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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 281 391
Rank change year-on-year -137 +110 +16
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 142 217 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.83% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 2.48% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 122 136
10th Percentile £298 £388 £388
25th Percentile £375 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.61%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £625
90th Percentile £850 £713 £729
UK median daily rate £520 £520 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.95% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile - £35.45 £73.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -51.25% +59.84%
75th Percentile £61.25 £44.13 £82.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £40.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year +36.65% -49.69% +59.84%

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 10,011 8,756 11,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.06% 33.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,664 5,611 8,137
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 203 483
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -119 69 £600 +20.00% 40
North of England -32 41 £425 -5.56% 13
North West -7 32 £415 +5.06% 6
South West -13 13 £350 -21.13% 11
Yorkshire -46 9 £425 -24.98% 7
South East -22 8 £300 -40.59% 14
Midlands -46 5 £275 -47.12% 5
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 3
East Midlands -29 1 £388 -25.48% 2
North East - 1 £425 -
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 6 (4.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.70%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.54%) AWS
2 13 (9.15%) GitHub
3 10 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (6.34%) Azure
5 8 (5.63%) Google Play
6 7 (4.93%) Firebase
6 7 (4.93%) GCP
7 5 (3.52%) Sentry
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.11%) Figma
8 3 (2.11%) Serverless
9 2 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.41%) PaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.41%) Vercel
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.70%) Apigee
10 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) HTTP
2 2 (1.41%) DSL
3 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.82%) MySQL
5 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.70%) HBase
6 1 (0.70%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 37 (26.06%) Gradle
2 16 (11.27%) GitLab
2 16 (11.27%) IntelliJ
3 15 (10.56%) Git
4 14 (9.86%) Android Studio
4 14 (9.86%) Jenkins
5 11 (7.75%) JUnit
6 8 (5.63%) CircleCI
7 7 (4.93%) Xcode
8 6 (4.23%) JIRA
8 6 (4.23%) XCUITest
9 5 (3.52%) Appium
9 5 (3.52%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (3.52%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (3.52%) Postman
10 4 (2.82%) fastlane
10 4 (2.82%) Mockito
11 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.11%) Selenium
General
1 40 (28.17%) Finance
2 18 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.97%) Banking
4 13 (9.15%) Front Office
5 10 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Law
7 2 (1.41%) Police
7 2 (1.41%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Automotive
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 96 (67.61%) Developer
2 48 (33.80%) Android Developer
3 31 (21.83%) Senior
4 23 (16.20%) Senior Developer
5 17 (11.97%) Software Engineer
6 16 (11.27%) Backend Developer
7 15 (10.56%) Java Developer
7 15 (10.56%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.45%) Mobile Developer
9 11 (7.75%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.34%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (6.34%) Senior Android Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Senior Backend Developer
12 5 (3.52%) Android Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Applications Developer
12 5 (3.52%) iOS Developer
13 4 (2.82%) Java Mobile Developer
13 4 (2.82%) Mobile Engineer
14 3 (2.11%) Lead
14 3 (2.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.06%) Android Jetpack
2 35 (24.65%) Jetpack Compose
3 29 (20.42%) Spring
4 28 (19.72%) Spring Boot
5 19 (13.38%) Android SDK
6 18 (12.68%) RESTful
7 15 (10.56%) RxJava
8 14 (9.86%) Dagger
9 12 (8.45%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (7.75%) REST
11 9 (6.34%) OkHttp
12 8 (5.63%) GraphQL
12 8 (5.63%) Web Services
13 7 (4.93%) OAuth
13 7 (4.93%) OAuth2
13 7 (4.93%) RAML
13 7 (4.93%) Retrofit
13 7 (4.93%) WireMock
14 6 (4.23%) CSS
14 6 (4.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.58%) Mobile App
2 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.93%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.52%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.82%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.82%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.70%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.70%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 70 (49.30%) Android
2 26 (18.31%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.23%) Windows
4 5 (3.52%) Linux
5 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.62%) Android Development
2 37 (26.06%) CI/CD
3 35 (24.65%) Agile
4 30 (21.13%) MVVM
5 29 (20.42%) User Experience
6 25 (17.61%) Microservices
7 22 (15.49%) Software Engineering
7 22 (15.49%) Test Automation
8 20 (14.08%) Mobile Development
9 18 (12.68%) Design Patterns
9 18 (12.68%) Open Source
10 16 (11.27%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (10.56%) API Design
11 15 (10.56%) SOLID
11 15 (10.56%) TDD
11 15 (10.56%) Unit Testing
12 14 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (9.15%) Benchmarking
13 13 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 94 (66.20%) Java
2 22 (15.49%) Swift
3 14 (9.86%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.04%) Objective-C
5 9 (6.34%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.63%) C++
6 8 (5.63%) Python
7 7 (4.93%) Scala
7 7 (4.93%) SQL
8 4 (2.82%) Ruby
8 4 (2.82%) Rust
9 3 (2.11%) C
10 2 (1.41%) Go
11 1 (0.70%) Bash
11 1 (0.70%) BrightScript
11 1 (0.70%) C#
11 1 (0.70%) Clojure
11 1 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) PHP
11 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (7.75%) Degree
2 10 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.52%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) SANS
6 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) QA
2 14 (9.86%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) NCSC
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (11.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.15%) Grafana
3 4 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) Google
2 8 (5.63%) Databricks
3 5 (3.52%) Splunk
4 4 (2.82%) Oracle
5 2 (1.41%) Adobe
5 2 (1.41%) Alibaba
5 2 (1.41%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.70%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.70%) Okta
6 1 (0.70%) Roku