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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 354 368
Rank change year-on-year -58 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 176 126 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 1.53% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 76 126
10th Percentile £313 £398 £350
25th Percentile £388 £432 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £509 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +2.78% -14.66%
75th Percentile £583 £630 £600
90th Percentile £677 £709 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £495
% change year-on-year -3.38% +4.55% -13.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile - £36.65 £77.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.13 £78.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -44.72% +89.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.63 £82.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £58.35 £82.35
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.75 £80.50
% change year-on-year +4.27% -34.47% +89.30%

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 10,982 8,215 10,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.24% 33.76% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 5,683 7,932
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 214 439
10th Percentile £42.63 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -0.33%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -59 75 £497 -5.38% 28
North of England -45 47 £468 +0.70% 9
North West -12 34 £475 +11.76% 2
South East -32 20 £406 -30.56% 3
South West -18 19 £400 -8.57% 2
Yorkshire -55 10 £407 -17.18% 7
Midlands -68 8 £525 +13.51% 1
West Midlands - 8 £525 -
North East - 4 £575 -
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.27%) AWS
2 22 (12.50%) GitHub
3 20 (11.36%) Azure
4 19 (10.80%) GCP
5 15 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.41%) Cloud Run
6 6 (3.41%) Firebase
6 6 (3.41%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.84%) Google Play
7 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.27%) Sauce Labs
8 4 (2.27%) Serverless
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.14%) Figma
9 2 (1.14%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) VPN
2 3 (1.70%) DSL
2 3 (1.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.41%) Power BI
3 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.14%) SQLite
5 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.57%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (20.45%) Gradle
2 19 (10.80%) GitLab
3 15 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.39%) Android Studio
4 13 (7.39%) Git
5 12 (6.82%) IntelliJ
6 10 (5.68%) JUnit
7 9 (5.11%) JIRA
8 7 (3.98%) CircleCI
9 6 (3.41%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.41%) fastlane
9 6 (3.41%) Selenium
10 4 (2.27%) Xcode
11 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.70%) Maven
11 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.70%) XCUITest
12 2 (1.14%) Appium
12 2 (1.14%) Crashlytics
12 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (17.61%) Finance
2 22 (12.50%) Banking
3 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.80%) Social Skills
5 9 (5.11%) Front Office
6 7 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Retail
8 2 (1.14%) Automotive
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.14%) Police
8 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.57%) Military
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (55.11%) Developer
2 38 (21.59%) Senior
3 36 (20.45%) Android Developer
4 28 (15.91%) Java Developer
5 24 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 20 (11.36%) Backend Developer
7 19 (10.80%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.09%) Java Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) Android Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) Mobile Developer
10 14 (7.95%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Architect
12 8 (4.55%) Java Mobile Developer
13 7 (3.98%) Senior Backend Developer
14 6 (3.41%) Front Office Developer
14 6 (3.41%) Senior Android Developer
14 6 (3.41%) Tester
15 5 (2.84%) Applications Developer
15 5 (2.84%) iOS Developer
15 5 (2.84%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.00%) Spring
2 43 (24.43%) Spring Boot
3 33 (18.75%) Android Jetpack
4 32 (18.18%) Jetpack Compose
5 24 (13.64%) REST
6 20 (11.36%) Android SDK
7 14 (7.95%) RESTful
8 13 (7.39%) OAuth
8 13 (7.39%) OAuth2
9 12 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (6.25%) RxJava
11 10 (5.68%) GraphQL
12 9 (5.11%) Dagger
12 9 (5.11%) OkHttp
13 6 (3.41%) Node.js
13 6 (3.41%) RAML
13 6 (3.41%) WireMock
14 5 (2.84%) JSON
15 4 (2.27%) Kafka
15 4 (2.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 49 (27.84%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.11%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.98%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.98%) Legacy Code
5 7 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.57%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (38.07%) Android
2 24 (13.64%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.68%) Linux
4 5 (2.84%) Windows
5 4 (2.27%) Unix
6 3 (1.70%) AIX
6 3 (1.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.84%) CI/CD
2 45 (25.57%) Android Development
3 40 (22.73%) Agile
4 39 (22.16%) Microservices
5 34 (19.32%) Software Engineering
6 33 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 27 (15.34%) MVVM
8 25 (14.20%) User Experience
9 24 (13.64%) TDD
10 23 (13.07%) Mentoring
11 22 (12.50%) API Design
12 21 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.36%) Event-Driven
14 18 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (9.66%) Design Patterns
15 17 (9.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 16 (9.09%) DevOps
16 16 (9.09%) Open Source
17 15 (8.52%) Observability
17 15 (8.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 126 (71.59%) Java
2 19 (10.80%) Swift
3 12 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.25%) Python
5 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.41%) Objective-C
7 4 (2.27%) Go
7 4 (2.27%) SQL
8 2 (1.14%) PHP
8 2 (1.14%) Scala
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.57%) C#
9 1 (0.57%) Cypher
9 1 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) Degree
4 8 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.93%) QA
2 11 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.36%) Grafana
3 7 (3.98%) Terraform
4 2 (1.14%) Podman
5 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (14.77%) Google
2 6 (3.41%) Splunk
2 6 (3.41%) Zscaler
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.57%) Okta
6 1 (0.57%) Roku