.74%) NCSC
12 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (8.91%) Docker
2 9 (1.67%) Postfix
3 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.37%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.94%) Grafana
3 27 (5.01%) Terraform
4 11 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.86%) Ansible
6 5 (0.93%) Kibana
7 4 (0.74%) Podman
7 4 (0.74%) Puppet
8 3 (0.56%) CASB
8 3 (0.56%) Foglight
9 2 (0.37%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) vMotion
10 1 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.75%) Oracle
3 26 (4.82%) Atlassian
4 18 (3.34%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.97%) Splunk
6 15 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (2.60%) Databricks
7 14 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.41%) Google
8 13 (2.41%) SAP
9 7 (1.30%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.30%) IBM
9 7 (1.30%) Refinitiv
10 6 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (1.11%) Cisco
10 6 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.93%) Apple
11 5 (0.93%) Spotify
11 5 (0.93%) VMware