Kanban Job Trends in England

Kanban
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Kanban skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 312 232
Rank change year-on-year -26 -80 +29
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 399 368 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.94% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.01% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 281 231 834
10th Percentile £47,000 £48,000 £43,329
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £93,375
UK median annual salary £66,875 £65,000 £64,080
% change year-on-year +2.88% +1.44% -6.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Kanban falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,033 36,575 71,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 93.39% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39,422 20,210 53,694
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kanban relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Kanban job vacancy trend in England

Kanban
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kanban.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kanban

Kanban
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kanban in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kanban in England

Kanban
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -39 121 £75,000 -6.25% 55
North of England +18 100 £62,500 +8.70% 58
South East -11 91 £75,000 +30.43% 29
North West +32 59 £65,000 +13.04% 26
South West -43 33 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Yorkshire -45 29 £62,500 +11.61% 20
East of England -20 24 £76,500 +17.69% 10
Midlands -33 20 £60,000 +25.00% 12
West Midlands -48 14 £60,000 +25.00% 9
North East -29 12 £47,500 +8.33% 12
East Midlands -28 5 £55,000 +2.33% 3
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 49 (12.28%) Confluence
2 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.25%) Apache
3 5 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.25%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.00%) Documentum
4 4 (1.00%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.25%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (38.10%) Azure
2 135 (33.83%) AWS
3 65 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (13.53%) GCP
5 25 (6.27%) Serverless
6 22 (5.51%) GitHub
7 18 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (3.01%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (3.01%) Cloud Run
9 11 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.26%) SaaS
12 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.50%) PaaS
14 5 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.25%) Firebase
14 5 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.77%) Broadband
2 6 (1.50%) MQTT
3 5 (1.25%) AMQP
4 3 (0.75%) DHCP
4 3 (0.75%) DNS
4 3 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.77%) MongoDB
2 27 (6.77%) Relational Database
3 24 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.75%) Power BI
11 6 (1.50%) MySQL
12 5 (1.25%) Big Data
12 5 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.25%) DB2
12 5 (1.25%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.00%) GIS
13 4 (1.00%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 73 (18.30%) JIRA
2 69 (17.29%) Git
3 55 (13.78%) Jenkins
4 36 (9.02%) GitLab
5 27 (6.77%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 13 (3.26%) Cypress.io
8 12 (3.01%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.26%) Subversion
10 8 (2.01%) Selenium
11 7 (1.75%) JUnit
12 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.50%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.25%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.00%) fastlane
14 4 (1.00%) JMeter
14 4 (1.00%) Postman
14 4 (1.00%) Spock
15 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.56%) Finance
3 63 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (5.51%) Banking
8 16 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (3.76%) Law
10 14 (3.51%) Games
11 12 (3.01%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.26%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.01%) Legal
14 7 (1.75%) Marketing
15 6 (1.50%) Electronics
15 6 (1.50%) Retail
15 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.00%) Back Office
16 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 88 (22.06%) Senior
2 74 (18.55%) Developer
3 71 (17.79%) Software Engineer
4 52 (13.03%) Lead
5 46 (11.53%) Analyst
6 42 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
7 39 (9.77%) Business Analyst
8 28 (7.02%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 27 (6.77%) Scrum Master
10 25 (6.27%) Senior Manager
11 21 (5.26%) .NET Developer
12 20 (5.01%) Java Developer
12 20 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (5.01%) Senior Developer
13 19 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.51%) Consultant
15 17 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.76%) Architect
16 15 (3.76%) Data Engineer
16 15 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.04%) .NET
1 60 (15.04%) React
2 57 (14.29%) Node.js
3 30 (7.52%) AngularJS
4 27 (6.77%) Spring
5 23 (5.76%) REST
5 23 (5.76%) Web Services
6 22 (5.51%) Akka
6 22 (5.51%) ASP.NET
7 21 (5.26%) RESTful
7 21 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 19 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 19 (4.76%) Playwright
9 18 (4.51%) HTML
10 17 (4.26%) CSS
11 16 (4.01%) .NET Core
11 16 (4.01%) Leaflet
12 15 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (3.76%) Vue
13 10 (2.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 93 (23.31%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.52%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.51%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (5.51%) Video\Live Streaming
4 20 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.76%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.26%) e-Learning
7 12 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Legacy Code
11 6 (1.50%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.25%) PMI
12 5 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.02%) Linux
2 5 (1.25%) CentOS
2 5 (1.25%) Debian
2 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.75%) Android
4 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (96.49%) Agile
2 350 (87.72%) Scrum
3 147 (36.84%) DevOps
4 139 (34.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 118 (29.57%) CI/CD
6 100 (25.06%) Software Engineering
7 90 (22.56%) TDD
8 88 (22.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 78 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 75 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (16.54%) SDLC
12 64 (16.04%) Roadmaps
13 62 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 61 (15.29%) Microservices
15 56 (14.04%) Coaching
16 54 (13.53%) BDD
17 52 (13.03%) Analytics
18 51 (12.78%) Acceptance Criteria
19 50 (12.53%) Mentoring
20 48 (12.03%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 99 (24.81%) Python
2 90 (22.56%) Java
2 90 (22.56%) JavaScript
3 69 (17.29%) SQL
4 62 (15.54%) C#
5 44 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 26 (6.52%) Scala
7 18 (4.51%) Bash
8 16 (4.01%) C++
9 11 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.26%) Go
11 6 (1.50%) Groovy
11 6 (1.50%) Rust
12 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.00%) Bicep
12 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.00%) Ruby
12 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 90 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 72 (18.05%) Degree
3 55 (13.78%) SC Cleared
4 37 (9.27%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.51%) DBS Check
6 16 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.01%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.75%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.00%) CIPD
9 4 (1.00%) CITP
10 3 (0.75%) PMP
11 2 (0.50%) ACCA
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) CBAP
12 1 (0.25%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (15.54%) QA
2 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.00%) PMO
4 4 (1.00%) WCAG
5 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (24.06%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.27%) Terraform
3 26 (6.52%) Ansible
4 13 (3.26%) Podman
5 11 (2.76%) Puppet
6 9 (2.26%) Argo
6 9 (2.26%) Rancher
7 8 (2.01%) Grafana
8 7 (1.75%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.75%) yum
9 6 (1.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 48 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.02%) Google
3 12 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.51%) AppDynamics
5 8 (2.01%) Oracle
5 8 (2.01%) Splunk
6 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.75%) SAP
7 6 (1.50%) Pega
8 5 (1.25%) Databricks
8 5 (1.25%) Guidewire
8 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.25%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.00%) IBM
9 4 (1.00%) OpenText
9 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.00%) YouTube
10 3 (0.75%) Foundry
10 3 (0.75%) Palantir