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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 295 429
Rank change year-on-year -91 +134 -37
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 161 234 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 2.49% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 129 116
10th Percentile £333 £396 £431
25th Percentile £379 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £634 £619 £675
90th Percentile £850 £713 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 3
10th Percentile - £35.53 £72.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £73.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +6.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.94 £80.63
90th Percentile - £51.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £41.16 £77.50
% change year-on-year +39.72% -46.90% +6.16%

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 9,744 9,383 11,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.06% 32.58% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,099 8,292
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 226 381
10th Percentile £34.00 £25.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.23 £44.62 £46.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 -100 88 £588 +17.50% 19
North of England -9 40 £400 - 26
North West -16 22 £380 -2.56% 18
Yorkshire -28 18 £413 -27.18% 7
South West -9 13 £350 -21.13% 9
South East -11 8 £431 +1.47% 7
Midlands -27 8 £425 -18.66% 4
East Midlands -16 4 £463 -11.48% 4
West Midlands - 4 £273 -
North East - 1 £425 - 1
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 (3.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.62%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.39%) AWS
2 17 (10.56%) Azure
3 13 (8.07%) Google Play
4 11 (6.83%) GCP
5 9 (5.59%) Firebase
5 9 (5.59%) GitHub
6 6 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.11%) Sentry
8 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.86%) Figma
9 2 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.24%) PaaS
9 2 (1.24%) Serverless
9 2 (1.24%) Vercel
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) HTTP
2 2 (1.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) Broadband
3 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.62%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.97%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.35%) MySQL
5 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.24%) Mixpanel
6 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.62%) HBase
7 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (18.01%) Gradle
2 28 (17.39%) Git
3 15 (9.32%) Android Studio
3 15 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.07%) JUnit
5 11 (6.83%) GitLab
5 11 (6.83%) IntelliJ
6 10 (6.21%) CircleCI
7 7 (4.35%) JIRA
8 6 (3.73%) XCUITest
9 5 (3.11%) Appium
9 5 (3.11%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (3.11%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (3.11%) Postman
9 5 (3.11%) Xcode
10 4 (2.48%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.48%) Mockito
11 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.86%) Selenium
12 2 (1.24%) Maven
General
1 47 (29.19%) Finance
2 25 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.04%) Banking
4 13 (8.07%) Front Office
5 12 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Automotive
8 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Law
8 1 (0.62%) Military
8 1 (0.62%) Police
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 111 (68.94%) Developer
2 62 (38.51%) Android Developer
3 26 (16.15%) Senior
4 19 (11.80%) Java Developer
4 19 (11.80%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.32%) Mobile Developer
5 15 (9.32%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Senior Android Developer
8 10 (6.21%) iOS Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Backend Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Front Office Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Applications Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Lead
12 5 (3.11%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 4 (2.48%) Android Engineer
13 4 (2.48%) iOS Android Developer
13 4 (2.48%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.47%) Android Jetpack
2 39 (24.22%) Jetpack Compose
3 36 (22.36%) RESTful
4 30 (18.63%) Spring
5 27 (16.77%) Spring Boot
6 23 (14.29%) Android SDK
7 13 (8.07%) RxJava
8 12 (7.45%) Dagger
9 11 (6.83%) REST
10 9 (5.59%) CSS
10 9 (5.59%) HTML
10 9 (5.59%) React
11 8 (4.97%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.97%) JSON
11 8 (4.97%) OAuth
11 8 (4.97%) OAuth2
11 8 (4.97%) React Native
11 8 (4.97%) Web Services
12 7 (4.35%) OkHttp
12 7 (4.35%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 51 (31.68%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.73%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.48%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.62%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.62%) Music Streaming
9 1 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 87 (54.04%) Android
2 33 (20.50%) Apple iOS
3 10 (6.21%) Linux
4 5 (3.11%) Windows
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.61%) Android Development
2 50 (31.06%) Agile
2 50 (31.06%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.36%) User Experience
4 34 (21.12%) MVVM
5 29 (18.01%) DevOps
6 24 (14.91%) Mobile Development
6 24 (14.91%) Test Automation
7 23 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 22 (13.66%) Software Engineering
9 21 (13.04%) Microservices
10 20 (12.42%) Architectural Patterns
11 18 (11.18%) TDD
12 17 (10.56%) Design Patterns
12 17 (10.56%) Fintech
12 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (9.94%) Open Source
13 16 (9.94%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (9.32%) Analytics
14 15 (9.32%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 108 (67.08%) Java
2 25 (15.53%) Swift
3 17 (10.56%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.94%) C++
4 16 (9.94%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.32%) Objective-C
5 15 (9.32%) Python
6 10 (6.21%) Scala
6 10 (6.21%) SQL
7 6 (3.73%) Rust
8 5 (3.11%) Ruby
9 3 (1.86%) C
9 3 (1.86%) C#
10 2 (1.24%) Go
10 2 (1.24%) Groovy
10 2 (1.24%) PHP
10 2 (1.24%) VB
11 1 (0.62%) Bash
11 1 (0.62%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 16 (9.94%) Degree
2 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.24%) CCNA
6 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) QA
2 14 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (11.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (18.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.21%) Grafana
3 7 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 29 (18.01%) Google
2 8 (4.97%) Databricks
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.11%) Oracle
3 5 (3.11%) Splunk
4 3 (1.86%) Alibaba
4 3 (1.86%) Apple
5 2 (1.24%) Adobe
5 2 (1.24%) Xamarin