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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 271 400
Rank change year-on-year -99 +129 +1
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 161 269 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.86% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 2.66% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 162 161
10th Percentile £345 £388 £445
25th Percentile £387 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -23.28% +5.93%
75th Percentile £602 £593 £675
90th Percentile £744 £649 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £605
% change year-on-year - -17.36% +2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £48.05 £36.35 £72.25
25th Percentile £51.13 £37.63 £73.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £41.16 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -46.90% +5.31%
75th Percentile £65.38 £42.00 £80.63
90th Percentile £69.35 £43.95 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £41.16 £77.50
% change year-on-year +39.72% -46.90% +5.31%

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 9,471 10,107 12,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.51% 32.40% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,307 6,628 9,281
10th Percentile £340 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 261 414
10th Percentile £30.99 £30.00 £32.31
25th Percentile £43.77 £46.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £75.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 31 October 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 -97 96 £550 +10.00% 76
North of England -6 38 £395 -5.79% 13
Yorkshire -4 27 £440 -25.11% 2
North West -11 11 £375 -3.85% 9
Midlands -13 10 £463 -11.48% 2
East Midlands -5 7 £463 -11.48% 1
South East +2 6 £338 -20.59% 48
South West +8 5 £380 -7.88% 11
West Midlands - 3 £275 - 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 9 (5.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.62%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.77%) AWS
2 22 (13.66%) GitHub
3 20 (12.42%) Azure
4 15 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (6.83%) GCP
6 10 (6.21%) Google Play
7 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.73%) Firebase
7 6 (3.73%) Sentry
8 2 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.24%) Bitrise
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.62%) Figma
9 1 (0.62%) Flurry Analytics
9 1 (0.62%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) HTTP
2 3 (1.86%) 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 8 (4.97%) MongoDB
1 8 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.73%) MySQL
2 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.62%) HBase
5 1 (0.62%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (22.36%) Git
2 25 (15.53%) Gradle
3 19 (11.80%) Jenkins
4 18 (11.18%) CircleCI
5 16 (9.94%) JUnit
6 13 (8.07%) Android Studio
7 10 (6.21%) JIRA
8 8 (4.97%) Xcode
9 7 (4.35%) Postman
9 7 (4.35%) XCUITest
10 5 (3.11%) Appium
10 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.11%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (3.11%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (2.48%) GitLab
11 4 (2.48%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.86%) Mockito
13 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.24%) Maven
13 2 (1.24%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (24.84%) Finance
2 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.39%) Banking
4 9 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.35%) Front Office
6 4 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Military
7 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Law
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 96 (59.63%) Developer
2 63 (39.13%) Android Developer
3 31 (19.25%) Senior
4 13 (8.07%) Android Engineer
4 13 (8.07%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.45%) Architect
5 12 (7.45%) Senior Developer
6 11 (6.83%) iOS Developer
6 11 (6.83%) Java Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Technical Architect
7 8 (4.97%) Lead
7 8 (4.97%) Senior Architect
7 8 (4.97%) Senior Technical Architect
8 7 (4.35%) Mobile Developer
8 7 (4.35%) Senior Android Developer
9 6 (3.73%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.11%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.11%) QA Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.33%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (25.47%) Jetpack Compose
2 41 (25.47%) RESTful
3 25 (15.53%) Android SDK
4 18 (11.18%) Dagger
5 14 (8.70%) CSS
5 14 (8.70%) HTML
5 14 (8.70%) RxJava
6 13 (8.07%) Spring
7 10 (6.21%) React
7 10 (6.21%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.97%) React Native
8 8 (4.97%) REST
8 8 (4.97%) Web Services
9 7 (4.35%) Retrofit
10 6 (3.73%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.73%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.73%) iOS SDK
11 5 (3.11%) JSON
12 4 (2.48%) JNI
Miscellaneous
1 61 (37.89%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.97%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.48%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 99 (61.49%) Android
2 30 (18.63%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.97%) Linux
4 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.86%) Windows
6 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.10%) Agile
2 67 (41.61%) Android Development
3 59 (36.65%) CI/CD
4 44 (27.33%) MVVM
5 40 (24.84%) User Experience
6 32 (19.88%) DevOps
7 30 (18.63%) Architectural Patterns
8 27 (16.77%) Unit Testing
9 25 (15.53%) TDD
10 24 (14.91%) Mobile Development
11 23 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 22 (13.66%) Microservices
12 22 (13.66%) UX Design
13 20 (12.42%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (12.42%) Mentoring
13 20 (12.42%) Roadmaps
13 20 (12.42%) Scrum
14 17 (10.56%) Design Patterns
14 17 (10.56%) Fintech
14 17 (10.56%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 101 (62.73%) Java
2 27 (16.77%) Swift
3 26 (16.15%) TypeScript
4 22 (13.66%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.04%) Python
6 20 (12.42%) C++
7 19 (11.80%) Objective-C
8 13 (8.07%) Scala
9 10 (6.21%) SQL
10 9 (5.59%) Ruby
11 7 (4.35%) C
12 6 (3.73%) Rust
13 3 (1.86%) C#
13 3 (1.86%) Go
14 2 (1.24%) PHP
14 2 (1.24%) VB
15 1 (0.62%) Ada
15 1 (0.62%) Clojure
15 1 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (9.32%) Degree
2 13 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.86%) CCNA
6 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) Accessibility
1 16 (9.94%) QA
2 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (9.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.07%) Terraform
3 12 (7.45%) Grafana
4 9 (5.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (14.91%) Google
2 7 (4.35%) Databricks
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.11%) Splunk
4 3 (1.86%) Alibaba
4 3 (1.86%) Apple
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle
5 2 (1.24%) Adobe
5 2 (1.24%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.62%) Checkmarx