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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 341 335
Rank change year-on-year -63 -6 +62
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 196 137 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 1.63% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 83 156
10th Percentile £315 £375 £350
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.52% -20.42%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £62.38 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £82.40 - £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 11,454 8,399 11,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.65% 33.85% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,487 5,832 8,173
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £522 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -2.97% -3.93%
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 520 198 491
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.13 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -39 102 £475 -9.52% 19
North of England -56 44 £450 +5.88% 4
North West -27 23 £550 +37.50% 2
South West -7 18 £500 +42.86% 7
South East -41 17 £406 -30.56% 5
Yorkshire -62 14 £400 -18.60% 2
Midlands -55 8 £527 +13.93% 2
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 8 (4.08%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 10 (5.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (26.53%) AWS
2 33 (16.84%) GitHub
3 27 (13.78%) Azure
4 24 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (10.71%) GCP
6 8 (4.08%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.06%) Firebase
7 6 (3.06%) Google Play
7 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.04%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.02%) Serverless
11 1 (0.51%) AuraDB
11 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.51%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) VPN
2 4 (2.04%) HTTP
3 3 (1.53%) DSL
4 2 (1.02%) DNS
4 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.06%) Power BI
3 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.04%) MySQL
5 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.02%) SQLite
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 30 (15.31%) Gradle
2 16 (8.16%) Git
2 16 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.63%) JUnit
4 12 (6.12%) Android Studio
5 11 (5.61%) GitLab
6 10 (5.10%) CircleCI
7 9 (4.59%) JIRA
8 8 (4.08%) fastlane
9 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.57%) IntelliJ
10 5 (2.55%) Crashlytics
10 5 (2.55%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.55%) Gatling
11 4 (2.04%) XCUITest
12 3 (1.53%) Appium
12 3 (1.53%) Selenium
12 3 (1.53%) Xcode
13 2 (1.02%) Maven
13 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.82%) Banking
2 28 (14.29%) Finance
3 27 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.76%) Social Skills
5 11 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.57%) Front Office
8 4 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.04%) Military
8 4 (2.04%) Retail
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 88 (44.90%) Developer
2 41 (20.92%) Senior
3 33 (16.84%) Android Developer
4 31 (15.82%) Java Developer
5 28 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.71%) Android Engineer
6 21 (10.71%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) Mobile Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.63%) Backend Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Lead
12 7 (3.57%) Mobile Developer
12 7 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.57%) Tester
13 6 (3.06%) QA Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (2.55%) Applications Engineer
14 5 (2.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.92%) Android Jetpack
1 41 (20.92%) Spring
2 39 (19.90%) Jetpack Compose
3 37 (18.88%) Spring Boot
4 33 (16.84%) REST
5 22 (11.22%) Android SDK
5 22 (11.22%) RESTful
6 13 (6.63%) GraphQL
7 12 (6.12%) Kafka
7 12 (6.12%) RxJava
8 11 (5.61%) Node.js
9 9 (4.59%) Dagger
10 8 (4.08%) OAuth
10 8 (4.08%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.57%) OkHttp
12 6 (3.06%) HTML
12 6 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (3.06%) Playwright
12 6 (3.06%) React
12 6 (3.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.51%) Mobile App
2 26 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (12.76%) Cloud Native
4 16 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.61%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.59%) Virtual Team
7 8 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.57%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.57%) Legacy Code
9 5 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 73 (37.24%) Android
2 24 (12.24%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.08%) Linux
4 4 (2.04%) Unix
4 4 (2.04%) Windows
5 3 (1.53%) AIX
5 3 (1.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.22%) CI/CD
2 50 (25.51%) Agile
3 45 (22.96%) Software Engineering
3 45 (22.96%) Test Automation
4 44 (22.45%) Android Development
5 42 (21.43%) Microservices
6 30 (15.31%) MVVM
7 29 (14.80%) Event-Driven
8 24 (12.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 24 (12.24%) Observability
8 24 (12.24%) TDD
9 23 (11.73%) User Experience
10 22 (11.22%) DevOps
11 19 (9.69%) API Design
11 19 (9.69%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.18%) Architectural Patterns
13 17 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (8.67%) Open Source
13 17 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.16%) AI
Programming Languages
1 135 (68.88%) Java
2 24 (12.24%) TypeScript
3 20 (10.20%) Swift
4 16 (8.16%) SQL
5 15 (7.65%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.12%) Python
7 6 (3.06%) Go
8 3 (1.53%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.02%) C#
9 2 (1.02%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) Rust
10 1 (0.51%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.51%) Cypher
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.59%) Degree
4 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.29%) QA
2 11 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.55%) WCAG
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (9.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.63%) Grafana
3 8 (4.08%) Terraform
4 2 (1.02%) Podman
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (13.27%) Google
2 8 (4.08%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.06%) Splunk
3 6 (3.06%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.51%) Okta
5 1 (0.51%) Roku