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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 357 273
Rank change year-on-year -67 -84 +133
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 229 167 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.59% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 1.82% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 120 166
10th Percentile £346 £362 £381
25th Percentile £410 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +1.87% -22.76%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £568
90th Percentile £649 £734 £634
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £477
% change year-on-year -6.00% +4.82% -21.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £63.38 £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile £76.44 £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +59.07% -48.29%
75th Percentile £90.94 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.68 £42.00
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.18% +59.07% -48.29%

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 12,243 9,174 10,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.14% 32.61% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,916 6,144 6,872
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £635 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 264 289
10th Percentile £21.33 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.64 £42.25 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -64 135 £471 -9.52% 281
North of England -50 65 £461 +15.31% 65
Yorkshire -27 37 £463 +5.11% 26
North West -39 24 £575 +53.33% 32
South West -24 11 £600 +50.00% 17
West Midlands -36 11 £470 -8.29% 5
Midlands -51 11 £470 +1.62% 7
South East -61 7 £345 +2.22% 18
North East - 4 £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 15 (6.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Trello
2 1 (0.44%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (4.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.76%) GitHub
2 47 (20.52%) AWS
3 32 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
4 29 (12.66%) Azure
4 29 (12.66%) GCP
5 16 (6.99%) Google Play
6 12 (5.24%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (4.37%) Firebase
8 9 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (3.49%) Cloud Run
10 7 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.06%) Serverless
11 5 (2.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.18%) Sentry
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.62%) HTTP
2 4 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.87%) NFC
3 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.44%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.44%) DHCP
4 1 (0.44%) Firewall
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.06%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.06%) MySQL
3 7 (3.06%) Redis
4 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.31%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.31%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.87%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (11.35%) Git
2 25 (10.92%) Gradle
3 21 (9.17%) JIRA
4 20 (8.73%) Bitbucket
5 17 (7.42%) Jenkins
5 17 (7.42%) JUnit
6 14 (6.11%) CircleCI
7 7 (3.06%) GitLab
8 5 (2.18%) Android Studio
8 5 (2.18%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.18%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.18%) fastlane
8 5 (2.18%) Gatling
9 4 (1.75%) Mockito
10 3 (1.31%) Appium
10 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.31%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.31%) Maven
10 3 (1.31%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
General
1 70 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.71%) Banking
3 37 (16.16%) Finance
4 22 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.11%) Front Office
8 7 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (35.81%) Developer
2 55 (24.02%) Senior
3 46 (20.09%) Software Engineer
4 32 (13.97%) Android Engineer
5 31 (13.54%) Java Engineer
6 28 (12.23%) Android Developer
7 25 (10.92%) Java Developer
8 24 (10.48%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (6.99%) Mobile Engineer
10 15 (6.55%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.68%) Lead
11 13 (5.68%) Senior Android Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) QA Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (23.14%) Android Jetpack
1 53 (23.14%) REST
2 45 (19.65%) Jetpack Compose
3 37 (16.16%) RESTful
4 33 (14.41%) Spring
5 27 (11.79%) Android SDK
6 25 (10.92%) Kafka
7 23 (10.04%) Spring Boot
8 21 (9.17%) GraphQL
9 18 (7.86%) HTML
10 13 (5.68%) React
11 11 (4.80%) RxJava
12 10 (4.37%) Dagger
12 10 (4.37%) Node.js
12 10 (4.37%) Terraform
13 9 (3.93%) JSON
14 7 (3.06%) OkHttp
15 6 (2.62%) Playwright
15 6 (2.62%) Retrofit
15 6 (2.62%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.71%) Mobile App
2 32 (13.97%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (12.23%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.99%) Product Ownership
5 14 (6.11%) Onboarding
6 13 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.93%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.62%) Legacy Code
10 5 (2.18%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.18%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.75%) IoT
12 3 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 85 (37.12%) Android
2 26 (11.35%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.49%) Linux
4 6 (2.62%) Unix
5 4 (1.75%) Windows
6 3 (1.31%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (49.34%) CI/CD
2 86 (37.55%) Agile
3 70 (30.57%) Software Engineering
4 55 (24.02%) Test Automation
5 51 (22.27%) Android Development
6 44 (19.21%) TDD
7 40 (17.47%) Clean Code
8 39 (17.03%) Event-Driven
8 39 (17.03%) Microservices
9 36 (15.72%) Observability
10 35 (15.28%) MVVM
11 32 (13.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 30 (13.10%) AI
12 30 (13.10%) DevOps
12 30 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (11.79%) User Experience
14 26 (11.35%) Code Quality
14 26 (11.35%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 145 (63.32%) Java
2 44 (19.21%) TypeScript
3 34 (14.85%) SQL
4 30 (13.10%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.30%) Swift
6 10 (4.37%) Python
7 7 (3.06%) Scala
8 5 (2.18%) Rust
9 4 (1.75%) C#
9 4 (1.75%) C++
9 4 (1.75%) Go
10 3 (1.31%) Ruby
11 2 (0.87%) Elixir
11 2 (0.87%) Perl
11 2 (0.87%) PHP
11 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) Korn
12 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.68%) Degree
4 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.41%) QA
2 20 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (10.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.06%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.44%) logstash
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (13.54%) Google
2 6 (2.62%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.18%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.18%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle
5 2 (0.87%) Apple
6 1 (0.44%) Confluent
6 1 (0.44%) New Relic
6 1 (0.44%) Splunk