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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 347 328
Rank change year-on-year -62 -19 +64
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 197 144 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.58% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.72% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 86 154
10th Percentile £313 £375 £350
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +3.45% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £647
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.30% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 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 £57.50 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £65.30 - £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 11,412 8,364 11,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.87% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,460 5,798 8,122
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.30% -4.31%
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 521 197 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.84
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 £78.00 £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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -65 104 £475 -11.63% 74
North of England -58 42 £450 +5.88% 16
North West -33 21 £475 +18.75% 13
South West -15 18 £500 +14.29% 10
South East -42 18 £400 -31.62% 6
Yorkshire -55 14 £400 -18.60% 3
Midlands -58 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 (4.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.38%) AWS
2 34 (17.26%) GitHub
3 27 (13.71%) Azure
4 25 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (10.66%) GCP
6 8 (4.06%) Cloud Run
7 7 (3.55%) Google Play
8 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.05%) Firebase
8 6 (3.05%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.03%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.02%) Serverless
12 1 (0.51%) AuraDB
12 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.51%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.05%) VPN
2 4 (2.03%) HTTP
3 3 (1.52%) DSL
4 2 (1.02%) DNS
4 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.05%) Power BI
3 4 (2.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) MySQL
4 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.02%) SQLite
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (16.75%) Gradle
2 16 (8.12%) Git
2 16 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.11%) Android Studio
3 14 (7.11%) JUnit
4 11 (5.58%) CircleCI
4 11 (5.58%) GitLab
5 9 (4.57%) JIRA
6 8 (4.06%) fastlane
7 7 (3.55%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.55%) IntelliJ
8 5 (2.54%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.54%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.54%) Gatling
9 4 (2.03%) XCUITest
10 3 (1.52%) Appium
10 3 (1.52%) Selenium
10 3 (1.52%) Xcode
11 2 (1.02%) Maven
11 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.74%) Banking
2 28 (14.21%) Finance
2 28 (14.21%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.68%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.55%) Front Office
7 4 (2.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.03%) Retail
8 3 (1.52%) Military
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 92 (46.70%) Developer
2 38 (19.29%) Senior
3 35 (17.77%) Android Developer
4 32 (16.24%) Java Developer
5 25 (12.69%) Software Engineer
6 22 (11.17%) Android Engineer
7 18 (9.14%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.61%) Mobile Engineer
8 15 (7.61%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.11%) Backend Developer
10 13 (6.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) Architect
11 9 (4.57%) Mobile Developer
12 8 (4.06%) Lead
13 7 (3.55%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (3.55%) Tester
14 6 (3.05%) QA Engineer
15 5 (2.54%) Applications Engineer
15 5 (2.54%) Java Mobile Developer
15 5 (2.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.83%) Android Jetpack
2 41 (20.81%) Jetpack Compose
3 37 (18.78%) Spring
4 33 (16.75%) REST
4 33 (16.75%) Spring Boot
5 22 (11.17%) Android SDK
5 22 (11.17%) RESTful
6 13 (6.60%) GraphQL
6 13 (6.60%) RxJava
7 10 (5.08%) Dagger
7 10 (5.08%) Node.js
8 9 (4.57%) Kafka
9 8 (4.06%) OAuth
9 8 (4.06%) OAuth2
9 8 (4.06%) OkHttp
10 7 (3.55%) WireMock
11 6 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.05%) Playwright
11 6 (3.05%) RAML
11 6 (3.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.89%) Mobile App
2 24 (12.18%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (11.68%) Cloud Native
4 17 (8.63%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.58%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (5.08%) Virtual Team
7 9 (4.57%) Data Structures
8 8 (4.06%) Legacy Code
8 8 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (4.06%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.55%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.54%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 76 (38.58%) Android
2 24 (12.18%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.06%) Linux
4 4 (2.03%) Unix
4 4 (2.03%) Windows
5 3 (1.52%) AIX
5 3 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.53%) CI/CD
2 49 (24.87%) Agile
3 46 (23.35%) Android Development
3 46 (23.35%) Test Automation
4 42 (21.32%) Microservices
4 42 (21.32%) Software Engineering
5 32 (16.24%) MVVM
6 26 (13.20%) Event-Driven
7 24 (12.18%) DevOps
7 24 (12.18%) TDD
7 24 (12.18%) User Experience
8 23 (11.68%) Observability
9 21 (10.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (9.64%) API Design
10 19 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 18 (9.14%) Architectural Patterns
11 18 (9.14%) Open Source
12 17 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (8.12%) API Development
13 16 (8.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (67.01%) Java
2 23 (11.68%) TypeScript
3 20 (10.15%) Swift
4 15 (7.61%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.61%) SQL
5 12 (6.09%) Python
6 6 (3.05%) Go
7 3 (1.52%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.02%) C#
8 2 (1.02%) PHP
8 2 (1.02%) Rust
9 1 (0.51%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.51%) Cypher
9 1 (0.51%) Ruby
9 1 (0.51%) Scala
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.08%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.72%) QA
2 11 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.54%) WCAG
4 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 15 (7.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (12.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.60%) Grafana
3 8 (4.06%) Terraform
4 2 (1.02%) Podman
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (13.71%) Google
2 8 (4.06%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.05%) Splunk
3 6 (3.05%) Zscaler
4 5 (2.54%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.51%) Okta
5 1 (0.51%) Roku