Kotlin Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

JetBrains Kotlin
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 58 53
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 +37
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 4 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 0.15% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.16% 0.62% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 12
10th Percentile £404 - £513
25th Percentile £438 £511 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £523 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -16.40% +31.58%
75th Percentile £481 £534 £700
90th Percentile £503 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.69%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

Kotlin falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 162 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.54% 24.51% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 115 141
10th Percentile £314 £313 £313
25th Percentile £381 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £550
90th Percentile £625 £530 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £19.58
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £26.02
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -66.58% +33.06%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.50
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £60.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kotlin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Kotlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 4 £463 - 5
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (75.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Android Development
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Xamarin