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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 153 155
Rank change year-on-year -55 +2 -23
Contract jobs citing Kanban 199 382 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.67% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.87% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 286 335
10th Percentile £400 £408 £393
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £575
90th Percentile £600 £624 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 31
10th Percentile - £64.00 £27.75
25th Percentile £45.88 £70.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +6.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £74.75 £82.50 £79.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £84.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.25% +79.78% -29.37%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
South East +2 68 £540 +2.86% 31
North of England +10 45 £550 +4.76% 45
Scotland -43 42 £475 -2.56% 15
Yorkshire +19 23 £550 -5.38% 9
North West -1 20 £463 -7.50% 36
Midlands +20 15 £500 -16.67% 26
South West +5 15 £580 +16.00% 15
West Midlands +7 9 £594 -1.04% 20
East of England -16 7 £550 +5.77% 8
Wales +22 6 £503 +21.82% 7
East Midlands +13 6 £361 -15.00% 6
North East +11 2 £533 +1.43%
Northern Ireland -1 1 £640 +60.00% 1
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 22 (11.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.51%) CMS
2 3 (1.51%) Drupal
3 2 (1.01%) Mule
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.01%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.50%) Maximo
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.50%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.14%) AWS
2 32 (16.08%) Azure
2 32 (16.08%) Serverless
3 28 (14.07%) Amazon S3
3 28 (14.07%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (9.05%) OpenShift
7 16 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.54%) GitHub
9 10 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.02%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (3.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (3.52%) IaaS
11 7 (3.52%) PaaS
12 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.02%) SaaS
12 6 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.51%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) Firewall
1 6 (3.02%) SSL
2 5 (2.51%) DNS
2 5 (2.51%) VSAN
3 3 (1.51%) HTTP
4 2 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.01%) FabricPath
4 2 (1.01%) Internet
4 2 (1.01%) Junos
4 2 (1.01%) LAN
4 2 (1.01%) NX-OS
4 2 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.50%) RS-485
5 1 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.09%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.04%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (6.53%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.02%) Informix
6 5 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.51%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.01%) Power BI
8 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.01%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.01%) MySQL
9 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.50%) Flink
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (23.62%) JIRA
2 36 (18.09%) Git
3 32 (16.08%) Jenkins
4 22 (11.06%) GitLab
5 11 (5.53%) Postman
6 10 (5.03%) JUnit
7 9 (4.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (4.02%) Subversion
9 6 (3.02%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.02%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.02%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.02%) NUnit
9 6 (3.02%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.51%) Selenium
10 5 (2.51%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.01%) ClearCase
11 4 (2.01%) ClearQuest
12 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.51%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.58%) Finance
3 26 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.02%) Banking
5 6 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.01%) Marketing
6 4 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.01%) Billing
8 2 (1.01%) Electronics
8 2 (1.01%) Games
8 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Legal
8 2 (1.01%) Retail
8 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (18.09%) Senior
2 29 (14.57%) Developer
3 23 (11.56%) Analyst
4 22 (11.06%) Software Engineer
5 17 (8.54%) Scrum Master
6 14 (7.04%) Test Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) Lead
7 12 (6.03%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) Consultant
9 10 (5.03%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.02%) Business Analyst
11 8 (4.02%) Test Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.52%) Automation Developer
13 6 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (3.02%) Product Analyst
13 6 (3.02%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.02%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.07%) AWS CDK
2 16 (8.04%) REST
3 15 (7.54%) React
4 13 (6.53%) AngularJS
5 11 (5.53%) Node.js
5 11 (5.53%) Spring
6 10 (5.03%) GraphQL
6 10 (5.03%) Web Services
7 9 (4.52%) OAuth
7 9 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (4.02%) .NET
8 8 (4.02%) Gherkin
8 8 (4.02%) HTML
8 8 (4.02%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.52%) Playwright
10 6 (3.02%) CSS
10 6 (3.02%) Kafka
11 5 (2.51%) LDAP
11 5 (2.51%) OpenID
11 5 (2.51%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.53%) Replication
3 9 (4.52%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.51%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.01%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.01%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 3 (1.51%) CMDB
10 2 (1.01%) Clustering
10 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.50%) PMI
11 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.08%) Linux
2 9 (4.52%) Windows
3 5 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.51%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Android
5 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (89.45%) Agile
2 166 (83.42%) Scrum
3 55 (27.64%) DevOps
4 47 (23.62%) CI/CD
5 42 (21.11%) Software Engineering
6 37 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (18.09%) Test Automation
8 32 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (16.08%) TDD
9 28 (14.07%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 27 (13.57%) Roadmaps
11 25 (12.56%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.06%) Waterfall
13 23 (11.56%) Migration
14 22 (11.06%) Project Management
15 21 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (9.55%) Software Delivery
16 19 (9.55%) Software Testing
17 18 (9.05%) User Stories
18 17 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.61%) Python
2 41 (20.60%) Java
3 32 (16.08%) TypeScript
4 26 (13.07%) SQL
5 25 (12.56%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.55%) C++
7 15 (7.54%) Bash
7 15 (7.54%) C
8 9 (4.52%) C#
9 6 (3.02%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.01%) Perl
11 3 (1.51%) Go
11 3 (1.51%) Scala
12 2 (1.01%) Groovy
12 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.01%) VBA
12 2 (1.01%) VBScript
13 1 (0.50%) SOQL
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.57%) Degree
4 13 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.01%) ISEB
7 2 (1.01%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.01%) PMP
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) CSPO
8 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.55%) QA
2 13 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.51%) PMO
4 4 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.01%) IFRS
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) GxP
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.58%) Docker
2 10 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.52%) vSphere
4 4 (2.01%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.01%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (12.56%) Ansible
2 24 (12.06%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.56%) Grafana
4 18 (9.05%) Terraform
5 7 (3.52%) Kibana
6 5 (2.51%) VxRail
7 4 (2.01%) HP ALM
7 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.01%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.51%) Puppet
9 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.50%) Rancher
10 1 (0.50%) SCCM
10 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (8.54%) Oracle
2 15 (7.54%) VMware
3 14 (7.04%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.53%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.52%) Cisco
7 6 (3.02%) SAP
8 5 (2.51%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.51%) Dell
8 5 (2.51%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.01%) Commvault
9 4 (2.01%) Google
9 4 (2.01%) HP
10 3 (1.51%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.51%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.51%) Sparx
11 2 (1.01%) Juniper
11 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Splunk