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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 250 235
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 -86
Contract jobs citing Kanban 455 340 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 0.99% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.13% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 240 336
10th Percentile £358 £363 £395
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £687 £679 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £31.21 £54.20
25th Percentile £30.75 £37.34 £57.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £50.24 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.30% -40.90% +21.43%
75th Percentile £32.25 £65.69 -
90th Percentile - £73.36 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.23 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -13.85% +16.57%

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 32,337 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.38% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,351 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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 +51 379 £510 -1.45% 345
London +66 220 £538 +1.90% 87
UK excluding London -32 179 £475 -5.00% 309
Work from Home -33 109 £500 +5.26% 225
North of England -11 61 £475 -5.00% 72
Midlands -7 38 £413 -25.47% 45
Yorkshire -14 37 £488 -2.50% 33
Scotland -16 30 £525 +15.38% 12
South East -50 29 £485 -3.00% 86
East Midlands - 26 £360 - 19
North West -6 21 £402 -6.78% 36
South West 0 13 £568 +3.18% 39
West Midlands -26 12 £501 -9.44% 24
Wales +10 8 £469 -9.64% 8
North East -3 5 £545 +29.76% 3
East of England -21 5 £450 +9.09% 46

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 83 (18.24%) Confluence
2 7 (1.54%) CMS
3 6 (1.32%) Apache
4 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.10%) nginx
5 4 (0.88%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.88%) Mule
5 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.20%) Trello
4 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.44%) Sketch
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Finacle
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 113 (24.84%) Azure
2 90 (19.78%) AWS
3 58 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (9.45%) GCP
5 39 (8.57%) GitHub
6 36 (7.91%) Power Platform
7 26 (5.71%) Serverless
8 21 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (4.62%) Snowflake
9 16 (3.52%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.52%) Miro
10 15 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.54%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.10%) DNS
1 5 (1.10%) HTTP
2 4 (0.88%) AMQP
2 4 (0.88%) DSL
2 4 (0.88%) Firewall
3 3 (0.66%) NAS
3 3 (0.66%) SAN
4 2 (0.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.22%) FTP
5 1 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.15%) Power BI
2 25 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.30%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.30%) Tableau
4 12 (2.64%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.42%) Metadata
5 11 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (2.20%) Data Vault
6 10 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.98%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.54%) MySQL
9 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.88%) Big Data
11 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 157 (34.51%) JIRA
2 66 (14.51%) Git
3 52 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 32 (7.03%) GitLab
5 25 (5.49%) Postman
6 16 (3.52%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.86%) Selenium
9 11 (2.42%) SoapUI
10 10 (2.20%) ERwin
11 9 (1.98%) ER Studio
11 9 (1.98%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (1.76%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.76%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.54%) REST Assured
14 6 (1.32%) Zephyr
15 5 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
16 4 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.88%) Subversion
17 3 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 204 (44.84%) Social Skills
2 105 (23.08%) Finance
3 68 (14.95%) Public Sector
4 46 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.69%) Banking
6 21 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.52%) Front Office
8 12 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.42%) Marketing
9 11 (2.42%) Retail
10 8 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.54%) Legal
12 6 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.88%) Billing
14 4 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (19.78%) Analyst
2 66 (14.51%) Developer
3 56 (12.31%) Business Analyst
4 42 (9.23%) Senior
5 40 (8.79%) Project Manager
6 38 (8.35%) Scrum Master
7 37 (8.13%) Delivery Manager
8 26 (5.71%) Java Developer
8 26 (5.71%) Lead
9 15 (3.30%) Agile Project Manager
9 15 (3.30%) Test Analyst
10 13 (2.86%) Software Engineer
10 13 (2.86%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (2.64%) Data Modeller
11 12 (2.64%) Product Owner
11 12 (2.64%) Senior Manager
