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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 341 335
Rank change year-on-year -64 -6 +62
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 198 143 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 1.72% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 86 147
10th Percentile £313 £375 £350
25th Percentile £403 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £544 £630 £600
90th Percentile £665 £713 £660
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £59.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +128.57%
75th Percentile £61.25 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile - - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -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 11,223 8,326 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 34.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,354 5,778 8,132
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 198 478
10th Percentile £36.43 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.23 £85.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -60 101 £475 -20.83% 41
North of England -57 46 £450 +5.88% 9
North West -26 26 £475 +18.75% 4
South East -52 19 £406 -30.56% 7
South West -12 16 £500 +14.29% 8
Yorkshire -56 14 £400 -18.60% 2
Midlands -64 8 £527 +13.93% 2
West Midlands - 8 £527 - 2
North East - 6 £488 - 3
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 (4.04%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.75%) AWS
2 33 (16.67%) GitHub
3 24 (12.12%) Azure
3 24 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (10.10%) GCP
5 8 (4.04%) Cloud Run
6 6 (3.03%) Firebase
6 6 (3.03%) Google Play
6 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.02%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.01%) Figma
9 2 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.01%) PaaS
9 2 (1.01%) Serverless
9 2 (1.01%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) VPN
2 3 (1.52%) DSL
2 3 (1.52%) HTTP
3 2 (1.01%) DNS
3 2 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.03%) Power BI
3 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.01%) SQLite
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.51%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.51%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 37 (18.69%) Gradle
2 17 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.58%) Git
4 14 (7.07%) GitLab
4 14 (7.07%) JUnit
5 13 (6.57%) Android Studio
6 11 (5.56%) CircleCI
7 10 (5.05%) IntelliJ
8 9 (4.55%) JIRA
9 7 (3.54%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.54%) fastlane
10 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.53%) Gatling
10 5 (2.53%) Selenium
11 4 (2.02%) Crashlytics
11 4 (2.02%) XCUITest
12 3 (1.52%) Appium
12 3 (1.52%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.52%) Xcode
13 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.66%) Banking
2 27 (13.64%) Finance
2 27 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.62%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.54%) Front Office
6 4 (2.02%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.02%) Retail
7 3 (1.52%) Military
8 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Automotive
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Police
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (43.94%) Developer
2 38 (19.19%) Senior
3 33 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 32 (16.16%) Android Developer
5 28 (14.14%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.62%) Android Engineer
7 20 (10.10%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (7.58%) Mobile Engineer
8 15 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.07%) Backend Developer
10 10 (5.05%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (4.55%) Architect
12 7 (3.54%) Lead
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Tester
13 6 (3.03%) Java Mobile Developer
13 6 (3.03%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.53%) Applications Engineer
14 5 (2.53%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.21%) Android Jetpack
1 42 (21.21%) Spring
2 40 (20.20%) Jetpack Compose
3 38 (19.19%) Spring Boot
4 31 (15.66%) REST
5 20 (10.10%) Android SDK
5 20 (10.10%) RESTful
6 13 (6.57%) RxJava
7 12 (6.06%) GraphQL
8 11 (5.56%) Dagger
9 9 (4.55%) Node.js
9 9 (4.55%) OkHttp
9 9 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (4.04%) Kafka
10 8 (4.04%) OAuth
10 8 (4.04%) OAuth2
10 8 (4.04%) Playwright
11 7 (3.54%) React
11 7 (3.54%) WireMock
12 6 (3.03%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.25%) Mobile App
2 21 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.10%) Cloud Native
4 18 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (5.05%) Virtual Team
7 8 (4.04%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.04%) Legacy Code
7 8 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.03%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.53%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 75 (37.88%) Android
2 25 (12.63%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.05%) Linux
4 6 (3.03%) Windows
5 4 (2.02%) Unix
6 3 (1.52%) AIX
6 3 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.34%) CI/CD
2 50 (25.25%) Agile
3 46 (23.23%) Software Engineering
4 44 (22.22%) Android Development
4 44 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 41 (20.71%) Microservices
6 30 (15.15%) MVVM
7 27 (13.64%) User Experience
8 25 (12.63%) DevOps
9 24 (12.12%) Event-Driven
10 23 (11.62%) TDD
11 21 (10.61%) Observability
12 20 (10.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 19 (9.60%) API Design
13 19 (9.60%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.59%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (8.59%) Open Source
14 17 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (67.17%) Java
2 21 (10.61%) TypeScript
3 20 (10.10%) Swift
4 15 (7.58%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.07%) SQL
6 10 (5.05%) Python
7 4 (2.02%) Go
8 3 (1.52%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.51%) C#
10 1 (0.51%) Cypher
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.06%) Degree
4 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.15%) QA
2 12 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.02%) WCAG
4 2 (1.01%) NCSC
4 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.08%) Grafana
3 10 (5.05%) Terraform
4 2 (1.01%) Podman
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (12.63%) Google
2 7 (3.54%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.03%) Splunk
3 6 (3.03%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.51%) Okta
6 1 (0.51%) Roku