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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 223 229
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -58
Contract jobs citing Kanban 483 330 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.13% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.25% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 227 294
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.30% +1.42%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £506
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.66% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £26.38 -
25th Percentile - £37.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.23 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +59.60% -42.65%
75th Percentile - £77.98 £75.00
90th Percentile - £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 39,137 26,475 37,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.32% 90.62% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,793 17,183 24,611
10th Percentile £315 £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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,000 2,387
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.28 £70.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £29.23 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.59% -11.60% -7.64%

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 10 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 10 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 +21 407 £515 +3.00% 194
UK excluding London -24 243 £475 -2.56% 143
London +3 197 £538 +4.88% 66
Work from Home -57 114 £500 +12.74% 116
North of England -44 69 £458 +14.50% 51
Midlands -14 59 £450 -21.74% 11
South East -43 46 £525 +5.00% 41
West Midlands -28 43 £475 -17.39% 11
Scotland 0 35 £405 -10.11% 5
North West -12 35 £431 +17.35% 24
Yorkshire -46 27 £500 +21.65% 15
South West -17 21 £525 -7.08% 22
East Midlands -18 16 £340 -
East of England - 14 £463 - 10
North East -9 9 £450 - 12
Wales -13 5 £509 -3.05% 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
1 118 (24.43%) Confluence
2 18 (3.73%) CMS
3 17 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.66%) Apache
5 6 (1.24%) SAS
6 5 (1.04%) nginx
6 5 (1.04%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
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 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.45%) Trello
3 6 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 113 (23.40%) Azure
2 93 (19.25%) AWS
3 59 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.42%) GitHub
6 30 (6.21%) GCP
7 22 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (3.93%) Amazon S3
8 19 (3.93%) Miro
9 15 (3.11%) Serverless
10 14 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.07%) AWS KMS
12 10 (2.07%) Route 53
13 9 (1.86%) Figma
14 8 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.86%) Firewall
2 7 (1.45%) HTTP
3 6 (1.24%) 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 31 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 26 (5.38%) Power BI
3 24 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.11%) Hadoop
9 14 (2.90%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.48%) Big Data
10 12 (2.48%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.28%) Metadata
11 11 (2.28%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.66%) Tableau
14 7 (1.45%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 159 (32.92%) JIRA
2 65 (13.46%) Git
3 45 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 33 (6.83%) GitLab
5 28 (5.80%) Postman
6 15 (3.11%) Mockito
7 14 (2.90%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.48%) JUnit
8 12 (2.48%) Maven
8 12 (2.48%) Selenium
9 10 (2.07%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.07%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.45%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.45%) jMock
12 6 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.24%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.24%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.04%) ScalaTest
General
1 191 (39.54%) Social Skills
2 108 (22.36%) Finance
3 88 (18.22%) Public Sector
4 80 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (10.35%) Banking
6 21 (4.35%) Marketing
7 17 (3.52%) Front Office
8 15 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.11%) Legal
9 11 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.07%) Retail
11 9 (1.86%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.86%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.45%) Automotive
14 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.83%) Aviation
15 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (17.39%) Analyst
2 57 (11.80%) Developer
2 57 (11.80%) Scrum Master
3 54 (11.18%) Business Analyst
4 50 (10.35%) Senior
5 47 (9.73%) Project Manager
6 40 (8.28%) Lead
7 39 (8.07%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (6.83%) Java Developer
9 24 (4.97%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.11%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (2.90%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.48%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 12 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.48%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.28%) Product Owner
13 11 (2.28%) Test Analyst
14 10 (2.07%) Architect
14 10 (2.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.45%) REST
2 34 (7.04%) Spring
3 29 (6.00%) Spring Boot
4 24 (4.97%) RESTful
5 23 (4.76%) React
6 22 (4.55%) Node.js
7 19 (3.93%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.73%) Kafka
9 15 (3.11%) JSON
10 14 (2.90%) Playwright
11 13 (2.69%) .NET
11 13 (2.69%) HTML
11 13 (2.69%) Web Services
12 11 (2.28%) CSS
12 11 (2.28%) XML
13 10 (2.07%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (2.07%) Hibernate
13 10 (2.07%) SOAP
13 10 (2.07%) Spring Batch
13 10 (2.07%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 129 (26.71%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 29 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.18%) PMI
5 16 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.11%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.28%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.45%) Wiki
10 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.24%) NHS
10 6 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.87%) Linux
2 18 (3.73%) Windows
3 14 (2.90%) Unix
4 7 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.83%) Android
5 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.83%) VMS
6 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (94.62%) Agile
2 423 (87.58%) Scrum
3 146 (30.23%) DevOps
4 138 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (26.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 127 (26.29%) CI/CD
7 121 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (21.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 87 (18.01%) Sprint Planning
10 74 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 70 (14.49%) Test Automation
12 69 (14.29%) Microservices
13 67 (13.87%) User Stories
14 66 (13.66%) TDD
15 64 (13.25%) Roadmaps
16 63 (13.04%) Project Management
17 58 (12.01%) Acceptance Criteria
17 58 (12.01%) Migration
18 57 (11.80%) Analytics
19 54 (11.18%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 95 (19.67%) SQL
2 81 (16.77%) Java
3 64 (13.25%) Python
4 27 (5.59%) C#
5 26 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.52%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.86%) Bash
8 9 (1.86%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.66%) Perl
9 8 (1.66%) Scala
10 7 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.45%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.24%) Go
11 6 (1.24%) Ruby
12 4 (0.83%) Bicep
12 4 (0.83%) R
12 4 (0.83%) Swift
13 3 (0.62%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 121 (25.05%) Security Cleared
2 90 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.77%) Degree
4 34 (7.04%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.18%) PMP
6 23 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (3.93%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.69%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.48%) CISSP
10 11 (2.28%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.66%) MBA
12 7 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.24%) CBAP
13 6 (1.24%) CISM
13 6 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (18.01%) QA
2 23 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.31%) GDPR
5 14 (2.90%) PMO
6 11 (2.28%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.66%) Basel III
8 8 (1.66%) ISO 8583
8 8 (1.66%) NIST
9 6 (1.24%) PSD2
10 5 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.04%) WCAG
11 4 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.83%) SLA
12 3 (0.62%) GRC
12 3 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (9.73%) Docker
2 6 (1.24%) 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 47 (9.73%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.42%) Terraform
3 24 (4.97%) Grafana
4 12 (2.48%) Ansible
5 10 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.45%) Rancher
7 4 (0.83%) Argo
7 4 (0.83%) Consul
7 4 (0.83%) Packer
8 3 (0.62%) CASB
8 3 (0.62%) Foglight
8 3 (0.62%) Nagios
9 2 (0.41%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.21%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vMotion
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.80%) Oracle
3 18 (3.73%) Atlassian
4 17 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.48%) Databricks
6 12 (2.48%) Splunk
7 10 (2.07%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.86%) SAP
9 8 (1.66%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.24%) Cisco
11 6 (1.24%) Spotify
12 4 (0.83%) Okta
12 4 (0.83%) VMware
13 3 (0.62%) Arista
13 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.62%) Juniper
13 3 (0.62%) Refinitiv
13 3 (0.62%) Sitecore