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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 277 393
Rank change year-on-year -106 +116 -3
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 159 218 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.82% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 2.50% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 122 126
10th Percentile £313 £391 £425
25th Percentile £375 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £650 £601 £663
90th Percentile £850 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.44% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 5
10th Percentile - £35.53 £73.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.08 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.23% -49.90% +59.84%
75th Percentile £61.25 £42.94 £82.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £41.16 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.64% -48.56% +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 9,526 8,720 10,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.72% 32.64% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,330 5,601 7,929
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 207 399
10th Percentile £39.58 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.59 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -98 81 £600 +20.00% 36
North of England -13 45 £378 -5.63% 40
North West -8 31 £380 -2.56% 17
Yorkshire -26 14 £375 -33.80% 19
South West -14 13 £350 -21.13% 24
South East -12 8 £400 -20.79% 46
Midlands -39 6 £331 -36.60% 21
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 4
East Midlands -19 2 £425 -18.66% 17
North East - 1 £425 - 4
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 6 (3.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.63%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.24%) AWS
2 11 (6.92%) Azure
2 11 (6.92%) GitHub
3 9 (5.66%) GCP
3 9 (5.66%) Google Play
4 8 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (4.40%) Firebase
6 5 (3.14%) Sentry
7 3 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.89%) Figma
8 2 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.26%) PaaS
8 2 (1.26%) Serverless
8 2 (1.26%) Vercel
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.63%) Apigee
9 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.29%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.40%) MySQL
5 3 (1.89%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.63%) HBase
6 1 (0.63%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (23.27%) Gradle
2 22 (13.84%) Git
3 16 (10.06%) GitLab
3 16 (10.06%) IntelliJ
4 15 (9.43%) Android Studio
4 15 (9.43%) JUnit
5 14 (8.81%) Jenkins
6 9 (5.66%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.77%) JIRA
7 6 (3.77%) XCUITest
8 5 (3.14%) Appium
8 5 (3.14%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.14%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.14%) Postman
8 5 (3.14%) Xcode
9 4 (2.52%) Mockito
10 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.89%) Selenium
11 2 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 41 (25.79%) Finance
2 23 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.32%) Banking
4 13 (8.18%) Front Office
5 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Military
8 1 (0.63%) Police
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 108 (67.92%) Developer
2 56 (35.22%) Android Developer
3 29 (18.24%) Senior
4 22 (13.84%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.58%) Software Engineer
6 19 (11.95%) Java Developer
7 16 (10.06%) Java Engineer
8 14 (8.81%) Mobile Developer
9 13 (8.18%) Backend Developer
10 11 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Senior Android Developer
12 9 (5.66%) Front Office Developer
12 9 (5.66%) iOS Developer
13 7 (4.40%) Applications Developer
14 6 (3.77%) Android Engineer
15 5 (3.14%) Mobile Applications Developer
16 4 (2.52%) Java Mobile Developer
16 4 (2.52%) Lead Developer
16 4 (2.52%) Mobile Engineer
16 4 (2.52%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.27%) Android Jetpack
2 35 (22.01%) Jetpack Compose
3 34 (21.38%) Spring
4 31 (19.50%) Spring Boot
5 29 (18.24%) RESTful
6 23 (14.47%) Android SDK
7 15 (9.43%) RxJava
8 14 (8.81%) Dagger
9 12 (7.55%) OpenTelemetry
9 12 (7.55%) REST
10 9 (5.66%) OkHttp
11 8 (5.03%) JSON
11 8 (5.03%) Web Services
12 7 (4.40%) CSS
12 7 (4.40%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.40%) HTML
12 7 (4.40%) OAuth
12 7 (4.40%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.40%) React
12 7 (4.40%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.82%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.14%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.52%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.52%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.52%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.63%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.63%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 82 (51.57%) Android
2 33 (20.75%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.66%) Linux
4 4 (2.52%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.52%) Windows
5 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.36%) Android Development
2 43 (27.04%) Agile
3 38 (23.90%) CI/CD
4 34 (21.38%) User Experience
5 31 (19.50%) MVVM
6 27 (16.98%) Software Engineering
7 22 (13.84%) DevOps
8 21 (13.21%) Microservices
8 21 (13.21%) Mobile Development
8 21 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 19 (11.95%) Design Patterns
10 18 (11.32%) Open Source
11 17 (10.69%) Unit Testing
12 16 (10.06%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (10.06%) Computer Science
12 16 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (9.43%) API Design
13 15 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (9.43%) SOLID
13 15 (9.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 109 (68.55%) Java
2 25 (15.72%) Swift
3 15 (9.43%) C++
4 14 (8.81%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.81%) Objective-C
5 13 (8.18%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.29%) Python
6 10 (6.29%) Scala
7 8 (5.03%) SQL
8 4 (2.52%) Ruby
8 4 (2.52%) Rust
9 3 (1.89%) C
9 3 (1.89%) C#
10 2 (1.26%) Go
10 2 (1.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.63%) Bash
11 1 (0.63%) Clojure
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.32%) Degree
2 12 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.26%) SANS
8 1 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.32%) QA
2 14 (8.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (10.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.18%) Grafana
3 7 (4.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 25 (15.72%) Google
2 8 (5.03%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.14%) Splunk
4 4 (2.52%) Oracle
5 3 (1.89%) Apple
6 2 (1.26%) Adobe
6 2 (1.26%) Alibaba
6 2 (1.26%) Xamarin