Kanban
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Kanban skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kanban over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 235 234
Rank change year-on-year -128 -1 -85
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 354 1,148 1,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.24% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.43% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 239 887 847
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,250 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,080 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -7.73% +6.84%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +6.38%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kanban.

Salary trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -150 327 £65,000 +1.44% 531
UK excluding London -118 214 £60,000 - 288
London -8 149 £80,000 +10.34% 291
Work from Home -129 126 £60,000 -4.00% 304
South East -31 68 £62,500 -3.85% 85
North of England -89 47 £57,500 -17.86% 85
South West +13 31 £60,000 +2.13% 46
Midlands -11 27 £48,000 -20.00% 28
North West -76 24 £58,250 -16.79% 51
West Midlands -26 23 £48,000 -20.00% 20
Yorkshire +4 20 £56,250 -6.25% 29
East of England +3 19 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Scotland +97 14 £64,000 +21.90% 21
Wales +34 8 £52,796 +11.15% 3
East Midlands +33 4 £53,750 +2.38% 8
North East +10 3 £43,848 -37.36% 6

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 43 (12.15%) Confluence
2 11 (3.11%) JBoss
2 11 (3.11%) Red Hat Fuse
3 10 (2.82%) nginx
4 5 (1.41%) Apache
4 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Strapi
7 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.11%) Trello
3 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (1.98%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.56%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.56%) Shopify
4 1 (0.28%) Eikon
4 1 (0.28%) Endur
4 1 (0.28%) Magento
4 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.28%) RMDS
4 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 150 (42.37%) AWS
2 103 (29.10%) Azure
3 68 (19.21%) Serverless
4 43 (12.15%) GCP
5 38 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (9.04%) SaaS
7 22 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (5.93%) PaaS
9 19 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (5.08%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.95%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.95%) GitHub
12 14 (3.95%) IaaS
13 12 (3.39%) Miro
14 8 (2.26%) Boomi
15 7 (1.98%) MinIO
16 6 (1.69%) Figma
16 6 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.24%) Firewall
2 7 (1.98%) Network Security
3 5 (1.41%) BGP
3 5 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (1.41%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (1.41%) EIGRP
3 5 (1.41%) FCoE
3 5 (1.41%) NX-OS
3 5 (1.41%) VPN
3 5 (1.41%) Wireless
4 2 (0.56%) DNS
4 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.56%) Value-Added Service
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.60%) DynamoDB
2 34 (9.60%) Relational Database
3 24 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 20 (5.65%) MongoDB
5 18 (5.08%) Power BI
5 18 (5.08%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (3.39%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.26%) MySQL
10 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.41%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.13%) Power Query
12 4 (1.13%) Redis
12 4 (1.13%) Tableau
13 3 (0.85%) Big Data
13 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 83 (23.45%) JIRA
2 53 (14.97%) Git
3 40 (11.30%) Jenkins
4 36 (10.17%) JUnit
5 23 (6.50%) JMeter
6 16 (4.52%) GitLab
7 15 (4.24%) Mockito
8 12 (3.39%) Cypress.io
9 11 (3.11%) Selenium
10 10 (2.82%) Maven
11 8 (2.26%) Gatling
12 7 (1.98%) Postman
12 7 (1.98%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.69%) Burp Suite
13 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.41%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.41%) jMock
14 5 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.41%) TestNG
14 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.93%) Finance
3 46 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.37%) Banking
6 17 (4.80%) Games
7 13 (3.67%) Legal
7 13 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.67%) Publishing
8 12 (3.39%) Retail
9 11 (3.11%) iGaming
9 11 (3.11%) Marketing
10 7 (1.98%) Back Office
10 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.69%) Front Office
11 6 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.41%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 116 (32.77%) Developer
2 85 (24.01%) Senior
3 48 (13.56%) Senior Developer
4 36 (10.17%) Architect
5 33 (9.32%) Java Developer
6 30 (8.47%) Analyst
7 27 (7.63%) Lead
8 26 (7.34%) Delivery Manager
9 23 (6.50%) Software Developer
9 23 (6.50%) Software Engineer
10 21 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.65%) Senior Software Developer
12 18 (5.08%) .NET Developer
12 18 (5.08%) Business Analyst
13 17 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.67%) Product Owner
14 13 (3.67%) Project Manager
15 12 (3.39%) Technical Architect
16 11 (3.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (21.19%) React
2 64 (18.08%) REST
3 58 (16.38%) Node.js
4 45 (12.71%) GraphQL
5 42 (11.86%) RESTful
6 40 (11.30%) .NET
7 36 (10.17%) HTML
8 34 (9.60%) Spring
8 34 (9.60%) Web Services
9 30 (8.47%) AngularJS
10 28 (7.91%) CSS
11 27 (7.63%) Spring Boot
12 22 (6.21%) Apache Camel
13 21 (5.93%) .NET Core
14 17 (4.80%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (4.80%) SOAP
15 16 (4.52%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (4.52%) Hibernate
16 13 (3.67%) .NET Framework
17 12 (3.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.58%) Product Ownership
2 33 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.80%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.52%) Mobile Games
6 12 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.39%) Sports Betting
7 10 (2.82%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.54%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.98%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.69%) PMI
12 5 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.41%) Online Games
12 5 (1.41%) PKI
13 4 (1.13%) IVR
13 4 (1.13%) Social Media
14 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.85%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.08%) Linux
2 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.13%) Windows
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Android
5 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Debian
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (86.16%) Agile
2 272 (76.84%) Scrum
3 109 (30.79%) Microservices
4 102 (28.81%) CI/CD
5 97 (27.40%) DevOps
6 73 (20.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (16.95%) TDD
10 56 (15.82%) Mentoring
10 56 (15.82%) Project Management
10 56 (15.82%) Roadmaps
11 55 (15.54%) Software Engineering
11 55 (15.54%) Test Automation
12 53 (14.97%) BDD
13 47 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
14 40 (11.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 39 (11.02%) Event-Driven
16 38 (10.73%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 76 (21.47%) SQL
2 72 (20.34%) TypeScript
3 67 (18.93%) Python
4 66 (18.64%) Java
5 61 (17.23%) JavaScript
6 46 (12.99%) C#
7 11 (3.11%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.82%) Go
9 9 (2.54%) Bash
10 8 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.69%) Scala
12 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.28%) Ada
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) SHACL
13 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.73%) Degree
4 23 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.26%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.98%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.41%) CSPO
10 5 (1.41%) PMP
11 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CISSP
12 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.56%) MBA
14 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.47%) QA
2 11 (3.11%) SLA
3 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.56%) EMIR
5 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.56%) MiFID
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) PMO
5 2 (0.56%) SEPA
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (17.23%) Docker
2 7 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) NDS
6 1 (0.28%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 1 (0.28%) Postfix
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (20.62%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.47%) Ansible
3 27 (7.63%) Terraform
4 18 (5.08%) Kibana
5 11 (3.11%) Grafana
6 7 (1.98%) Istio
6 7 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.41%) Argo
7 5 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.41%) Puppet
8 4 (1.13%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.13%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.28%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.63%) Google
3 14 (3.95%) Oracle
3 14 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.67%) VMware
5 11 (3.11%) Splunk
6 10 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.69%) IBM
8 6 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.41%) Cisco
9 5 (1.41%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.13%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.85%) McAfee
11 3 (0.85%) Murex
11 3 (0.85%) SAP
11 3 (0.85%) Sophos