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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 355 275
Rank change year-on-year -59 -80 +142
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 211 166 274
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.59% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.81% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 119 165
10th Percentile £341 £362 £381
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +4.21% -24.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £541
90th Percentile £650 £735 £625
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -5.90% +4.38% -23.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £76.55 £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile £77.00 £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate £77.50 £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% +59.07% -48.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile - £70.68 £42.00
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.57% +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 12,064 9,182 10,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.81% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,809 6,144 7,012
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £636 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 266 298
10th Percentile £23.00 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £50.19 £42.25 £47.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.75 £79.42
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -58 126 £475 -13.64% 355
North of England -42 61 £460 +15.00% 80
Yorkshire -32 33 £460 +4.55% 33
North West -32 24 £575 +53.33% 38
West Midlands -35 10 £470 -8.29% 8
Midlands -50 10 £470 +1.62% 10
South West - 10 £600 - 21
North East - 4 £450 - 9
South East -65 3 £250 -25.93% 26
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 12 (5.69%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Trello
2 1 (0.47%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.22%) GitHub
2 46 (21.80%) AWS
3 29 (13.74%) Azure
4 25 (11.85%) GCP
4 25 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.11%) Google Play
6 12 (5.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (4.74%) Firebase
8 8 (3.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.32%) Cloud Run
9 7 (3.32%) Serverless
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.37%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.42%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) HTTP
2 4 (1.90%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) NFC
3 2 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.47%) DHCP
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
4 1 (0.47%) Internet
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.32%) MySQL
3 7 (3.32%) Redis
4 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.95%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (11.85%) Git
2 18 (8.53%) Bitbucket
2 18 (8.53%) JIRA
3 17 (8.06%) Gradle
3 17 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.16%) JUnit
5 8 (3.79%) GitLab
6 7 (3.32%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.37%) Android Studio
7 5 (2.37%) Crashlytics
7 5 (2.37%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.37%) fastlane
7 5 (2.37%) Gatling
8 4 (1.90%) Mockito
9 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.42%) Maven
10 2 (0.95%) Appium
10 2 (0.95%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.95%) Xcode
10 2 (0.95%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.75%) Banking
3 33 (15.64%) Finance
4 22 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.16%) Front Office
8 7 (3.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (37.44%) Developer
2 50 (23.70%) Senior
3 45 (21.33%) Software Engineer
4 28 (13.27%) Android Developer
4 28 (13.27%) Java Engineer
5 27 (12.80%) Android Engineer
6 23 (10.90%) Java Developer
6 23 (10.90%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (7.11%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.64%) Mobile Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Lead
9 12 (5.69%) Senior Android Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.32%) QA Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Senior Android Developer
12 6 (2.84%) Junior
12 6 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.75%) Android Jetpack
1 48 (22.75%) REST
2 41 (19.43%) Jetpack Compose
3 34 (16.11%) RESTful
4 29 (13.74%) Spring
5 26 (12.32%) Android SDK
6 25 (11.85%) Kafka
7 21 (9.95%) Spring Boot
8 19 (9.00%) GraphQL
9 16 (7.58%) HTML
10 13 (6.16%) React
11 10 (4.74%) Node.js
12 9 (4.27%) JSON
12 9 (4.27%) Terraform
13 8 (3.79%) RxJava
14 7 (3.32%) Dagger
15 6 (2.84%) Playwright
15 6 (2.84%) Retrofit
16 5 (2.37%) Flutter
16 5 (2.37%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.38%) Mobile App
2 29 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.37%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.64%) Onboarding
5 13 (6.16%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.69%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (4.27%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.84%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.90%) IoT
12 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 76 (36.02%) Android
2 21 (9.95%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.79%) Linux
4 6 (2.84%) Unix
5 4 (1.90%) Windows
6 3 (1.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 80 (37.91%) Agile
3 66 (31.28%) Software Engineering
4 48 (22.75%) Test Automation
5 47 (22.27%) Android Development
6 42 (19.91%) TDD
7 37 (17.54%) Event-Driven
8 36 (17.06%) Clean Code
9 33 (15.64%) Microservices
9 33 (15.64%) MVVM
10 32 (15.17%) Observability
11 30 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 29 (13.74%) AI
13 27 (12.80%) DevOps
14 26 (12.32%) User Experience
15 25 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (10.43%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (10.43%) Code Quality
16 22 (10.43%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 135 (63.98%) Java
2 42 (19.91%) TypeScript
3 30 (14.22%) SQL
4 26 (12.32%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.58%) Swift
6 11 (5.21%) Python
7 5 (2.37%) Rust
7 5 (2.37%) Scala
8 4 (1.90%) C#
8 4 (1.90%) C++
8 4 (1.90%) Go
9 3 (1.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.95%) Elixir
10 2 (0.95%) Perl
10 2 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 42 (19.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.37%) Degree
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.22%) QA
2 19 (9.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (13.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) logstash
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.80%) Google
2 6 (2.84%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.37%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.42%) Oracle
6 1 (0.47%) Apple
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent