Kanban Contracts

Kanban
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 177 127
Rank change year-on-year -36 -50 +29
Contract jobs citing Kanban 473 823 1,788
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.47% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.64% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 576 1,150
10th Percentile £377 £410 £412
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.11% +9.94%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £650
90th Percentile £675 £704 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.20% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 67
10th Percentile - £63.50 -
25th Percentile £45.88 £70.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +79.78% -29.37%
75th Percentile £74.75 £87.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £90.65 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -16.25% +10.34% +15.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kanban.

Daily rate trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kanban.

Hourly rate trend for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kanban over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kanban in the UK

Kanban
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -2 396 £550 - 199
London +14 233 £550 -8.18% 82
UK excluding London -60 199 £506 +1.20% 130
Work from Home -4 169 £500 - 144
South East +3 68 £540 +2.86% 27
North of England +4 45 £550 +4.76% 39
Scotland -44 42 £475 -2.56% 14
Yorkshire +17 23 £550 -5.38% 6
North West +4 20 £463 -7.50% 33
Midlands +19 15 £500 -16.67% 23
South West +1 15 £580 +16.00% 15
West Midlands +7 9 £594 -1.04% 17
East of England -19 7 £550 +5.77% 6
Wales +22 6 £503 +21.82% 6
East Midlands +15 6 £361 -15.00% 6
North East +11 2 £533 +1.43%
Northern Ireland -2 1 £640 +60.00% 1

