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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 330 318
Rank change year-on-year -86 -12 +62
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 214 170 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.88% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 115 131
10th Percentile £313 £360 £375
25th Percentile £423 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £705 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £76.40 £45.85 £40.59
25th Percentile £76.63 £49.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate £77.50 £57.50 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £86.88 £65.38 £42.12
90th Percentile £91.75 £69.35 £42.20
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +34.78% +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 11,950 9,065 10,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.18% 32.85% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,760 6,202 7,534
10th Percentile £363 £344 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £762 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £535
% change year-on-year +2.99% -6.07% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 255 347
10th Percentile £30.98 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £37.13 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £80.00 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -42 132 £475 -9.09% 18
North of England -51 49 £460 +15.00% 14
Yorkshire -43 24 £460 -0.54% 7
North West -35 18 £513 +34.87% 7
South West -27 12 £458 +30.71% 14
South East -56 7 £413 +22.22% 9
North East - 7 £450 -
Midlands -60 6 £518 +11.89% 6
West Midlands - 6 £518 - 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 12 (5.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (22.90%) AWS
2 45 (21.03%) GitHub
3 32 (14.95%) Azure
4 24 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (8.41%) GCP
6 13 (6.07%) Google Play
7 12 (5.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.27%) Firebase
9 6 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.40%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.40%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.40%) Serverless
13 2 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.80%) HTTP
1 6 (2.80%) VPN
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) NFC
2 2 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.80%) Power BI
2 6 (2.80%) Redis
3 5 (2.34%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.87%) MySQL
5 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (9.81%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.48%) JIRA
4 15 (7.01%) Bitbucket
4 15 (7.01%) Gradle
5 11 (5.14%) JUnit
6 9 (4.21%) Android Studio
6 9 (4.21%) GitLab
7 6 (2.80%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.80%) fastlane
8 5 (2.34%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.34%) Gatling
9 4 (1.87%) XCUITest
10 3 (1.40%) Appium
10 3 (1.40%) Selenium
11 2 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.47%) RhodeCode
12 1 (0.47%) Selendroid
General
1 45 (21.03%) Banking
2 44 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.76%) Finance
4 29 (13.55%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.14%) Front Office
8 6 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.87%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (38.79%) Developer
2 48 (22.43%) Senior
3 39 (18.22%) Software Engineer
4 32 (14.95%) Java Developer
5 29 (13.55%) Android Engineer
6 27 (12.62%) Android Developer
7 24 (11.21%) Java Engineer
8 18 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (6.54%) Mobile Engineer
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Android Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Lead
11 12 (5.61%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.21%) Mobile Developer
13 8 (3.74%) QA Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.27%) Architect
14 7 (3.27%) Backend Developer
14 7 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 6 (2.80%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.56%) Android Jetpack
1 44 (20.56%) REST
2 37 (17.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 35 (16.36%) RESTful
4 32 (14.95%) Spring
5 28 (13.08%) Android SDK
6 25 (11.68%) Spring Boot
7 18 (8.41%) Kafka
8 14 (6.54%) GraphQL
8 14 (6.54%) React
9 13 (6.07%) Node.js
10 12 (5.61%) HTML
11 9 (4.21%) RxJava
12 8 (3.74%) OAuth
13 7 (3.27%) OAuth2
13 7 (3.27%) Terraform
14 6 (2.80%) Dagger
14 6 (2.80%) JSON
14 6 (2.80%) Playwright
15 5 (2.34%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.23%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.02%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.75%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.54%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.61%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.80%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.80%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.87%) IoT
10 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.47%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 78 (36.45%) Android
2 22 (10.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.74%) Linux
4 6 (2.80%) Unix
5 3 (1.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (43.46%) CI/CD
2 75 (35.05%) Agile
3 62 (28.97%) Software Engineering
4 49 (22.90%) Android Development
5 47 (21.96%) Test Automation
6 41 (19.16%) Microservices
7 37 (17.29%) Event-Driven
8 35 (16.36%) MVVM
9 33 (15.42%) TDD
10 30 (14.02%) AI
10 30 (14.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 27 (12.62%) Observability
11 27 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.15%) Architectural Patterns
12 26 (12.15%) Clean Code
12 26 (12.15%) User Experience
13 25 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (9.81%) Design Patterns
15 21 (9.81%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 146 (68.22%) Java
2 37 (17.29%) TypeScript
3 22 (10.28%) JavaScript
3 22 (10.28%) SQL
4 17 (7.94%) Python
4 17 (7.94%) Swift
5 7 (3.27%) Go
6 5 (2.34%) C#
6 5 (2.34%) Rust
7 4 (1.87%) C++
8 3 (1.40%) Ruby
9 2 (0.93%) Elixir
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
9 2 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) Korn
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.87%) Degree
5 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.62%) QA
2 20 (9.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.34%) WCAG
4 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (9.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.34%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Podman
3 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.21%) Google
2 6 (2.80%) Dynatrace
2 6 (2.80%) Zscaler
3 5 (2.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.40%) OpenAI