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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 350 272
Rank change year-on-year -74 -78 +113
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 208 163 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.59% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.81% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 113 169
10th Percentile £313 £359 £375
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -21.81%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £645 £711 £604
UK median daily rate £474 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -4.03% +3.98% -21.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £76.48 £45.85 £37.52
25th Percentile £76.81 £49.75 £38.66
Median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% +39.72% -46.03%
75th Percentile £82.81 £65.38 £41.99
90th Percentile £90.13 £69.35 £42.15
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.16
% change year-on-year +34.35% +39.72% -46.03%

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 11,899 9,004 10,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.87% 32.67% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,690 6,101 7,349
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 259 307
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.92 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £79.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -48 132 £475 -8.65% 406
North of England -68 49 £460 +15.00% 59
Yorkshire -34 27 £460 +2.22% 18
North West -49 18 £550 +46.67% 35
South West - 10 £515 - 29
West Midlands -40 7 £470 -8.29% 15
Midlands -52 7 £470 +1.62% 26
South East -54 6 £413 +22.22% 39
North East - 4 £450 - 6
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 9 (4.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.12%) GitHub
2 43 (20.67%) AWS
3 29 (13.94%) Azure
4 25 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (10.10%) GCP
6 14 (6.73%) Google Play
7 12 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.37%) Firebase
8 7 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.88%) Cloud Run
10 5 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.40%) Serverless
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.44%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) NFC
2 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.37%) Redis
2 7 (3.37%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.40%) MySQL
5 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.96%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.96%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.48%) Power BI
7 1 (0.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (11.54%) Git
2 18 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.69%) Gradle
4 15 (7.21%) Bitbucket
4 15 (7.21%) JIRA
5 13 (6.25%) JUnit
6 9 (4.33%) GitLab
7 6 (2.88%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.88%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.88%) fastlane
8 5 (2.40%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.40%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.40%) Gatling
9 3 (1.44%) Mockito
9 3 (1.44%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.96%) Appium
10 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.96%) Maven
11 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.63%) Banking
3 34 (16.35%) Finance
4 25 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.25%) Front Office
8 7 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.92%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (37.98%) Developer
2 45 (21.63%) Senior
3 41 (19.71%) Software Engineer
4 29 (13.94%) Android Engineer
5 27 (12.98%) Java Developer
6 25 (12.02%) Java Engineer
7 24 (11.54%) Android Developer
8 20 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 13 (6.25%) Lead
9 13 (6.25%) Mobile Engineer
9 13 (6.25%) Senior Android Engineer
9 13 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.85%) QA Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Junior
12 6 (2.88%) Mobile Developer
12 6 (2.88%) Senior Android Developer
12 6 (2.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.12%) Android Jetpack
2 44 (21.15%) REST
3 38 (18.27%) Jetpack Compose
4 37 (17.79%) RESTful
5 32 (15.38%) Spring
6 25 (12.02%) Android SDK
7 24 (11.54%) Spring Boot
8 23 (11.06%) Kafka
9 14 (6.73%) GraphQL
9 14 (6.73%) React
10 13 (6.25%) HTML
11 12 (5.77%) Node.js
12 10 (4.81%) Terraform
13 9 (4.33%) RxJava
14 7 (3.37%) Dagger
14 7 (3.37%) JSON
15 6 (2.88%) Playwright
15 6 (2.88%) Retrofit
16 4 (1.92%) Ktor
16 4 (1.92%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.15%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.42%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.54%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.21%) Product Ownership
5 13 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (5.77%) Onboarding
7 11 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.85%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.85%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.40%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.92%) IoT
12 3 (1.44%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (35.10%) Android
2 20 (9.62%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.37%) Linux
4 6 (2.88%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) AIX
5 3 (1.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (47.60%) CI/CD
2 77 (37.02%) Agile
3 67 (32.21%) Software Engineering
4 45 (21.63%) Test Automation
5 44 (21.15%) Android Development
6 37 (17.79%) TDD
7 36 (17.31%) Event-Driven
8 34 (16.35%) MVVM
9 33 (15.87%) AI
9 33 (15.87%) Clean Code
10 32 (15.38%) Microservices
11 30 (14.42%) Observability
12 29 (13.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (12.50%) User Experience
15 25 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (11.54%) DevOps
17 22 (10.58%) Architectural Patterns
17 22 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (10.10%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 134 (64.42%) Java
2 40 (19.23%) TypeScript
3 26 (12.50%) SQL
4 24 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.73%) Swift
6 13 (6.25%) Python
7 5 (2.40%) C#
7 5 (2.40%) Go
7 5 (2.40%) Rust
8 4 (1.92%) C++
9 3 (1.44%) Ruby
9 3 (1.44%) Scala
10 2 (0.96%) Elixir
10 2 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.40%) Degree
4 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.46%) QA
2 19 (9.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (10.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (13.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.37%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) logstash
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (12.02%) Google
2 6 (2.88%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.40%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.48%) Confluent
5 1 (0.48%) Zscaler