Hybrid/Remote Kanban Job Trends

Kanban
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Kanban skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 252 143
Rank change year-on-year +52 -109 +57
Permanent jobs citing Kanban 220 179 720
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.25% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.31% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 143 110 627
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,329
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,450 £97,125 £88,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £64,080
% change year-on-year +7.69% +1.44% -7.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,177 13,659 29,626
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,750 8,839 23,447
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kanban and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kanban job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kanban
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kanban.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kanban

Kanban
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kanban over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Kanban salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kanban
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 17 (7.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Trello
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.64%) Azure
2 83 (37.73%) AWS
3 44 (20.00%) GCP
4 38 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.82%) GitHub
6 12 (5.45%) Cloud Functions
6 12 (5.45%) Cloud Run
6 12 (5.45%) Serverless
7 9 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.64%) Azure App Service
8 8 (3.64%) PaaS
9 7 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (3.18%) Cloudflare
9 7 (3.18%) Vercel
10 6 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.73%) SaaS
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (16.36%) Broadband
2 4 (1.82%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.36%) MongoDB
2 24 (10.91%) NoSQL
3 19 (8.64%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (5.45%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.82%) Power BI
8 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.91%) Power Query
8 2 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.91%) Tableau
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
9 1 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (12.73%) JIRA
2 27 (12.27%) Jenkins
3 26 (11.82%) Git
4 22 (10.00%) TeamCity
5 12 (5.45%) CircleCI
5 12 (5.45%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.91%) MSTest
7 2 (0.91%) NUnit
7 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.45%) git-flow
8 1 (0.45%) JUnit
8 1 (0.45%) MLflow
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.91%) Finance
3 33 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 30 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (9.55%) Law
5 21 (9.55%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.00%) Games
8 10 (4.55%) Legal
9 5 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.27%) Marketing
9 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.82%) Back Office
10 4 (1.82%) Electronics
10 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Banking
11 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 57 (25.91%) Senior
2 53 (24.09%) Developer
3 37 (16.82%) Delivery Manager
4 30 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 28 (12.73%) Lead
6 27 (12.27%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 26 (11.82%) Analyst
8 23 (10.45%) .NET Developer
9 21 (9.55%) Business Analyst
10 19 (8.64%) Senior Manager
11 16 (7.27%) Senior Developer
12 13 (5.91%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.91%) Scrum Master
12 13 (5.91%) Software Manager
13 12 (5.45%) Consultant
13 12 (5.45%) Scala Engineer
14 11 (5.00%) Business Consultant
14 11 (5.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
15 8 (3.64%) Lead .NET Developer
15 8 (3.64%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.91%) React
2 42 (19.09%) .NET
3 28 (12.73%) Node.js
4 22 (10.00%) Akka
5 17 (7.73%) Web Services
6 16 (7.27%) AngularJS
6 16 (7.27%) CSS
6 16 (7.27%) HTML
7 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (6.36%) Playwright
9 13 (5.91%) .NET Framework
10 12 (5.45%) .NET Core
10 12 (5.45%) Entity Framework
10 12 (5.45%) Leaflet
10 12 (5.45%) Vue
11 11 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (5.00%) RESTful
12 10 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
12 10 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.91%) Product Ownership
2 26 (11.82%) Cloud Native
3 22 (10.00%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 13 (5.91%) e-Learning
5 7 (3.18%) Culture of Ownership
5 7 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.18%) Podcast
6 6 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.73%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.27%) PMI
8 2 (0.91%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.91%) Social Network
9 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) CentOS
2 1 (0.45%) Debian
2 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (96.82%) Agile
2 188 (85.45%) Scrum
3 100 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 63 (28.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 59 (26.82%) DevOps
6 57 (25.91%) CI/CD
7 53 (24.09%) Software Engineering
8 52 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (20.91%) TDD
10 44 (20.00%) Coaching
10 44 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 40 (18.18%) Roadmaps
12 39 (17.73%) Acceptance Criteria
12 39 (17.73%) Mentoring
13 36 (16.36%) Microservices
14 34 (15.45%) Project Delivery
15 30 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (12.73%) Containerisation
17 26 (11.82%) Requirements Gathering
17 26 (11.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (25.91%) JavaScript
2 36 (16.36%) SQL
3 35 (15.91%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.55%) C#
5 31 (14.09%) Java
6 27 (12.27%) Python
7 22 (10.00%) Scala
8 4 (1.82%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.82%) Ruby
8 4 (1.82%) Rust
9 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.91%) PHP
9 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.45%) Bash
10 1 (0.45%) Go
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) Perl
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (20.00%) Degree
2 38 (17.27%) Security Cleared
3 31 (14.09%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.73%) DBS Check
5 10 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.73%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.27%) CIPD
9 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMP
10 1 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (22.27%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.18%) GRC
4 5 (2.27%) PMO
5 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (26.36%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.45%) Ansible
2 12 (5.45%) Podman
2 12 (5.45%) Terraform
3 5 (2.27%) Grafana
4 4 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Kibana
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (20.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.82%) Google
3 8 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.82%) SAP
5 2 (0.91%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.91%) Facebook
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.45%) IBM
6 1 (0.45%) PayPal
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.45%) SaltStack