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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 314 385
Rank change year-on-year -92 +71 +34
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 162 168 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 1.97% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 97 132
10th Percentile £313 £386 £378
25th Percentile £389 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -15.43%
75th Percentile £644 £630 £625
90th Percentile £800 £721 £675
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.00% -15.25%
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 10,430 8,530 11,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.54% 33.69% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,960 5,605 7,963
10th Percentile £351 £357 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 210 473
10th Percentile £41.42 £25.25 £35.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.25%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -95 74 £575 +9.00% 33
North of England -37 38 £450 - 30
North West -17 29 £475 +11.76% 14
South West -9 20 £400 -9.86% 10
South East -23 15 £363 -38.03% 17
Yorkshire -55 9 £425 -22.73% 15
Midlands -52 8 £494 -5.05% 4
West Midlands - 8 £494 - 3
North East - 1 £425 - 1
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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.37%) AWS
2 16 (9.88%) GitHub
3 14 (8.64%) GCP
4 12 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (5.56%) Azure
6 7 (4.32%) Firebase
6 7 (4.32%) Google Play
7 6 (3.70%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.47%) Sentry
9 3 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.85%) Figma
9 3 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (1.85%) Serverless
10 2 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.23%) PaaS
10 2 (1.23%) Vercel
11 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) HTTP
2 2 (1.23%) DSL
3 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.17%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.47%) MySQL
5 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.23%) SQLite
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.62%) HBase
6 1 (0.62%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.62%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 39 (24.07%) Gradle
2 18 (11.11%) Android Studio
3 17 (10.49%) GitLab
4 15 (9.26%) Git
5 14 (8.64%) IntelliJ
6 12 (7.41%) JUnit
7 11 (6.79%) Jenkins
8 10 (6.17%) CircleCI
9 7 (4.32%) JIRA
10 5 (3.09%) Xcode
11 4 (2.47%) fastlane
11 4 (2.47%) Maven
11 4 (2.47%) Mockito
11 4 (2.47%) Selenium
11 4 (2.47%) XCUITest
12 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.85%) Charles Proxy
12 3 (1.85%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.85%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (1.85%) Postman
General
1 38 (23.46%) Finance
2 18 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.88%) Banking
4 13 (8.02%) Front Office
5 12 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.47%) Retail
7 3 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Police
8 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 105 (64.81%) Developer
2 53 (32.72%) Android Developer
3 32 (19.75%) Senior
4 23 (14.20%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.35%) Software Engineer
6 19 (11.73%) Java Developer
7 16 (9.88%) Backend Developer
7 16 (9.88%) Java Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Mobile Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Android Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior Android Developer
11 8 (4.94%) Applications Developer
12 7 (4.32%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.70%) Mobile Engineer
14 5 (3.09%) Mobile Applications Developer
15 4 (2.47%) Applications Engineer
15 4 (2.47%) iOS Developer
15 4 (2.47%) Java Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.16%) Android Jetpack
2 42 (25.93%) Jetpack Compose
3 39 (24.07%) Spring
4 37 (22.84%) Spring Boot
5 28 (17.28%) Android SDK
6 22 (13.58%) REST
7 19 (11.73%) RESTful
8 15 (9.26%) RxJava
9 14 (8.64%) Dagger
10 12 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (6.17%) GraphQL
11 10 (6.17%) OkHttp
12 9 (5.56%) RAML
13 8 (4.94%) OAuth
13 8 (4.94%) OAuth2
13 8 (4.94%) WireMock
14 7 (4.32%) Retrofit
14 7 (4.32%) Web Services
15 6 (3.70%) JSON
16 5 (3.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.63%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.32%) Legacy Code
5 7 (4.32%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.62%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Music Streaming
9 1 (0.62%) NHS
9 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (49.38%) Android
2 23 (14.20%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.09%) Linux
3 5 (3.09%) Windows
4 3 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (36.42%) Android Development
2 44 (27.16%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.22%) Agile
4 35 (21.60%) MVVM
5 31 (19.14%) User Experience
6 28 (17.28%) Software Engineering
7 25 (15.43%) Open Source
8 24 (14.81%) Microservices
8 24 (14.81%) Test Automation
9 22 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (12.35%) API Design
10 20 (12.35%) SOLID
11 18 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 18 (11.11%) Mobile Development
11 18 (11.11%) TDD
12 17 (10.49%) Benchmarking
12 17 (10.49%) DevOps
12 17 (10.49%) Mentoring
13 16 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (9.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 112 (69.14%) Java
2 19 (11.73%) Swift
3 11 (6.79%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.94%) Objective-C
6 5 (3.09%) SQL
7 4 (2.47%) Python
7 4 (2.47%) Scala
8 3 (1.85%) C++
8 3 (1.85%) Go
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.62%) Clojure
9 1 (0.62%) Cypher
9 1 (0.62%) Groovy
9 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.64%) Degree
3 12 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) SANS
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.35%) QA
2 13 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.23%) NCSC
4 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (12.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.73%) Grafana
3 5 (3.09%) Terraform
4 2 (1.23%) Podman
5 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 31 (19.14%) Google
2 9 (5.56%) Splunk
3 8 (4.94%) Databricks
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle
5 2 (1.23%) Adobe
5 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.62%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.62%) Okta
6 1 (0.62%) Roku
6 1 (0.62%) Xamarin