Kanban Contracts in the West Midlands

Kanban
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 99 121
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Kanban 13 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.47% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.58% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile £446 £500 £540
25th Percentile £450 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +2.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile - £688 £650
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,512 1,557 1,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.27% 81.69% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,047 1,247
10th Percentile £235 £263 £263
25th Percentile £385 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £584 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £730 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 58 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.47 £14.78 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.91% -19.44% +54.29%
75th Percentile £35.14 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.38 £43.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the West Midlands

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kanban.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kanban

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the West Midlands

Kanban
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kanban.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kanban

Kanban
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +2 5 £500 -15.79% 7
Warwickshire -5 4 £450 -33.33% 4
Solihull - 3 £500 - 2
Shropshire - 1 - -
Kanban
England

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS KMS
2 6 (46.15%) Route 53
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) GIS
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Bitbucket Server
1 6 (46.15%) DbUnit
1 6 (46.15%) Git
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
1 6 (46.15%) jMock
1 6 (46.15%) JUnit
1 6 (46.15%) Maven
1 6 (46.15%) Mockito
1 6 (46.15%) SonarQube
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
1 6 (46.15%) Bootstrap
1 6 (46.15%) Hibernate
1 6 (46.15%) JPA
1 6 (46.15%) PowerMock
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) RESTful
1 6 (46.15%) SOAP
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Batch
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Integration
1 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 11 (84.62%) Scrum
3 9 (69.23%) DevOps
4 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
6 6 (46.15%) BDD
6 6 (46.15%) Microservices
6 6 (46.15%) Open Source
6 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (46.15%) TDD
7 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
9 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
10 2 (15.38%) Analytics
10 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
10 2 (15.38%) Project Management
10 2 (15.38%) SDLC
10 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 6 (46.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Grafana
2 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Atlassian
1 6 (46.15%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Okta
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Workday