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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 356 327
Rank change year-on-year -53 -29 +71
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 221 160 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 1.77% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 108 148
10th Percentile £313 £361 £363
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -4.52% -17.08%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £658 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £78.80 - -
25th Percentile £81.50 £43.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate £86.00 £44.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.26% +7.23% -
75th Percentile £90.50 £45.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £93.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £44.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +93.26% +7.23% -

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 11,966 9,037 10,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.51% 32.98% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,772 6,230 7,823
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £548
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -5.94% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 227 392
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £33.16
25th Percentile £53.53 £38.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £83.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -29 132 £475 -9.52% 123
North of England -80 38 £461 +3.65% 17
South West -14 18 £500 +42.86% 8
Yorkshire -57 18 £407 -16.94% 6
South East -58 16 £413 +37.50% 10
North West -54 13 £563 +40.63% 11
Midlands -56 8 £527 +13.93% 4
West Midlands - 8 £527 - 2
North East - 7 £450 -
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 (4.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.62%) AWS
2 43 (19.46%) GitHub
3 35 (15.84%) Azure
4 26 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (11.31%) GCP
6 13 (5.88%) Google Play
7 9 (4.07%) Cloud Run
7 9 (4.07%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.17%) Firebase
9 6 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.81%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.36%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.71%) HTTP
1 6 (2.71%) VPN
2 2 (0.90%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) DSL
2 2 (0.90%) NFC
2 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.71%) Power BI
3 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.81%) MySQL
4 4 (1.81%) Redis
5 3 (1.36%) SQLite
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 23 (10.41%) Git
2 21 (9.50%) Gradle
3 18 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.88%) JIRA
4 13 (5.88%) JUnit
5 12 (5.43%) Android Studio
6 11 (4.98%) Bitbucket
7 9 (4.07%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.17%) fastlane
8 7 (3.17%) GitLab
9 5 (2.26%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.26%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.26%) Gatling
10 4 (1.81%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.36%) Appium
11 3 (1.36%) Selenium
11 3 (1.36%) Xcode
12 2 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.90%) Maven
12 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (18.10%) Banking
2 38 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.74%) Finance
4 29 (13.12%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.52%) Front Office
8 6 (2.71%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Military
9 4 (1.81%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (41.18%) Developer
2 48 (21.72%) Senior
3 34 (15.38%) Android Developer
4 33 (14.93%) Java Developer
5 32 (14.48%) Software Engineer
6 30 (13.57%) Android Engineer
7 20 (9.05%) Java Engineer
8 16 (7.24%) Mobile Engineer
9 15 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Senior Android Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.52%) Lead
12 9 (4.07%) Backend Developer
12 9 (4.07%) Mobile Developer
13 8 (3.62%) Tester
14 7 (3.17%) Architect
14 7 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.17%) QA Engineer
15 6 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
15 6 (2.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.08%) Android Jetpack
2 46 (20.81%) REST
3 44 (19.91%) Jetpack Compose
4 39 (17.65%) Spring
5 36 (16.29%) RESTful
6 33 (14.93%) Spring Boot
7 31 (14.03%) Android SDK
8 17 (7.69%) Kafka
9 16 (7.24%) GraphQL
10 13 (5.88%) Node.js
11 11 (4.98%) RxJava
12 10 (4.52%) React
13 9 (4.07%) OAuth
13 9 (4.07%) OAuth2
14 8 (3.62%) Dagger
14 8 (3.62%) HTML
15 7 (3.17%) JSON
16 6 (2.71%) Playwright
17 5 (2.26%) OkHttp
17 5 (2.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.79%) Mobile App
2 30 (13.57%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.95%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.24%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.98%) Data Structures
7 10 (4.52%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.17%) Algorithms
9 7 (3.17%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.71%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (2.71%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.71%) Legacy Code
11 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (38.91%) Android
2 23 (10.41%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.62%) Linux
4 6 (2.71%) Unix
5 4 (1.81%) Windows
6 3 (1.36%) AIX
6 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 68 (30.77%) Agile
3 54 (24.43%) Android Development
3 54 (24.43%) Software Engineering
4 49 (22.17%) Test Automation
5 42 (19.00%) Microservices
6 40 (18.10%) MVVM
7 36 (16.29%) Event-Driven
8 33 (14.93%) TDD
9 30 (13.57%) User Experience
10 29 (13.12%) Observability
11 28 (12.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 27 (12.22%) AI
12 27 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.76%) DevOps
14 25 (11.31%) Architectural Patterns
15 24 (10.86%) Clean Code
16 22 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (9.95%) Mentoring
17 20 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 153 (69.23%) Java
2 29 (13.12%) TypeScript
3 19 (8.60%) JavaScript
3 19 (8.60%) SQL
4 17 (7.69%) Swift
5 15 (6.79%) Python
6 8 (3.62%) Go
7 5 (2.26%) C#
8 4 (1.81%) Rust
9 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.36%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) Elixir
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) Cypher
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.62%) Degree
4 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.93%) QA
2 16 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.26%) WCAG
4 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (9.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.62%) Terraform
3 7 (3.17%) Grafana
4 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.90%) Podman
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (15.38%) Google
2 8 (3.62%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.71%) Splunk
4 6 (2.71%) Zscaler
5 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.45%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.45%) Okta