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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 338 344
Rank change year-on-year -78 +6 +47
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 185 137 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 1.69% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 82 141
10th Percentile £313 £376 £350
25th Percentile £400 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -17.50%
75th Percentile £538 £630 £600
90th Percentile £650 £732 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 3
10th Percentile - - £48.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £59.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +39.13%
75th Percentile £61.25 £45.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £58.86 £80.00
% change year-on-year -6.56% -26.42% +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 11,144 8,122 11,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.65% 33.94% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,317 5,643 8,041
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.37%
75th Percentile £613 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 537 187 461
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.32 £35.64
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.13 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.36
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.79% -0.23%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -77 85 £475 -20.83% 13
North of England -46 50 £450 - 5
North West -12 31 £475 +18.75% 3
South East -34 19 £406 -30.56% 5
South West -19 17 £481 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire -53 14 £400 -18.37% 1
Midlands -59 7 £527 +13.93% 1
West Midlands - 7 £527 - 1
North East - 5 £525 - 1
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 (4.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.32%) AWS
2 29 (15.68%) GitHub
3 21 (11.35%) Azure
4 20 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (9.73%) GCP
6 7 (3.78%) Firebase
7 6 (3.24%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.70%) Google Play
8 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.16%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.08%) Figma
10 2 (1.08%) PaaS
10 2 (1.08%) Serverless
10 2 (1.08%) Vercel
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) VPN
2 3 (1.62%) DSL
2 3 (1.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) DNS
3 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.24%) Power BI
2 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.08%) SQLite
4 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (21.08%) Gradle
2 17 (9.19%) GitLab
3 16 (8.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.03%) Android Studio
4 13 (7.03%) Git
4 13 (7.03%) IntelliJ
4 13 (7.03%) JUnit
5 10 (5.41%) CircleCI
6 9 (4.86%) JIRA
7 8 (4.32%) fastlane
8 7 (3.78%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.70%) Selenium
10 4 (2.16%) Crashlytics
10 4 (2.16%) Xcode
10 4 (2.16%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.62%) Appium
11 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.08%) Maven
12 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (14.59%) Banking
2 26 (14.05%) Finance
3 21 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.27%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.70%) Front Office
7 3 (1.62%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Automotive
9 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Police
9 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (47.57%) Developer
2 35 (18.92%) Android Developer
3 33 (17.84%) Java Developer
3 33 (17.84%) Senior
4 28 (15.14%) Software Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) Android Engineer
6 19 (10.27%) Java Engineer
7 17 (9.19%) Backend Developer
8 15 (8.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (8.11%) Mobile Engineer
9 14 (7.57%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.95%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (4.86%) Architect
12 7 (3.78%) Java Mobile Developer
12 7 (3.78%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.24%) Tester
14 5 (2.70%) QA Engineer
14 5 (2.70%) Sales Engineer
14 5 (2.70%) Workflow Engineer
15 4 (2.16%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.24%) Spring
2 41 (22.16%) Android Jetpack
3 39 (21.08%) Jetpack Compose
3 39 (21.08%) Spring Boot
4 31 (16.76%) REST
5 21 (11.35%) Android SDK
6 17 (9.19%) RESTful
7 14 (7.57%) GraphQL
8 12 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (6.49%) RxJava
9 11 (5.95%) Dagger
10 10 (5.41%) OAuth
10 10 (5.41%) OAuth2
10 10 (5.41%) OkHttp
11 7 (3.78%) WireMock
12 6 (3.24%) HTML
12 6 (3.24%) RAML
12 6 (3.24%) SwiftUI
13 5 (2.70%) JSON
13 5 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 50 (27.03%) Mobile App
2 17 (9.19%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.86%) Virtual Team
6 8 (4.32%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.32%) Legacy Code
7 7 (3.78%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.24%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.70%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.62%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.54%) Mobile Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (41.08%) Android
2 27 (14.59%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.41%) Linux
4 5 (2.70%) Windows
5 4 (2.16%) Unix
6 3 (1.62%) AIX
6 3 (1.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.81%) CI/CD
2 45 (24.32%) Agile
2 45 (24.32%) Android Development
2 45 (24.32%) Software Engineering
3 41 (22.16%) Test Automation
4 39 (21.08%) Microservices
5 30 (16.22%) MVVM
6 29 (15.68%) User Experience
7 25 (13.51%) TDD
8 21 (11.35%) Mentoring
9 20 (10.81%) DevOps
9 20 (10.81%) Event-Driven
10 19 (10.27%) API Design
11 18 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.19%) Design Patterns
12 17 (9.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 16 (8.65%) Observability
13 16 (8.65%) Open Source
14 15 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (71.35%) Java
2 22 (11.89%) Swift
3 15 (8.11%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.49%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.41%) Python
6 8 (4.32%) SQL
7 5 (2.70%) Objective-C
8 4 (2.16%) Go
9 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.54%) C#
10 1 (0.54%) Cypher
10 1 (0.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.73%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.49%) Degree
4 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.59%) QA
2 14 (7.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.62%) WCAG
5 2 (1.08%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.81%) Grafana
3 7 (3.78%) Terraform
4 2 (1.08%) Podman
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (12.97%) Google
2 6 (3.24%) Dynatrace
2 6 (3.24%) Splunk
2 6 (3.24%) Zscaler
3 5 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (0.54%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.54%) Okta
5 1 (0.54%) Roku