12 11 (2.42%) Angular Developer
13 10 (2.20%) Product Manager
14 9 (1.98%) Technical Manager
14 9 (1.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.99%) REST
2 31 (6.81%) React
3 26 (5.71%) HTML
3 26 (5.71%) Kafka
4 24 (5.27%) CSS
5 20 (4.40%) AngularJS
5 20 (4.40%) Spring
6 19 (4.18%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.52%) RESTful
8 14 (3.08%) .NET
8 14 (3.08%) Playwright
9 13 (2.86%) JSON
9 13 (2.86%) Node.js
10 12 (2.64%) AWS CDK
10 12 (2.64%) OAuth
11 11 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (2.20%) JWT
13 9 (1.98%) SailPoint
13 9 (1.98%) SOAP
14 8 (1.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 97 (21.32%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.62%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 19 (4.18%) PMI
6 18 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.08%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.42%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.76%) Derivative
11 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.54%) NHS
13 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.32%) FMCG
14 5 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.10%) Reinsurance
15 4 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.49%) Linux
2 21 (4.62%) Windows
3 12 (2.64%) Unix
4 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.88%) VMS
6 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.44%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (95.60%) Agile
2 414 (90.99%) Scrum
3 127 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (25.05%) DevOps
6 112 (24.62%) CI/CD
7 108 (23.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 105 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 77 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 73 (16.04%) User Stories
11 72 (15.82%) Roadmaps
11 72 (15.82%) Sprint Planning
11 72 (15.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 63 (13.85%) Microservices
13 61 (13.41%) TDD
14 51 (11.21%) Coaching
15 48 (10.55%) Project Management
16 47 (10.33%) Analytics
17 46 (10.11%) Project Delivery
18 44 (9.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 83 (18.24%) Java
2 64 (14.07%) Python
3 60 (13.19%) SQL
4 34 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.49%) C#
6 24 (5.27%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.42%) Bash
8 11 (2.42%) C++
9 7 (1.54%) Ruby
10 6 (1.32%) Go
11 5 (1.10%) Scala
12 4 (0.88%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.88%) DataWeave
12 4 (0.88%) Perl
12 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) Korn
13 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 63 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.77%) Degree
3 42 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.05%) PMI Certification
5 21 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.18%) CISSP
7 17 (3.74%) CISM
8 14 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.42%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.20%) CISA
10 10 (2.20%) ISTQB
11 9 (1.98%) CBAP
11 9 (1.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 9 (1.98%) PMP
12 7 (1.54%) CSPO
13 5 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
14 4 (0.88%) ISEB
14 4 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (13.85%) QA
2 29 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.74%) NIST
5 16 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (3.52%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.08%) GDPR
7 9 (1.98%) COBIT
7 9 (1.98%) NIST 800
7 9 (1.98%) PMO
7 9 (1.98%) PSD2
8 8 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.32%) GRC
9 6 (1.32%) ISO 8583
10 5 (1.10%) WCAG
11 3 (0.66%) Basel III
11 3 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.66%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 57 (12.53%) Docker
2 8 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.66%) vSphere
4 2 (0.44%) KVM
Systems Management
1 57 (12.53%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.81%) Terraform
3 23 (5.05%) Ansible
4 18 (3.96%) Grafana
5 9 (1.98%) RSA Archer
6 7 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.10%) Rancher
8 4 (0.88%) Argo
8 4 (0.88%) Consul
8 4 (0.88%) Nagios
8 4 (0.88%) Packer
8 4 (0.88%) Podman
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.66%) vRealize
10 2 (0.44%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.44%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.44%) Puppet
10 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 71 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.18%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.96%) Oracle
4 16 (3.52%) Google
5 12 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.20%) Databricks
7 9 (1.98%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.76%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.76%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (1.76%) Rapid7
8 8 (1.76%) SAP
8 8 (1.76%) Thycotic
9 7 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (1.32%) Sparx
11 5 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.10%) OneLogin
12 4 (0.88%) Splunk
12 4 (0.88%) Spotify
13 3 (0.66%) Red Hat