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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 174 134
Rank change year-on-year -37 -40 +22
Contract jobs citing Kanban 473 846 1,783
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 1.48% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.65% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 580 1,128
10th Percentile £381 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £650
90th Percentile £688 £719 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 67
10th Percentile - £65.00 -
25th Percentile £45.88 £68.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £79.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +77.53% -23.28%
75th Percentile £74.75 £85.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £87.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £75.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -10.67% +3.45% +25.00%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
England -7 389 £550 - 258
London +9 237 £550 -8.33% 102
UK excluding London -67 192 £520 +4.00% 181
Work from Home -2 171 £506 -0.39% 242
South East +5 66 £544 +3.62% 49
Scotland -34 44 £475 -3.55% 12
North of England 0 41 £550 - 44
Yorkshire +10 22 £550 -2.22% 10
North West -5 17 £563 +12.50% 31
Midlands +13 14 £525 -8.70% 30
South West +2 14 £585 +17.00% 23
West Midlands +15 9 £594 -1.04% 25
Wales +24 6 £503 +21.82% 10
East of England -8 6 £550 +5.77% 17
East Midlands +18 5 £363 -19.44% 5
North East +13 2 £533 +1.43% 3
Northern Ireland -1 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 6 (1.27%) CMS
3 5 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.85%) Apache
4 4 (0.85%) IIS
4 4 (0.85%) OpenStack
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%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.85%) Trello
5 2 (0.42%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 7 (1.48%) 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 Hybris
4 1 (0.21%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (25.16%) Azure
2 103 (21.78%) AWS
3 66 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (11.63%) Serverless
5 39 (8.25%) Amazon S3
6 38 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (6.13%) Power Platform
8 28 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (5.92%) GitHub
9 24 (5.07%) OpenShift
10 23 (4.86%) GCP
11 22 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (3.81%) PaaS
12 18 (3.81%) SaaS
13 16 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.33%) PowerApps
17 10 (2.11%) IaaS
18 8 (1.69%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.02%) DNS
2 13 (2.75%) Firewall
3 9 (1.90%) HTTP
3 9 (1.90%) Internet
3 9 (1.90%) SSL
4 7 (1.48%) DHCP
4 7 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.48%) VSAN
5 6 (1.27%) VPN
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
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 58 (12.26%) SQL Server
2 54 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.65%) Power BI
6 18 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (3.81%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.11%) MySQL
10 10 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.11%) Tableau
11 8 (1.69%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.48%) Big Data
12 7 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 117 (24.74%) JIRA
2 71 (15.01%) Git
3 46 (9.73%) Jenkins
4 35 (7.40%) GitLab
5 19 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.81%) Postman
7 17 (3.59%) Selenium
8 13 (2.75%) JUnit
8 13 (2.75%) Visual Studio
9 12 (2.54%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (2.33%) Artifactory
11 10 (2.11%) NUnit
12 9 (1.90%) Subversion
12 9 (1.90%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.69%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.27%) Gatling
14 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
15 5 (1.06%) Mockito
15 5 (1.06%) TestNG
General
1 135 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 110 (23.26%) Finance
3 57 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.19%) Banking
6 25 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.02%) Marketing
8 15 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.75%) Front Office
10 12 (2.54%) Legal
11 11 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.11%) Advertising
12 10 (2.11%) Electronics
12 10 (2.11%) Retail
12 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.27%) Back Office
15 6 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (17.55%) Developer
2 71 (15.01%) Senior
3 50 (10.57%) Analyst
4 34 (7.19%) Scrum Master
5 33 (6.98%) Lead
5 33 (6.98%) Project Manager
6 32 (6.77%) Delivery Manager
7 27 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 26 (5.50%) Business Analyst
8 26 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (4.23%) Architect
10 19 (4.02%) Consultant
11 18 (3.81%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.81%) Test Engineer
12 17 (3.59%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.38%) Java Developer
14 15 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
15 14 (2.96%) Product Owner
16 13 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.19%) .NET
2 33 (6.98%) React
3 31 (6.55%) AWS CDK
4 30 (6.34%) HTML
5 27 (5.71%) Node.js
6 26 (5.50%) AngularJS
7 25 (5.29%) CSS
7 25 (5.29%) REST
8 24 (5.07%) Web Services
9 23 (4.86%) XML
10 19 (4.02%) JSON
10 19 (4.02%) Spring
11 14 (2.96%) GraphQL
11 14 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (2.75%) Kafka
12 13 (2.75%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.33%) Jest
13 11 (2.33%) RESTful
14 10 (2.11%) LDAP
14 10 (2.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 73 (15.43%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.02%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.96%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.96%) Hedge funds
5 12 (2.54%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.33%) Derivative
6 11 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.33%) Replication
7 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.90%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.90%) Virtual Team
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 53 (11.21%) Linux
2 22 (4.65%) Windows
3 17 (3.59%) Unix
4 6 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.85%) Android
7 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (91.54%) Agile
2 383 (80.97%) Scrum
3 146 (30.87%) DevOps
4 103 (21.78%) CI/CD
5 96 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (17.55%) Test Automation
7 78 (16.49%) TDD
8 72 (15.22%) Project Management
9 70 (14.80%) Microservices
10 64 (13.53%) Roadmaps
11 63 (13.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 61 (12.90%) Software Engineering
13 57 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (9.73%) Waterfall
15 45 (9.51%) BDD
15 45 (9.51%) Continuous Integration
15 45 (9.51%) Mentoring
16 44 (9.30%) Migration
17 43 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 96 (20.30%) Java
2 91 (19.24%) Python
3 88 (18.60%) SQL
4 67 (14.16%) JavaScript
5 50 (10.57%) TypeScript
6 44 (9.30%) C#
7 23 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.44%) C++
9 20 (4.23%) Bash
9 20 (4.23%) C
10 12 (2.54%) Scala
10 12 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.90%) Go
12 9 (1.90%) XPath
13 7 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.48%) XQuery
14 6 (1.27%) Perl
15 5 (1.06%) Bicep
15 5 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 60 (12.68%) Degree
4 24 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.33%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.11%) PMP
7 7 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.85%) CSPO
9 4 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.63%) ISEB
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.21%) APMP
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CBAP
12 1 (0.21%) SANS
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.09%) QA
2 21 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.54%) PMO
4 5 (1.06%) 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%) 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 64 (13.53%) Docker
2 16 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.69%) vSphere
5 6 (1.27%) 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
Systems Management
1 55 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 54 (11.42%) Terraform
3 45 (9.51%) Ansible
4 32 (6.77%) Grafana
5 15 (3.17%) Puppet
6 10 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.90%) Kibana
7 9 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.48%) HP ALM
10 6 (1.27%) VxRail
11 5 (1.06%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.63%) Netcool
13 2 (0.42%) logstash
13 2 (0.42%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.42%) Rancher
13 2 (0.42%) TIBCO Hawk
14 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.21%) Salt
14 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 51 (10.78%) Oracle
3 22 (4.65%) SAP
3 22 (4.65%) VMware
4 19 (4.02%) Google
4 19 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.96%) Databricks
5 14 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.75%) Splunk
7 12 (2.54%) Cisco
8 10 (2.11%) Dell
9 9 (1.90%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.06%) HP
11 5 (1.06%) Sybase
12 4 (0.85%) Commvault
12 4 (0.85%) Greenplum
12 4 (0.85%) Netezza
12 4 (0.85%) Teradata