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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 222 227
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -37
Contract jobs citing Kanban 575 394 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.21% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.33% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 282 320
10th Percentile £365 £340 £374
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% -7.14% +0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £600
90th Percentile £652 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +4.46% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £34.20 £39.38 £45.88
25th Percentile £47.24 £48.75 £50.04
Median hourly rate £69.75 £63.00 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -8.03% -16.97%
75th Percentile £74.69 £76.88 £74.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.49% -19.41%

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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -2 480 £518 +3.50% 172
UK excluding London -11 281 £481 +4.46% 123
London -28 239 £550 +2.09% 82
Work from Home -39 143 £525 +16.67% 90
North of England -33 84 £458 +9.05% 49
Midlands -16 60 £466 +3.54% 10
West Midlands -21 54 £475 -5.00% 6
South East -45 49 £600 +21.46% 30
Scotland 0 46 £450 -1.10% 7
North West -24 37 £513 +28.13% 22
Yorkshire -53 25 £500 +11.86% 14
North East -14 22 £450 -20.00% 14
South West -25 20 £483 +0.26% 15
East of England -2 18 £450 -5.26% 4
East Midlands -16 5 £402 +11.67% 4
Wales -19 4 £513 +5.13% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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
1 133 (23.13%) Confluence
2 23 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.83%) CMS
4 11 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.57%) Apache
5 9 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.04%) SAS
7 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.70%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.57%) Trello
5 8 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.52%) Notion
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Magento
2 5 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.35%) Shopify
5 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.17%) Primavera
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.17%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 196 (34.09%) Azure
2 146 (25.39%) AWS
3 101 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (7.83%) Amazon S3
5 44 (7.65%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.43%) GCP
7 30 (5.22%) Serverless
8 27 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (4.35%) GitHub
10 22 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (2.96%) AWS KMS
12 17 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.78%) Miro
13 16 (2.78%) Route 53
13 16 (2.78%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.91%) SaaS
15 10 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.74%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.74%) Network Security
2 7 (1.22%) Firewall
3 5 (0.87%) HTTP
4 4 (0.70%) MQTT
5 3 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.52%) NGFW
6 2 (0.35%) DHCP
6 2 (0.35%) FTP
6 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) AMQP
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) RS-422
7 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.17%) VPN
7 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.26%) NoSQL
1 36 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.57%) Power BI
3 30 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 21 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.26%) Big Data
9 13 (2.26%) Hadoop
10 12 (2.09%) Tableau
11 11 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.39%) Looker
13 8 (1.39%) Metadata
14 7 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 195 (33.91%) JIRA
2 77 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.83%) Git
4 33 (5.74%) GitLab
5 25 (4.35%) Postman
6 20 (3.48%) Selenium
6 20 (3.48%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.96%) JUnit
7 17 (2.96%) Mockito
8 16 (2.78%) Maven
9 12 (2.09%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.91%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.91%) jMock
11 10 (1.74%) fastlane
12 9 (1.57%) Android Studio
12 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.57%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.57%) Subversion
13 8 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 245 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.22%) Public Sector
3 138 (24.00%) Finance
4 107 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.87%) Banking
6 41 (7.13%) Marketing
7 25 (4.35%) Retail
8 22 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.61%) Legal
10 14 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.74%) Front Office
14 7 (1.22%) Automotive
14 7 (1.22%) Local Government
15 6 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.87%) Games
16 5 (0.87%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (17.22%) Analyst
2 71 (12.35%) Developer
3 65 (11.30%) Scrum Master
4 60 (10.43%) Senior
5 55 (9.57%) Delivery Manager
6 52 (9.04%) Business Analyst
7 45 (7.83%) Lead
8 38 (6.61%) Project Manager
9 31 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 30 (5.22%) Product Owner
11 27 (4.70%) Java Developer
12 26 (4.52%) Technical Analyst
13 24 (4.17%) Architect
14 18 (3.13%) Product Manager
15 15 (2.61%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 15 (2.61%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.43%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (2.26%) Security Engineer
17 13 (2.26%) Senior Manager
17 13 (2.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.83%) RESTful
2 39 (6.78%) REST
3 36 (6.26%) Spring
4 33 (5.74%) Spring Boot
5 21 (3.65%) Kafka
5 21 (3.65%) Node.js
6 19 (3.30%) AngularJS
6 19 (3.30%) JSON
7 18 (3.13%) Web Services
8 17 (2.96%) CSS
8 17 (2.96%) HTML
8 17 (2.96%) SOAP
9 16 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (2.78%) AWS CDK
9 16 (2.78%) Hibernate
9 16 (2.78%) JPA
9 16 (2.78%) Spring Batch
9 16 (2.78%) Spring Integration
10 14 (2.43%) .NET
10 14 (2.43%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 161 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 43 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (3.65%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.26%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.26%) PMI
9 12 (2.09%) Life Science
10 10 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.74%) NHS
11 8 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.22%) Replication
12 7 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.04%) Wiki
14 5 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.26%) Linux
2 14 (2.43%) Android
3 10 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.74%) Unix
4 8 (1.39%) Windows
5 4 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (95.83%) Agile
2 508 (88.35%) Scrum
3 224 (38.96%) DevOps
4 189 (32.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 169 (29.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 153 (26.61%) CI/CD
7 130 (22.61%) Sprint Planning
8 128 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (20.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 96 (16.70%) Decision-Making
11 93 (16.17%) User Stories
12 90 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 87 (15.13%) Microservices
14 81 (14.09%) Roadmaps
14 81 (14.09%) Sprint Retrospective
15 80 (13.91%) Acceptance Criteria
16 79 (13.74%) Test Automation
17 78 (13.57%) TDD
18 76 (13.22%) Analytics
19 71 (12.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 110 (19.13%) SQL
2 92 (16.00%) Java
3 78 (13.57%) Python
4 31 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 21 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.30%) C#
7 14 (2.43%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.09%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.74%) Scala
10 8 (1.39%) Swift
11 7 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.87%) Bash
12 5 (0.87%) Bicep
12 5 (0.87%) R
13 4 (0.70%) Go
13 4 (0.70%) Perl
13 4 (0.70%) Rust
14 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 119 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.52%) Degree
4 41 (7.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (4.70%) PMI Certification
6 20 (3.48%) PMP
7 16 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.61%) CISSP
8 15 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.22%) CSPO
12 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.04%) CISM
13 5 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 5 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.57%) QA
2 36 (6.26%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.96%) GDPR
3 17 (2.96%) PMO
3 17 (2.96%) WCAG
4 11 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.74%) GxP
6 9 (1.57%) NIST
7 8 (1.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.87%) SLA
9 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.70%) NCSC
9 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (9.57%) Docker
2 9 (1.57%) Postfix
3 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.22%) Grafana
3 28 (4.87%) Terraform
4 10 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.22%) Ansible
6 5 (0.87%) Kibana
6 5 (0.87%) Puppet
7 4 (0.70%) Podman
8 3 (0.52%) CASB
8 3 (0.52%) Foglight
9 2 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.57%) Oracle
3 26 (4.52%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.96%) SAP
5 17 (2.96%) Splunk
6 16 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.61%) Google
7 15 (2.61%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (2.43%) Databricks
8 14 (2.43%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.26%) IBM
10 7 (1.22%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.22%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (1.04%) Workday
12 5 (0.87%) BMC
12 5 (0.87%) New Relic
12 5 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.87%) Spotify