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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 352 281
Rank change year-on-year -79 -71 +124
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 211 173 277
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.89% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 123 168
10th Percentile £313 £363 £375
25th Percentile £410 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +5.26% -21.49%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £734 £625
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.90% +5.26% -21.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £76.48 £57.43 £36.15
25th Percentile £76.81 £59.19 £36.75
Median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +54.90% -46.03%
75th Percentile £82.81 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile £90.13 £70.68 £42.05
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.16
% change year-on-year +21.18% +54.90% -46.03%

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 12,027 9,170 10,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.84% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,804 6,185 7,158
10th Percentile £363 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.88% -3.74% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 260 309
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.44 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £76.50 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -50 134 £475 -13.64% 330
North of England -56 54 £460 +15.00% 76
Yorkshire -45 30 £461 +3.65% 31
North West -46 20 £550 +46.67% 36
West Midlands -37 9 £470 -8.29% 7
Midlands -40 9 £470 +1.62% 12
South West - 9 £600 - 30
North East - 4 £450 - 9
South East -69 3 £250 -25.93% 28
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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Trello
2 1 (0.47%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (23.70%) GitHub
2 46 (21.80%) AWS
3 28 (13.27%) Azure
4 27 (12.80%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (9.95%) GCP
6 13 (6.16%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (6.16%) Google Play
7 8 (3.79%) Firebase
8 7 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (3.32%) Serverless
9 6 (2.84%) Cloud Run
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.37%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.42%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) NFC
3 2 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.47%) DSL
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.27%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.32%) Redis
4 6 (2.84%) MySQL
5 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
7 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (11.85%) Git
2 18 (8.53%) Gradle
2 18 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.58%) Bitbucket
3 16 (7.58%) JIRA
4 13 (6.16%) JUnit
5 9 (4.27%) GitLab
6 7 (3.32%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.84%) fastlane
8 5 (2.37%) Android Studio
8 5 (2.37%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.37%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.37%) Gatling
9 4 (1.90%) Mockito
10 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.42%) Maven
10 3 (1.42%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.95%) Appium
11 2 (0.95%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.95%) Xcode
General
1 62 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.22%) Banking
3 35 (16.59%) Finance
4 23 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.16%) Front Office
8 7 (3.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (36.49%) Developer
2 48 (22.75%) Senior
3 44 (20.85%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.80%) Android Engineer
4 27 (12.80%) Java Engineer
5 25 (11.85%) Android Developer
5 25 (11.85%) Java Developer
6 22 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.69%) Lead
8 12 (5.69%) Senior Android Engineer
9 10 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.79%) QA Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Senior Android Developer
12 6 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.27%) Android Jetpack
2 46 (21.80%) REST
3 40 (18.96%) Jetpack Compose
4 34 (16.11%) RESTful
5 31 (14.69%) Spring
6 25 (11.85%) Kafka
7 24 (11.37%) Android SDK
8 23 (10.90%) Spring Boot
9 17 (8.06%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.11%) React
11 14 (6.64%) HTML
12 10 (4.74%) Node.js
13 9 (4.27%) Terraform
14 8 (3.79%) JSON
14 8 (3.79%) RxJava
15 7 (3.32%) Dagger
16 6 (2.84%) Playwright
16 6 (2.84%) Retrofit
17 5 (2.37%) Flutter
17 5 (2.37%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.38%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.22%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.90%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.64%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (6.64%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.64%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.74%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.37%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.90%) IoT
9 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Wallet
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 73 (34.60%) Android
2 21 (9.95%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.79%) Linux
4 7 (3.32%) Unix
5 3 (1.42%) AIX
5 3 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.97%) Agile
3 67 (31.75%) Software Engineering
4 45 (21.33%) Test Automation
5 43 (20.38%) Android Development
6 40 (18.96%) TDD
7 37 (17.54%) Event-Driven
8 34 (16.11%) AI
8 34 (16.11%) Clean Code
8 34 (16.11%) MVVM
9 33 (15.64%) Microservices
10 30 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 30 (14.22%) Observability
11 28 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (12.80%) User Experience
13 25 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (11.37%) DevOps
15 22 (10.43%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (9.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 134 (63.51%) Java
2 43 (20.38%) TypeScript
3 27 (12.80%) SQL
4 25 (11.85%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.11%) Swift
6 12 (5.69%) Python
7 5 (2.37%) Rust
7 5 (2.37%) Scala
8 4 (1.90%) C#
8 4 (1.90%) C++
8 4 (1.90%) Go
9 3 (1.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.95%) Elixir
10 2 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Degree
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.22%) QA
2 19 (9.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) logstash
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (10.90%) Google
2 6 (2.84%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.37%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.42%) Oracle
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent
6 1 (0.47%) Zscaler