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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 347 351
Rank change year-on-year -57 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 223 166 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.82% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 112 125
10th Percentile £313 £346 £368
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £706 £633
UK median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £78.80 £45.85 £40.59
25th Percentile £81.50 £49.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate £86.00 £57.50 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.57% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £90.50 £65.38 £42.12
90th Percentile £93.20 £69.35 £42.20
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +49.57% +39.13% -

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 11,986 9,101 10,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.31% 32.70% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,255 7,550
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £530
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.91% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 236 359
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £37.45 £51.25
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 £80.00 £84.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.96%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -47 135 £475 -9.52% 206
North of England -61 42 £460 +9.52% 35
Yorkshire -48 21 £434 -6.62% 12
South West -25 18 £508 +45.00% 16
North West -42 14 £513 +28.13% 21
South East -65 12 £469 +38.89% 10
Midlands -51 7 £525 +13.51% 9
North East - 7 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 7 £525 - 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 11 (4.93%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.08%) AWS
2 46 (20.63%) GitHub
3 33 (14.80%) Azure
4 26 (11.66%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (9.42%) GCP
6 13 (5.83%) Google Play
7 11 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.14%) Firebase
9 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.69%) Cloud Run
9 6 (2.69%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.35%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.90%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) HTTP
1 6 (2.69%) VPN
2 2 (0.90%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) NFC
2 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.45%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.69%) Power BI
2 6 (2.69%) Redis
3 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.79%) MySQL
5 3 (1.35%) SQLite
6 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (10.31%) Git
2 18 (8.07%) Gradle
2 18 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.17%) JIRA
4 14 (6.28%) Bitbucket
5 12 (5.38%) JUnit
6 10 (4.48%) Android Studio
7 9 (4.04%) GitLab
8 8 (3.59%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.69%) fastlane
10 5 (2.24%) Crashlytics
10 5 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.24%) Gatling
11 4 (1.79%) XCUITest
12 3 (1.35%) Appium
12 3 (1.35%) Selenium
13 2 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
13 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.45%) RhodeCode
General
1 44 (19.73%) Banking
2 40 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.04%) Finance
4 28 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.93%) Front Office
8 6 (2.69%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.79%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (39.91%) Developer
2 49 (21.97%) Senior
3 36 (16.14%) Software Engineer
4 32 (14.35%) Android Engineer
4 32 (14.35%) Java Developer
5 31 (13.90%) Android Developer
6 19 (8.52%) Java Engineer
7 15 (6.73%) Mobile Engineer
7 15 (6.73%) Senior Android Engineer
8 14 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Lead
9 11 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.48%) Mobile Developer
11 8 (3.59%) QA Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) Architect
12 7 (3.14%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.97%) Android Jetpack
2 46 (20.63%) REST
3 42 (18.83%) Jetpack Compose
4 36 (16.14%) RESTful
5 35 (15.70%) Spring
6 33 (14.80%) Android SDK
7 27 (12.11%) Spring Boot
8 16 (7.17%) Kafka
9 14 (6.28%) GraphQL
9 14 (6.28%) React
10 13 (5.83%) Node.js
11 10 (4.48%) HTML
11 10 (4.48%) RxJava
12 8 (3.59%) JSON
12 8 (3.59%) OAuth
12 8 (3.59%) OAuth2
13 7 (3.14%) Dagger
14 6 (2.69%) Playwright
15 5 (2.24%) Retrofit
16 4 (1.79%) Ktor
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.56%) Mobile App
2 28 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.97%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.17%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.83%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.93%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.48%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.69%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.69%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.69%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.24%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.24%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.35%) IoT
11 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (39.01%) Android
2 23 (10.31%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.04%) Linux
4 6 (2.69%) Unix
5 3 (1.35%) AIX
6 2 (0.90%) Windows
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.70%) CI/CD
2 73 (32.74%) Agile
3 59 (26.46%) Software Engineering
4 54 (24.22%) Android Development
5 49 (21.97%) Test Automation
6 41 (18.39%) MVVM
7 40 (17.94%) Microservices
8 35 (15.70%) Event-Driven
9 33 (14.80%) TDD
10 30 (13.45%) AI
10 30 (13.45%) Observability
10 30 (13.45%) User Experience
11 28 (12.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 28 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (12.11%) Architectural Patterns
13 26 (11.66%) Clean Code
14 24 (10.76%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.87%) DevOps
16 21 (9.42%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 152 (68.16%) Java
2 32 (14.35%) TypeScript
3 21 (9.42%) SQL
4 20 (8.97%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.62%) Swift
6 16 (7.17%) Python
7 8 (3.59%) Go
8 5 (2.24%) C#
8 5 (2.24%) Rust
9 4 (1.79%) C++
10 3 (1.35%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) Elixir
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) Korn
12 1 (0.45%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.14%) Degree
4 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.35%) QA
2 20 (8.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.24%) WCAG
4 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (9.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.14%) Terraform
3 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.79%) Grafana
5 2 (0.90%) Podman
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (13.45%) Google
2 8 (3.59%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.69%) Zscaler
5 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.35%) Splunk