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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 278 413
Rank change year-on-year -97 +135 -7
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 167 262 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.84% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 2.61% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 158 138
10th Percentile £345 £389 £445
25th Percentile £379 £413 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -19.58% +1.69%
75th Percentile £641 £594 £675
90th Percentile £800 £641 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £48.05 £35.53 £72.25
25th Percentile £51.13 £36.50 £73.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +5.80%
75th Percentile £65.38 £42.94 £80.63
90th Percentile £69.35 £51.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
% change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +5.80%

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 9,846 10,054 12,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.24% 32.37% 31.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,556 6,541 8,873
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 253 416
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £67.92 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +3.31% +0.83%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -114 100 £600 +20.00% 136
North of England -17 37 £389 -7.10% 34
Yorkshire -15 26 £433 -23.65% 6
North West -14 11 £375 -5.06% 28
Midlands -19 10 £463 -11.48% 5
South West +5 9 £350 -15.15% 10
South East +3 6 £338 -20.59% 28
East Midlands -8 6 £463 -11.48% 2
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 3
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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.60%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.17%) AWS
2 19 (11.38%) Azure
3 18 (10.78%) GitHub
4 14 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (7.19%) GCP
5 12 (7.19%) Google Play
6 7 (4.19%) Firebase
7 6 (3.59%) Sentry
8 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.20%) Bitrise
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.60%) Figma
10 1 (0.60%) Flurry Analytics
10 1 (0.60%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) HTTP
2 3 (1.80%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
3 1 (0.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.99%) MongoDB
1 10 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.19%) MySQL
4 3 (1.80%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.60%) HBase
6 1 (0.60%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (23.35%) Git
2 20 (11.98%) Gradle
3 18 (10.78%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.18%) CircleCI
5 16 (9.58%) JUnit
6 15 (8.98%) Android Studio
7 9 (5.39%) JIRA
8 8 (4.79%) Xcode
9 7 (4.19%) Bitbucket
9 7 (4.19%) XCUITest
10 6 (3.59%) Postman
11 5 (2.99%) Appium
11 5 (2.99%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (2.99%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (2.40%) GitLab
12 4 (2.40%) IntelliJ
12 4 (2.40%) Mockito
13 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.20%) Maven
14 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (28.74%) Finance
2 31 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.37%) Banking
4 13 (7.78%) Front Office
5 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 107 (64.07%) Developer
2 65 (38.92%) Android Developer
3 35 (20.96%) Senior
4 19 (11.38%) Senior Developer
5 13 (7.78%) iOS Developer
5 13 (7.78%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.59%) Architect
6 11 (6.59%) Senior Android Developer
7 10 (5.99%) Java Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.39%) Android Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Front Office Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Lead
9 8 (4.79%) Mobile Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Senior Architect
10 7 (4.19%) Senior Technical Architect
10 7 (4.19%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Applications Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Lead Developer
11 5 (2.99%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.95%) Android Jetpack
2 43 (25.75%) RESTful
3 42 (25.15%) Jetpack Compose
4 27 (16.17%) Android SDK
5 15 (8.98%) Dagger
6 14 (8.38%) CSS
6 14 (8.38%) HTML
7 13 (7.78%) RxJava
7 13 (7.78%) Spring
8 11 (6.59%) Spring Boot
9 9 (5.39%) React
10 8 (4.79%) React Native
10 8 (4.79%) REST
10 8 (4.79%) Web Services
11 6 (3.59%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.59%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.59%) iOS SDK
12 5 (2.99%) JSON
12 5 (2.99%) Retrofit
13 4 (2.40%) JNI
Miscellaneous
1 61 (36.53%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.79%) Mobile Banking
4 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.40%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.40%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 98 (58.68%) Android
2 33 (19.76%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.79%) Linux
4 4 (2.40%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.80%) Windows
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.11%) Agile
2 69 (41.32%) Android Development
3 61 (36.53%) CI/CD
4 38 (22.75%) MVVM
4 38 (22.75%) User Experience
5 31 (18.56%) DevOps
6 29 (17.37%) Unit Testing
7 27 (16.17%) Mobile Development
8 26 (15.57%) Architectural Patterns
9 25 (14.97%) TDD
10 23 (13.77%) Microservices
10 23 (13.77%) Scrum
10 23 (13.77%) Test Automation
11 21 (12.57%) Mentoring
12 20 (11.98%) UX Design
13 19 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (11.38%) Fintech
13 19 (11.38%) Roadmaps
14 17 (10.18%) Open Source
15 15 (8.98%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 109 (65.27%) Java
2 29 (17.37%) Swift
3 25 (14.97%) TypeScript
4 22 (13.17%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.98%) C++
5 20 (11.98%) Objective-C
5 20 (11.98%) Python
6 13 (7.78%) Scala
7 10 (5.99%) SQL
8 9 (5.39%) Ruby
9 7 (4.19%) C
10 6 (3.59%) Rust
11 3 (1.80%) C#
11 3 (1.80%) Go
12 2 (1.20%) PHP
12 2 (1.20%) VB
13 1 (0.60%) Ada
13 1 (0.60%) Clojure
13 1 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (7.78%) Degree
2 12 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.80%) CCNA
6 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.58%) QA
2 15 (8.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (16.77%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.19%) Terraform
3 11 (6.59%) Grafana
4 8 (4.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (17.37%) Google
2 8 (4.79%) Databricks
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.99%) Splunk
4 4 (2.40%) Oracle
5 3 (1.80%) Alibaba
5 3 (1.80%) Apple
6 2 (1.20%) Adobe
6 2 (1.20%) Xamarin