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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 278 413
Rank change year-on-year -114 +135 -17
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 159 257 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.83% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 2.55% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 152 138
10th Percentile £342 £396 £441
25th Percentile £383 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -17.29% +1.69%
75th Percentile £650 £591 £675
90th Percentile £815 £649 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £48.05 £35.53 £72.25
25th Percentile £51.13 £36.50 £73.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +5.80%
75th Percentile £65.38 £42.94 £80.63
90th Percentile £69.35 £51.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
% change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +5.80%

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 9,692 10,060 12,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.03% 32.31% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 6,509 8,856
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 268 413
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.71
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.89 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.00% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 -122 95 £600 +20.00% 32
North of England -16 32 £400 -4.48% 12
Yorkshire -11 24 £440 -22.33% 2
South West +12 10 £350 -15.15% 9
Midlands -18 10 £463 -11.48% 3
North West -22 8 £375 -5.06% 10
South East +1 7 £338 -20.59% 20
East Midlands -6 6 £463 -11.48% 2
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 1
North East - 1 £425 -
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 6 (3.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.63%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.61%) AWS
2 19 (11.95%) Azure
3 16 (10.06%) GitHub
4 14 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (7.55%) GCP
5 12 (7.55%) Google Play
6 7 (4.40%) Firebase
7 6 (3.77%) Sentry
8 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.26%) Bitrise
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.63%) Figma
10 1 (0.63%) Flurry Analytics
10 1 (0.63%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) HTTP
2 3 (1.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) Broadband
3 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.29%) MongoDB
1 10 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.40%) MySQL
4 3 (1.89%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.63%) HBase
6 1 (0.63%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (22.64%) Git
2 17 (10.69%) CircleCI
3 15 (9.43%) Android Studio
3 15 (9.43%) Gradle
3 15 (9.43%) JUnit
4 13 (8.18%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.40%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.40%) JIRA
5 7 (4.40%) XCUITest
6 5 (3.14%) Appium
6 5 (3.14%) Charles Proxy
6 5 (3.14%) GitLab
6 5 (3.14%) Katalon Studio
6 5 (3.14%) Postman
6 5 (3.14%) Xcode
7 4 (2.52%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.52%) Mockito
8 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (29.56%) Finance
2 31 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.09%) Banking
4 13 (8.18%) Front Office
5 9 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Military
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 104 (65.41%) Developer
2 63 (39.62%) Android Developer
3 33 (20.75%) Senior
4 19 (11.95%) Senior Developer
5 14 (8.81%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.92%) Architect
6 11 (6.92%) Senior Android Developer
7 10 (6.29%) iOS Developer
7 10 (6.29%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.66%) Front Office Developer
8 9 (5.66%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Mobile Developer
9 8 (5.03%) Android Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Architect
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Technical Architect
10 7 (4.40%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Applications Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Lead
12 5 (3.14%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.93%) Android Jetpack
2 43 (27.04%) Jetpack Compose
2 43 (27.04%) RESTful
3 27 (16.98%) Android SDK
4 14 (8.81%) Dagger
4 14 (8.81%) Spring
5 11 (6.92%) CSS
5 11 (6.92%) HTML
5 11 (6.92%) RxJava
5 11 (6.92%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.66%) React
7 8 (5.03%) REST
7 8 (5.03%) Web Services
8 6 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.77%) GraphQL
8 6 (3.77%) iOS SDK
8 6 (3.77%) React Native
9 5 (3.14%) JSON
9 5 (3.14%) Retrofit
10 4 (2.52%) JNI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (33.96%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.14%) Mobile Banking
4 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.52%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.52%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 93 (58.49%) Android
2 31 (19.50%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.03%) Linux
4 4 (2.52%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.89%) Windows
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (42.77%) Android Development
2 63 (39.62%) Agile
3 61 (38.36%) CI/CD
4 35 (22.01%) MVVM
5 31 (19.50%) User Experience
6 28 (17.61%) DevOps
7 26 (16.35%) Unit Testing
8 23 (14.47%) Architectural Patterns
8 23 (14.47%) Microservices
8 23 (14.47%) TDD
9 22 (13.84%) Test Automation
10 21 (13.21%) Mobile Development
11 20 (12.58%) Scrum
12 19 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (11.95%) Fintech
13 18 (11.32%) Mentoring
13 18 (11.32%) Open Source
14 16 (10.06%) Benchmarking
14 16 (10.06%) SOLID
14 16 (10.06%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 105 (66.04%) Java
2 25 (15.72%) TypeScript
3 24 (15.09%) Swift
4 19 (11.95%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.69%) C++
5 17 (10.69%) Python
6 14 (8.81%) Objective-C
7 11 (6.92%) Scala
8 10 (6.29%) SQL
9 6 (3.77%) Ruby
9 6 (3.77%) Rust
10 4 (2.52%) C
11 3 (1.89%) C#
11 3 (1.89%) Go
12 2 (1.26%) PHP
12 2 (1.26%) VB
13 1 (0.63%) Clojure
13 1 (0.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (8.18%) Degree
1 13 (8.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.89%) CCNA
5 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.43%) QA
2 12 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (10.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.18%) Terraform
3 11 (6.92%) Grafana
4 8 (5.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (18.87%) Google
2 8 (5.03%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.14%) Splunk
4 4 (2.52%) Oracle
5 3 (1.89%) Alibaba
5 3 (1.89%) Apple
6 2 (1.26%) Adobe
6 2 (1.26%) Xamarin