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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 343 347
Rank change year-on-year -64 +4 +37
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 215 167 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.85% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 113 125
10th Percentile £310 £348 £368
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £633
UK median daily rate £484 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.26% -3.50% -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 11,996 9,042 10,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.32% 32.67% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,794 6,213 7,552
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.72% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 237 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £36.48 £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 £79.00 £84.70 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +8.33%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -34 133 £475 -11.63% 344
North of England -75 42 £460 +15.00% 63
Yorkshire -50 21 £434 -6.62% 18
South West -25 17 £508 +45.00% 12
North West -49 14 £513 +34.87% 41
South East -65 8 £413 +22.22% 14
North East - 7 £450 - 4
Midlands -55 6 £575 +24.32% 13
West Midlands - 6 £575 - 10
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 (5.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.40%) AWS
2 44 (20.47%) GitHub
3 33 (15.35%) Azure
4 24 (11.16%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (8.84%) GCP
6 13 (6.05%) Google Play
7 12 (5.58%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.26%) Firebase
9 6 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.79%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (1.86%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.40%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.93%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) HTTP
1 6 (2.79%) VPN
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) NFC
2 2 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.79%) Power BI
2 6 (2.79%) Redis
3 5 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.86%) MySQL
5 3 (1.40%) SQLite
6 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (9.77%) Git
2 18 (8.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.98%) Gradle
3 15 (6.98%) JIRA
4 14 (6.51%) Bitbucket
5 11 (5.12%) JUnit
6 10 (4.65%) Android Studio
7 9 (4.19%) GitLab
8 6 (2.79%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.79%) fastlane
9 5 (2.33%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.33%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.33%) Gatling
10 4 (1.86%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.40%) Appium
11 3 (1.40%) Selenium
12 2 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.47%) RhodeCode
13 1 (0.47%) Selendroid
General
1 45 (20.93%) Banking
2 37 (17.21%) Finance
2 37 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.12%) Front Office
7 6 (2.79%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.86%) Military
9 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (40.00%) Developer
2 48 (22.33%) Senior
3 35 (16.28%) Software Engineer
4 32 (14.88%) Java Developer
5 30 (13.95%) Android Developer
5 30 (13.95%) Android Engineer
6 19 (8.84%) Java Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) Senior Android Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Lead
8 11 (5.12%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.19%) Mobile Developer
10 8 (3.72%) QA Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Backend Developer
11 7 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.40%) Android Jetpack
2 42 (19.53%) REST
3 39 (18.14%) Jetpack Compose
4 35 (16.28%) RESTful
5 32 (14.88%) Spring
6 31 (14.42%) Android SDK
7 25 (11.63%) Spring Boot
8 16 (7.44%) Kafka
9 14 (6.51%) GraphQL
9 14 (6.51%) React
10 13 (6.05%) Node.js
11 11 (5.12%) HTML
12 9 (4.19%) RxJava
13 8 (3.72%) OAuth
13 8 (3.72%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.79%) Dagger
14 6 (2.79%) JSON
14 6 (2.79%) Playwright
15 5 (2.33%) Next.js
15 5 (2.33%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.12%) Mobile App
2 28 (13.02%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (9.30%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.51%) Product Ownership
5 13 (6.05%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (5.12%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.65%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.79%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.79%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.33%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.40%) IoT
11 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (38.14%) Android
2 21 (9.77%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.19%) Linux
4 6 (2.79%) Unix
5 3 (1.40%) AIX
6 2 (0.93%) Windows
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 70 (32.56%) Agile
3 56 (26.05%) Software Engineering
4 53 (24.65%) Android Development
5 48 (22.33%) Test Automation
6 39 (18.14%) Microservices
7 38 (17.67%) MVVM
8 35 (16.28%) Event-Driven
9 31 (14.42%) TDD
10 30 (13.95%) AI
11 28 (13.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 28 (13.02%) Observability
12 27 (12.56%) Architectural Patterns
12 27 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (12.09%) Clean Code
14 25 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (11.63%) User Experience
15 22 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (9.77%) Design Patterns
16 21 (9.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 147 (68.37%) Java
2 33 (15.35%) TypeScript
3 21 (9.77%) JavaScript
3 21 (9.77%) SQL
4 16 (7.44%) Python
4 16 (7.44%) Swift
5 8 (3.72%) Go
6 5 (2.33%) C#
6 5 (2.33%) Rust
7 4 (1.86%) C++
8 3 (1.40%) Ruby
9 2 (0.93%) Elixir
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
9 2 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) Korn
10 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.86%) Degree
5 3 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.02%) QA
2 20 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.33%) WCAG
4 4 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (9.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.26%) Terraform
3 5 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Podman
5 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.56%) Google
2 7 (3.26%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.79%) Zscaler
4 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.47%) Splunk