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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 341 377
Rank change year-on-year -70 +36 +29
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 170 130 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 1.58% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 79 127
10th Percentile £313 £382 £375
25th Percentile £381 £442 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £788 £734 £680
UK median daily rate £513 £542 £500
% change year-on-year -5.36% +8.30% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 3
10th Percentile - £35.38 £76.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.44 £76.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.74% -47.81% +88.12%
75th Percentile £61.25 £46.31 £81.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £54.00 £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +88.12%

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 10,713 8,232 10,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.61% 33.85% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,137 5,604 7,879
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -5.70%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £770
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 466 216 442
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -79 71 £545 -12.80% 42
North of England -38 43 £475 +1.06% 21
North West -9 34 £475 +11.76% 7
South West -14 23 £380 -7.88% 4
South East -35 18 £400 -31.62% 9
Midlands -61 8 £493 -5.29% 1
West Midlands - 8 £493 - 1
Yorkshire -58 6 £425 -21.51% 12
North East - 4 £575 - 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 8 (4.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.47%) AWS
2 16 (9.41%) Azure
2 16 (9.41%) GitHub
3 14 (8.24%) GCP
4 13 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (4.12%) Firebase
6 6 (3.53%) Cloud Run
7 5 (2.94%) Google Play
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.35%) Sauce Labs
8 4 (2.35%) Serverless
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.18%) Figma
9 2 (1.18%) Sentry
9 2 (1.18%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) VPN
2 2 (1.18%) DSL
3 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.94%) Power BI
3 5 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.35%) MySQL
5 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.18%) SQLite
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.59%) HBase
6 1 (0.59%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 37 (21.76%) Gradle
2 18 (10.59%) GitLab
3 15 (8.82%) Android Studio
3 15 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.24%) Git
5 12 (7.06%) IntelliJ
6 10 (5.88%) JUnit
7 7 (4.12%) CircleCI
7 7 (4.12%) JIRA
8 5 (2.94%) fastlane
8 5 (2.94%) Selenium
9 4 (2.35%) Maven
9 4 (2.35%) Mockito
9 4 (2.35%) Xcode
10 3 (1.76%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.76%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.76%) XCUITest
11 2 (1.18%) Crashlytics
11 2 (1.18%) Postman
General
1 35 (20.59%) Finance
2 20 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.59%) Banking
4 17 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (6.47%) Front Office
6 3 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.76%) Retail
7 2 (1.18%) Automotive
7 2 (1.18%) Law
7 2 (1.18%) Police
7 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.59%) Military
8 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (58.82%) Developer
2 44 (25.88%) Android Developer
3 40 (23.53%) Senior
4 25 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 24 (14.12%) Senior Developer
6 23 (13.53%) Software Engineer
7 21 (12.35%) Backend Developer
8 17 (10.00%) Java Engineer
9 15 (8.82%) Mobile Developer
10 14 (8.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (7.65%) Android Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Senior Android Developer
13 8 (4.71%) Architect
13 8 (4.71%) Front Office Developer
13 8 (4.71%) Java Mobile Developer
14 7 (4.12%) Senior Backend Developer
15 6 (3.53%) Mobile Engineer
16 5 (2.94%) Applications Developer
16 5 (2.94%) iOS Developer
17 4 (2.35%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.88%) Spring
2 42 (24.71%) Spring Boot
3 36 (21.18%) Android Jetpack
3 36 (21.18%) Jetpack Compose
4 26 (15.29%) Android SDK
5 23 (13.53%) REST
6 16 (9.41%) RESTful
7 13 (7.65%) OAuth
7 13 (7.65%) OAuth2
8 12 (7.06%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (7.06%) RxJava
9 10 (5.88%) Dagger
9 10 (5.88%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.71%) OkHttp
11 6 (3.53%) Node.js
11 6 (3.53%) RAML
11 6 (3.53%) Retrofit
12 5 (2.94%) JSON
12 5 (2.94%) Kafka
12 5 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.41%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.12%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.53%) Legacy Code
4 6 (3.53%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.76%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.59%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.59%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (41.76%) Android
2 23 (13.53%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.94%) Linux
3 5 (2.94%) Windows
4 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.59%) Android Development
2 42 (24.71%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.59%) Agile
4 34 (20.00%) Microservices
5 32 (18.82%) MVVM
5 32 (18.82%) Software Engineering
6 29 (17.06%) Test Automation
7 27 (15.88%) User Experience
8 24 (14.12%) API Design
9 23 (13.53%) TDD
10 22 (12.94%) Mentoring
11 21 (12.35%) Open Source
12 20 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (11.18%) Event-Driven
14 18 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (10.59%) Design Patterns
15 17 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 16 (9.41%) Architectural Patterns
16 16 (9.41%) Mobile Development
16 16 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 128 (75.29%) Java
2 19 (11.18%) Swift
3 10 (5.88%) Python
4 9 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.29%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.12%) Objective-C
6 5 (2.94%) Go
6 5 (2.94%) SQL
7 4 (2.35%) Scala
8 2 (1.18%) C++
9 1 (0.59%) Bash
9 1 (0.59%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.59%) C#
9 1 (0.59%) Clojure
9 1 (0.59%) Cypher
9 1 (0.59%) Groovy
9 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.06%) Degree
4 7 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) SANS
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.59%) GIAC
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.59%) QA
2 13 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.76%) Grafana
3 6 (3.53%) Terraform
4 2 (1.18%) Podman
5 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (16.47%) Google
2 7 (4.12%) Splunk
3 5 (2.94%) Databricks
3 5 (2.94%) Zscaler
4 4 (2.35%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle
5 3 (1.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.59%) Okta
6 1 (0.59%) Roku