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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 354 341
Rank change year-on-year -60 -13 +49
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 202 145 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.68% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 91 156
10th Percentile £344 £354 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -17.50%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £663
UK median daily rate £492 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +3.53% -4.04% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £59.13
Median hourly rate £66.00 £44.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.31% -44.38% +128.57%
75th Percentile £81.50 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £89.60 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +48.31% -44.38% +128.57%

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 11,697 8,610 11,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.76% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,613 5,945 8,152
10th Percentile £360 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.15% -1.36%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 211 484
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.13 £50.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.02% +3.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £82.96 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +1.46%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -62 111 £475 -9.52% 38
North of England -68 42 £450 - 7
North West -41 19 £550 +37.50% 3
South West -12 18 £500 +42.86% 7
South East -54 16 £413 +37.50% 7
Yorkshire -56 16 £405 -19.00% 4
Midlands -61 8 £527 +13.93%
West Midlands - 8 £527 -
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 8 (3.96%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 10 (4.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.73%) AWS
2 32 (15.84%) GitHub
3 29 (14.36%) Azure
4 23 (11.39%) GCP
4 23 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (4.46%) Cloud Run
6 6 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.97%) Firebase
6 6 (2.97%) Google Play
6 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.98%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.99%) Serverless
11 1 (0.50%) Apigee
11 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.50%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) VPN
2 4 (1.98%) HTTP
3 3 (1.49%) DSL
4 2 (0.99%) DNS
4 2 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.50%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.97%) Power BI
3 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.98%) MySQL
5 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.99%) SQLite
6 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (12.38%) Gradle
2 19 (9.41%) Git
3 17 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.94%) Android Studio
4 12 (5.94%) JUnit
5 9 (4.46%) CircleCI
5 9 (4.46%) JIRA
6 8 (3.96%) fastlane
7 7 (3.47%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.47%) GitLab
8 5 (2.48%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.48%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.48%) Gatling
9 4 (1.98%) XCUITest
10 3 (1.49%) Appium
10 3 (1.49%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.49%) Selenium
10 3 (1.49%) Xcode
11 2 (0.99%) Maven
11 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (16.34%) Banking
2 29 (14.36%) Finance
2 29 (14.36%) Public Sector
2 29 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Front Office
6 6 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.98%) Military
7 4 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.50%) Automotive
8 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Law
8 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.50%) Police
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (46.53%) Developer
2 46 (22.77%) Senior
3 35 (17.33%) Android Developer
4 32 (15.84%) Java Developer
5 25 (12.38%) Software Engineer
6 22 (10.89%) Android Engineer
7 17 (8.42%) Java Engineer
7 17 (8.42%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.43%) Mobile Engineer
9 13 (6.44%) Backend Developer
10 12 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Architect
11 8 (3.96%) Lead
11 8 (3.96%) Mobile Developer
12 7 (3.47%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.47%) Tester
13 6 (2.97%) QA Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Senior Android Developer
13 6 (2.97%) Senior Android Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.78%) Android Jetpack
2 42 (20.79%) Jetpack Compose
3 39 (19.31%) Spring
4 35 (17.33%) REST
4 35 (17.33%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.87%) RESTful
6 24 (11.88%) Android SDK
7 15 (7.43%) GraphQL
8 14 (6.93%) Kafka
9 12 (5.94%) Node.js
10 11 (5.45%) RxJava
11 9 (4.46%) OAuth
11 9 (4.46%) OAuth2
12 8 (3.96%) Dagger
13 6 (2.97%) HTML
13 6 (2.97%) OkHttp
13 6 (2.97%) Playwright
13 6 (2.97%) React
14 5 (2.48%) JSON
14 5 (2.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.74%) Mobile App
2 28 (13.86%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (12.87%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.43%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (4.46%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.96%) Virtual Team
8 7 (3.47%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.47%) Legacy Code
9 5 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.48%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (38.61%) Android
2 23 (11.39%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.96%) Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.98%) Windows
5 3 (1.49%) AIX
5 3 (1.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.12%) CI/CD
2 55 (27.23%) Agile
3 47 (23.27%) Android Development
4 46 (22.77%) Test Automation
5 44 (21.78%) Software Engineering
6 43 (21.29%) Microservices
7 34 (16.83%) MVVM
8 32 (15.84%) Event-Driven
9 29 (14.36%) TDD
10 27 (13.37%) Observability
11 26 (12.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 25 (12.38%) User Experience
13 24 (11.88%) DevOps
14 21 (10.40%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (10.40%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (9.90%) API Design
15 20 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (8.42%) AI
16 17 (8.42%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 135 (66.83%) Java
2 25 (12.38%) TypeScript
3 19 (9.41%) Swift
4 17 (8.42%) SQL
5 15 (7.43%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.44%) Python
7 7 (3.47%) Go
8 3 (1.49%) C#
8 3 (1.49%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.49%) Rust
9 2 (0.99%) PHP
9 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.50%) Cypher
10 1 (0.50%) Elixir
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.96%) Degree
4 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.36%) QA
2 14 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.48%) WCAG
4 4 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (9.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.46%) Grafana
3 8 (3.96%) Terraform
4 2 (0.99%) Podman
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.37%) Google
2 8 (3.96%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.97%) Splunk
3 6 (2.97%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.48%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.50%) Okta
5 1 (0.50%) Roku