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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 233 255
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 -93
Contract jobs citing Kanban 436 336 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.08% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.21% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 223 307
10th Percentile £358 £363 £394
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -4.76% -3.54%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £25.81 -
25th Percentile - £26.66 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £37.63 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +99.34% -17.99% -41.12%
75th Percentile - £55.62 £62.50
90th Percentile - £69.33 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £60.61 £45.88
% change year-on-year +23.74% +32.11% -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 34,804 27,718 38,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.51% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,033 16,994 25,434
10th Percentile £308 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.25% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 850 2,118
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +9.38%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +7 354 £520 +2.36% 175
UK excluding London -40 198 £475 -5.00% 146
London +37 190 £550 +5.52% 57
Work from Home -37 105 £500 +11.11% 145
North of England -18 57 £456 +4.23% 42
Midlands -25 41 £436 -24.26% 17
Scotland -9 37 £470 +4.44% 2
South East -58 36 £525 +5.00% 55
North West -11 30 £401 +9.26% 24
West Midlands -37 21 £490 -14.78% 16
Yorkshire -50 21 £500 - 14
East Midlands -11 20 £358 - 1
South West -11 16 £550 -0.90% 14
East of England -16 11 £522 +26.42% 15
North East -6 8 £541 - 4
Wales -7 5 £509 -3.05% 6

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 94 (21.56%) Confluence
2 10 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.06%) Apache
3 9 (2.06%) CMS
4 5 (1.15%) nginx
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.92%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (4.82%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.38%) Trello
5 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.46%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Finacle
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (23.39%) Azure
2 85 (19.50%) AWS
3 54 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.94%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.03%) GitHub
6 34 (7.80%) GCP
7 23 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (5.05%) Serverless
9 18 (4.13%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.90%) Snowflake
11 16 (3.67%) Miro
12 14 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.06%) Figma
15 9 (2.06%) SaaS
16 7 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.83%) HTTP
2 5 (1.15%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) BGP
3 3 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.69%) DNS
3 3 (0.69%) OSPF
3 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.46%) FTP
4 2 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) SAN
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.65%) Power BI
2 21 (4.82%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.36%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.44%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.44%) Metadata
7 13 (2.98%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (2.29%) Data Vault
8 10 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.06%) Big Data
9 9 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.83%) Tableau
11 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 150 (34.40%) JIRA
2 60 (13.76%) Git
3 34 (7.80%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.96%) GitLab
5 18 (4.13%) Postman
6 16 (3.67%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.75%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.75%) Selenium
8 10 (2.29%) ERwin
9 9 (2.06%) ER Studio
9 9 (2.06%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.83%) Mockito
11 6 (1.38%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.38%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.15%) JUnit
12 5 (1.15%) Maven
12 5 (1.15%) ScalaTest
12 5 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.92%) JMeter
General
1 173 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 102 (23.39%) Finance
3 69 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 54 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (10.32%) Banking
6 23 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (4.13%) Front Office
8 12 (2.75%) Legal
8 12 (2.75%) Retail
9 11 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.61%) Marketing
12 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Aviation
14 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (16.51%) Analyst
2 64 (14.68%) Developer
3 51 (11.70%) Senior
4 50 (11.47%) Business Analyst
5 46 (10.55%) Project Manager
6 36 (8.26%) Delivery Manager
6 36 (8.26%) Scrum Master
7 31 (7.11%) Java Developer
8 26 (5.96%) Lead
9 15 (3.44%) Senior Manager
9 15 (3.44%) Software Engineer
10 14 (3.21%) Data Engineer
11 13 (2.98%) Agile Project Manager
11 13 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.75%) Data Modeller
12 12 (2.75%) Product Manager
12 12 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) Test Analyst
14 10 (2.29%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.72%) REST
2 29 (6.65%) React
3 25 (5.73%) Spring
4 24 (5.50%) Spring Boot
5 22 (5.05%) Kafka
6 18 (4.13%) JSON
6 18 (4.13%) RESTful
7 17 (3.90%) Node.js
8 16 (3.67%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.44%) .NET
9 15 (3.44%) HTML
10 13 (2.98%) CSS
11 12 (2.75%) Playwright
12 11 (2.52%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.29%) XML
14 9 (2.06%) PyTorch
15 8 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (1.83%) Web Services
16 7 (1.61%) FastAPI
16 7 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 111 (25.46%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.96%) PMI
3 24 (5.50%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.28%) Data Structures
5 20 (4.59%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.13%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.90%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.83%) Derivative
12 7 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.38%) FMCG
13 6 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.38%) Wiki
14 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.19%) Linux
2 22 (5.05%) Windows
3 11 (2.52%) Unix
4 6 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.69%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.46%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (95.41%) Agile
2 385 (88.30%) Scrum
3 131 (30.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (26.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (25.23%) DevOps
6 110 (25.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 104 (23.85%) CI/CD
8 67 (15.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (15.37%) User Stories
9 66 (15.14%) Roadmaps
9 66 (15.14%) Test Automation
10 64 (14.68%) Sprint Planning
11 61 (13.99%) TDD
12 53 (12.16%) Analytics
12 53 (12.16%) Project Management
13 50 (11.47%) Microservices
14 47 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
14 47 (10.78%) Coaching
14 47 (10.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 80 (18.35%) Java
2 72 (16.51%) SQL
3 57 (13.07%) Python
4 31 (7.11%) C#
5 30 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.83%) Scala
9 7 (1.61%) Bash
9 7 (1.61%) Perl
10 6 (1.38%) C++
10 6 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.38%) Go
10 6 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.38%) Ruby
10 6 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.92%) Bicep
12 3 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.70%) Degree
4 31 (7.11%) PMI Certification
5 23 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.13%) PMP
7 15 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.44%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.29%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.83%) CBAP
10 8 (1.83%) CISSP
10 8 (1.83%) MBA
11 6 (1.38%) CISA
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.15%) CISM
12 5 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (18.12%) QA
2 30 (6.88%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.52%) GDPR
4 11 (2.52%) PMO
5 10 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.83%) Basel III
6 8 (1.83%) ISO 8583
7 7 (1.61%) PSD2
8 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (1.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.92%) GRC
10 4 (0.92%) WCAG
11 3 (0.69%) COBIT
11 3 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.69%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.69%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (9.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.46%) Postfix
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.46%) vSphere
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.42%) Terraform
3 23 (5.28%) Grafana
4 13 (2.98%) Ansible
5 7 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.15%) Rancher
7 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 4 (0.92%) Consul
7 4 (0.92%) Packer
8 3 (0.69%) Nagios
8 3 (0.69%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.23%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) vMotion
9 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.50%) Oracle
3 14 (3.21%) Atlassian
4 13 (2.98%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.75%) Databricks
6 11 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.38%) SAP
8 6 (1.38%) Sparx
9 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.15%) Splunk
10 4 (0.92%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.92%) Cisco
10 4 (0.92%) Spotify
10 4 (0.92%) VMware
11 3 (0.69%) Arista
11 3 (0.69%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.69%) Informatica
11 3 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (0.69%) Juniper