Kanban Job Trends

Kanban
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kanban skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 335 276
Rank change year-on-year -22 -59 -86
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 334 509 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.76% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.91% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 244 269 459
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,550 £45,751
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,700 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

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 45,363 55,823 49,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 82.88% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26,894 29,023 37,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kanban job vacancy trend in the UK

Kanban
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kanban.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kanban

Kanban
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Top 17 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 12 November 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 -33 288 £65,000 - 327
UK excluding London -46 174 £60,000 -4.00% 208
Work from Home +60 141 £70,000 +12.00% 219
London +15 130 £85,000 +7.94% 132
North of England -23 53 £60,000 +17.07% 53
South East -33 37 £62,500 -19.35% 62
North West -6 33 £56,250 +20.32% 34
South West -4 29 £55,000 -26.67% 26
Midlands +45 20 £62,500 - 27
Yorkshire +6 18 £60,000 +9.09% 15
West Midlands +32 15 £66,250 +6.00% 17
Wales +13 14 £67,500 +12.50% 9
Scotland -11 14 £78,500 +10.56% 7
East of England +2 7 £75,000 +15.38% 21
East Midlands +29 5 £46,500 - 10
North East +9 2 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 34 (10.18%) Confluence
2 8 (2.40%) CMS
3 6 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.50%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) JBoss
5 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (0.90%) WordPress
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.60%) CICS
7 2 (0.60%) Drupal
7 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.29%) Trello
2 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.90%) Simulink
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.60%) Elementor
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Magento
2 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (39.22%) Azure
2 122 (36.53%) AWS
3 53 (15.87%) Serverless
4 35 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (10.48%) GitHub
5 30 (8.98%) SaaS
6 28 (8.38%) GCP
7 25 (7.49%) Power Platform
8 22 (6.59%) PaaS
9 19 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (4.79%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (4.19%) Azure App Service
12 12 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (3.59%) Entra ID
13 11 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.29%) Firewall
2 5 (1.50%) Network Security
3 4 (1.20%) LAN
3 4 (1.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) BGP
4 3 (0.90%) MPLS
4 3 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.90%) Wireless
5 2 (0.60%) AMQP
5 2 (0.60%) Broadband
5 2 (0.60%) HTTP
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) SSH
6 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.07%) SQL Server
2 45 (13.47%) MongoDB
3 40 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (9.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (7.49%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (6.59%) MySQL
7 19 (5.69%) NoSQL
8 18 (5.39%) Power BI
8 18 (5.39%) Relational Database
9 14 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.40%) DynamoDB
13 7 (2.10%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.80%) DB2
14 6 (1.80%) Power Query
15 5 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (19.46%) JIRA
2 60 (17.96%) Git
3 44 (13.17%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.49%) JUnit
5 12 (3.59%) Maven
6 11 (3.29%) GitLab
7 10 (2.99%) Visual Studio
8 8 (2.40%) Mockito
8 8 (2.40%) Selenium
9 7 (2.10%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (2.10%) DbUnit
9 7 (2.10%) jMock
9 7 (2.10%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.80%) JMeter
11 5 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.50%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.20%) Postman
13 3 (0.90%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 134 (40.12%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.25%) Finance
3 44 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 43 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (11.38%) Marketing
6 23 (6.89%) Banking
7 17 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.79%) Retail
9 13 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.89%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.99%) Games
11 9 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.10%) Electronics
13 7 (2.10%) Law
14 6 (1.80%) Legal
15 5 (1.50%) Back Office
15 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.20%) Publishing
16 4 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 120 (35.93%) Developer
2 58 (17.37%) Lead
3 49 (14.67%) .NET Developer
4 38 (11.38%) Senior
5 35 (10.48%) Java Developer
6 24 (7.19%) Analyst
7 21 (6.29%) Product Owner
7 21 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.69%) Lead Developer
9 15 (4.49%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.49%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.19%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.89%) Azure Developer
11 13 (3.89%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (3.29%) Lead .NET Developer
13 10 (2.99%) React Developer
14 9 (2.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 9 (2.69%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (23.95%) React
2 72 (21.56%) .NET
3 55 (16.47%) Node.js
4 52 (15.57%) AngularJS
5 46 (13.77%) RESTful
6 39 (11.68%) ASP.NET Web API
6 39 (11.68%) Spring
6 39 (11.68%) Spring Boot
7 37 (11.08%) .NET Framework
7 37 (11.08%) Entity Framework
8 36 (10.78%) HTML
9 34 (10.18%) .NET Core
10 33 (9.88%) REST
11 31 (9.28%) CSS
11 31 (9.28%) Vue
12 26 (7.78%) ASP.NET
13 24 (7.19%) ASP.NET MVC
14 23 (6.89%) Kafka
15 19 (5.69%) Web Services
16 17 (5.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.96%) Product Ownership
2 28 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.69%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.80%) Social Media
9 5 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.90%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.90%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.60%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.89%) Linux
2 5 (1.50%) Android
2 5 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.60%) CentOS
4 2 (0.60%) Debian
4 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.30%) Solaris
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (96.41%) Agile
2 278 (83.23%) Scrum
3 104 (31.14%) DevOps
4 92 (27.54%) Microservices
5 87 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (24.55%) CI/CD
7 68 (20.36%) Mentoring
7 68 (20.36%) TDD
8 67 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 56 (16.77%) BDD
10 56 (16.77%) Software Engineering
11 53 (15.87%) Roadmaps
12 49 (14.67%) Test Automation
13 46 (13.77%) Decision-Making
14 41 (12.28%) SDLC
15 38 (11.38%) MVC
15 38 (11.38%) Project Management
15 38 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (11.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.44%) SQL
2 88 (26.35%) JavaScript
3 72 (21.56%) Java
4 65 (19.46%) C#
5 64 (19.16%) TypeScript
6 57 (17.07%) Python
7 8 (2.40%) Bash
7 8 (2.40%) C++
8 6 (1.80%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.50%) Swift
10 4 (1.20%) C
10 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.90%) Go
11 3 (0.90%) Groovy
11 3 (0.90%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.60%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 49 (14.67%) Degree
2 39 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.39%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.20%) PMP
11 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.60%) CCNA
12 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.68%) QA
2 8 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.10%) SLA
4 4 (1.20%) GDPR
5 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (13.17%) Docker
2 10 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) RACF
4 1 (0.30%) Postfix
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.78%) Terraform
3 18 (5.39%) Ansible
4 8 (2.40%) Grafana
5 5 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.90%) Argo
7 2 (0.60%) Puppet
8 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.30%) Kibana
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.30%) Rancher
8 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.30%) VxRail
8 1 (0.30%) yum
Vendors
1 56 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.49%) Oracle
3 19 (5.69%) Atlassian
4 14 (4.19%) Google
5 13 (3.89%) Splunk
6 12 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.29%) SAP
8 8 (2.40%) Adobe
9 7 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.20%) Confluent
11 4 (1.20%) IBM
11 4 (1.20%) Pega
11 4 (1.20%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.20%) WSO2
12 3 (0.90%) F5
12 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.90%) Mercator
12 3 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.60%) Netlify