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 52 (10.99%) Confluence
2 7 (1.48%) CMS
3 6 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.85%) IIS
4 4 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.63%) Apache
5 3 (0.63%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) Mule
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.06%) Trello
5 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Endur
2 4 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.42%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.42%) Maximo
3 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) SAP MII
3 2 (0.42%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.21%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (24.31%) Azure
2 95 (20.08%) AWS
3 67 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (10.78%) Serverless
5 37 (7.82%) Amazon S3
6 36 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (6.55%) Power Platform
8 26 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (5.29%) GitHub
10 22 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (4.65%) OpenShift
11 20 (4.23%) GCP
12 17 (3.59%) SaaS
13 16 (3.38%) PaaS
14 15 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.54%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.90%) IaaS
17 8 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.17%) DNS
2 11 (2.33%) Firewall
3 7 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.27%) DHCP
4 6 (1.27%) HTTP
4 6 (1.27%) SSL
4 6 (1.27%) VSAN
5 5 (1.06%) Internet
6 4 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.85%) SNMP
7 3 (0.63%) 5G
7 3 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.63%) FabricPath
7 3 (0.63%) LAN
7 3 (0.63%) NX-OS
7 3 (0.63%) VPN
8 2 (0.42%) Intranet
8 2 (0.42%) Junos
8 2 (0.42%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 51 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.50%) MongoDB
4 23 (4.86%) Power BI
5 18 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.11%) Tableau
11 9 (1.90%) MySQL
12 8 (1.69%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.48%) Big Data
13 7 (1.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 7 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 122 (25.79%) JIRA
2 70 (14.80%) Git
3 46 (9.73%) Jenkins
4 35 (7.40%) GitLab
5 16 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.38%) Selenium
6 15 (3.17%) Postman
7 14 (2.96%) JUnit
8 13 (2.75%) Visual Studio
9 12 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 11 (2.33%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.90%) NUnit
12 8 (1.69%) Subversion
12 8 (1.69%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.27%) Gatling
14 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
15 5 (1.06%) ClearCase
15 5 (1.06%) Mockito
General
1 136 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 109 (23.04%) Finance
3 55 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.61%) Banking
6 24 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (3.81%) Marketing
8 14 (2.96%) Front Office
8 14 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.54%) Legal
10 11 (2.33%) Electronics
10 11 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.69%) Advertising
11 8 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.69%) Retail
11 8 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.48%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.27%) Back Office
13 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (17.12%) Developer
2 68 (14.38%) Senior
3 51 (10.78%) Analyst
4 35 (7.40%) Delivery Manager
4 35 (7.40%) Scrum Master
5 34 (7.19%) Lead
6 32 (6.77%) Project Manager
7 27 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 25 (5.29%) Business Analyst
9 24 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (4.86%) Architect
11 20 (4.23%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 19 (4.02%) Consultant
12 19 (4.02%) Test Engineer
13 17 (3.59%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.38%) Java Developer
15 15 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
17 13 (2.75%) Product Owner
18 11 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.98%) React
2 31 (6.55%) .NET
3 29 (6.13%) AWS CDK
4 28 (5.92%) HTML
5 26 (5.50%) Node.js
6 24 (5.07%) AngularJS
6 24 (5.07%) CSS
6 24 (5.07%) REST
7 23 (4.86%) Web Services
7 23 (4.86%) XML
8 19 (4.02%) JSON
8 19 (4.02%) Spring
9 15 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (2.96%) GraphQL
11 13 (2.75%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.54%) Kafka
13 11 (2.33%) OAuth
13 11 (2.33%) RESTful
14 9 (1.90%) LDAP
14 9 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.07%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.02%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.96%) Hedge funds
5 12 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.33%) Derivative
6 11 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.33%) Replication
7 10 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.90%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.27%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.78%) Linux
2 19 (4.02%) Windows
3 17 (3.59%) Unix
4 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.85%) Android
6 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (91.75%) Agile
2 387 (81.82%) Scrum
3 139 (29.39%) DevOps
4 102 (21.56%) CI/CD
5 95 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (17.12%) Test Automation
7 77 (16.28%) TDD
8 75 (15.86%) Project Management
9 66 (13.95%) Roadmaps
10 65 (13.74%) Microservices
10 65 (13.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 65 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 62 (13.11%) Software Engineering
12 53 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (9.73%) Migration
14 45 (9.51%) BDD
14 45 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (9.51%) Waterfall
15 44 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
16 43 (9.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 95 (20.08%) Java
2 87 (18.39%) SQL
3 83 (17.55%) Python
4 58 (12.26%) JavaScript
5 47 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.88%) C#
7 22 (4.65%) C++
8 20 (4.23%) C
8 20 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.59%) Bash
10 12 (2.54%) Scala
10 12 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.90%) XPath
12 8 (1.69%) Go
12 8 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.48%) XQuery
14 6 (1.27%) Perl
15 5 (1.06%) Bicep
16 4 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.90%) Degree
3 60 (12.68%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.75%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.54%) PMP
7 8 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.63%) CSPO
11 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.42%) ISEB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CBAP
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) SANS
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.30%) QA
2 20 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.54%) PMO
4 6 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.85%) GDPR
5 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.85%) PSD2
6 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.42%) GRC
7 2 (0.42%) GxP
7 2 (0.42%) IFRS
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.21%) COBIT
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.21%) SEPA
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (12.68%) Docker
2 17 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.69%) vSphere
5 5 (1.06%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (11.21%) Kubernetes
1 53 (11.21%) Terraform
2 39 (8.25%) Ansible
3 30 (6.34%) Grafana
4 14 (2.96%) Puppet
5 9 (1.90%) Kibana
5 9 (1.90%) Progress Chef
5 9 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.48%) HP ALM
8 6 (1.27%) VxRail
9 5 (1.06%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.63%) Netcool
11 2 (0.42%) logstash
11 2 (0.42%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.42%) Rancher
11 2 (0.42%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.21%) Salt
12 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.36%) Oracle
3 21 (4.44%) SAP
3 21 (4.44%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.44%) VMware
4 20 (4.23%) Google
5 13 (2.75%) Databricks
5 13 (2.75%) Splunk
6 12 (2.54%) Cisco
6 12 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.11%) Dell
8 9 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (1.06%) HP
10 5 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.06%) Sybase
11 4 (0.85%) Commvault
11 4 (0.85%) Greenplum
11 4 (0.85%) Netezza
11 4 (0.85%) Teradata