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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 346 271
Rank change year-on-year -91 -75 +120
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 209 172 275
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.62% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.88% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 120 165
10th Percentile £313 £362 £375
25th Percentile £410 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +3.98% -21.49%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £734 £600
UK median daily rate £472 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.55% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £76.48 £57.43 £37.90
25th Percentile £76.81 £59.19 £39.62
Median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +54.26% -45.80%
75th Percentile £82.81 £68.69 £41.88
90th Percentile £90.13 £70.68 £42.10
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.33
% change year-on-year +21.18% +54.26% -45.80%

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 12,102 9,150 10,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.98% 32.88% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,174 7,175
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £528
% change year-on-year +3.51% -4.27% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 259 307
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £49.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.00 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -57 130 £475 -13.64% 389
North of England -55 53 £460 +15.00% 81
Yorkshire -33 30 £461 +2.50% 33
North West -46 19 £550 +46.67% 39
West Midlands -35 10 £470 -8.29% 7
Midlands -48 10 £470 +1.62% 12
South West - 10 £600 - 33
South East -65 4 £425 +25.93% 32
North East - 4 £450 - 9
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 10 (4.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.44%) GitHub
2 45 (21.53%) AWS
3 28 (13.40%) Azure
4 26 (12.44%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (10.05%) GCP
6 13 (6.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (6.22%) Google Play
7 7 (3.35%) Firebase
7 7 (3.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.87%) Cloud Run
8 6 (2.87%) Serverless
9 5 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.39%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.44%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) NFC
2 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.83%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.35%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.35%) Redis
4 5 (2.39%) MySQL
5 4 (1.91%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.44%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.48%) Power BI
7 1 (0.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (11.96%) Git
2 17 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.66%) Bitbucket
3 16 (7.66%) Gradle
3 16 (7.66%) JIRA
4 13 (6.22%) JUnit
5 9 (4.31%) GitLab
6 7 (3.35%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.39%) Android Studio
7 5 (2.39%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.39%) fastlane
7 5 (2.39%) Gatling
8 4 (1.91%) Crashlytics
8 4 (1.91%) Mockito
9 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.44%) Maven
9 3 (1.44%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.96%) Appium
10 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.48%) RhodeCode
General
1 61 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.01%) Banking
3 34 (16.27%) Finance
4 23 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.22%) Front Office
8 7 (3.35%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.91%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (37.32%) Developer
2 47 (22.49%) Senior
3 43 (20.57%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.92%) Android Engineer
4 27 (12.92%) Java Engineer
5 25 (11.96%) Android Developer
6 24 (11.48%) Java Developer
7 22 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) Lead
8 13 (6.22%) Mobile Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.74%) Senior Android Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) QA Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 6 (2.87%) Junior
13 6 (2.87%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.01%) Android Jetpack
2 45 (21.53%) REST
3 38 (18.18%) Jetpack Compose
4 35 (16.75%) RESTful
5 32 (15.31%) Spring
6 25 (11.96%) Kafka
7 24 (11.48%) Android SDK
7 24 (11.48%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.18%) GraphQL
8 15 (7.18%) React
9 14 (6.70%) HTML
10 10 (4.78%) Node.js
11 9 (4.31%) Terraform
12 8 (3.83%) JSON
12 8 (3.83%) RxJava
13 7 (3.35%) Dagger
14 6 (2.87%) Playwright
14 6 (2.87%) Retrofit
15 4 (1.91%) Flutter
15 4 (1.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.10%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.35%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.48%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.70%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (6.70%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.70%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (4.31%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.35%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.39%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.39%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.91%) IoT
11 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.44%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.48%) Derivative
12 1 (0.48%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 72 (34.45%) Android
2 19 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.35%) Linux
4 6 (2.87%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) AIX
5 3 (1.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (48.80%) CI/CD
2 79 (37.80%) Agile
3 68 (32.54%) Software Engineering
4 44 (21.05%) Android Development
4 44 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 41 (19.62%) TDD
6 37 (17.70%) Event-Driven
7 34 (16.27%) Clean Code
7 34 (16.27%) MVVM
8 33 (15.79%) AI
8 33 (15.79%) Microservices
9 30 (14.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 30 (14.35%) Observability
10 27 (12.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (12.44%) User Experience
12 25 (11.96%) DevOps
13 22 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (10.05%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (10.05%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 133 (63.64%) Java
2 42 (20.10%) TypeScript
3 27 (12.92%) SQL
4 25 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.22%) Swift
6 12 (5.74%) Python
7 5 (2.39%) Rust
7 5 (2.39%) Scala
8 4 (1.91%) C#
8 4 (1.91%) C++
8 4 (1.91%) Go
9 3 (1.44%) Ruby
10 2 (0.96%) Elixir
10 2 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.39%) Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.35%) QA
2 18 (8.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (11.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.35%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) logstash
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.00%) Google
2 6 (2.87%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.91%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle
5 1 (0.48%) Confluent
5 1 (0.48%) Zscaler