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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 350 346
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 +37
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 187 142 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 1.72% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 83 141
10th Percentile £313 £378 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -17.50%
75th Percentile £538 £630 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.01% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 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% +39.13%
75th Percentile £61.25 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £58.86 £80.00
% change year-on-year -6.56% -26.42% +39.13%

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 11,136 8,250 11,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 34.03% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,325 5,721 8,030
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.98%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 195 471
10th Percentile £36.58 £28.27 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.50 £48.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.68 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -67 88 £471 -21.58% 82
North of England -50 49 £450 - 24
North West -26 29 £475 +18.75% 15
South East -44 19 £406 -30.56% 8
South West -16 17 £481 +10.00% 8
Yorkshire -60 14 £400 -18.60% 6
Midlands -55 7 £527 +13.93% 5
West Midlands - 7 £527 - 3
North East - 6 £488 - 3
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 (4.28%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (3.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.53%) AWS
2 31 (16.58%) GitHub
3 24 (12.83%) Azure
4 22 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (9.63%) GCP
6 8 (4.28%) Firebase
7 6 (3.21%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.21%) Google Play
7 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.14%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.07%) Figma
10 2 (1.07%) PaaS
10 2 (1.07%) Serverless
10 2 (1.07%) Vercel
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) VPN
2 3 (1.60%) DSL
2 3 (1.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.21%) Power BI
2 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.07%) SQLite
4 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (21.39%) Gradle
2 17 (9.09%) GitLab
2 17 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.49%) Android Studio
4 13 (6.95%) Git
4 13 (6.95%) IntelliJ
4 13 (6.95%) JUnit
5 10 (5.35%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.81%) fastlane
6 9 (4.81%) JIRA
7 7 (3.74%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.67%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.67%) Selenium
9 4 (2.14%) Xcode
9 4 (2.14%) XCUITest
10 3 (1.60%) Appium
10 3 (1.60%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.07%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (14.97%) Banking
2 24 (12.83%) Finance
3 22 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.70%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.67%) Front Office
8 4 (2.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Automotive
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (47.06%) Developer
2 36 (19.25%) Android Developer
3 33 (17.65%) Senior
4 32 (17.11%) Java Developer
5 28 (14.97%) Software Engineer
6 21 (11.23%) Android Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) Java Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) Backend Developer
8 15 (8.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) Mobile Engineer
9 14 (7.49%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (4.81%) Architect
12 7 (3.74%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.21%) Java Mobile Developer
13 6 (3.21%) Tester
14 5 (2.67%) Lead
14 5 (2.67%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.67%) Sales Engineer
14 5 (2.67%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (22.46%) Android Jetpack
1 42 (22.46%) Spring
2 40 (21.39%) Jetpack Compose
3 38 (20.32%) Spring Boot
4 31 (16.58%) REST
5 22 (11.76%) Android SDK
6 18 (9.63%) RESTful
7 14 (7.49%) GraphQL
8 12 (6.42%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (6.42%) RxJava
9 11 (5.88%) Dagger
10 10 (5.35%) OkHttp
11 8 (4.28%) OAuth
11 8 (4.28%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.74%) WireMock
13 6 (3.21%) Kafka
13 6 (3.21%) RAML
13 6 (3.21%) React
13 6 (3.21%) Retrofit
13 6 (3.21%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (26.20%) Mobile App
2 18 (9.63%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.02%) Cloud Native
4 14 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.35%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (4.81%) Virtual Team
7 8 (4.28%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.28%) Legacy Code
8 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.21%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.67%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.07%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.53%) Mobile Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (41.18%) Android
2 27 (14.44%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.35%) Linux
4 5 (2.67%) Windows
5 4 (2.14%) Unix
6 3 (1.60%) AIX
6 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.09%) CI/CD
2 46 (24.60%) Agile
2 46 (24.60%) Android Development
3 45 (24.06%) Software Engineering
4 40 (21.39%) Test Automation
5 38 (20.32%) Microservices
6 31 (16.58%) MVVM
6 31 (16.58%) User Experience
7 24 (12.83%) TDD
8 23 (12.30%) DevOps
9 20 (10.70%) Mentoring
10 19 (10.16%) Event-Driven
11 18 (9.63%) API Design
11 18 (9.63%) Observability
12 16 (8.56%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (8.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (8.56%) Open Source
12 16 (8.56%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (8.02%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 132 (70.59%) Java
2 22 (11.76%) Swift
3 15 (8.02%) JavaScript
4 13 (6.95%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.35%) Python
6 8 (4.28%) SQL
7 5 (2.67%) Objective-C
8 4 (2.14%) Go
9 2 (1.07%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.53%) C#
10 1 (0.53%) Cypher
10 1 (0.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) Degree
4 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.07%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.97%) QA
2 15 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.14%) WCAG
4 2 (1.07%) NCSC
4 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (5.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.70%) Grafana
3 8 (4.28%) Terraform
4 2 (1.07%) Podman
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.37%) Google
2 7 (3.74%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.21%) Splunk
3 6 (3.21%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle
6 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.53%) Okta
6 1 (0.53%) Roku