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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 341 353
Rank change year-on-year -67 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 192 142 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.74% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 84 141
10th Percentile £313 £379 £350
25th Percentile £400 £422 £425
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 £650 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -3.00% +1.01% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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% +39.13%
75th Percentile £63.44 £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% +39.13%

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 11,114 8,160 11,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.60% 34.02% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,306 5,650 7,993
10th Percentile £358 £359 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -4.09%
75th Percentile £613 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 197 468
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.32 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -67 92 £471 -21.58% 86
North of England -50 50 £450 - 23
North West -11 30 £475 +18.75% 14
South East -43 19 £406 -30.56% 6
South West -22 16 £481 +10.00% 9
Yorkshire -61 14 £400 -18.60% 3
Midlands -63 7 £527 +13.93% 6
West Midlands - 7 £527 - 5
North East - 6 £488 - 6
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 8 (4.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.44%) AWS
2 32 (16.67%) GitHub
3 24 (12.50%) Azure
4 23 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (9.90%) GCP
6 8 (4.17%) Firebase
7 7 (3.65%) Cloud Run
8 6 (3.13%) Google Play
8 6 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.08%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.04%) Figma
11 2 (1.04%) PaaS
11 2 (1.04%) Serverless
11 2 (1.04%) Vercel
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.13%) VPN
2 3 (1.56%) DSL
2 3 (1.56%) HTTP
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) Power BI
2 5 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.04%) SQLite
4 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 41 (21.35%) Gradle
2 17 (8.85%) GitLab
2 17 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.81%) Git
4 14 (7.29%) Android Studio
4 14 (7.29%) JUnit
5 13 (6.77%) IntelliJ
6 11 (5.73%) CircleCI
7 9 (4.69%) fastlane
7 9 (4.69%) JIRA
8 7 (3.65%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.60%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.60%) Selenium
10 4 (2.08%) Xcode
10 4 (2.08%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.56%) Appium
11 3 (1.56%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.04%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (15.10%) Banking
2 25 (13.02%) Finance
3 24 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.94%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.13%) Front Office
8 4 (2.08%) Retail
9 3 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Law
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Police
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (46.35%) Developer
2 35 (18.23%) Android Developer
2 35 (18.23%) Senior
3 33 (17.19%) Java Developer
4 29 (15.10%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.46%) Android Engineer
6 21 (10.94%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Backend Developer
8 15 (7.81%) Mobile Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.21%) Mobile Developer
10 9 (4.69%) Architect
11 7 (3.65%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (3.13%) Java Mobile Developer
12 6 (3.13%) Tester
13 5 (2.60%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (2.60%) QA Engineer
13 5 (2.60%) Sales Engineer
13 5 (2.60%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.92%) Spring
2 43 (22.40%) Android Jetpack
3 41 (21.35%) Jetpack Compose
4 40 (20.83%) Spring Boot
5 32 (16.67%) REST
6 21 (10.94%) Android SDK
7 20 (10.42%) RESTful
8 14 (7.29%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.77%) RxJava
10 12 (6.25%) Dagger
10 12 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (5.21%) OkHttp
12 8 (4.17%) OAuth
12 8 (4.17%) OAuth2
13 7 (3.65%) Kafka
13 7 (3.65%) Node.js
13 7 (3.65%) WireMock
14 6 (3.13%) RAML
14 6 (3.13%) React
14 6 (3.13%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 51 (26.56%) Mobile App
2 18 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 17 (8.85%) Cloud Native
4 16 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (5.21%) Virtual Team
6 8 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.17%) Legacy Code
7 7 (3.65%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.60%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 77 (40.10%) Android
2 27 (14.06%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.21%) Linux
4 6 (3.13%) Windows
5 4 (2.08%) Unix
6 3 (1.56%) AIX
6 3 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 47 (24.48%) Agile
3 46 (23.96%) Android Development
3 46 (23.96%) Software Engineering
4 40 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 38 (19.79%) Microservices
6 31 (16.15%) MVVM
6 31 (16.15%) User Experience
7 25 (13.02%) TDD
8 23 (11.98%) DevOps
9 21 (10.94%) Event-Driven
10 20 (10.42%) Mentoring
10 20 (10.42%) Observability
11 18 (9.38%) API Design
11 18 (9.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (8.85%) Architectural Patterns
12 17 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (8.85%) Open Source
13 16 (8.33%) Design Patterns
13 16 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 135 (70.31%) Java
2 22 (11.46%) Swift
3 15 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.29%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.21%) Python
6 9 (4.69%) SQL
7 5 (2.60%) Objective-C
8 4 (2.08%) Go
9 2 (1.04%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) Cypher
10 1 (0.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.25%) Degree
4 8 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.10%) QA
2 15 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.08%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (5.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.42%) Grafana
3 9 (4.69%) Terraform
4 2 (1.04%) Podman
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.02%) Google
2 7 (3.65%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.13%) Splunk
3 6 (3.13%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.52%) Okta
6 1 (0.52%) Roku