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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 238 226
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 -57
Contract jobs citing Kanban 492 323 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.10% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.21% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 226 299
10th Percentile £358 £345 £375
25th Percentile £413 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £488 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -9.72% +1.89%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £634 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £480 £508
% change year-on-year -0.94% -5.56% +1.65%
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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -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 17 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 17 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 +20 411 £525 +5.00% 177
UK excluding London -4 248 £476 -0.94% 134
London -3 197 £550 +7.32% 60
Work from Home -37 120 £500 +13.64% 111
North of England -33 72 £475 +18.75% 47
Midlands -21 60 £453 -21.30% 13
South East -42 46 £538 +7.50% 44
West Midlands -21 45 £475 -17.39% 10
North West -12 37 £442 +20.50% 25
Scotland -2 36 £409 -9.11% 5
Yorkshire -44 28 £500 +21.65% 12
South West -18 21 £525 -7.89% 14
East Midlands -18 15 £340 - 2
East of England -15 14 £463 -2.63% 7
North East -10 9 £450 - 10
Wales -10 5 £509 -3.05% 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
1 121 (24.59%) Confluence
2 22 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.86%) CMS
4 8 (1.63%) Apache
4 8 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.22%) SAS
6 5 (1.02%) nginx
6 5 (1.02%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.42%) Trello
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (23.98%) Azure
2 104 (21.14%) AWS
3 60 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 32 (6.50%) GitHub
6 31 (6.30%) GCP
7 28 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 23 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (3.66%) Serverless
10 16 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (3.25%) Miro
11 14 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.44%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.44%) Route 53
14 11 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.83%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.83%) Firewall
2 7 (1.42%) HTTP
3 6 (1.22%) Network Security
4 3 (0.61%) BGP
4 3 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.61%) DNS
4 3 (0.61%) FTP
4 3 (0.61%) NGFW
4 3 (0.61%) OSPF
4 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.20%) SONET
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.52%) NoSQL
2 31 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.28%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.08%) Power BI
5 24 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.67%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (3.46%) Big Data
8 16 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.05%) Hadoop
10 14 (2.85%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.85%) DynamoDB
11 12 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 11 (2.24%) Metadata
13 10 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 162 (32.93%) JIRA
2 67 (13.62%) Git
3 53 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 34 (6.91%) GitLab
5 29 (5.89%) Postman
6 17 (3.46%) Mockito
7 14 (2.85%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.85%) JUnit
7 14 (2.85%) Maven
8 12 (2.44%) Selenium
8 12 (2.44%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.03%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.83%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.83%) jMock
10 9 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.22%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.22%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 192 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 106 (21.54%) Finance
3 93 (18.90%) Public Sector
4 83 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.76%) Banking
6 22 (4.47%) Marketing
7 16 (3.25%) Front Office
8 15 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.05%) Legal
9 10 (2.03%) Retail
10 9 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.83%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.42%) Automotive
12 7 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.02%) Aviation
13 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.02%) Local Government
14 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (16.06%) Analyst
2 60 (12.20%) Scrum Master
3 59 (11.99%) Developer
4 47 (9.55%) Business Analyst
5 46 (9.35%) Senior
6 44 (8.94%) Project Manager
7 41 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
8 40 (8.13%) Lead
9 36 (7.32%) Java Developer
10 28 (5.69%) Data Engineer
11 14 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 14 (2.85%) Technical Analyst
12 12 (2.44%) Agile Coach
12 12 (2.44%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 12 (2.44%) Architect
12 12 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.44%) Test Analyst
13 11 (2.24%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.93%) REST
2 37 (7.52%) Spring
3 32 (6.50%) Spring Boot
4 31 (6.30%) RESTful
5 23 (4.67%) Node.js
5 23 (4.67%) React
6 21 (4.27%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.86%) Kafka
8 18 (3.66%) HTML
9 16 (3.25%) CSS
10 15 (3.05%) JSON
10 15 (3.05%) Web Services
11 14 (2.85%) Playwright
12 13 (2.64%) .NET
13 12 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (2.44%) Hibernate
13 12 (2.44%) JPA
13 12 (2.44%) SOAP
13 12 (2.44%) Spring Batch
13 12 (2.44%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 131 (26.63%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.52%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.27%) PMI
5 19 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.85%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.42%) Wiki
11 6 (1.22%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.02%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.02%) NHS
13 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.94%) Linux
2 17 (3.46%) Unix
2 17 (3.46%) Windows
3 7 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Android
4 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.81%) VMS
5 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (94.72%) Agile
2 433 (88.01%) Scrum
3 151 (30.69%) DevOps
4 141 (28.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 134 (27.24%) CI/CD
6 130 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 120 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (21.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 88 (17.89%) Sprint Planning
10 75 (15.24%) Test Automation
11 73 (14.84%) Microservices
11 73 (14.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 68 (13.82%) TDD
13 67 (13.62%) Roadmaps
14 63 (12.80%) Project Management
14 63 (12.80%) User Stories
15 59 (11.99%) Acceptance Criteria
15 59 (11.99%) Decision-Making
15 59 (11.99%) Migration
16 58 (11.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 100 (20.33%) SQL
2 89 (18.09%) Java
3 70 (14.23%) Python
4 31 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 26 (5.28%) C#
6 17 (3.46%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.64%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.64%) Scala
8 10 (2.03%) Bash
8 10 (2.03%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.63%) Perl
10 7 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.22%) Go
11 6 (1.22%) Ruby
12 4 (0.81%) Bicep
12 4 (0.81%) R
12 4 (0.81%) Swift
13 3 (0.61%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 126 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 95 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.37%) Degree
4 30 (6.10%) PMI Certification
5 27 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (5.08%) PMP
7 20 (4.07%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.44%) CISSP
9 12 (2.44%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.24%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.63%) MBA
12 7 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.02%) CISM
14 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (17.07%) QA
2 22 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.46%) GDPR
5 14 (2.85%) PMO
6 8 (1.63%) Basel III
6 8 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.63%) NIST
7 7 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.02%) WCAG
9 4 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.81%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.81%) SLA
10 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.61%) NCSC
11 2 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 55 (11.18%) Docker
2 8 (1.63%) Postfix
3 3 (0.61%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.32%) Terraform
3 31 (6.30%) Grafana
4 12 (2.44%) Ansible
5 11 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.42%) Rancher
7 5 (1.02%) Kibana
8 4 (0.81%) Argo
8 4 (0.81%) Consul
8 4 (0.81%) Packer
9 3 (0.61%) CASB
9 3 (0.61%) Foglight
9 3 (0.61%) Nagios
10 1 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.20%) vMotion
10 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.69%) Oracle
3 20 (4.07%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.25%) Splunk
5 14 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.44%) Databricks
6 12 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.83%) SAP
8 8 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.63%) Spotify
9 7 (1.42%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.22%) Cisco
11 4 (0.81%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.81%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.81%) Okta
11 4 (0.81%) Refinitiv
11 4 (0.81%) VMware
12 3 (0.61%) Arista
12 3 (0.61%) Palo Alto