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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 346 382
Rank change year-on-year -61 +36 +22
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 172 136 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.55% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 1.62% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 79 130
10th Percentile £313 £381 £375
25th Percentile £388 £442 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +5.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £799 £734 £689
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -11.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 3
10th Percentile - £35.38 £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.44 £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% -49.69% +59.84%
75th Percentile £61.25 £45.31 £81.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £54.00 £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £41.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +32.53% -48.13% +59.84%

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 10,671 8,404 10,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.02% 33.97% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 5,665 7,918
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 215 452
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.63
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 77 £575 -8.00% 33
North of England -29 42 £475 +1.06% 14
North West -16 32 £475 +11.76% 5
South West -13 22 £390 -5.45% 4
South East -34 16 £363 -38.03% 14
Midlands -52 8 £493 -5.29% 1
West Midlands - 8 £493 - 1
Yorkshire -54 7 £425 -21.51% 7
North East - 4 £575 - 2
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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.00%) AWS
2 16 (9.30%) GitHub
3 14 (8.14%) Azure
3 14 (8.14%) GCP
4 12 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.65%) Firebase
6 6 (3.49%) Cloud Run
6 6 (3.49%) Google Play
7 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.33%) Sauce Labs
8 4 (2.33%) Serverless
9 3 (1.74%) Figma
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.16%) Bitrise
10 2 (1.16%) Sentry
10 2 (1.16%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.91%) VPN
2 2 (1.16%) DSL
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.81%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.91%) Power BI
3 5 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.16%) SQLite
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) HBase
6 1 (0.58%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 40 (23.26%) Gradle
2 18 (10.47%) Android Studio
2 18 (10.47%) GitLab
3 16 (9.30%) Git
4 13 (7.56%) Jenkins
5 12 (6.98%) IntelliJ
6 10 (5.81%) JUnit
7 8 (4.65%) CircleCI
7 8 (4.65%) JIRA
8 5 (2.91%) Selenium
8 5 (2.91%) Xcode
9 4 (2.33%) fastlane
9 4 (2.33%) Maven
9 4 (2.33%) Mockito
10 3 (1.74%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.74%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.74%) XCUITest
11 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.16%) Postman
General
1 39 (22.67%) Finance
2 19 (11.05%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.05%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.47%) Banking
4 14 (8.14%) Front Office
5 4 (2.33%) Retail
6 3 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Automotive
7 2 (1.16%) Law
7 2 (1.16%) Police
7 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 106 (61.63%) Developer
2 50 (29.07%) Android Developer
3 36 (20.93%) Senior
4 23 (13.37%) Senior Developer
5 22 (12.79%) Java Developer
5 22 (12.79%) Software Engineer
6 19 (11.05%) Backend Developer
7 18 (10.47%) Java Engineer
8 16 (9.30%) Mobile Developer
9 14 (8.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (6.40%) Android Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Front Office Developer
11 9 (5.23%) Senior Android Developer
12 8 (4.65%) Architect
13 7 (4.07%) Applications Developer
13 7 (4.07%) Senior Backend Developer
14 6 (3.49%) Java Mobile Developer
14 6 (3.49%) Mobile Engineer
15 5 (2.91%) iOS Developer
15 5 (2.91%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.42%) Spring
2 41 (23.84%) Android Jetpack
3 40 (23.26%) Jetpack Compose
3 40 (23.26%) Spring Boot
4 28 (16.28%) Android SDK
5 22 (12.79%) REST
6 19 (11.05%) RESTful
7 13 (7.56%) OAuth
7 13 (7.56%) OAuth2
7 13 (7.56%) RxJava
8 12 (6.98%) Dagger
8 12 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (6.40%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.65%) OkHttp
11 7 (4.07%) RAML
11 7 (4.07%) Retrofit
12 6 (3.49%) JSON
12 6 (3.49%) WireMock
13 5 (2.91%) Web Services
13 5 (2.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (30.23%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.23%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.23%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.07%) Legacy Code
4 7 (4.07%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.58%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.58%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (44.77%) Android
2 24 (13.95%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.91%) Linux
3 5 (2.91%) Windows
4 3 (1.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (33.14%) Android Development
2 45 (26.16%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.93%) MVVM
4 35 (20.35%) Agile
5 34 (19.77%) Microservices
6 30 (17.44%) Software Engineering
7 29 (16.86%) User Experience
8 27 (15.70%) Test Automation
9 25 (14.53%) Open Source
10 24 (13.95%) API Design
11 22 (12.79%) Mentoring
11 22 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
11 22 (12.79%) TDD
12 21 (12.21%) Design Patterns
13 20 (11.63%) SOLID
14 19 (11.05%) Mobile Development
15 18 (10.47%) Event-Driven
16 17 (9.88%) Architectural Patterns
16 17 (9.88%) Benchmarking
16 17 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (73.84%) Java
2 20 (11.63%) Swift
3 11 (6.40%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.23%) Python
4 9 (5.23%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.65%) Objective-C
6 5 (2.91%) Scala
6 5 (2.91%) SQL
7 4 (2.33%) Go
8 3 (1.74%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) Bash
9 1 (0.58%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.58%) Clojure
9 1 (0.58%) Cypher
9 1 (0.58%) Groovy
9 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.98%) Degree
4 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) SANS
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) GIAC
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.05%) QA
2 12 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (12.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.05%) Grafana
3 5 (2.91%) Terraform
4 2 (1.16%) Podman
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 30 (17.44%) Google
2 8 (4.65%) Databricks
3 7 (4.07%) Splunk
4 5 (2.91%) Zscaler
5 4 (2.33%) Oracle
6 2 (1.16%) Adobe
6 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Roku
7 1 (0.58%) Xamarin