Kanban Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kanban
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kanban skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 279 224
Rank change year-on-year -69 -55 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 234 220 832
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.85% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.93% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 161 170 676
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -2.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,438 £77,813
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,015 23,547 55,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.23% 91.21% 84.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,946 13,696 40,187
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,002 £38,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%
75th Percentile £69,188 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,979 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kanban.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kanban

Kanban
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
North of England -34 86 £62,500 +11.61% 51
South East -36 63 £82,500 +32.00% 41
North West -2 55 £63,750 +10.87% 24
South West -45 32 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Yorkshire -48 28 £62,500 +11.61% 15
East of England -35 21 £76,500 +17.69% 10
Midlands -60 19 £57,500 +19.79% 11
West Midlands -27 14 £57,500 +19.79% 11
Scotland -15 11 £58,565 -8.49% 5
East Midlands -52 5 £57,500 +6.98%
Wales -34 4 £39,163 -25.82% 1
North East -30 3 £47,500 +8.33% 12
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (11.97%) Confluence
2 8 (3.42%) Apache
3 7 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.99%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.71%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.71%) Trello
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (43.16%) Azure
2 85 (36.32%) AWS
3 45 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (12.39%) Serverless
5 27 (11.54%) GCP
6 22 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.13%) GitHub
9 10 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.56%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.56%) SaaS
13 5 (2.14%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.28%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.28%) Asana
15 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.56%) AMQP
1 6 (2.56%) Broadband
2 4 (1.71%) MQTT
3 3 (1.28%) Firewall
4 2 (0.85%) BGP
4 2 (0.85%) LAN
4 2 (0.85%) MPLS
4 2 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.85%) WAN
4 2 (0.85%) Wireless
5 1 (0.43%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.83%) Relational Database
2 11 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.56%) Big Data
5 6 (2.56%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.14%) Power BI
7 4 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.71%) GIS
7 4 (1.71%) QGIS
8 3 (1.28%) MySQL
9 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (21.79%) JIRA
2 49 (20.94%) Git
3 29 (12.39%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.12%) GitLab
5 7 (2.99%) Subversion
5 7 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.71%) Postman
7 4 (1.71%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.28%) fastlane
8 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.85%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.85%) Xcode
10 1 (0.43%) Appium
10 1 (0.43%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.43%) TestRail
10 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 42 (17.95%) Finance
4 22 (9.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.27%) Aerospace
6 10 (4.27%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.42%) Banking
7 8 (3.42%) Games
8 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.56%) Marketing
8 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.14%) Electronics
10 4 (1.71%) Law
10 4 (1.71%) Retail
11 3 (1.28%) Back Office
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (19.66%) Senior
1 46 (19.66%) Software Engineer
2 40 (17.09%) Lead
3 33 (14.10%) Developer
4 27 (11.54%) Analyst
5 26 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
6 20 (8.55%) Business Analyst
7 19 (8.12%) Lead Software Engineer
8 15 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.98%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 14 (5.98%) Scrum Master
10 11 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.85%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.85%) Senior Manager
13 8 (3.42%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.99%) Agile Scrum Master
14 7 (2.99%) IT Analyst
14 7 (2.99%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.38%) Node.js
1 36 (15.38%) React
2 32 (13.68%) .NET
3 25 (10.68%) REST
4 24 (10.26%) Web Services
5 22 (9.40%) AngularJS
6 19 (8.12%) Spring
7 18 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 12 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (4.70%) RESTful
10 10 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.85%) CSS
11 9 (3.85%) HTML
12 7 (2.99%) Kafka
12 7 (2.99%) Playwright
13 6 (2.56%) Apache Camel
13 6 (2.56%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.56%) Leaflet
13 6 (2.56%) Material-UI
13 6 (2.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.79%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.84%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.13%) e-Learning
5 9 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.14%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.71%) PMI
9 3 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.28%) Over-the-Top Content
9 3 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) CentOS
2 6 (2.56%) Debian
2 6 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.28%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (96.58%) Agile
2 210 (89.74%) Scrum
3 98 (41.88%) DevOps
4 79 (33.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 76 (32.48%) CI/CD
6 65 (27.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 59 (25.21%) Software Engineering
8 56 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (19.23%) Coaching
10 42 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (17.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (17.09%) TDD
12 39 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (16.67%) SDLC
13 36 (15.38%) Microservices
14 35 (14.96%) Mentoring
14 35 (14.96%) Roadmaps
15 28 (11.97%) Requirements Gathering
16 27 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
17 26 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 66 (28.21%) Python
2 65 (27.78%) Java
3 63 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.38%) SQL
5 23 (9.83%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.97%) C#
7 9 (3.85%) Bash
7 9 (3.85%) Go
8 8 (3.42%) C++
9 5 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.14%) Scala
10 4 (1.71%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.71%) Ruby
10 4 (1.71%) Rust
11 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.85%) Groovy
11 2 (0.85%) R
11 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.52%) Degree
3 29 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.83%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.84%) DBS Check
6 10 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.85%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.14%) PMP
9 4 (1.71%) CIPD
10 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.85%) CCNA
11 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.79%) QA
2 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.28%) WCAG
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) GxP
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (16.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (16.67%) Terraform
2 38 (16.24%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.11%) Ansible
4 9 (3.85%) Argo
4 9 (3.85%) Grafana
5 8 (3.42%) Puppet
6 7 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.99%) Rancher
6 7 (2.99%) yum
7 4 (1.71%) Kibana
8 2 (0.85%) Podman
9 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.56%) Google
3 10 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.42%) Pega
5 6 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.56%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.56%) WSO2
6 5 (2.14%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.14%) SAP
6 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.71%) Databricks
7 4 (1.71%) IBM
7 4 (1.71%) Oracle
8 3 (1.28%) Splunk
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco
9 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.85%) F5
9 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.85%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds