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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 360 325
Rank change year-on-year -52 -35 +68
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 222 160 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 1.76% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 108 146
10th Percentile £313 £361 £363
25th Percentile £423 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £713 £645
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £78.80 - -
25th Percentile £81.50 £43.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate £86.00 £44.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.26% +7.23% -
75th Percentile £90.50 £45.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £93.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £44.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +93.26% +7.23% -

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 11,976 9,083 10,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.48% 32.93% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 6,266 7,807
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 227 388
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £32.52
25th Percentile £53.53 £38.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £83.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +7.22%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -33 133 £475 -9.52% 122
North of England -79 38 £461 +3.65% 17
South West -19 18 £500 +42.86% 8
Yorkshire -53 18 £407 -16.94% 6
South East -63 16 £413 +37.50% 10
North West -49 13 £563 +40.63% 11
Midlands -53 8 £527 +13.93% 5
West Midlands - 8 £527 - 2
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 10 (4.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.97%) AWS
2 44 (19.82%) GitHub
3 36 (16.22%) Azure
4 27 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (11.71%) GCP
6 13 (5.86%) Google Play
7 10 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (4.05%) Cloud Run
9 7 (3.15%) Firebase
10 6 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.80%) Sauce Labs
13 3 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (1.35%) Azure AI
13 3 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) HTTP
1 6 (2.70%) VPN
2 2 (0.90%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) DSL
2 2 (0.90%) NFC
2 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.70%) Power BI
3 5 (2.25%) Redis
3 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.80%) MySQL
5 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.35%) SQLite
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (10.81%) Git
2 21 (9.46%) Gradle
3 18 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.31%) JIRA
5 13 (5.86%) JUnit
6 12 (5.41%) Android Studio
6 12 (5.41%) Bitbucket
7 9 (4.05%) CircleCI
8 8 (3.60%) GitLab
9 7 (3.15%) fastlane
10 5 (2.25%) Crashlytics
10 5 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.25%) Gatling
11 4 (1.80%) XCUITest
12 3 (1.35%) Appium
12 3 (1.35%) Selenium
12 3 (1.35%) Xcode
13 2 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
13 2 (0.90%) Maven
13 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (18.47%) Banking
2 39 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.12%) Finance
4 29 (13.06%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.50%) Front Office
8 6 (2.70%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.80%) Military
9 4 (1.80%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (40.99%) Developer
2 48 (21.62%) Senior
3 34 (15.32%) Android Developer
4 33 (14.86%) Java Developer
4 33 (14.86%) Software Engineer
5 30 (13.51%) Android Engineer
6 21 (9.46%) Java Engineer
7 16 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (7.21%) Mobile Engineer
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Android Engineer
8 12 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.50%) Lead
10 9 (4.05%) Backend Developer
10 9 (4.05%) Mobile Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Tester
12 7 (3.15%) Architect
12 7 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.15%) QA Engineer
13 6 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.97%) Android Jetpack
2 47 (21.17%) REST
3 44 (19.82%) Jetpack Compose
4 40 (18.02%) Spring
5 36 (16.22%) RESTful
6 33 (14.86%) Spring Boot
7 31 (13.96%) Android SDK
8 17 (7.66%) Kafka
9 16 (7.21%) GraphQL
10 13 (5.86%) Node.js
11 11 (4.95%) RxJava
12 10 (4.50%) React
13 9 (4.05%) OAuth
13 9 (4.05%) OAuth2
14 8 (3.60%) Dagger
14 8 (3.60%) HTML
15 7 (3.15%) JSON
16 6 (2.70%) Playwright
17 5 (2.25%) OkHttp
17 5 (2.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.68%) Mobile App
2 30 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.91%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.21%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (5.41%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.50%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.15%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.15%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.70%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.70%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.70%) Legacy Code
10 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (38.74%) Android
2 23 (10.36%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.60%) Linux
4 6 (2.70%) Unix
5 4 (1.80%) Windows
6 3 (1.35%) AIX
6 3 (1.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (41.44%) CI/CD
2 69 (31.08%) Agile
3 55 (24.77%) Software Engineering
4 54 (24.32%) Android Development
5 50 (22.52%) Test Automation
6 42 (18.92%) Microservices
7 40 (18.02%) MVVM
8 36 (16.22%) Event-Driven
9 33 (14.86%) TDD
10 30 (13.51%) User Experience
11 29 (13.06%) Observability
12 28 (12.61%) AI
12 28 (12.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 28 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.71%) DevOps
14 25 (11.26%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (11.26%) Clean Code
15 22 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.91%) Mentoring
16 20 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 154 (69.37%) Java
2 29 (13.06%) TypeScript
3 19 (8.56%) JavaScript
3 19 (8.56%) SQL
4 17 (7.66%) Swift
5 15 (6.76%) Python
6 8 (3.60%) Go
7 5 (2.25%) C#
8 4 (1.80%) Rust
9 3 (1.35%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.35%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) Elixir
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) Cypher
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.60%) Degree
4 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.86%) QA
2 16 (7.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.25%) WCAG
4 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (9.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.60%) Terraform
3 7 (3.15%) Grafana
4 4 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.90%) Podman
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (15.32%) Google
2 8 (3.60%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.15%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.70%) Splunk
4 6 (2.70%) Zscaler
5 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.45%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.45%) Okta