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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 350 355
Rank change year-on-year -65 +5 +35
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 174 119 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 1.46% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 69 128
10th Percentile £313 £398 £350
25th Percentile £388 £425 £422
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 £648 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -16.46%
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% +88.12%
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% +88.12%

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 10,826 8,172 10,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.58% 33.77% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,151 5,672 7,859
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 212 443
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.34 £37.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -70 75 £475 -9.52% 39
North of England -28 50 £450 -2.70% 27
North West -6 34 £475 +18.75% 9
South East -39 20 £406 -30.56% 3
South West -20 16 £481 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire -53 12 £405 -17.58% 14
Midlands -66 7 £527 +13.93% 2
West Midlands - 7 £527 - 1
North East - 5 £525 - 4
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 9 (5.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.74%) AWS
2 24 (13.79%) GitHub
3 20 (11.49%) Azure
4 18 (10.34%) GCP
5 17 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.02%) Firebase
7 6 (3.45%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.45%) Google Play
7 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.30%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (2.30%) Serverless
10 3 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.15%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.15%) Figma
11 2 (1.15%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.45%) VPN
2 3 (1.72%) DSL
2 3 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.45%) Power BI
2 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.15%) SQLite
3 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.57%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (21.84%) Gradle
2 19 (10.92%) GitLab
3 16 (9.20%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.47%) IntelliJ
4 13 (7.47%) JUnit
5 12 (6.90%) Android Studio
6 11 (6.32%) Git
7 8 (4.60%) CircleCI
8 7 (4.02%) fastlane
8 7 (4.02%) JIRA
9 6 (3.45%) Selenium
10 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.30%) Xcode
11 3 (1.72%) Crashlytics
11 3 (1.72%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.72%) Maven
11 3 (1.72%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.72%) XCUITest
12 2 (1.15%) Mockito
12 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (13.22%) Banking
1 23 (13.22%) Public Sector
2 22 (12.64%) Finance
3 16 (9.20%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.87%) Front Office
5 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.72%) Retail
7 2 (1.15%) Automotive
7 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.15%) Police
7 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (51.15%) Developer
2 34 (19.54%) Android Developer
3 31 (17.82%) Senior
4 30 (17.24%) Java Developer
5 26 (14.94%) Software Engineer
6 20 (11.49%) Backend Developer
7 19 (10.92%) Android Engineer
8 17 (9.77%) Java Engineer
9 15 (8.62%) Java Software Engineer
10 14 (8.05%) Mobile Developer
11 13 (7.47%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.75%) Mobile Engineer
13 9 (5.17%) Architect
14 8 (4.60%) Java Mobile Developer
15 7 (4.02%) Senior Backend Developer
16 5 (2.87%) Applications Developer
16 5 (2.87%) Sales Engineer
16 5 (2.87%) Tester
16 5 (2.87%) Workflow Engineer
17 4 (2.30%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (27.01%) Spring
2 43 (24.71%) Spring Boot
3 36 (20.69%) Android Jetpack
4 35 (20.11%) Jetpack Compose
5 28 (16.09%) REST
6 19 (10.92%) Android SDK
7 15 (8.62%) RESTful
8 13 (7.47%) OAuth
8 13 (7.47%) OAuth2
8 13 (7.47%) RxJava
9 12 (6.90%) GraphQL
9 12 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.75%) Dagger
10 10 (5.75%) OkHttp
11 7 (4.02%) WireMock
12 6 (3.45%) Node.js
12 6 (3.45%) RAML
13 5 (2.87%) JSON
13 5 (2.87%) Kafka
13 5 (2.87%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (28.74%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.60%) Legacy Code
6 8 (4.60%) Virtual Team
7 7 (4.02%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.87%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.57%) Infotainment
11 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 70 (40.23%) Android
2 24 (13.79%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.75%) Linux
4 5 (2.87%) Windows
5 4 (2.30%) Unix
6 3 (1.72%) AIX
6 3 (1.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.03%) CI/CD
2 44 (25.29%) Agile
2 44 (25.29%) Android Development
3 42 (24.14%) Microservices
4 39 (22.41%) Test Automation
5 38 (21.84%) Software Engineering
6 32 (18.39%) MVVM
7 29 (16.67%) User Experience
8 24 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 23 (13.22%) TDD
10 22 (12.64%) API Design
10 22 (12.64%) Event-Driven
11 21 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (11.49%) DevOps
13 19 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (10.34%) Design Patterns
15 15 (8.62%) Observability
15 15 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 124 (71.26%) Java
2 19 (10.92%) Swift
3 13 (7.47%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.32%) Python
5 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.87%) Objective-C
6 5 (2.87%) SQL
7 4 (2.30%) Go
8 2 (1.15%) PHP
8 2 (1.15%) Scala
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.57%) C#
9 1 (0.57%) Cypher
9 1 (0.57%) Groovy
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) Degree
4 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.64%) QA
2 11 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.15%) NCSC
4 2 (1.15%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.49%) Grafana
3 8 (4.60%) Terraform
4 2 (1.15%) Podman
5 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (14.37%) Google
2 6 (3.45%) Splunk
2 6 (3.45%) Zscaler
3 5 (2.87%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.87%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.57%) Okta
5 1 (0.57%) Roku