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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 277 397
Rank change year-on-year -150 +120 -1
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 137 215 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.82% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 2.46% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 119 133
10th Percentile £291 £390 £375
25th Percentile £375 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - -15.61%
75th Percentile £673 £630 £625
90th Percentile £850 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £520 £520 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.95% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile - £35.45 £73.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -51.25% +59.84%
75th Percentile £61.25 £44.13 £82.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £40.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year +36.65% -49.69% +59.84%

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 10,066 8,749 11,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.19% 33.50% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,692 5,596 8,045
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 207 483
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -134 66 £600 +20.00% 42
North of England -28 42 £425 -5.56% 15
North West -5 32 £415 +5.06% 8
South West -13 13 £350 -21.13% 12
Yorkshire -42 10 £425 -24.98% 7
South East -25 5 £275 -45.54% 12
Midlands -50 5 £275 -47.12% 3
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 1
East Midlands -29 1 £388 -25.48% 2
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.73%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.17%) AWS
2 13 (9.49%) GitHub
3 10 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (5.84%) Azure
4 8 (5.84%) Google Play
5 7 (5.11%) Firebase
5 7 (5.11%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) Sentry
7 3 (2.19%) Figma
8 2 (1.46%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.46%) PaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Serverless
8 2 (1.46%) Vercel
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.73%) Apigee
9 1 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.65%) HTTP
2 2 (1.46%) DSL
3 1 (0.73%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.30%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.92%) MySQL
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.73%) HBase
5 1 (0.73%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (27.01%) Gradle
2 16 (11.68%) GitLab
2 16 (11.68%) IntelliJ
3 14 (10.22%) Git
3 14 (10.22%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.49%) Android Studio
5 11 (8.03%) JUnit
6 8 (5.84%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.38%) JIRA
7 6 (4.38%) XCUITest
8 5 (3.65%) Appium
8 5 (3.65%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.65%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.65%) Postman
8 5 (3.65%) Xcode
9 4 (2.92%) fastlane
9 4 (2.92%) Mockito
10 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.19%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.19%) Selenium
General
1 39 (28.47%) Finance
2 17 (12.41%) Banking
2 17 (12.41%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.49%) Front Office
4 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.73%) Automotive
6 1 (0.73%) Law
6 1 (0.73%) Military
6 1 (0.73%) Police
6 1 (0.73%) Retail
6 1 (0.73%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 92 (67.15%) Developer
2 48 (35.04%) Android Developer
3 28 (20.44%) Senior
4 22 (16.06%) Senior Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) Backend Developer
6 15 (10.95%) Java Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.76%) Mobile Developer
8 11 (8.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Front Office Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Senior Android Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Senior Backend Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Android Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Applications Developer
11 5 (3.65%) iOS Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Java Mobile Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Mobile Engineer
13 3 (2.19%) Lead
13 3 (2.19%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.01%) Android Jetpack
2 35 (25.55%) Jetpack Compose
3 27 (19.71%) Spring
4 26 (18.98%) Spring Boot
5 19 (13.87%) Android SDK
6 18 (13.14%) RESTful
7 15 (10.95%) RxJava
8 14 (10.22%) Dagger
9 12 (8.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (8.03%) REST
11 9 (6.57%) OkHttp
12 8 (5.84%) GraphQL
12 8 (5.84%) Web Services
13 7 (5.11%) OAuth
13 7 (5.11%) OAuth2
13 7 (5.11%) RAML
13 7 (5.11%) Retrofit
13 7 (5.11%) WireMock
14 6 (4.38%) CSS
14 6 (4.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.66%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.92%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.92%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.73%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.73%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 68 (49.64%) Android
2 24 (17.52%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.65%) Linux
4 4 (2.92%) Windows
5 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.96%) Android Development
2 34 (24.82%) CI/CD
3 32 (23.36%) Agile
4 30 (21.90%) MVVM
5 29 (21.17%) User Experience
6 22 (16.06%) Software Engineering
7 21 (15.33%) Microservices
7 21 (15.33%) Test Automation
8 20 (14.60%) Mobile Development
9 18 (13.14%) Open Source
10 16 (11.68%) Design Patterns
10 16 (11.68%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (10.95%) API Design
11 15 (10.95%) SOLID
12 14 (10.22%) DevOps
12 14 (10.22%) TDD
12 14 (10.22%) Unit Testing
13 13 (9.49%) Analytics
13 13 (9.49%) Benchmarking
14 12 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 89 (64.96%) Java
2 20 (14.60%) Swift
3 12 (8.76%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.30%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.57%) Python
6 8 (5.84%) C++
6 8 (5.84%) Objective-C
7 7 (5.11%) Scala
8 6 (4.38%) SQL
9 4 (2.92%) Ruby
9 4 (2.92%) Rust
10 3 (2.19%) C
11 2 (1.46%) Go
12 1 (0.73%) Bash
12 1 (0.73%) BrightScript
12 1 (0.73%) C#
12 1 (0.73%) Clojure
12 1 (0.73%) Groovy
12 1 (0.73%) PHP
12 1 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (8.03%) Degree
2 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.46%) SANS
6 1 (0.73%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) QA
2 14 (10.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.46%) NCSC
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (10.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (22.63%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.49%) Grafana
3 5 (3.65%) Terraform
4 1 (0.73%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 22 (16.06%) Google
2 8 (5.84%) Databricks
3 5 (3.65%) Splunk
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle
5 2 (1.46%) Adobe
5 2 (1.46%) Alibaba
5 2 (1.46%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.73%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.73%) Okta
6 1 (0.73%) Roku