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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 278 413
Rank change year-on-year -114 +135 -12
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 154 250 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.82% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 2.54% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 148 129
10th Percentile £327 £394 £442
25th Percentile £375 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £675
90th Percentile £840 £691 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £48.05 £35.53 £72.25
25th Percentile £51.13 £36.50 £73.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +25.97%
75th Percentile £65.38 £42.94 £80.63
90th Percentile £69.35 £51.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
% change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +25.97%

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 9,682 9,856 11,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.57% 32.48% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,436 6,396 8,676
10th Percentile £344 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 255 402
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
Median % change year-on-year - +4.97% -0.93%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.00 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £64.82 £63.00 £60.21
% change year-on-year +2.88% +4.63% -3.66%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -93 92 £575 +15.00% 35
North of England -27 34 £400 -4.48% 5
Yorkshire -14 22 £433 -23.65% 1
North West -22 12 £375 -5.06% 4
South West +4 10 £350 -15.15% 11
Midlands -21 8 £425 -18.66% 4
South East +2 7 £338 -20.59% 25
East Midlands -12 4 £463 -11.48% 4
West Midlands - 4 £273 -
North East - 1 £425 -
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 7 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.65%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.88%) AWS
2 18 (11.69%) Azure
3 12 (7.79%) GCP
3 12 (7.79%) Google Play
4 8 (5.19%) GitHub
5 6 (3.90%) Firebase
6 5 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.25%) Sentry
7 3 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.30%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.30%) Serverless
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.65%) Apigee
9 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.65%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.25%) HTTP
2 3 (1.95%) Firewall
3 1 (0.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.65%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.55%) MySQL
5 3 (1.95%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) HBase
7 1 (0.65%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (20.78%) Git
2 16 (10.39%) Gradle
3 15 (9.74%) Android Studio
3 15 (9.74%) JUnit
4 13 (8.44%) Jenkins
5 9 (5.84%) CircleCI
6 8 (5.19%) JIRA
7 7 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.55%) XCUITest
8 6 (3.90%) GitLab
9 5 (3.25%) Appium
9 5 (3.25%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (3.25%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (3.25%) Postman
10 4 (2.60%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.60%) Mockito
10 4 (2.60%) Xcode
11 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.30%) Maven
11 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (33.77%) Finance
2 27 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Banking
4 13 (8.44%) Front Office
5 10 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.65%) Automotive
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Military
8 1 (0.65%) Police
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 110 (71.43%) Developer
2 63 (40.91%) Android Developer
3 29 (18.83%) Senior
4 20 (12.99%) Senior Developer
5 17 (11.04%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.79%) Mobile Developer
6 12 (7.79%) Senior Android Developer
7 9 (5.84%) Front Office Developer
7 9 (5.84%) iOS Developer
8 8 (5.19%) Java Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Applications Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Backend Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Android Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Lead
10 5 (3.25%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.25%) Mobile Engineer
11 4 (2.60%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 4 (2.60%) QA Engineer
11 4 (2.60%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.27%) Android Jetpack
2 40 (25.97%) RESTful
3 39 (25.32%) Jetpack Compose
4 25 (16.23%) Android SDK
5 21 (13.64%) Spring
6 18 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 12 (7.79%) Dagger
7 12 (7.79%) RxJava
8 10 (6.49%) CSS
8 10 (6.49%) HTML
9 9 (5.84%) React
10 8 (5.19%) OAuth
10 8 (5.19%) OAuth2
10 8 (5.19%) REST
10 8 (5.19%) Web Services
11 7 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.90%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.90%) iOS SDK
12 6 (3.90%) React Native
13 5 (3.25%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 57 (37.01%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.60%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.60%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (2.60%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (1.95%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.65%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.65%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 89 (57.79%) Android
2 31 (20.13%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.19%) Linux
4 4 (2.60%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.95%) Windows
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (44.16%) Android Development
2 59 (38.31%) Agile
3 53 (34.42%) CI/CD
4 34 (22.08%) MVVM
5 31 (20.13%) User Experience
6 27 (17.53%) DevOps
7 24 (15.58%) Test Automation
7 24 (15.58%) Unit Testing
8 22 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
9 21 (13.64%) Microservices
10 20 (12.99%) Mobile Development
11 18 (11.69%) Fintech
11 18 (11.69%) Mentoring
12 17 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (11.04%) Scrum
13 16 (10.39%) Open Source
13 16 (10.39%) TDD
14 15 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (9.74%) SDLC
14 15 (9.74%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 101 (65.58%) Java
2 23 (14.94%) Swift
3 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.04%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.39%) C++
5 16 (10.39%) Python
6 13 (8.44%) Objective-C
7 10 (6.49%) Scala
7 10 (6.49%) SQL
8 6 (3.90%) Rust
9 5 (3.25%) Ruby
10 3 (1.95%) C
10 3 (1.95%) C#
10 3 (1.95%) Go
11 2 (1.30%) Groovy
11 2 (1.30%) PHP
11 2 (1.30%) VB
12 1 (0.65%) Bash
12 1 (0.65%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 13 (8.44%) Degree
2 10 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.95%) CCNA
6 3 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) QA
2 12 (7.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (11.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.25%) Terraform
3 3 (1.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 29 (18.83%) Google
2 8 (5.19%) Databricks
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.25%) Splunk
4 4 (2.60%) Oracle
5 3 (1.95%) Alibaba
5 3 (1.95%) Apple
6 2 (1.30%) Adobe
6 2 (1.30%) Xamarin