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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 234 225
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -56
Contract jobs citing Kanban 486 327 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.12% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.23% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 226 301
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £491 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -9.12% +1.89%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £508
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.71% +1.55%
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 39,015 26,568 37,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.69% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,668 17,198 24,355
10th Percentile £316 £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 £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,023 2,389
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.92 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.45 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.28% -12.12% -8.65%

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 15 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 15 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 +9 407 £525 +5.00% 185
UK excluding London -7 241 £475 -3.85% 130
London +11 198 £550 +7.32% 64
Work from Home -38 119 £500 +11.92% 104
North of England -34 70 £460 +15.00% 46
Midlands -13 58 £455 -20.87% 14
West Midlands -24 44 £475 -17.39% 12
South East -42 44 £525 +5.00% 40
North West -21 36 £435 +18.39% 25
Scotland -3 35 £405 -10.11% 3
Yorkshire -45 27 £500 +21.65% 11
South West -16 21 £525 -7.08% 17
East Midlands -17 14 £340 - 2
East of England - 14 £463 - 8
North East -11 9 £450 - 10
Wales -11 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
1 121 (24.90%) Confluence
2 22 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.91%) CMS
4 8 (1.65%) Apache
4 8 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.23%) SAS
6 5 (1.03%) nginx
6 5 (1.03%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.53%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.44%) Trello
3 6 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.66%) Azure
2 100 (20.58%) AWS
3 60 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.79%) Power Platform
5 32 (6.58%) GitHub
6 31 (6.38%) GCP
7 25 (5.14%) Amazon S3
8 23 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (3.50%) Miro
10 16 (3.29%) Serverless
11 15 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.26%) AWS KMS
14 11 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.26%) Route 53
15 9 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.85%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.85%) Firewall
2 7 (1.44%) HTTP
3 6 (1.23%) Network Security
4 3 (0.62%) BGP
4 3 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.62%) DNS
4 3 (0.62%) FTP
4 3 (0.62%) NGFW
4 3 (0.62%) OSPF
4 3 (0.62%) 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 36 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 29 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (5.14%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.14%) Power BI
4 23 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (4.53%) SQL Server
6 17 (3.50%) Big Data
7 16 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.09%) Hadoop
9 14 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.67%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.26%) Metadata
11 11 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.44%) Tableau
14 6 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 162 (33.33%) JIRA
2 66 (13.58%) Git
3 52 (10.70%) Jenkins
4 34 (7.00%) GitLab
5 29 (5.97%) Postman
6 16 (3.29%) Mockito
7 14 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.67%) JUnit
8 13 (2.67%) Maven
9 12 (2.47%) Selenium
10 11 (2.26%) SonarQube
11 10 (2.06%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (1.65%) DbUnit
13 8 (1.65%) jMock
14 6 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.23%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.23%) Zephyr
15 5 (1.03%) ScalaTest
General
1 190 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.60%) Finance
3 89 (18.31%) Public Sector
4 81 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.08%) Banking
6 22 (4.53%) Marketing
7 17 (3.50%) Front Office
8 15 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.09%) Legal
9 10 (2.06%) Retail
10 9 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.44%) Automotive
12 7 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.03%) Local Government
14 4 (0.82%) Aviation
14 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (16.46%) Analyst
2 59 (12.14%) Scrum Master
3 58 (11.93%) Developer
4 48 (9.88%) Business Analyst
4 48 (9.88%) Senior
5 44 (9.05%) Project Manager
6 40 (8.23%) Lead
7 39 (8.02%) Delivery Manager
8 35 (7.20%) Java Developer
9 28 (5.76%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.09%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (2.88%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.47%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 12 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.47%) Test Analyst
13 11 (2.26%) Product Owner
13 11 (2.26%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.06%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.82%) REST
2 36 (7.41%) Spring
3 31 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 30 (6.17%) RESTful
5 23 (4.73%) React
6 22 (4.53%) Node.js
7 20 (4.12%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.91%) Kafka
9 18 (3.70%) HTML
10 16 (3.29%) CSS
11 15 (3.09%) JSON
12 14 (2.88%) Playwright
12 14 (2.88%) Web Services
13 13 (2.67%) .NET
14 11 (2.26%) Hibernate
14 11 (2.26%) JPA
14 11 (2.26%) SOAP
14 11 (2.26%) Spring Batch
14 11 (2.26%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (2.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 129 (26.54%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.32%) PMI
5 18 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.88%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.44%) Wiki
11 6 (1.23%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.03%) NHS
12 5 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.82%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.64%) Linux
2 18 (3.70%) Windows
3 17 (3.50%) Unix
4 7 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.82%) Android
5 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.82%) VMS
6 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (94.65%) Agile
2 426 (87.65%) Scrum
3 149 (30.66%) DevOps
4 137 (28.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 133 (27.37%) CI/CD
6 127 (26.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 117 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
8 102 (20.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 87 (17.90%) Sprint Planning
10 75 (15.43%) Test Automation
11 72 (14.81%) Microservices
11 72 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 67 (13.79%) TDD
13 65 (13.37%) Roadmaps
13 65 (13.37%) User Stories
14 62 (12.76%) Project Management
15 59 (12.14%) Acceptance Criteria
15 59 (12.14%) Migration
16 56 (11.52%) Analytics
17 55 (11.32%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.37%) SQL
2 89 (18.31%) Java
3 69 (14.20%) Python
4 31 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 26 (5.35%) C#
6 17 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.67%) Scala
8 9 (1.85%) Bash
8 9 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.65%) Perl
10 7 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.23%) Go
11 6 (1.23%) Ruby
12 4 (0.82%) Bicep
12 4 (0.82%) R
12 4 (0.82%) Swift
13 3 (0.62%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 124 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 93 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.49%) Degree
4 30 (6.17%) PMI Certification
5 27 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.14%) PMP
7 20 (4.12%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.47%) CISSP
9 12 (2.47%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.26%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.65%) MBA
12 7 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.23%) CISM
13 6 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (17.28%) QA
2 22 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.29%) GDPR
5 14 (2.88%) PMO
6 9 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.65%) Basel III
7 8 (1.65%) NIST
8 7 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.03%) WCAG
10 4 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.82%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.82%) SLA
11 3 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.62%) NCSC
12 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 53 (10.91%) Docker
2 7 (1.44%) Postfix
3 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.41%) Terraform
3 30 (6.17%) Grafana
4 12 (2.47%) Ansible
5 11 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.44%) Rancher
7 5 (1.03%) Kibana
8 4 (0.82%) Argo
8 4 (0.82%) Consul
8 4 (0.82%) Packer
9 3 (0.62%) CASB
9 3 (0.62%) Foglight
9 3 (0.62%) Nagios
10 2 (0.41%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.21%) Podman
11 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.21%) Puppet
11 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.21%) vMotion
11 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.56%) Oracle
3 19 (3.91%) Atlassian
4 17 (3.50%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.29%) Splunk
6 15 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.47%) Databricks
8 11 (2.26%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.85%) SAP
10 8 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (1.44%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.23%) Cisco
12 6 (1.23%) Spotify
13 4 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.82%) Okta
13 4 (0.82%) Refinitiv
13 4 (0.82%) VMware
14 3 (0.62%) Arista
14 3 (0.62%) Juniper
14 3 (0.62%) Sitecore