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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 346 299
Rank change year-on-year -88 -47 +85
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 203 168 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.61% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 1.86% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 113 159
10th Percentile £303 £359 £375
25th Percentile £414 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.49%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £558
90th Percentile £650 £711 £614
UK median daily rate £475 £491 £475
% change year-on-year -3.34% +3.45% -21.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £76.48 £45.85 £40.59
25th Percentile £76.81 £49.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £82.81 £65.38 £42.12
90th Percentile £90.13 £69.35 £42.20
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +34.35% +39.13% -

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 11,908 9,045 10,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.80% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,165 7,453
10th Percentile £363 £349 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 266 315
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.61 £31.98
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £79.38 £79.67
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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -52 125 £475 -9.09% 320
North of England -61 49 £455 +13.75% 55
Yorkshire -39 24 £460 +2.22% 19
North West -50 20 £513 +36.67% 30
South West -28 11 £515 +47.14% 28
South East -61 6 £413 +22.22% 17
Midlands -60 5 £510 +10.27% 19
North East - 5 £450 - 6
West Midlands - 5 £510 - 13
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 (5.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.15%) AWS
2 46 (22.66%) GitHub
3 29 (14.29%) Azure
4 25 (12.32%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (8.87%) GCP
6 13 (6.40%) Google Play
7 12 (5.91%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.45%) Firebase
9 6 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.48%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.48%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.48%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.48%) Serverless
12 3 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.96%) HTTP
2 3 (1.48%) VPN
3 2 (0.99%) DNS
3 2 (0.99%) NFC
3 2 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.49%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.49%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.45%) Redis
3 6 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.46%) MySQL
5 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.97%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.48%) Power BI
7 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (10.34%) Git
2 18 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.88%) JIRA
4 15 (7.39%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.40%) Gradle
6 11 (5.42%) JUnit
7 8 (3.94%) GitLab
8 6 (2.96%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.96%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.96%) fastlane
9 5 (2.46%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.46%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.46%) Gatling
10 4 (1.97%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.48%) Appium
12 2 (0.99%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.99%) Selenium
13 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.49%) RhodeCode
13 1 (0.49%) Selendroid
General
1 46 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.18%) Banking
3 38 (18.72%) Finance
4 26 (12.81%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.93%) Front Office
8 6 (2.96%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.97%) Military
10 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (37.44%) Developer
2 44 (21.67%) Senior
3 39 (19.21%) Software Engineer
4 29 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 28 (13.79%) Android Engineer
6 24 (11.82%) Android Developer
6 24 (11.82%) Java Engineer
7 19 (9.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (6.90%) Mobile Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Lead
9 13 (6.40%) Senior Android Engineer
10 11 (5.42%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Mobile Developer
12 8 (3.94%) QA Engineer
12 8 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.45%) Backend Developer
14 6 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.96%) Junior
14 6 (2.96%) Senior Android Developer
14 6 (2.96%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.17%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (20.20%) REST
3 38 (18.72%) Jetpack Compose
4 36 (17.73%) RESTful
5 33 (16.26%) Spring
6 25 (12.32%) Android SDK
6 25 (12.32%) Spring Boot
7 20 (9.85%) Kafka
8 14 (6.90%) React
9 12 (5.91%) GraphQL
9 12 (5.91%) HTML
9 12 (5.91%) Node.js
10 9 (4.43%) RxJava
11 8 (3.94%) OAuth
11 8 (3.94%) Terraform
12 7 (3.45%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.96%) Dagger
13 6 (2.96%) JSON
13 6 (2.96%) Playwright
14 5 (2.46%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (24.14%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.78%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.82%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 13 (6.40%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
7 9 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.96%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.96%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.46%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.97%) IoT
11 3 (1.48%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.48%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.49%) Contactless
12 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (36.45%) Android
2 23 (11.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.45%) Linux
4 6 (2.96%) Unix
5 3 (1.48%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.31%) CI/CD
2 73 (35.96%) Agile
3 63 (31.03%) Software Engineering
4 46 (22.66%) Test Automation
5 45 (22.17%) Android Development
6 37 (18.23%) Microservices
7 35 (17.24%) Event-Driven
8 34 (16.75%) MVVM
9 33 (16.26%) TDD
10 29 (14.29%) Observability
11 28 (13.79%) AI
11 28 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 27 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (12.81%) Clean Code
13 26 (12.81%) User Experience
14 25 (12.32%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
15 24 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (10.34%) Design Patterns
16 21 (10.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 137 (67.49%) Java
2 36 (17.73%) TypeScript
3 22 (10.84%) JavaScript
3 22 (10.84%) SQL
4 17 (8.37%) Swift
5 14 (6.90%) Python
6 6 (2.96%) Go
7 5 (2.46%) C#
7 5 (2.46%) Rust
8 4 (1.97%) C++
9 3 (1.48%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) Elixir
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
10 2 (0.99%) Scala
11 1 (0.49%) C
11 1 (0.49%) Korn
11 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.48%) Degree
5 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.82%) QA
2 20 (9.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) WCAG
4 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (9.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (12.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.46%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) logstash
3 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.82%) Google
2 6 (2.96%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.48%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.49%) Confluent