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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 208 222
Rank change year-on-year -43 +14 -25
Contract jobs citing Kanban 539 413 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.25% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.38% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 293 312
10th Percentile £392 £340 £360
25th Percentile £425 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.03% +1.17%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £593
90th Percentile £665 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £34.20 £38.85 £63.90
25th Percentile £47.24 £51.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £69.75 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +4.17% -12.73%
75th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £77.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.25 £78.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.17% -15.29%

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
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 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -28 452 £523 +4.50% 347
UK excluding London -24 249 £500 +8.11% 223
London -46 232 £550 +0.92% 163
Work from Home -53 136 £525 +14.25% 194
North of England -55 78 £500 +16.82% 77
Midlands -20 53 £475 +10.98% 25
West Midlands -17 48 £475 -5.00% 20
South East -43 42 £600 +21.46% 44
Scotland -3 38 £475 -4.43% 13
North East -16 27 £450 -20.00% 17
North West -32 27 £556 +35.67% 42
Yorkshire -52 24 £500 +11.11% 19
South West -28 19 £483 +0.26% 36
East of England -7 15 £363 -35.56% 16
Wales -15 4 £513 +9.33% 7
East Midlands -26 4 £402 +12.29% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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
1 127 (23.56%) Confluence
2 19 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.34%) CMS
4 11 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.48%) Apache
7 6 (1.11%) SAS
8 5 (0.93%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.67%) Trello
5 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Notion
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Magento
2 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.37%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.37%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) Primavera
6 1 (0.19%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.19%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 184 (34.14%) Azure
2 149 (27.64%) AWS
3 95 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.79%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 38 (7.05%) GCP
7 28 (5.19%) GitHub
8 25 (4.64%) Serverless
9 22 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 15 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.60%) AWS KMS
15 13 (2.41%) Route 53
16 12 (2.23%) Miro
16 12 (2.23%) SaaS
17 10 (1.86%) Firebase
18 9 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.86%) Network Security
2 7 (1.30%) Firewall
3 4 (0.74%) MQTT
4 3 (0.56%) NGFW
5 2 (0.37%) DNS
5 2 (0.37%) FTP
5 2 (0.37%) HTTP
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.19%) MPLS
6 1 (0.19%) OSPF
6 1 (0.19%) RS-232
6 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.19%) SONET
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.31%) NoSQL
3 31 (5.75%) Power BI
4 27 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (4.45%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (2.41%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.04%) Tableau
10 9 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.67%) Looker
11 8 (1.48%) Big Data
12 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.93%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 186 (34.51%) JIRA
2 77 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 55 (10.20%) Git
4 37 (6.86%) GitLab
5 22 (4.08%) Postman
6 21 (3.90%) Selenium
6 21 (3.90%) SonarQube
7 16 (2.97%) JUnit
8 15 (2.78%) Maven
8 15 (2.78%) Mockito
9 12 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.86%) DbUnit
10 10 (1.86%) fastlane
11 9 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.67%) jMock
11 9 (1.67%) Subversion
12 8 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.30%) Android Studio
13 7 (1.30%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 229 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.83%) Public Sector
3 127 (23.56%) Finance
4 107 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.79%) Banking
5 42 (7.79%) Marketing
6 24 (4.45%) Retail
7 23 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Legal
10 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.86%) Front Office
12 6 (1.11%) Local Government
12 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Automotive
13 5 (0.93%) Games
13 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (17.25%) Analyst
2 67 (12.43%) Developer
3 58 (10.76%) Scrum Master
4 55 (10.20%) Delivery Manager
5 53 (9.83%) Senior
6 52 (9.65%) Business Analyst
7 44 (8.16%) Lead
8 36 (6.68%) Project Manager
9 31 (5.75%) Product Owner
10 29 (5.38%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.64%) Architect
12 24 (4.45%) Technical Analyst
13 22 (4.08%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.15%) Product Manager
15 15 (2.78%) Agile Coach
15 15 (2.78%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 14 (2.60%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.60%) Systems Analyst
17 12 (2.23%) Senior Manager
17 12 (2.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.16%) RESTful
2 38 (7.05%) REST
3 34 (6.31%) Spring
4 32 (5.94%) Spring Boot
5 23 (4.27%) Kafka
6 18 (3.34%) Node.js
7 17 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 16 (2.97%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (2.97%) CSS
8 16 (2.97%) HTML
8 16 (2.97%) SOAP
8 16 (2.97%) Web Services
9 15 (2.78%) Hibernate
9 15 (2.78%) JPA
10 14 (2.60%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.41%) Spring Batch
11 13 (2.41%) Spring Cloud
11 13 (2.41%) Spring Integration
12 12 (2.23%) JSON
12 12 (2.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 156 (28.94%) Product Ownership
2 42 (7.79%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.23%) Life Science
7 12 (2.23%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.04%) PMI
9 10 (1.86%) NHS
10 9 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.30%) Replication
11 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 5 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.12%) Linux
2 12 (2.23%) Android
3 9 (1.67%) Unix
4 8 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.11%) Windows
6 2 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (97.22%) Agile
2 481 (89.24%) Scrum
3 211 (39.15%) DevOps
4 187 (34.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 148 (27.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (26.53%) CI/CD
7 135 (25.05%) Sprint Planning
8 118 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (20.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 96 (17.81%) User Stories
11 90 (16.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 85 (15.77%) Decision-Making
13 80 (14.84%) Sprint Retrospective
14 77 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
15 76 (14.10%) Microservices
16 74 (13.73%) Analytics
16 74 (13.73%) Test Automation
17 73 (13.54%) Roadmaps
18 70 (12.99%) TDD
19 61 (11.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (17.44%) SQL
2 87 (16.14%) Java
3 75 (13.91%) Python
4 31 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.82%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.15%) Scala
7 14 (2.60%) C#
8 12 (2.23%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.86%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.11%) Bash
11 6 (1.11%) Swift
12 5 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.93%) R
13 4 (0.74%) Rust
14 3 (0.56%) C++
15 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.37%) Go
15 2 (0.37%) Groovy
15 2 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 139 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 111 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 65 (12.06%) Degree
4 40 (7.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (4.27%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.97%) PMP
8 10 (1.86%) CISSP
9 7 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.30%) CSPO
10 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.74%) IIBA
11 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.56%) CBAP
12 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.99%) QA
2 38 (7.05%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.15%) WCAG
4 14 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.41%) PMO
6 10 (1.86%) GxP
7 9 (1.67%) GDPR
7 9 (1.67%) NIST
8 8 (1.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.56%) SLA
13 2 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (9.28%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.30%) Postfix
4 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.12%) Grafana
3 30 (5.57%) Terraform
4 11 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.48%) Kibana
5 8 (1.48%) Puppet
6 7 (1.30%) Ansible
7 4 (0.74%) Podman
8 3 (0.56%) CASB
8 3 (0.56%) Foglight
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 2 (0.37%) Control-M
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) PTC Integrity
10 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.01%) Oracle
3 22 (4.08%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.71%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.71%) Splunk
5 17 (3.15%) Google
5 17 (3.15%) SAP
6 16 (2.97%) Databricks
7 14 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.41%) IBM
9 12 (2.23%) Jaspersoft
9 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.30%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.30%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.11%) Workday
12 5 (0.93%) Apple
12 5 (0.93%) BMC
12 5 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.74%) Adobe
13 4 (0.74%) Remedy