Kanban Job Trends in the South East

Kanban
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Kanban skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 187 178
Rank change year-on-year -58 -9 +23
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 29 115 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 1.26% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.43% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17 53 65
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £47,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £108,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £64,080
% change year-on-year +3.85% +1.44% -6.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,358 8,025 7,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.33% 87.90% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,950 3,884 5,148
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,828 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +9.43% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the South East

Kanban
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kanban.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kanban

Kanban
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the South East over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kanban in the South East

Kanban
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Thames Valley -14 12 £75,000 +11.11% 21
Buckinghamshire +12 11 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Hampshire -13 9 £82,500 -8.33% 9
West Sussex -1 3 £57,500 -8.00% 6
East Sussex +13 2 £57,500 -37.84% 5
Sussex - 2 £55,000 -
Surrey 0 1 £30,000 -60.00% 16
Berkshire -24 1 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Kanban
England

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Dataform
5 2 (6.90%) dbt
5 2 (6.90%) Fivetran
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) Google Ads
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.90%) Looker
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) mountebank
4 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Marketing
3 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Law
6 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Automotive
7 1 (3.45%) Advertising
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Product Owner
2 4 (13.79%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Head of IT
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Data Management
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Development
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Software Development
5 1 (3.45%) Junior
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Product Owner
5 1 (3.45%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) React Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
1 3 (10.34%) RESTful
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) Next.js
3 1 (3.45%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
1 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 27 (93.10%) Scrum
3 13 (44.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
6 8 (27.59%) Acceptance Criteria
6 8 (27.59%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 8 (27.59%) Project Delivery
6 8 (27.59%) User Stories
7 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.69%) Backlog Refinement
8 6 (20.69%) Business Analysis
8 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (20.69%) Service Management
9 5 (17.24%) Microservices
9 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) Go
2 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.45%) Swift
3 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central