Kanban Contracts

Kanban
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kanban skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kanban over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 221 163
Rank change year-on-year -27 -58 -24
Contract jobs citing Kanban 317 472 938
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.08% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.25% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 313 641
10th Percentile £350 £375 £415
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £630
90th Percentile £638 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -5.28% +1.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 15
10th Percentile £26.38 - £65.00
25th Percentile £37.56 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £73.23 £45.88 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.60% -42.65% +79.78%
75th Percentile £77.98 £75.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £78.58 £78.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £85.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% -46.02% +74.36%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -46 224 £500 -9.09% 400
Work from Home +10 129 £440 -12.00% 279
UK excluding London +2 129 £480 -5.28% 236
London -46 129 £518 -5.91% 185
Scotland +7 40 £450 -2.70% 5
North of England +21 33 £400 -15.79% 101
South East 0 30 £500 -8.09% 48
Yorkshire +16 18 £400 -25.58% 26
North West +4 13 £368 +466.15% 66
Midlands +23 12 £506 +1.20% 24
West Midlands +18 10 £512 -2.48% 14
South West +43 8 £565 -3.42% 29
Wales -1 3 £525 +3.45% 12
East Midlands +7 2 £358 -1.24% 10
North East -1 2 £563 +5.63% 9
Northern Ireland -7 2 £625 -2.34% 2
East of England +29 1 £475 -13.64% 18

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (17.98%) Confluence
2 8 (2.52%) CMS
3 4 (1.26%) Apache
3 4 (1.26%) Drupal
3 4 (1.26%) WordPress
4 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.32%) Smallworld
Applications
1 17 (5.36%) Trello
2 12 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.32%) CATIA
7 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Endur
1 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 87 (27.44%) Azure
2 78 (24.61%) AWS
3 46 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (8.83%) Serverless
5 25 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.26%) GitHub
7 21 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.31%) GCP
8 20 (6.31%) Power Platform
9 18 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (4.10%) IaaS
10 13 (4.10%) Route 53
11 12 (3.79%) AWS CodePipeline
11 12 (3.79%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.15%) PaaS
13 8 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.52%) SaaS
14 7 (2.21%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.47%) DNS
2 10 (3.15%) Firewall
3 4 (1.26%) DHCP
3 4 (1.26%) Internet
3 4 (1.26%) NAS
3 4 (1.26%) SAN
3 4 (1.26%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) Broadband
4 3 (0.95%) VPN
4 3 (0.95%) Wireless
5 2 (0.63%) BGP
5 2 (0.63%) HSRP
5 2 (0.63%) IPsec
5 2 (0.63%) MPLS
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) OSPF
5 2 (0.63%) SNMP
5 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.32%) GPON
6 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (4.73%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.10%) Power BI
5 12 (3.79%) MySQL
6 11 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.15%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.21%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.58%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (1.58%) Spotfire
10 4 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.26%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.26%) Redis
10 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.95%) Big Data
11 3 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 118 (37.22%) JIRA
2 64 (20.19%) Git
3 49 (15.46%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.94%) GitLab
5 15 (4.73%) Bitbucket
5 15 (4.73%) Postman
5 15 (4.73%) Selenium
6 12 (3.79%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.15%) JMeter
7 10 (3.15%) JUnit
8 8 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (2.21%) GoogleTest
9 7 (2.21%) Mockito
9 7 (2.21%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (2.21%) TestRail
10 6 (1.89%) Gatling
10 6 (1.89%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.58%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 118 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.82%) Public Sector
3 61 (19.24%) Finance
4 46 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.20%) Banking
6 10 (3.15%) Legal
6 10 (3.15%) Marketing
7 9 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.89%) Retail
10 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.95%) Electronics
12 3 (0.95%) Local Government
13 2 (0.63%) Advertising
13 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 72 (22.71%) Developer
2 45 (14.20%) Analyst
3 34 (10.73%) Business Analyst
4 25 (7.89%) Scrum Master
5 24 (7.57%) Delivery Manager
5 24 (7.57%) Senior
6 23 (7.26%) Project Manager
7 17 (5.36%) Lead
8 14 (4.42%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.10%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.79%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.15%) Architect
12 9 (2.84%) AWS Developer
13 8 (2.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.52%) C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.52%) QA Engineer
14 7 (2.21%) Product Manager
14 7 (2.21%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.46%) REST
2 27 (8.52%) .NET
3 24 (7.57%) AngularJS
3 24 (7.57%) CSS
4 22 (6.94%) React
4 22 (6.94%) RESTful
5 20 (6.31%) HTML
6 18 (5.68%) AWS CDK
6 18 (5.68%) Spring
7 16 (5.05%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.73%) SOAP
9 14 (4.42%) Web Services
10 12 (3.79%) Playwright
11 11 (3.47%) Node.js
12 10 (3.15%) Hibernate
13 9 (2.84%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.84%) Kafka
14 8 (2.52%) Vue
15 7 (2.21%) Django
15 7 (2.21%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (22.71%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.47%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.47%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.58%) IVR
8 5 (1.58%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.95%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.36%) Linux
2 21 (6.62%) Windows
3 8 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.21%) Android
4 7 (2.21%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.89%) Unix
6 5 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (93.69%) Agile
2 265 (83.60%) Scrum
3 111 (35.02%) DevOps
4 91 (28.71%) CI/CD
5 77 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (19.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (18.93%) Project Management
9 52 (16.40%) Sprint Planning
9 52 (16.40%) Test Automation
10 49 (15.46%) Roadmaps
11 47 (14.83%) TDD
12 45 (14.20%) Microservices
13 43 (13.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 39 (12.30%) Decision-Making
14 39 (12.30%) Sprint Retrospective
14 39 (12.30%) User Stories
15 36 (11.36%) User Experience
16 33 (10.41%) Coaching
16 33 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 56 (17.67%) Java
2 54 (17.03%) Python
3 53 (16.72%) SQL
4 48 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.20%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.62%) C#
7 15 (4.73%) C++
8 14 (4.42%) Bash
9 13 (4.10%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.47%) PHP
11 9 (2.84%) Groovy
11 9 (2.84%) Scala
11 9 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.89%) Ruby
13 4 (1.26%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Go
14 3 (0.95%) VBA
14 3 (0.95%) VBScript
15 2 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 42 (13.25%) Degree
3 40 (12.62%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.52%) PMP
7 7 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.95%) ISEB
9 3 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CBAP
10 2 (0.63%) CCNP
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.46%) QA
2 28 (8.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.58%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.58%) PMO
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) WCAG
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.32%) PSD2
6 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (11.67%) Docker
2 11 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.26%) Postfix
6 4 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 32 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.99%) Ansible
3 18 (5.68%) Grafana
3 18 (5.68%) Terraform
4 9 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.26%) vRealize
7 3 (0.95%) Kibana
7 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.95%) Puppet
7 3 (0.95%) SCCM
8 2 (0.63%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.32%) Control-M
9 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.32%) Nagios
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.32%) Plesk
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.73%) Oracle
3 10 (3.15%) Google
4 8 (2.52%) SAP
5 7 (2.21%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.21%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.21%) Splunk
6 6 (1.89%) Databricks
7 5 (1.58%) Genesys
7 5 (1.58%) VMware
8 4 (1.26%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.26%) Zend
9 3 (0.95%) HP
9 3 (0.95%) IBM
9 3 (0.95%) Imperva
9 3 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco
10 2 (0.63%) Dell