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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 341 333
Rank change year-on-year -61 -8 +65
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 197 140 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.72% 1.67% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 84 154
10th Percentile £313 £375 £350
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +1.58% -20.83%
75th Percentile £556 £606 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £647
UK median daily rate £500 £491 £475
% change year-on-year +1.75% +3.45% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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% +128.57%
75th Percentile £62.38 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £82.40 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +128.57%

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 11,428 8,381 11,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 33.88% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,816 8,125
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -49 101 £475 -9.52% 72
North of England -51 45 £450 +5.88% 42
North West -28 24 £513 +28.13% 23
South West -12 18 £500 +42.86% 20
South East -41 18 £400 -31.62% 36
Yorkshire -57 14 £400 -18.60% 12
Midlands -58 8 £527 +13.93% 13
West Midlands - 8 £527 - 8
North East - 7 £450 - 7
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 (4.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.89%) AWS
2 34 (17.26%) GitHub
3 27 (13.71%) Azure
4 25 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (10.66%) GCP
6 8 (4.06%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.05%) Firebase
7 6 (3.05%) Google Play
7 6 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.03%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.02%) Serverless
11 1 (0.51%) AuraDB
11 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.51%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.05%) VPN
2 4 (2.03%) HTTP
3 3 (1.52%) DSL
4 2 (1.02%) DNS
4 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.05%) Power BI
3 5 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.03%) MySQL
5 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.02%) SQLite
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 31 (15.74%) Gradle
2 16 (8.12%) Git
2 16 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.11%) JUnit
4 12 (6.09%) Android Studio
5 11 (5.58%) CircleCI
5 11 (5.58%) GitLab
6 9 (4.57%) JIRA
7 8 (4.06%) fastlane
8 7 (3.55%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.55%) IntelliJ
9 5 (2.54%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.54%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.54%) Gatling
10 4 (2.03%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.52%) Appium
11 3 (1.52%) Selenium
11 3 (1.52%) Xcode
12 2 (1.02%) Maven
12 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.74%) Banking
2 28 (14.21%) Finance
3 26 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.69%) Social Skills
5 11 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.55%) Front Office
8 4 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (45.18%) Developer
2 41 (20.81%) Senior
3 33 (16.75%) Android Developer
4 32 (16.24%) Java Developer
5 28 (14.21%) Software Engineer
6 22 (11.17%) Android Engineer
7 21 (10.66%) Java Engineer
8 16 (8.12%) Java Software Engineer
9 15 (7.61%) Mobile Engineer
9 15 (7.61%) Senior Developer
10 14 (7.11%) Backend Developer
11 9 (4.57%) Architect
12 8 (4.06%) Lead
12 8 (4.06%) Mobile Developer
13 7 (3.55%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (3.55%) Tester
14 6 (3.05%) QA Engineer
14 6 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 5 (2.54%) Java Mobile Developer
15 5 (2.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.32%) Android Jetpack
2 40 (20.30%) Jetpack Compose
2 40 (20.30%) Spring
3 36 (18.27%) Spring Boot
4 34 (17.26%) REST
5 22 (11.17%) Android SDK
5 22 (11.17%) RESTful
6 13 (6.60%) GraphQL
6 13 (6.60%) RxJava
7 12 (6.09%) Kafka
8 10 (5.08%) Dagger
8 10 (5.08%) Node.js
9 8 (4.06%) OAuth
9 8 (4.06%) OAuth2
9 8 (4.06%) OkHttp
10 7 (3.55%) WireMock
11 6 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.05%) Playwright
11 6 (3.05%) RAML
11 6 (3.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.38%) Mobile App
2 26 (13.20%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (12.69%) Cloud Native
4 17 (8.63%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.58%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (5.08%) Virtual Team
7 9 (4.57%) Data Structures
7 9 (4.57%) Onboarding
8 8 (4.06%) Legacy Code
8 8 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.55%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.54%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 74 (37.56%) Android
2 24 (12.18%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.06%) Linux
4 4 (2.03%) Unix
4 4 (2.03%) Windows
5 3 (1.52%) AIX
5 3 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.04%) CI/CD
2 50 (25.38%) Agile
3 45 (22.84%) Software Engineering
3 45 (22.84%) Test Automation
4 44 (22.34%) Android Development
5 42 (21.32%) Microservices
6 30 (15.23%) MVVM
7 29 (14.72%) Event-Driven
8 24 (12.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 24 (12.18%) Observability
8 24 (12.18%) TDD
9 23 (11.68%) User Experience
10 22 (11.17%) DevOps
11 19 (9.64%) API Design
11 19 (9.64%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.14%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (9.14%) Open Source
13 17 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 135 (68.53%) Java
2 23 (11.68%) TypeScript
3 20 (10.15%) Swift
4 16 (8.12%) SQL
5 15 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.09%) Python
7 6 (3.05%) Go
8 3 (1.52%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.02%) C#
9 2 (1.02%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) Rust
10 1 (0.51%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.51%) Cypher
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.08%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.72%) QA
2 11 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.54%) WCAG
4 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (9.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.60%) Grafana
3 8 (4.06%) Terraform
4 2 (1.02%) Podman
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (13.20%) Google
2 8 (4.06%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.05%) Splunk
3 6 (3.05%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.54%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.51%) Okta
5 1 (0.51%) Roku