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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 333 350
Rank change year-on-year -63 +17 +49
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 196 142 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 1.72% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 84 145
10th Percentile £313 £379 £350
25th Percentile £401 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £630 £600
90th Percentile £653 £713 £665
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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 £63.44 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £58.86 £80.00
% change year-on-year -6.56% -26.42% +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 11,248 8,275 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.61% 34.01% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,380 5,726 8,106
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 196 473
10th Percentile £37.45 £28.30 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.19 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -2.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £85.00 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.25
% change year-on-year +14.54% -8.84% -0.40%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -65 96 £475 -20.83% 94
North of England -50 51 £450 - 22
North West -25 31 £475 +18.75% 14
South East -39 19 £406 -30.56% 6
South West -17 15 £481 +10.00% 10
Yorkshire -56 14 £400 -18.60% 3
Midlands -51 7 £527 +13.93% 5
West Midlands - 7 £527 - 5
North East - 6 £488 - 5
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.49%) AWS
2 33 (16.84%) GitHub
3 24 (12.24%) Azure
3 24 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (10.20%) GCP
5 8 (4.08%) Cloud Run
5 8 (4.08%) Firebase
6 6 (3.06%) Google Play
6 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.04%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.02%) Figma
9 2 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.02%) PaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Serverless
9 2 (1.02%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) VPN
2 3 (1.53%) DSL
2 3 (1.53%) HTTP
3 2 (1.02%) DNS
3 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.06%) Power BI
2 5 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.02%) SQLite
4 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.51%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 41 (20.92%) Gradle
2 17 (8.67%) GitLab
2 17 (8.67%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.65%) Git
4 14 (7.14%) Android Studio
4 14 (7.14%) JUnit
5 13 (6.63%) IntelliJ
6 11 (5.61%) CircleCI
7 9 (4.59%) fastlane
7 9 (4.59%) JIRA
8 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.55%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.55%) Selenium
10 4 (2.04%) Xcode
10 4 (2.04%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.53%) Appium
11 3 (1.53%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.02%) Maven
12 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.82%) Banking
2 26 (13.27%) Finance
3 25 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.22%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.57%) Front Office
8 4 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.04%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Military
9 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (45.41%) Developer
2 37 (18.88%) Senior
3 34 (17.35%) Android Developer
4 33 (16.84%) Java Developer
5 31 (15.82%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.73%) Android Engineer
7 22 (11.22%) Java Engineer
8 17 (8.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 15 (7.65%) Backend Developer
9 15 (7.65%) Mobile Engineer
9 15 (7.65%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (4.59%) Architect
12 7 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.06%) Java Mobile Developer
13 6 (3.06%) Lead
13 6 (3.06%) Tester
14 5 (2.55%) Applications Engineer
14 5 (2.55%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.55%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.96%) Spring
2 44 (22.45%) Android Jetpack
3 42 (21.43%) Jetpack Compose
4 41 (20.92%) Spring Boot
5 33 (16.84%) REST
6 20 (10.20%) Android SDK
6 20 (10.20%) RESTful
7 14 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 13 (6.63%) RxJava
9 12 (6.12%) Dagger
9 12 (6.12%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.10%) OkHttp
11 8 (4.08%) Kafka
11 8 (4.08%) Node.js
11 8 (4.08%) OAuth
11 8 (4.08%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.57%) React
12 7 (3.57%) WireMock
13 6 (3.06%) HTML
13 6 (3.06%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.53%) Mobile App
2 19 (9.69%) Product Ownership
3 18 (9.18%) Cloud Native
4 17 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.61%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (5.10%) Virtual Team
7 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.08%) Legacy Code
8 7 (3.57%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.06%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.55%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.51%) Mobile Banking
13 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (39.29%) Android
2 27 (13.78%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.10%) Linux
4 6 (3.06%) Windows
5 4 (2.04%) Unix
6 3 (1.53%) AIX
6 3 (1.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (33.67%) CI/CD
2 49 (25.00%) Agile
2 49 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 45 (22.96%) Android Development
4 41 (20.92%) Test Automation
5 39 (19.90%) Microservices
6 32 (16.33%) MVVM
7 31 (15.82%) User Experience
8 27 (13.78%) TDD
9 24 (12.24%) DevOps
10 23 (11.73%) Event-Driven
11 21 (10.71%) Mentoring
11 21 (10.71%) Observability
12 20 (10.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (9.18%) API Design
13 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (8.67%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (8.67%) Design Patterns
14 17 (8.67%) Open Source
15 16 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 136 (69.39%) Java
2 22 (11.22%) Swift
3 15 (7.65%) JavaScript
3 15 (7.65%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.10%) Python
4 10 (5.10%) SQL
5 5 (2.55%) Objective-C
6 4 (2.04%) Go
7 2 (1.02%) PHP
8 1 (0.51%) BrightScript
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) Cypher
8 1 (0.51%) Scala
8 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) Degree
4 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.31%) QA
2 15 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.04%) WCAG
4 2 (1.02%) NCSC
4 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (6.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.20%) Grafana
3 9 (4.59%) Terraform
4 2 (1.02%) Podman
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (12.76%) Google
2 7 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.06%) Splunk
3 6 (3.06%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.51%) Okta
6 1 (0.51%) Roku