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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 276 382
Rank change year-on-year -70 +106 +15
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 169 271 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.82% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 2.53% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 167 176
10th Percentile £361 £375 £445
25th Percentile £400 £410 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £700
90th Percentile £721 £600 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £605
% change year-on-year +5.26% -21.49% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £57.43 £37.90 £71.88
25th Percentile £59.19 £39.62 £72.81
Median hourly rate £63.75 £41.33 £76.25
Median % change year-on-year +54.26% -45.80% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.69 £41.88 £80.31
90th Percentile £70.68 £42.10 £81.63
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £41.33 £76.25
% change year-on-year +54.26% -45.80% +3.61%

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 9,106 10,710 13,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.77% 32.52% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,161 7,340 9,801
10th Percentile £350 £351 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 307 411
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.69 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.50 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kotlin 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -92 100 £520 +9.47% 74
North of England +21 43 £400 -8.57% 14
Yorkshire +10 28 £450 -23.40% 5
North West -5 15 £375 +1.01% 7
Midlands -5 12 £463 +2.78% 3
East Midlands - 11 £463 - 2
South East +20 6 £338 -34.15% 21
West Midlands -10 1 £513 +13.89% 1
Kotlin
UK

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.57%) AWS
2 26 (15.38%) GitHub
3 23 (13.61%) Azure
4 13 (7.69%) GCP
4 13 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.14%) Google Play
7 6 (3.55%) Firebase
8 5 (2.96%) Sentry
9 3 (1.78%) CloudBees
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.18%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.59%) BigCommerce
11 1 (0.59%) Bitrise
11 1 (0.59%) Figma
11 1 (0.59%) Flurry Analytics
11 1 (0.59%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) HTTP
2 3 (1.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.59%) Broadband
3 1 (0.59%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.59%) SSL
3 1 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.96%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.37%) MySQL
3 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.59%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (25.44%) Git
2 21 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.83%) Gradle
4 16 (9.47%) CircleCI
5 14 (8.28%) JUnit
6 10 (5.92%) JIRA
7 9 (5.33%) Android Studio
8 8 (4.73%) Xcode
9 6 (3.55%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.55%) Postman
10 5 (2.96%) XCUITest
11 4 (2.37%) Appium
11 4 (2.37%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (2.37%) GitLab
11 4 (2.37%) IntelliJ
11 4 (2.37%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (1.18%) Mockito
12 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 40 (23.67%) Finance
2 32 (18.93%) Banking
3 31 (18.34%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.78%) Front Office
6 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.18%) Military
6 2 (1.18%) Retail
6 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 98 (57.99%) Developer
2 67 (39.64%) Android Developer
3 32 (18.93%) Senior
4 16 (9.47%) Android Engineer
5 13 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Architect
6 12 (7.10%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.51%) iOS Developer
7 11 (6.51%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.51%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.33%) Lead
9 8 (4.73%) Senior Architect
9 8 (4.73%) Senior Technical Architect
10 7 (4.14%) Senior Android Developer
10 7 (4.14%) Senior Android Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Mobile Developer
13 4 (2.37%) Lead Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.26%) Android Jetpack
2 36 (21.30%) RESTful
3 35 (20.71%) Jetpack Compose
4 23 (13.61%) Android SDK
5 20 (11.83%) Dagger
6 14 (8.28%) HTML
7 13 (7.69%) CSS
8 11 (6.51%) RxJava
9 10 (5.92%) Spring
10 9 (5.33%) React
11 8 (4.73%) React Native
11 8 (4.73%) Spring Boot
12 7 (4.14%) Material Design
13 6 (3.55%) iOS SDK
13 6 (3.55%) REST
13 6 (3.55%) Retrofit
14 5 (2.96%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.96%) JSON
14 5 (2.96%) Node.js
14 5 (2.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (37.87%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.73%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.55%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.37%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.37%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.59%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.59%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 103 (60.95%) Android
2 27 (15.98%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.33%) Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Windows
5 4 (2.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (48.52%) Agile
2 70 (41.42%) Android Development
3 65 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 46 (27.22%) MVVM
5 40 (23.67%) User Experience
6 35 (20.71%) DevOps
7 34 (20.12%) TDD
8 33 (19.53%) Architectural Patterns
9 27 (15.98%) Mentoring
9 27 (15.98%) Unit Testing
10 26 (15.38%) Design Patterns
10 26 (15.38%) Scrum
10 26 (15.38%) Test Automation
11 24 (14.20%) Mobile Development
12 22 (13.02%) Microservices
12 22 (13.02%) UX Design
13 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
14 16 (9.47%) Fintech
14 16 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.88%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 98 (57.99%) Java
2 28 (16.57%) Python
3 24 (14.20%) Swift
3 24 (14.20%) TypeScript
4 23 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 19 (11.24%) C++
6 18 (10.65%) Objective-C
7 10 (5.92%) Scala
8 9 (5.33%) Ruby
9 7 (4.14%) C
9 7 (4.14%) Rust
9 7 (4.14%) SQL
10 3 (1.78%) C#
10 3 (1.78%) Go
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
10 3 (1.78%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.18%) PHP
11 2 (1.18%) VB
12 1 (0.59%) Ada
Qualifications
1 13 (7.69%) Degree
2 12 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.78%) CCNA
6 3 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.83%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.10%) QA
3 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.47%) Terraform
3 14 (8.28%) Grafana
4 11 (6.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) Google
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.96%) Alibaba
4 4 (2.37%) Splunk
5 3 (1.78%) Apple
5 3 (1.78%) Databricks
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle
6 2 (1.18%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.59%) Adobe
7 1 (0.59%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media