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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 222 216
Rank change year-on-year -57 -6 -11
Contract jobs citing Kanban 510 411 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.25% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.38% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 291 319
10th Percentile £386 £340 £360
25th Percentile £425 £403 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £590
90th Percentile £675 £690 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +7.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.20
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £64.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +7.91% -18.24%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £74.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.91% -4.14%

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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -59 419 £516 +3.25% 457
UK excluding London -29 234 £484 +7.56% 267
London -61 214 £550 - 238
Work from Home -50 131 £515 +4.25% 240
North of England -62 73 £481 +14.40% 92
Midlands -29 44 £459 +7.24% 36
South East -44 42 £600 +23.08% 54
Scotland -10 40 £475 -5.00% 11
West Midlands -11 39 £475 -5.00% 25
North East -11 28 £450 -20.00% 14
North West -55 26 £556 +39.06% 53
Yorkshire -68 19 £500 +11.11% 25
East of England -9 17 £438 -11.26% 12
South West -29 14 £498 +17.06% 47
Wales -16 4 £513 +9.33% 8
East Midlands -24 4 £402 +12.29% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10

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 (24.71%) Confluence
2 18 (3.53%) CMS
3 12 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.57%) Apache
7 6 (1.18%) SAS
8 5 (0.98%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.57%) Trello
5 5 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.78%) Notion
7 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Magento
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.20%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 176 (34.51%) Azure
2 137 (26.86%) AWS
3 95 (18.63%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (7.45%) Amazon S3
5 37 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 35 (6.86%) GCP
7 32 (6.27%) GitHub
8 25 (4.90%) Serverless
9 21 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (3.53%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.75%) SaaS
13 13 (2.55%) Miro
14 11 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.96%) AWS KMS
15 10 (1.96%) Firebase
15 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.37%) Network Security
2 4 (0.78%) Firewall
2 4 (0.78%) MQTT
3 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) MPLS
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) RS-232
5 1 (0.20%) RS-422
5 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.20%) SONET
5 1 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.49%) Power BI
3 24 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 24 (4.71%) NoSQL
4 22 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.16%) Tableau
7 10 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.76%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.57%) Big Data
9 8 (1.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.98%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (0.98%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.98%) Looker
12 4 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.78%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.78%) Presto
Development Applications
1 188 (36.86%) JIRA
2 72 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 51 (10.00%) Git
4 37 (7.25%) GitLab
5 22 (4.31%) Postman
6 20 (3.92%) Selenium
7 17 (3.33%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.35%) JUnit
9 11 (2.16%) Maven
9 11 (2.16%) Mockito
10 10 (1.96%) fastlane
11 9 (1.76%) Subversion
12 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.37%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.37%) DbUnit
13 7 (1.37%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.18%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.18%) jMock
General
1 232 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 143 (28.04%) Public Sector
3 122 (23.92%) Finance
4 94 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.04%) Banking
5 41 (8.04%) Marketing
6 25 (4.90%) Retail
7 23 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.16%) Legal
11 11 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.57%) Front Office
13 6 (1.18%) Local Government
14 5 (0.98%) Games
14 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.98%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (18.24%) Analyst
2 64 (12.55%) Developer
3 55 (10.78%) Scrum Master
4 51 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 50 (9.80%) Senior
6 48 (9.41%) Delivery Manager
7 35 (6.86%) Lead
8 31 (6.08%) Product Owner
9 29 (5.69%) Project Manager
10 26 (5.10%) Architect
11 25 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
12 23 (4.51%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.73%) Product Manager
14 18 (3.53%) Java Developer
15 15 (2.94%) Agile Coach
15 15 (2.94%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.75%) Systems Analyst
17 12 (2.35%) Agile Delivery Manager
18 11 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
18 11 (2.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.43%) RESTful
2 35 (6.86%) REST
3 31 (6.08%) Terraform
4 30 (5.88%) Spring
5 28 (5.49%) Spring Boot
6 22 (4.31%) Kafka
7 17 (3.33%) CSS
7 17 (3.33%) HTML
8 16 (3.14%) Node.js
9 13 (2.55%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.55%) AWS CDK
10 12 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (2.35%) JSON
10 12 (2.35%) SOAP
10 12 (2.35%) Web Services
11 11 (2.16%) Hibernate
11 11 (2.16%) JPA
11 11 (2.16%) Playwright
11 11 (2.16%) React
12 10 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (31.37%) Product Ownership
2 33 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.35%) Life Science
6 12 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.16%) PMI
7 11 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.96%) NHS
9 8 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.37%) Replication
11 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.98%) Blog
12 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.08%) Linux
2 12 (2.35%) Android
3 10 (1.96%) Unix
4 7 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.18%) Windows
6 2 (0.39%) VMS
7 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (97.65%) Agile
2 452 (88.63%) Scrum
3 207 (40.59%) DevOps
4 183 (35.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 153 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 138 (27.06%) Sprint Planning
7 134 (26.27%) CI/CD
8 108 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (21.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 94 (18.43%) User Stories
10 92 (18.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 83 (16.27%) Decision-Making
12 81 (15.88%) Sprint Retrospective
13 75 (14.71%) Acceptance Criteria
14 73 (14.31%) Roadmaps
15 71 (13.92%) Microservices
16 66 (12.94%) TDD
16 66 (12.94%) Test Automation
17 65 (12.75%) Analytics
18 61 (11.96%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 79 (15.49%) Java
2 75 (14.71%) SQL
3 63 (12.35%) Python
4 31 (6.08%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.90%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.53%) Scala
7 14 (2.75%) C#
8 12 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.76%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.18%) Bash
10 6 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.98%) Swift
12 4 (0.78%) Rust
13 3 (0.59%) C++
13 3 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) Groovy
14 2 (0.39%) SOQL
15 1 (0.20%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 133 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 107 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 63 (12.35%) Degree
4 37 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.57%) CSPO
8 8 (1.57%) PMP
9 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
10 5 (0.98%) CISSP
10 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (0.59%) CBAP
11 3 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.59%) IIBA
11 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.73%) QA
2 38 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.73%) WCAG
4 13 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.96%) GxP
6 8 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 8 (1.57%) PMO
7 6 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.98%) NIST
9 4 (0.78%) GDPR
10 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.59%) SLA
11 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.39%) NCSC
11 2 (0.39%) SEPA
11 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 44 (8.63%) Docker
2 7 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.27%) Grafana
3 11 (2.16%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.76%) Ansible
5 8 (1.57%) Kibana
5 8 (1.57%) Puppet
6 4 (0.78%) Podman
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) Control-M
7 2 (0.39%) Foglight
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) CASB
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 54 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.90%) Oracle
3 23 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.92%) Atlassian
5 17 (3.33%) Databricks
5 17 (3.33%) Google
6 16 (3.14%) Splunk
7 14 (2.75%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.55%) IBM
8 13 (2.55%) SAP
9 11 (2.16%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.18%) Workday
12 5 (0.98%) Apple
12 5 (0.98%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.98%) BMC
12 5 (0.98%) Refinitiv
13 4 (0.78%) Adobe
13 4 (0.78%) Remedy
13 4 (0.78%) Tenable