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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 346 273
Rank change year-on-year -67 -73 +133
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 221 168 281
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.60% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 1.83% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 121 168
10th Percentile £353 £363 £381
25th Percentile £416 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +3.75% -24.00%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £734 £625
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -22.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £63.38 £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile £76.44 £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +59.07% -48.29%
75th Percentile £90.94 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.68 £42.00
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.18% +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 12,048 9,160 10,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.05% 32.63% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,789 6,135 6,988
10th Percentile £363 £349 £352
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 £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 264 300
10th Percentile £22.25 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £42.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +3.17%
75th Percentile £71.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.48 £78.75 £77.63
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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -53 133 £473 -11.64% 286
North of England -55 63 £460 +15.00% 68
Yorkshire -24 35 £460 +4.55% 28
North West -38 24 £575 +53.33% 33
South West -18 11 £600 +50.00% 15
West Midlands -40 10 £470 -8.29% 9
Midlands -45 10 £470 +1.62% 11
North East - 4 £450 - 7
South East -68 3 £250 -25.93% 27
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 14 (6.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Trello
2 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (4.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.43%) GitHub
2 46 (20.81%) AWS
3 29 (13.12%) Azure
4 28 (12.67%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (12.22%) GCP
6 15 (6.79%) Google Play
7 12 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (4.52%) Firebase
9 9 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.62%) Cloud Run
11 7 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.17%) Serverless
12 5 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.26%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.71%) HTTP
2 4 (1.81%) DNS
3 2 (0.90%) NFC
3 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.52%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.17%) MySQL
3 7 (3.17%) Redis
4 4 (1.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.36%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.36%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (11.76%) Git
2 22 (9.95%) Gradle
3 20 (9.05%) Bitbucket
3 20 (9.05%) JIRA
4 17 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 15 (6.79%) JUnit
6 10 (4.52%) CircleCI
7 7 (3.17%) GitLab
8 5 (2.26%) Android Studio
8 5 (2.26%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.26%) fastlane
8 5 (2.26%) Gatling
9 4 (1.81%) Mockito
10 3 (1.36%) Appium
10 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.36%) Maven
11 2 (0.90%) Selendroid
11 2 (0.90%) XCUITest
General
1 68 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.62%) Banking
3 36 (16.29%) Finance
4 22 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.33%) Front Office
8 7 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (36.65%) Developer
2 53 (23.98%) Senior
3 45 (20.36%) Software Engineer
4 30 (13.57%) Android Engineer
4 30 (13.57%) Java Engineer
5 28 (12.67%) Android Developer
6 24 (10.86%) Java Developer
7 23 (10.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (6.79%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.33%) Mobile Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Senior Android Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) Lead
11 12 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Senior Java Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 7 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.17%) QA Engineer
13 7 (3.17%) Senior Android Developer
14 6 (2.71%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.08%) Android Jetpack
2 50 (22.62%) REST
3 43 (19.46%) Jetpack Compose
4 37 (16.74%) RESTful
5 30 (13.57%) Spring
6 27 (12.22%) Android SDK
7 25 (11.31%) Kafka
8 22 (9.95%) Spring Boot
9 21 (9.50%) GraphQL
10 18 (8.14%) HTML
11 13 (5.88%) React
12 10 (4.52%) Node.js
12 10 (4.52%) Terraform
13 9 (4.07%) JSON
13 9 (4.07%) RxJava
14 8 (3.62%) Dagger
15 6 (2.71%) Playwright
15 6 (2.71%) Retrofit
16 5 (2.26%) OkHttp
16 5 (2.26%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (22.17%) Mobile App
2 32 (14.48%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (12.67%) Cloud Native
4 15 (6.79%) Product Ownership
5 14 (6.33%) Onboarding
6 13 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (4.07%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.71%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.81%) IoT
11 4 (1.81%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.45%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 81 (36.65%) Android
2 23 (10.41%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.62%) Linux
4 6 (2.71%) Unix
5 4 (1.81%) Windows
6 3 (1.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (49.77%) CI/CD
2 83 (37.56%) Agile
3 67 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 52 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 50 (22.62%) Android Development
6 43 (19.46%) TDD
7 39 (17.65%) Clean Code
7 39 (17.65%) Event-Driven
8 36 (16.29%) Microservices
9 34 (15.38%) MVVM
10 33 (14.93%) Observability
11 32 (14.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 30 (13.57%) AI
13 29 (13.12%) DevOps
14 28 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (11.76%) User Experience
16 25 (11.31%) Code Quality
16 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (11.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 141 (63.80%) Java
2 43 (19.46%) TypeScript
3 33 (14.93%) SQL
4 29 (13.12%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.69%) Swift
6 10 (4.52%) Python
7 7 (3.17%) Scala
8 5 (2.26%) Rust
9 4 (1.81%) C#
9 4 (1.81%) C++
9 4 (1.81%) Go
10 3 (1.36%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) Elixir
11 2 (0.90%) Perl
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) Korn
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 42 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.07%) Degree
4 5 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.48%) QA
2 20 (9.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.81%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (11.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (14.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.17%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) logstash
4 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (13.12%) Google
2 6 (2.71%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.26%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.36%) Oracle
6 1 (0.45%) Apple
6 1 (0.45%) Confluent
6 1 (0.45%) New Relic
6 1 (0.45%) Splunk