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 5 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 232 234
Rank change year-on-year -140 +2 -84
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 352 1,167 1,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.25% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.44% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 240 896 834
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - -6.40% +6.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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% +7.76%

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 47,295 81,144 104,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.69% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26,005 58,463 61,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,148
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 5 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 5 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 -137 325 £65,000 +1.44% 623
UK excluding London -111 215 £60,000 - 366
London -3 147 £80,000 +10.34% 313
Work from Home -142 125 £60,000 -4.00% 391
South East -36 69 £62,500 -3.85% 104
North of England -92 47 £57,500 -17.86% 106
South West +10 30 £60,000 +4.35% 53
Midlands -1 28 £50,250 -12.61% 44
North West -70 26 £57,500 -17.86% 60
West Midlands -17 24 £48,000 -20.00% 29
East of England +5 19 £65,000 +18.18% 31
Yorkshire +9 18 £56,250 -6.25% 38
Scotland +106 14 £64,000 +21.90% 19
Wales +35 8 £52,796 +11.15% 5
East Midlands +44 4 £53,750 +2.38% 14
North East +9 3 £43,848 -37.36% 9

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 44 (12.50%) Confluence
2 12 (3.41%) JBoss
2 12 (3.41%) Red Hat Fuse
3 9 (2.56%) nginx
4 5 (1.42%) Apache
4 5 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.85%) IIS
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.13%) Trello
3 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.28%) Revit
6 1 (0.28%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) NetSuite
1 8 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.57%) Shopify
3 1 (0.28%) Eikon
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) Magento
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) RMDS
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 150 (42.61%) AWS
2 103 (29.26%) Azure
3 69 (19.60%) Serverless
4 40 (11.36%) GCP
5 38 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (9.09%) SaaS
7 23 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (5.68%) PaaS
10 17 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.83%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.98%) GitHub
12 14 (3.98%) IaaS
13 13 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 12 (3.41%) Miro
15 9 (2.56%) Boomi
16 6 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (1.70%) Figma
16 6 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.26%) Firewall
2 7 (1.99%) Network Security
3 4 (1.14%) BGP
3 4 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (1.14%) EIGRP
3 4 (1.14%) FCoE
3 4 (1.14%) NX-OS
3 4 (1.14%) VPN
3 4 (1.14%) Wireless
4 2 (0.57%) DNS
4 2 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.57%) Value-Added Service
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (10.51%) Relational Database
3 34 (9.66%) DynamoDB
4 26 (7.39%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.40%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.83%) Power BI
8 15 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (3.69%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.27%) MySQL
12 6 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.70%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.14%) Power Query
13 4 (1.14%) Redis
14 3 (0.85%) Big Data
14 3 (0.85%) Tableau
15 2 (0.57%) GIS
15 2 (0.57%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 85 (24.15%) JIRA
2 58 (16.48%) Git
3 41 (11.65%) Jenkins
4 37 (10.51%) JUnit
5 25 (7.10%) JMeter
6 15 (4.26%) GitLab
6 15 (4.26%) Mockito
7 12 (3.41%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.13%) Selenium
9 9 (2.56%) Maven
10 8 (2.27%) Gatling
11 7 (1.99%) Postman
11 7 (1.99%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.70%) Burp Suite
12 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.42%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.42%) jMock
13 5 (1.42%) TestNG
13 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
14 4 (1.14%) MSTest
General
1 109 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.75%) Finance
3 47 (13.35%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.40%) Banking
6 15 (4.26%) Games
7 12 (3.41%) Legal
7 12 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.41%) Publishing
7 12 (3.41%) Retail
8 11 (3.13%) Marketing
9 10 (2.84%) iGaming
10 7 (1.99%) Back Office
10 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.70%) Front Office
11 6 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Advertising
12 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (33.81%) Developer
2 85 (24.15%) Senior
3 49 (13.92%) Senior Developer
4 36 (10.23%) Architect
5 33 (9.38%) Java Developer
6 28 (7.95%) Analyst
7 26 (7.39%) Delivery Manager
8 25 (7.10%) Lead
9 23 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (6.53%) Software Developer
9 23 (6.53%) Software Engineer
10 20 (5.68%) .NET Developer
10 20 (5.68%) Senior Software Developer
11 17 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (4.55%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.69%) Product Owner
13 13 (3.69%) Project Manager
14 11 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (20.74%) React
2 63 (17.90%) REST
3 58 (16.48%) Node.js
4 45 (12.78%) GraphQL
5 43 (12.22%) RESTful
6 41 (11.65%) .NET
7 38 (10.80%) HTML
7 38 (10.80%) Web Services
8 34 (9.66%) Spring
9 30 (8.52%) CSS
10 28 (7.95%) AngularJS
10 28 (7.95%) Spring Boot
11 23 (6.53%) .NET Core
11 23 (6.53%) Apache Camel
12 18 (5.11%) ASP.NET Web API
12 18 (5.11%) SOAP
13 17 (4.83%) ActiveMQ
14 16 (4.55%) Hibernate
15 13 (3.69%) XML
16 12 (3.41%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 34 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.98%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.98%) Mobile Games
6 11 (3.13%) Sports Betting
7 10 (2.84%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.84%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.70%) PMI
11 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.42%) PKI
12 4 (1.14%) IVR
12 4 (1.14%) Online Games
12 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.14%) Social Media
13 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.11%) Linux
2 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.14%) Windows
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Debian
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (86.08%) Agile
2 268 (76.14%) Scrum
3 111 (31.53%) Microservices
4 100 (28.41%) CI/CD
5 99 (28.13%) DevOps
6 75 (21.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (17.33%) TDD
10 57 (16.19%) Project Management
11 55 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 55 (15.63%) Test Automation
12 54 (15.34%) BDD
12 54 (15.34%) Roadmaps
12 54 (15.34%) Software Engineering
13 46 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (11.65%) Continuous Integration
15 40 (11.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 38 (10.80%) Clean Code
17 37 (10.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 76 (21.59%) SQL
2 71 (20.17%) TypeScript
3 66 (18.75%) Java
4 63 (17.90%) JavaScript
4 63 (17.90%) Python
5 48 (13.64%) C#
6 11 (3.13%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.84%) Go
8 9 (2.56%) Bash
9 7 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.70%) Scala
11 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.85%) Ruby
12 1 (0.28%) Ada
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.28%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) SHACL
12 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.80%) Degree
4 23 (6.53%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.42%) CSPO
10 5 (1.42%) PMP
11 4 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CISSP
12 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.57%) MBA
13 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.24%) QA
2 12 (3.41%) SLA
3 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.57%) EMIR
5 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) MiFID
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) PMO
5 2 (0.57%) SEPA
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) DO-254
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (18.18%) Docker
2 7 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
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 72 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.81%) Ansible
3 27 (7.67%) Terraform
4 17 (4.83%) Kibana
5 10 (2.84%) Grafana
6 8 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.70%) Istio
8 5 (1.42%) Argo
8 5 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.42%) Puppet
9 4 (1.14%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.14%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.28%) Consul
12 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.28%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.82%) Google
3 15 (4.26%) Oracle
4 14 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.69%) VMware
6 11 (3.13%) Splunk
7 10 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.56%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.70%) IBM
9 6 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.42%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.14%) Cisco
11 4 (1.14%) Guidewire
11 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.85%) McAfee
12 3 (0.85%) Murex
12 3 (0.85%) SAP
12 3 (0.85%) Sophos