Kotlin Contract Job Trends in England

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 297 384
Rank change year-on-year -99 +87 +38
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 156 190 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.73% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 2.20% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 111 134
10th Percentile £313 £388 £383
25th Percentile £388 £411 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +2.00% -15.61%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £625
90th Percentile £840 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +0.72% +4.25% -15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile - £35.45 £73.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -51.25% +59.84%
75th Percentile £61.25 £44.13 £82.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £40.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year +36.65% -49.69% +59.84%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,315 8,654 11,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.65% 33.47% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,881 5,629 7,996
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 206 470
10th Percentile £41.32 £25.26 £35.62
25th Percentile £53.75 £41.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -7.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in England

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kotlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in England over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in England

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kotlin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kotlin in England over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kotlin in England

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the England region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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
London -107 70 £588 +13.25% 46
North of England -37 38 £450 - 26
North West -9 29 £475 +18.75% 14
South West -13 20 £400 -9.86% 7
South East -17 14 £363 -38.03% 12
Yorkshire -53 9 £425 -21.51% 11
Midlands -46 7 £475 -8.65% 3
West Midlands - 7 £475 - 3
North East - 1 £425 - 1
Kotlin
UK

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.15%) AWS
2 16 (10.26%) GitHub
3 14 (8.97%) GCP
4 12 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (6.41%) Azure
6 7 (4.49%) Firebase
6 7 (4.49%) Google Play
7 6 (3.85%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.56%) Sentry
9 3 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.92%) Figma
9 3 (1.92%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (1.92%) Serverless
10 2 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.28%) PaaS
10 2 (1.28%) Vercel
11 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.92%) HTTP
2 2 (1.28%) DSL
3 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.41%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.56%) MySQL
5 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.28%) SQLite
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.64%) HBase
6 1 (0.64%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (24.36%) Gradle
2 16 (10.26%) Android Studio
2 16 (10.26%) GitLab
3 15 (9.62%) Git
4 14 (8.97%) IntelliJ
5 12 (7.69%) JUnit
6 11 (7.05%) Jenkins
7 10 (6.41%) CircleCI
8 7 (4.49%) JIRA
9 5 (3.21%) Xcode
10 4 (2.56%) fastlane
10 4 (2.56%) Maven
10 4 (2.56%) Mockito
10 4 (2.56%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.92%) Appium
11 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.92%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 38 (24.36%) Finance
2 19 (12.18%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.62%) Banking
4 13 (8.33%) Front Office
5 11 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.56%) Retail
7 3 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Automotive
8 2 (1.28%) Law
8 2 (1.28%) Police
8 2 (1.28%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 99 (63.46%) Developer
2 51 (32.69%) Android Developer
3 31 (19.87%) Senior
4 22 (14.10%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.82%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.90%) Java Engineer
7 16 (10.26%) Backend Developer
7 16 (10.26%) Java Developer
8 13 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
9 10 (6.41%) Android Engineer
10 9 (5.77%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (5.77%) Senior Android Developer
11 8 (5.13%) Applications Developer
12 7 (4.49%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
14 5 (3.21%) Mobile Applications Developer
15 4 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
15 4 (2.56%) iOS Developer
15 4 (2.56%) Java Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.21%) Android Jetpack
2 42 (26.92%) Jetpack Compose
3 37 (23.72%) Spring
4 35 (22.44%) Spring Boot
5 26 (16.67%) Android SDK
6 20 (12.82%) REST
7 19 (12.18%) RESTful
8 15 (9.62%) RxJava
9 14 (8.97%) Dagger
10 12 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (6.41%) OkHttp
12 9 (5.77%) GraphQL
12 9 (5.77%) RAML
13 8 (5.13%) OAuth
13 8 (5.13%) OAuth2
13 8 (5.13%) WireMock
14 7 (4.49%) Retrofit
14 7 (4.49%) Web Services
15 6 (3.85%) JSON
16 5 (3.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (28.85%) Mobile App
2 11 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.49%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.49%) Legacy Code
4 7 (4.49%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.64%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Music Streaming
9 1 (0.64%) NHS
9 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (49.36%) Android
2 23 (14.74%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.85%) Windows
4 5 (3.21%) Linux
5 3 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.54%) Android Development
2 45 (28.85%) CI/CD
3 35 (22.44%) Agile
3 35 (22.44%) MVVM
4 32 (20.51%) User Experience
5 28 (17.95%) Software Engineering
6 25 (16.03%) Microservices
6 25 (16.03%) Open Source
7 23 (14.74%) Test Automation
8 22 (14.10%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (12.82%) API Design
9 20 (12.82%) SOLID
10 18 (11.54%) Design Patterns
10 18 (11.54%) Mobile Development
10 18 (11.54%) TDD
11 17 (10.90%) Benchmarking
11 17 (10.90%) DevOps
11 17 (10.90%) Mentoring
12 15 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 109 (69.87%) Java
2 19 (12.18%) Swift
3 12 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.13%) Objective-C
6 6 (3.85%) SQL
7 4 (2.56%) C++
7 4 (2.56%) Python
7 4 (2.56%) Scala
8 3 (1.92%) Go
9 2 (1.28%) Rust
10 1 (0.64%) Bash
10 1 (0.64%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.64%) Clojure
10 1 (0.64%) Cypher
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.33%) Degree
3 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.28%) SANS
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.18%) QA
2 12 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.28%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.18%) Grafana
3 5 (3.21%) Terraform
4 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (19.87%) Google
2 9 (5.77%) Splunk
3 8 (5.13%) Databricks
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle
5 2 (1.28%) Adobe
5 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.28%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.64%) Alibaba
6 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.64%) Okta
6 1 (0.64%) Roku
6 1 (0.64%) Xamarin