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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 361 329
Rank change year-on-year -49 -32 +74
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 211 150 221
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.66% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 97 152
10th Percentile £350 £359 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -4.52% -17.08%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £713 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £57.40 - £48.10
25th Percentile £64.75 £43.25 £59.13
Median hourly rate £77.00 £44.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.03% -44.38% -
75th Percentile £86.00 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £91.40 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +73.03% -44.38% -

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 12,063 9,023 11,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.79% 33.29% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 6,216 8,206
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.93% -1.59%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £736 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 231 468
10th Percentile £34.57 £28.41 £35.89
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.99 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £80.00 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -22 122 £475 -9.52% 49
North of England -71 39 £460 +2.22% 8
South West -17 18 £500 +42.86% 9
Yorkshire -55 18 £407 -17.41% 1
South East -51 15 £456 +52.08% 9
North West -51 14 £550 +37.50% 7
Midlands -59 8 £527 +13.93%
West Midlands - 8 £527 -
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 10 (4.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (23.70%) AWS
2 40 (18.96%) GitHub
3 31 (14.69%) Azure
4 25 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (11.37%) GCP
6 10 (4.74%) Google Play
7 9 (4.27%) Cloud Run
8 7 (3.32%) Firebase
9 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.84%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.90%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) HTTP
1 6 (2.84%) VPN
2 3 (1.42%) DSL
3 2 (0.95%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) NFC
3 2 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.84%) Power BI
3 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.90%) MySQL
5 3 (1.42%) Redis
5 3 (1.42%) SQLite
6 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (11.37%) Gradle
2 22 (10.43%) Git
3 18 (8.53%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.16%) Android Studio
4 13 (6.16%) JUnit
5 12 (5.69%) JIRA
6 10 (4.74%) Bitbucket
7 9 (4.27%) CircleCI
8 8 (3.79%) fastlane
9 7 (3.32%) GitLab
10 5 (2.37%) Crashlytics
10 5 (2.37%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.37%) Gatling
11 4 (1.90%) XCUITest
12 3 (1.42%) Appium
12 3 (1.42%) Selenium
12 3 (1.42%) Xcode
13 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.95%) Maven
13 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.59%) Banking
3 33 (15.64%) Finance
4 29 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.27%) Front Office
8 6 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Military
9 4 (1.90%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (44.55%) Developer
2 48 (22.75%) Senior
3 36 (17.06%) Android Developer
4 33 (15.64%) Java Developer
5 26 (12.32%) Android Engineer
6 25 (11.85%) Software Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Mobile Engineer
9 13 (6.16%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Senior Android Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Backend Developer
12 10 (4.74%) Lead
13 9 (4.27%) Mobile Developer
14 7 (3.32%) Architect
14 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.32%) QA Engineer
14 7 (3.32%) Tester
15 6 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 6 (2.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.22%) Android Jetpack
2 44 (20.85%) Jetpack Compose
3 43 (20.38%) REST
4 39 (18.48%) Spring
5 34 (16.11%) Spring Boot
6 33 (15.64%) RESTful
7 28 (13.27%) Android SDK
8 16 (7.58%) GraphQL
8 16 (7.58%) Kafka
9 13 (6.16%) Node.js
10 11 (5.21%) RxJava
11 9 (4.27%) OAuth
11 9 (4.27%) OAuth2
12 8 (3.79%) Dagger
12 8 (3.79%) HTML
13 7 (3.32%) JSON
13 7 (3.32%) React
14 6 (2.84%) Playwright
15 5 (2.37%) OkHttp
15 5 (2.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.59%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.22%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.90%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.58%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (4.74%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.74%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.32%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.84%) Legacy Code
10 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.37%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (39.81%) Android
2 24 (11.37%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.79%) Linux
4 6 (2.84%) Unix
5 4 (1.90%) Windows
6 3 (1.42%) AIX
6 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (40.28%) CI/CD
2 63 (29.86%) Agile
3 53 (25.12%) Android Development
4 48 (22.75%) Test Automation
5 45 (21.33%) Software Engineering
6 42 (19.91%) Microservices
7 38 (18.01%) MVVM
8 34 (16.11%) Event-Driven
9 30 (14.22%) TDD
10 27 (12.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 27 (12.80%) Observability
10 27 (12.80%) User Experience
11 26 (12.32%) DevOps
12 25 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (11.37%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (10.43%) AI
14 22 (10.43%) Clean Code
14 22 (10.43%) Mentoring
15 20 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (9.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 145 (68.72%) Java
2 27 (12.80%) TypeScript
3 19 (9.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (9.00%) SQL
4 18 (8.53%) Swift
5 15 (7.11%) Python
6 8 (3.79%) Go
7 4 (1.90%) C#
7 4 (1.90%) Rust
8 3 (1.42%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.42%) Ruby
9 2 (0.95%) C++
9 2 (0.95%) Elixir
9 2 (0.95%) PHP
9 2 (0.95%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.47%) Cypher
10 1 (0.47%) Korn
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (18.96%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.79%) Degree
4 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.17%) QA
2 14 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.37%) WCAG
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (9.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.79%) Grafana
2 8 (3.79%) Terraform
3 2 (0.95%) Podman
3 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (14.69%) Google
2 8 (3.79%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.84%) Splunk
4 6 (2.84%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.47%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.47%) Okta
5 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.47%) Roku