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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 245 219
Rank change year-on-year -5 -26 -57
Contract jobs citing Kanban 478 315 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.07% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.18% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 221 310
10th Percentile £358 £340 £377
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -9.72% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £635 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £509
% change year-on-year -1.04% -5.60% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £62.40 £26.38 -
25th Percentile £64.50 £37.56 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £73.23 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +59.60% -42.65%
75th Percentile £74.50 £77.98 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.80 £78.58 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +63.47% -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 39,369 26,799 37,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.74% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,829 17,326 24,410
10th Percentile £318 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,054 2,423
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -19.49% -6.17%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +24 398 £525 +5.00% 152
UK excluding London -8 240 £475 -1.04% 127
London +9 191 £550 +7.32% 47
Work from Home -47 114 £500 +13.64% 100
North of England -27 69 £458 +14.50% 46
Midlands -11 59 £453 -21.30% 10
South East -36 46 £555 +11.00% 42
West Midlands -24 44 £475 -17.39% 7
North West -13 36 £435 +18.07% 28
Scotland -3 35 £409 -9.11% 5
Yorkshire -45 26 £500 +21.65% 8
South West -22 18 £500 -12.28% 11
East Midlands -19 15 £340 - 2
East of England -13 14 £463 -2.63% 7
North East -11 9 £450 - 10
Wales -7 5 £509 -3.05% 3

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
1 112 (23.43%) Confluence
2 22 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.77%) CMS
4 8 (1.67%) Apache
4 8 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.26%) SAS
6 5 (1.05%) nginx
6 5 (1.05%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.46%) Trello
3 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.42%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (24.69%) Azure
2 106 (22.18%) AWS
3 58 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.49%) GitHub
6 29 (6.07%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.86%) GCP
8 22 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (3.77%) Serverless
11 16 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.35%) Miro
12 14 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.51%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.51%) Route 53
15 11 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.88%) Firewall
2 7 (1.46%) HTTP
3 6 (1.26%) Network Security
4 3 (0.63%) BGP
4 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.63%) DNS
4 3 (0.63%) FTP
4 3 (0.63%) NGFW
4 3 (0.63%) OSPF
4 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) SONET
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.74%) NoSQL
2 30 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.44%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.23%) Power BI
5 24 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (3.56%) Big Data
8 16 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.14%) Hadoop
10 14 (2.93%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.93%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.46%) Metadata
13 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.26%) Tableau
15 5 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 155 (32.43%) JIRA
2 66 (13.81%) Git
3 50 (10.46%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.69%) GitLab
5 27 (5.65%) Postman
6 17 (3.56%) Mockito
7 14 (2.93%) Maven
8 13 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.72%) JUnit
9 12 (2.51%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.09%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.09%) Selenium
11 9 (1.88%) DbUnit
11 9 (1.88%) jMock
11 9 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.26%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.05%) ScalaTest
15 5 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 190 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 108 (22.59%) Finance
3 91 (19.04%) Public Sector
4 79 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (10.04%) Banking
6 22 (4.60%) Marketing
7 16 (3.35%) Front Office
8 15 (3.14%) Legal
9 14 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.09%) Retail
11 9 (1.88%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.46%) Automotive
13 7 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Aviation
14 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.05%) Local Government
15 4 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (15.48%) Analyst
2 58 (12.13%) Developer
2 58 (12.13%) Scrum Master
3 45 (9.41%) Business Analyst
4 43 (9.00%) Project Manager
5 42 (8.79%) Senior
6 41 (8.58%) Lead
7 39 (8.16%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (7.53%) Java Developer
9 28 (5.86%) Data Engineer
10 14 (2.93%) Software Engineer
10 14 (2.93%) Technical Analyst
11 13 (2.72%) Architect
12 12 (2.51%) Agile Coach
12 12 (2.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.51%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.30%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.30%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.09%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.74%) Spring
2 35 (7.32%) REST
3 32 (6.69%) Spring Boot
4 29 (6.07%) RESTful
5 23 (4.81%) Node.js
6 22 (4.60%) React
7 21 (4.39%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.97%) Kafka
9 17 (3.56%) HTML
10 15 (3.14%) CSS
10 15 (3.14%) JSON
10 15 (3.14%) Web Services
11 13 (2.72%) .NET
11 13 (2.72%) Playwright
12 12 (2.51%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (2.51%) Hibernate
12 12 (2.51%) JPA
12 12 (2.51%) SOAP
12 12 (2.51%) Spring Batch
12 12 (2.51%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 128 (26.78%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.44%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.39%) PMI
5 20 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.93%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.09%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.46%) Wiki
11 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.05%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.05%) NHS
13 4 (0.84%) Life Science
13 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (9.00%) Linux
2 17 (3.56%) Unix
3 12 (2.51%) Windows
4 7 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.84%) Android
5 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.84%) VMS
6 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (94.98%) Agile
2 424 (88.70%) Scrum
3 148 (30.96%) DevOps
4 137 (28.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (27.62%) CI/CD
6 128 (26.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 118 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (21.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 83 (17.36%) Sprint Planning
10 73 (15.27%) Microservices
11 72 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 69 (14.44%) Test Automation
13 65 (13.60%) Roadmaps
13 65 (13.60%) TDD
14 62 (12.97%) Project Management
15 61 (12.76%) Migration
16 60 (12.55%) Decision-Making
17 58 (12.13%) Analytics
17 58 (12.13%) User Stories
18 55 (11.51%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.50%) SQL
2 87 (18.20%) Java
3 66 (13.81%) Python
4 30 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.23%) C#
6 17 (3.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.72%) Scala
8 10 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.09%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.88%) Bash
10 7 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.46%) Perl
10 7 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.26%) Go
11 6 (1.26%) Ruby
12 4 (0.84%) Bicep
12 4 (0.84%) R
12 4 (0.84%) Swift
13 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 121 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 90 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.67%) Degree
4 30 (6.28%) PMI Certification
5 28 (5.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.23%) PMP
7 19 (3.97%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.51%) CISSP
9 12 (2.51%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.67%) MBA
12 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.05%) CISM
14 5 (1.05%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 4 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (17.36%) QA
2 21 (4.39%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.56%) GDPR
4 14 (2.93%) PMO
5 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.67%) Basel III
6 8 (1.67%) NIST
7 7 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.05%) WCAG
9 4 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.84%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.84%) NCSC
9 4 (0.84%) SLA
10 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (11.30%) Docker
2 8 (1.67%) Postfix
3 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 35 (7.32%) Terraform
3 30 (6.28%) Grafana
4 12 (2.51%) Ansible
5 11 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.46%) Rancher
7 5 (1.05%) Kibana
8 4 (0.84%) Argo
8 4 (0.84%) Consul
8 4 (0.84%) Packer
9 3 (0.63%) CASB
9 3 (0.63%) Foglight
9 3 (0.63%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vMotion
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.65%) Oracle
3 16 (3.35%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.35%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.14%) Splunk
5 14 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.51%) Databricks
6 12 (2.51%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.88%) SAP
8 8 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.67%) Spotify
9 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.26%) Cisco
11 4 (0.84%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.84%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.84%) Okta
11 4 (0.84%) Refinitiv
11 4 (0.84%) VMware
12 3 (0.63%) Arista
12 3 (0.63%) Palo Alto