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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 351 278
Rank change year-on-year -80 -73 +133
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 214 167 275
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.60% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.82% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 119 166
10th Percentile £313 £362 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +4.21% -24.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £540
90th Percentile £650 £735 £625
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -5.90% +4.28% -22.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £76.55 £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile £77.00 £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate £77.50 £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% +59.07% -48.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile - £70.68 £42.00
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.57% +59.07% -48.29%

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 11,937 9,166 10,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.89% 32.82% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,721 6,146 7,060
10th Percentile £363 £345 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £636 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 269 301
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.13 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -54 130 £475 -13.64% 373
North of England -54 60 £460 +15.00% 94
Yorkshire -31 34 £460 +4.55% 39
North West -35 22 £563 +50.00% 43
West Midlands -39 10 £470 -8.29% 13
Midlands -43 10 £470 +1.62% 22
South West - 10 £600 - 41
North East - 4 £450 - 12
South East -60 3 £250 -25.93% 36
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 12 (5.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Trello
2 1 (0.47%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (23.36%) GitHub
2 47 (21.96%) AWS
3 29 (13.55%) Azure
4 26 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (11.68%) GCP
6 15 (7.01%) Google Play
7 12 (5.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (3.74%) Firebase
8 8 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.27%) Cloud Run
9 7 (3.27%) Serverless
10 5 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.40%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) HTTP
2 4 (1.87%) DNS
3 2 (0.93%) NFC
3 2 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.47%) DHCP
4 1 (0.47%) DSL
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
4 1 (0.47%) Internet
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.67%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.27%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.27%) MySQL
3 7 (3.27%) Redis
4 4 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.40%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.40%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (11.68%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Bitbucket
2 18 (8.41%) Gradle
2 18 (8.41%) JIRA
3 17 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.07%) JUnit
5 8 (3.74%) GitLab
6 7 (3.27%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.80%) fastlane
8 5 (2.34%) Android Studio
8 5 (2.34%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.34%) Gatling
9 4 (1.87%) Mockito
10 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.93%) Appium
11 2 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.93%) Xcode
11 2 (0.93%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.43%) Banking
3 35 (16.36%) Finance
4 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.07%) Front Office
8 7 (3.27%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.87%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (37.85%) Developer
2 50 (23.36%) Senior
3 45 (21.03%) Software Engineer
4 28 (13.08%) Java Engineer
5 27 (12.62%) Android Developer
5 27 (12.62%) Android Engineer
6 25 (11.68%) Java Developer
7 23 (10.75%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (6.54%) Mobile Engineer
8 14 (6.54%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.07%) Senior Android Engineer
10 12 (5.61%) Lead
10 12 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) QA Engineer
13 6 (2.80%) Junior
13 6 (2.80%) Senior Android Developer
13 6 (2.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (21.96%) Android Jetpack
2 46 (21.50%) REST
3 40 (18.69%) Jetpack Compose
4 35 (16.36%) RESTful
5 31 (14.49%) Spring
6 26 (12.15%) Android SDK
7 25 (11.68%) Kafka
8 23 (10.75%) Spring Boot
9 18 (8.41%) GraphQL
10 16 (7.48%) HTML
11 14 (6.54%) React
12 10 (4.67%) Node.js
12 10 (4.67%) Terraform
13 9 (4.21%) JSON
14 8 (3.74%) RxJava
15 7 (3.27%) Dagger
16 6 (2.80%) Playwright
16 6 (2.80%) Retrofit
17 5 (2.34%) Flutter
17 5 (2.34%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.09%) Mobile App
2 29 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.21%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.54%) Onboarding
5 13 (6.07%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.61%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (4.21%) AI Agents
9 7 (3.27%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.87%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.87%) IoT
12 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 75 (35.05%) Android
2 21 (9.81%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.21%) Linux
4 7 (3.27%) Unix
5 4 (1.87%) Windows
6 3 (1.40%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (47.66%) CI/CD
2 80 (37.38%) Agile
3 67 (31.31%) Software Engineering
4 48 (22.43%) Test Automation
5 45 (21.03%) Android Development
6 42 (19.63%) TDD
7 37 (17.29%) Event-Driven
8 35 (16.36%) Clean Code
9 34 (15.89%) MVVM
10 33 (15.42%) Microservices
11 30 (14.02%) AI
11 30 (14.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 30 (14.02%) Observability
12 27 (12.62%) DevOps
12 27 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (12.15%) User Experience
14 24 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (10.28%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (10.28%) Code Quality
15 22 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 138 (64.49%) Java
2 43 (20.09%) TypeScript
3 30 (14.02%) SQL
4 27 (12.62%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.48%) Swift
6 11 (5.14%) Python
7 5 (2.34%) Rust
7 5 (2.34%) Scala
8 4 (1.87%) C#
8 4 (1.87%) C++
8 4 (1.87%) Go
9 3 (1.40%) Ruby
10 2 (0.93%) Elixir
10 2 (0.93%) Perl
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 42 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.34%) Degree
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.08%) QA
2 19 (8.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.87%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (10.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (13.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.27%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) logstash
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.62%) Google
2 6 (2.80%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.34%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.87%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle
6 1 (0.47%) Apple
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent