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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 336 277
Rank change year-on-year -87 -59 +110
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 211 175 280
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.63% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 1.91% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 124 168
10th Percentile £313 £363 £375
25th Percentile £410 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +5.26% -21.49%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £734 £625
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £76.48 £57.43 £36.15
25th Percentile £76.81 £59.19 £36.75
Median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +54.90% -46.03%
75th Percentile £82.81 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile £90.13 £70.68 £42.05
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.16
% change year-on-year +21.18% +54.90% -46.03%

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 12,112 9,159 10,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.03% 32.88% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,841 6,186 7,227
10th Percentile £363 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £526
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 261 309
10th Percentile £26.52 £31.25 £29.55
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% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £78.75 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +3.17%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -71 131 £475 -13.64% 400
North of England -49 54 £460 +15.00% 86
Yorkshire -36 30 £461 +2.50% 36
North West -47 20 £550 +46.67% 42
West Midlands -30 10 £470 -8.29% 9
Midlands -47 10 £470 +1.62% 15
South West - 10 £600 - 33
South East -72 4 £425 +25.93% 35
North East - 4 £450 - 8
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 10 (4.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.22%) GitHub
2 47 (22.27%) AWS
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 26 (12.32%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (10.43%) GCP
6 14 (6.64%) Google Play
7 13 (6.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.32%) Firebase
8 7 (3.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (3.32%) Serverless
9 6 (2.84%) Cloud Run
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.37%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.42%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) NFC
3 2 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.47%) DSL
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.27%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.32%) Redis
4 6 (2.84%) MySQL
5 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
7 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (11.85%) Git
2 17 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.58%) Bitbucket
3 16 (7.58%) Gradle
3 16 (7.58%) JIRA
4 13 (6.16%) JUnit
5 9 (4.27%) GitLab
6 7 (3.32%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.37%) Android Studio
7 5 (2.37%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.37%) fastlane
7 5 (2.37%) Gatling
8 4 (1.90%) Crashlytics
8 4 (1.90%) Mockito
9 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.42%) Maven
9 3 (1.42%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.95%) Appium
10 2 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.47%) git-flow
General
1 62 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.80%) Banking
3 34 (16.11%) Finance
4 23 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.16%) Front Office
8 7 (3.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (37.44%) Developer
2 48 (22.75%) Senior
3 44 (20.85%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.80%) Android Engineer
4 27 (12.80%) Java Engineer
5 26 (12.32%) Android Developer
6 25 (11.85%) Java Developer
7 22 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (6.64%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.16%) Lead
9 13 (6.16%) Mobile Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Senior Android Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) QA Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 6 (2.84%) Senior Android Developer
14 6 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.27%) Android Jetpack
2 45 (21.33%) REST
3 39 (18.48%) Jetpack Compose
4 35 (16.59%) RESTful
5 32 (15.17%) Spring
6 25 (11.85%) Android SDK
6 25 (11.85%) Kafka
7 24 (11.37%) Spring Boot
8 16 (7.58%) GraphQL
9 15 (7.11%) React
10 14 (6.64%) HTML
11 10 (4.74%) Node.js
12 9 (4.27%) Terraform
13 8 (3.79%) JSON
13 8 (3.79%) RxJava
14 7 (3.32%) Dagger
15 6 (2.84%) Playwright
15 6 (2.84%) Retrofit
16 5 (2.37%) Flutter
17 4 (1.90%) Ktor
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.38%) Mobile App
2 31 (14.69%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.37%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.64%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (6.64%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.64%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.74%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.37%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.90%) IoT
11 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.47%) Digital Wallet
12 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 73 (34.60%) Android
2 19 (9.00%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.79%) Linux
4 7 (3.32%) Unix
5 3 (1.42%) AIX
5 3 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (48.82%) CI/CD
2 79 (37.44%) Agile
3 68 (32.23%) Software Engineering
4 45 (21.33%) Android Development
4 45 (21.33%) Test Automation
5 41 (19.43%) TDD
6 37 (17.54%) Event-Driven
7 34 (16.11%) AI
7 34 (16.11%) Clean Code
7 34 (16.11%) Microservices
7 34 (16.11%) MVVM
8 30 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 30 (14.22%) Observability
9 27 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 27 (12.80%) User Experience
10 26 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (11.85%) DevOps
12 22 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.95%) Architectural Patterns
13 21 (9.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 135 (63.98%) Java
2 43 (20.38%) TypeScript
3 27 (12.80%) SQL
4 25 (11.85%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.16%) Swift
6 12 (5.69%) Python
7 5 (2.37%) Rust
7 5 (2.37%) Scala
8 4 (1.90%) C#
8 4 (1.90%) C++
8 4 (1.90%) Go
9 3 (1.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.95%) Elixir
10 2 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.37%) Degree
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.22%) QA
2 18 (8.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) logstash
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.37%) Google
2 6 (2.84%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle
5 1 (0.47%) Confluent
5 1 (0.47%) Zscaler