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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 357 373
Rank change year-on-year -57 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 171 123 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% 1.49% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 74 124
10th Percentile £281 £400 £350
25th Percentile £363 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +7.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £613
90th Percentile £683 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 2
10th Percentile - £37.48 £77.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.19 £78.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.75 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.91% -44.41% +89.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £50.25 £82.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.00 £82.35
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year +22.22% -44.10% +89.30%

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 10,971 8,249 10,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.94% 33.84% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,317 5,679 7,875
10th Percentile £352 £361 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.11%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 212 431
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +1.87% -1.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -73 72 £509 -18.60% 45
North of England -38 41 £475 -4.04% 11
North West -10 34 £475 +5.56% 4
South West -13 23 £380 -7.88% 4
South East -33 19 £406 -30.56% 16
Midlands -61 9 £510 +3.82%
West Midlands - 9 £510 -
Yorkshire -59 4 £488 -11.36% 6
North East - 4 £575 - 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 7 (4.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.90%) AWS
2 18 (10.53%) GitHub
3 16 (9.36%) Azure
4 15 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.60%) GCP
6 7 (4.09%) Firebase
7 6 (3.51%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.51%) Google Play
7 6 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.34%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (2.34%) Serverless
10 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.17%) Bitrise
10 2 (1.17%) Figma
10 2 (1.17%) Sentry
10 2 (1.17%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) VPN
2 3 (1.75%) DSL
3 2 (1.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.51%) Power BI
3 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.75%) MySQL
3 3 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.17%) SQLite
5 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (21.05%) Gradle
2 20 (11.70%) GitLab
3 14 (8.19%) Android Studio
3 14 (8.19%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.02%) IntelliJ
5 11 (6.43%) Git
6 9 (5.26%) JUnit
7 7 (4.09%) CircleCI
8 6 (3.51%) fastlane
8 6 (3.51%) Selenium
9 5 (2.92%) JIRA
10 4 (2.34%) Xcode
11 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.75%) Maven
11 3 (1.75%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.75%) XCUITest
12 2 (1.17%) Crashlytics
12 2 (1.17%) Mockito
12 2 (1.17%) Postman
12 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (18.13%) Finance
2 21 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.53%) Banking
4 17 (9.94%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.85%) Front Office
6 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.17%) Automotive
7 2 (1.17%) Police
7 2 (1.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (55.56%) Developer
2 38 (22.22%) Android Developer
2 38 (22.22%) Senior
3 24 (14.04%) Java Developer
3 24 (14.04%) Software Engineer
4 21 (12.28%) Backend Developer
4 21 (12.28%) Senior Developer
5 15 (8.77%) Android Engineer
5 15 (8.77%) Java Engineer
5 15 (8.77%) Mobile Developer
6 14 (8.19%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (5.26%) Architect
8 8 (4.68%) Java Mobile Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Front Office Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Android Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Backend Developer
10 5 (2.92%) Applications Developer
10 5 (2.92%) iOS Developer
10 5 (2.92%) Mobile Engineer
10 5 (2.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.32%) Spring
2 44 (25.73%) Spring Boot
3 34 (19.88%) Android Jetpack
4 33 (19.30%) Jetpack Compose
5 24 (14.04%) Android SDK
6 22 (12.87%) REST
7 14 (8.19%) RESTful
8 13 (7.60%) OAuth
8 13 (7.60%) OAuth2
9 12 (7.02%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.85%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.85%) RxJava
11 8 (4.68%) Dagger
11 8 (4.68%) OkHttp
12 6 (3.51%) Node.js
12 6 (3.51%) RAML
13 5 (2.92%) JSON
13 5 (2.92%) React
13 5 (2.92%) WireMock
14 4 (2.34%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.24%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.68%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.09%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.51%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.17%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.58%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 69 (40.35%) Android
2 24 (14.04%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.92%) Linux
3 5 (2.92%) Windows
4 3 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.49%) Android Development
2 45 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.47%) Microservices
3 35 (20.47%) Software Engineering
4 34 (19.88%) Agile
5 30 (17.54%) MVVM
5 30 (17.54%) Test Automation
6 28 (16.37%) User Experience
7 24 (14.04%) API Design
7 24 (14.04%) TDD
8 21 (12.28%) Mentoring
9 19 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (11.11%) Event-Driven
9 19 (11.11%) Open Source
10 18 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (9.94%) Design Patterns
11 17 (9.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (8.77%) DevOps
12 15 (8.77%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 123 (71.93%) Java
2 19 (11.11%) Swift
3 12 (7.02%) Python
4 10 (5.85%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.68%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.09%) Objective-C
7 5 (2.92%) Go
8 3 (1.75%) SQL
9 2 (1.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) Bash
10 1 (0.58%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.58%) C#
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Cypher
10 1 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.60%) Degree
4 8 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.17%) SANS
7 1 (0.58%) GIAC
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.70%) QA
2 12 (7.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.17%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (15.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.70%) Grafana
3 7 (4.09%) Terraform
4 2 (1.17%) Podman
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (15.79%) Google
2 7 (4.09%) Splunk
3 6 (3.51%) Zscaler
4 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.75%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle
6 2 (1.17%) Databricks
7 1 (0.58%) Adobe
7 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Roku