Kanban Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kanban
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Kanban skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kanban over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 149 159
Rank change year-on-year -55 +10 -27
Contract jobs citing Kanban 194 385 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.67% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.87% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 288 306
10th Percentile £400 £410 £389
25th Percentile £453 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £563
90th Percentile £607 £628 £650
UK median daily rate £544 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.62% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 30
10th Percentile - £65.00 £27.60
25th Percentile £45.88 £70.00 £47.19
Median hourly rate £67.00 £75.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +3.45% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.75 £83.75 £80.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £78.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.10% +75.28% -23.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Kanban is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Kanban
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kanban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK excluding London

Kanban
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +18 66 £544 +3.62% 44
Scotland -36 47 £475 -3.55% 9
North of England +2 40 £550 - 43
Yorkshire +5 21 £550 -2.22% 8
North West 0 17 £563 +12.50% 32
Midlands +18 14 £525 -8.70% 28
South West 0 14 £585 +17.00% 27
West Midlands +17 9 £594 -1.04% 22
Wales +22 6 £503 +21.82% 10
East of England -15 6 £550 +5.77% 14
East Midlands +15 5 £363 -19.44% 6
North East +13 2 £533 +1.43% 3
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 +60.00%
Kanban
UK

Kanban
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (10.31%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) CMS
2 3 (1.55%) Drupal
3 2 (1.03%) Mule
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.03%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.52%) Maximo
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.38%) AWS
2 37 (19.07%) Serverless
3 33 (17.01%) Amazon S3
3 33 (17.01%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (16.49%) Azure
5 29 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (10.82%) OpenShift
8 16 (8.25%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.73%) GitHub
10 10 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.12%) AWS CodePipeline
11 8 (4.12%) PaaS
12 7 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (3.61%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (3.61%) IaaS
12 7 (3.61%) Textract
13 6 (3.09%) SaaS
13 6 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (2.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) SSL
1 6 (3.09%) VSAN
2 5 (2.58%) DNS
2 5 (2.58%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) HTTP
4 2 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.03%) FabricPath
4 2 (1.03%) Internet
4 2 (1.03%) Junos
4 2 (1.03%) LAN
4 2 (1.03%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.03%) VPN
5 1 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.62%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (7.22%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.70%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.09%) Informix
7 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.58%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.06%) Power BI
9 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.03%) CouchDB
10 2 (1.03%) MySQL
10 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.52%) Flink
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (22.16%) JIRA
2 35 (18.04%) Git
3 32 (16.49%) Jenkins
4 22 (11.34%) GitLab
5 11 (5.67%) Postman
6 9 (4.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.12%) JUnit
7 8 (4.12%) Subversion
8 7 (3.61%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.09%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.09%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.09%) NUnit
9 6 (3.09%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.58%) Selenium
10 5 (2.58%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.06%) ClearCase
11 4 (2.06%) ClearQuest
12 3 (1.55%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.55%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.95%) Finance
3 25 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.58%) Marketing
6 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.06%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.03%) Billing
9 2 (1.03%) Electronics
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (17.53%) Developer
1 34 (17.53%) Senior
2 21 (10.82%) Analyst
2 21 (10.82%) Software Engineer
3 16 (8.25%) Scrum Master
4 13 (6.70%) Lead
4 13 (6.70%) Test Engineer
5 11 (5.67%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.15%) Consultant
6 10 (5.15%) Java Developer
6 10 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (4.64%) Automation Developer
7 9 (4.64%) Data Engineer
7 9 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.61%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.61%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (3.09%) Product Analyst
9 6 (3.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.09%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.01%) AWS CDK
2 15 (7.73%) REST
3 14 (7.22%) React
4 13 (6.70%) AngularJS
5 11 (5.67%) Spring
6 10 (5.15%) GraphQL
6 10 (5.15%) Node.js
6 10 (5.15%) Web Services
7 9 (4.64%) .NET
7 9 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (4.12%) HTML
8 8 (4.12%) OAuth
8 8 (4.12%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.61%) Playwright
10 6 (3.09%) CSS
10 6 (3.09%) Gherkin
10 6 (3.09%) Kafka
11 5 (2.58%) LDAP
11 5 (2.58%) SpaCy
12 4 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.40%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.67%) Replication
3 9 (4.64%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.58%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.06%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.06%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 3 (1.55%) CMDB
9 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.03%) Clustering
10 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.52%) PKI
11 1 (0.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.95%) Linux
2 10 (5.15%) Windows
3 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Android
5 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (89.18%) Agile
2 166 (85.57%) Scrum
3 57 (29.38%) DevOps
4 46 (23.71%) CI/CD
5 40 (20.62%) Software Engineering
6 38 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.01%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.98%) TDD
9 28 (14.43%) Mentoring
10 27 (13.92%) Roadmaps
11 26 (13.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 24 (12.37%) Waterfall
13 22 (11.34%) Migration
14 19 (9.79%) Project Management
15 18 (9.28%) Software Testing
16 17 (8.76%) Microservices
16 17 (8.76%) Software Delivery
16 17 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (8.25%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.74%) Python
2 39 (20.10%) Java
3 36 (18.56%) TypeScript
4 26 (13.40%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.40%) SQL
5 18 (9.28%) C++
6 15 (7.73%) Bash
6 15 (7.73%) C
7 9 (4.64%) C#
8 6 (3.09%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.09%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.06%) Perl
10 3 (1.55%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.03%) Groovy
11 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.03%) VBA
11 2 (1.03%) VBScript
12 1 (0.52%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.92%) Degree
4 12 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.03%) ISEB
6 2 (1.03%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.03%) PMP
7 1 (0.52%) APMP
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) CSPO
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.28%) QA
2 15 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.58%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (2.58%) PMO
4 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) GxP
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Docker
2 10 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.61%) vSphere
4 5 (2.58%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.03%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 27 (13.92%) Grafana
1 27 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.40%) Ansible
3 18 (9.28%) Terraform
4 7 (3.61%) Kibana
5 5 (2.58%) VxRail
6 4 (2.06%) HP ALM
6 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.06%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.55%) Puppet
8 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Rancher
9 1 (0.52%) SCCM
9 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (8.76%) Oracle
2 16 (8.25%) VMware
3 14 (7.22%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.61%) Cisco
7 6 (3.09%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.09%) SAP
8 5 (2.58%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.58%) Dell
9 4 (2.06%) Commvault
9 4 (2.06%) HP
10 3 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.55%) Google
10 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.55%) Sparx
11 2 (1.03%) Juniper
11 2 (1.03%) Progress
11 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (1.03%) Splunk