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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 337 336
Rank change year-on-year -75 -1 +62
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 199 147 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.60% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.76% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 87 154
10th Percentile £313 £375 £350
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £628 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.30% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £59.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +128.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £63.35 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +128.57%

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 11,391 8,339 11,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 33.90% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,459 5,790 8,149
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -3.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 517 197 481
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -48 103 £475 -13.64% 33
North of England -45 44 £450 +5.88% 5
North West -27 23 £475 +18.75% 3
South East -44 19 £406 -30.56% 7
South West -8 18 £500 +14.29% 10
Yorkshire -54 14 £400 -18.60% 2
Midlands -58 8 £527 +13.93% 1
West Midlands - 8 £527 - 1
North East - 7 £450 -
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 8 (4.02%) Confluence
2 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.62%) AWS
2 34 (17.09%) GitHub
3 26 (13.07%) Azure
4 25 (12.56%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (10.05%) GCP
6 8 (4.02%) Cloud Run
7 7 (3.52%) Google Play
8 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.02%) Firebase
8 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.01%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.01%) Serverless
12 1 (0.50%) AuraDB
12 1 (0.50%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) VPN
2 4 (2.01%) HTTP
3 3 (1.51%) DSL
4 2 (1.01%) DNS
4 2 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.02%) Power BI
3 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.01%) MySQL
4 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.01%) SQLite
5 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 34 (17.09%) Gradle
2 16 (8.04%) Git
2 16 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.04%) Android Studio
3 14 (7.04%) JUnit
4 12 (6.03%) GitLab
5 11 (5.53%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.52%) JIRA
7 8 (4.02%) fastlane
7 8 (4.02%) IntelliJ
8 7 (3.52%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.51%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.51%) Gatling
10 4 (2.01%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.51%) Appium
11 3 (1.51%) Selenium
11 3 (1.51%) Xcode
12 2 (1.01%) Maven
12 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.58%) Banking
2 28 (14.07%) Finance
2 28 (14.07%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.56%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.52%) Front Office
7 4 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.01%) Retail
8 3 (1.51%) Military
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (46.23%) Developer
2 38 (19.10%) Senior
3 35 (17.59%) Android Developer
4 33 (16.58%) Java Developer
5 26 (13.07%) Software Engineer
6 22 (11.06%) Android Engineer
7 19 (9.55%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.54%) Mobile Engineer
8 15 (7.54%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.04%) Backend Developer
9 14 (7.04%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Architect
12 8 (4.02%) Lead
13 7 (3.52%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (3.52%) Tester
14 6 (3.02%) Java Mobile Developer
14 6 (3.02%) QA Engineer
15 5 (2.51%) Applications Engineer
15 5 (2.51%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.61%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (20.60%) Jetpack Compose
3 38 (19.10%) Spring
4 34 (17.09%) Spring Boot
5 33 (16.58%) REST
6 22 (11.06%) Android SDK
7 21 (10.55%) RESTful
8 13 (6.53%) RxJava
9 12 (6.03%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.03%) Dagger
11 9 (4.52%) Kafka
11 9 (4.52%) Node.js
12 8 (4.02%) OAuth
12 8 (4.02%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.02%) OkHttp
13 7 (3.52%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (3.52%) React
13 7 (3.52%) WireMock
14 6 (3.02%) Playwright
14 6 (3.02%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.63%) Mobile App
2 23 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.56%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.05%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.53%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (5.03%) Virtual Team
6 8 (4.02%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.02%) Legacy Code
6 8 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.02%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.51%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.50%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 76 (38.19%) Android
2 24 (12.06%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.02%) Linux
4 4 (2.01%) Unix
4 4 (2.01%) Windows
5 3 (1.51%) AIX
5 3 (1.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (34.67%) CI/CD
2 50 (25.13%) Agile
3 46 (23.12%) Android Development
3 46 (23.12%) Test Automation
4 42 (21.11%) Microservices
4 42 (21.11%) Software Engineering
5 32 (16.08%) MVVM
6 26 (13.07%) Event-Driven
7 25 (12.56%) User Experience
8 24 (12.06%) DevOps
8 24 (12.06%) TDD
9 22 (11.06%) Observability
10 21 (10.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (9.55%) API Design
11 19 (9.55%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.05%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (9.05%) Open Source
13 16 (8.04%) AI
13 16 (8.04%) API Development
13 16 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 133 (66.83%) Java
2 22 (11.06%) TypeScript
3 20 (10.05%) Swift
4 15 (7.54%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.04%) SQL
6 11 (5.53%) Python
7 5 (2.51%) Go
8 3 (1.51%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) Cypher
10 1 (0.50%) Rust
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.03%) Degree
4 8 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.08%) QA
2 11 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.51%) WCAG
4 4 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (7.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (12.06%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.04%) Grafana
3 8 (4.02%) Terraform
4 2 (1.01%) Podman
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (13.57%) Google
2 8 (4.02%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.02%) Splunk
3 6 (3.02%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.51%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.50%) Okta
5 1 (0.50%) Roku