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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 284 415
Rank change year-on-year -100 +131 -20
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 161 235 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.82% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 2.53% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 130 118
10th Percentile £333 £395 £431
25th Percentile £380 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -5.06%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £674
90th Percentile £850 £713 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £583
% change year-on-year -3.85% -10.73% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 3
10th Percentile - £35.53 £72.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £73.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £40.08 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -48.29% +6.16%
75th Percentile £63.44 £42.94 £80.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £51.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £41.16 £77.50
% change year-on-year +36.68% -46.90% +6.16%

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 9,810 9,300 11,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.86% 32.60% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,519 6,033 8,182
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 222 392
10th Percentile £36.40 £25.36 £35.51
25th Percentile £52.13 £43.13 £46.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £69.13 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 27 December 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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -102 86 £600 +20.00% 55
North of England -16 42 £390 -2.50% 49
North West -2 25 £380 -2.56% 28
Yorkshire -26 17 £400 -29.39% 19
South West -1 13 £350 -21.13% 16
Midlands -33 8 £425 -18.66% 17
South East -14 7 £525 +3.96% 36
East Midlands -18 4 £463 -11.48% 8
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 8
North East - 1 £425 - 2
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 (3.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.62%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.77%) AWS
2 16 (9.94%) Azure
3 12 (7.45%) Google Play
4 10 (6.21%) GCP
4 10 (6.21%) GitHub
5 9 (5.59%) Firebase
6 7 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.11%) Sentry
8 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.86%) Figma
9 2 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.24%) PaaS
9 2 (1.24%) Serverless
9 2 (1.24%) Vercel
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.62%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) Broadband
2 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.97%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.35%) MySQL
5 3 (1.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.24%) Mixpanel
6 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.62%) HBase
7 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (20.50%) Gradle
2 28 (17.39%) Git
3 15 (9.32%) Android Studio
3 15 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.70%) GitLab
4 14 (8.70%) IntelliJ
4 14 (8.70%) JUnit
5 11 (6.83%) CircleCI
6 7 (4.35%) JIRA
7 6 (3.73%) XCUITest
8 5 (3.11%) Appium
8 5 (3.11%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.11%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.11%) Postman
8 5 (3.11%) Xcode
9 4 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.48%) Mockito
10 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.86%) Selenium
11 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 44 (27.33%) Finance
2 25 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.42%) Banking
4 13 (8.07%) Front Office
5 12 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Automotive
8 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Law
8 1 (0.62%) Military
8 1 (0.62%) Police
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 110 (68.32%) Developer
2 61 (37.89%) Android Developer
3 25 (15.53%) Senior
4 19 (11.80%) Java Developer
5 18 (11.18%) Senior Developer
5 18 (11.18%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.70%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.70%) Mobile Developer
7 10 (6.21%) Senior Android Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Backend Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Front Office Developer
8 9 (5.59%) iOS Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.11%) Android Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 4 (2.48%) Java Mobile Developer
11 4 (2.48%) Lead
11 4 (2.48%) Mobile Engineer
11 4 (2.48%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.47%) Android Jetpack
2 39 (24.22%) Jetpack Compose
3 36 (22.36%) RESTful
4 33 (20.50%) Spring
5 30 (18.63%) Spring Boot
6 23 (14.29%) Android SDK
7 14 (8.70%) RxJava
8 13 (8.07%) Dagger
9 11 (6.83%) REST
10 10 (6.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (5.59%) React
12 8 (4.97%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.97%) JSON
12 8 (4.97%) OAuth
12 8 (4.97%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.97%) OkHttp
12 8 (4.97%) Web Services
13 7 (4.35%) CSS
13 7 (4.35%) HTML
13 7 (4.35%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 51 (31.68%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.73%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.48%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.86%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.62%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.62%) Music Streaming
9 1 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 87 (54.04%) Android
2 33 (20.50%) Apple iOS
3 10 (6.21%) Linux
4 5 (3.11%) Windows
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (40.99%) Android Development
2 48 (29.81%) Agile
3 47 (29.19%) CI/CD
4 35 (21.74%) User Experience
5 34 (21.12%) MVVM
6 27 (16.77%) DevOps
7 25 (15.53%) Software Engineering
8 24 (14.91%) Test Automation
9 23 (14.29%) Mobile Development
9 23 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 21 (13.04%) Microservices
11 20 (12.42%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (11.18%) Design Patterns
12 18 (11.18%) TDD
13 17 (10.56%) Open Source
13 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (9.94%) Computer Science
14 16 (9.94%) Fintech
14 16 (9.94%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (9.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 108 (67.08%) Java
2 25 (15.53%) Swift
3 16 (9.94%) C++
4 15 (9.32%) JavaScript
4 15 (9.32%) Objective-C
4 15 (9.32%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.07%) Python
6 10 (6.21%) Scala
6 10 (6.21%) SQL
7 6 (3.73%) Rust
8 5 (3.11%) Ruby
9 3 (1.86%) C
9 3 (1.86%) C#
10 2 (1.24%) Go
10 2 (1.24%) Groovy
10 2 (1.24%) PHP
10 2 (1.24%) VB
11 1 (0.62%) Bash
11 1 (0.62%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 17 (10.56%) Degree
2 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) GIAC
6 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) QA
2 14 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (11.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (19.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.83%) Grafana
3 7 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Google
2 8 (4.97%) Databricks
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.11%) Splunk
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle
5 3 (1.86%) Alibaba
5 3 (1.86%) Apple
6 2 (1.24%) Adobe
6 2 (1.24%) Xamarin