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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 348 370
Rank change year-on-year -67 +22 +35
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 168 131 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.60% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 78 129
10th Percentile £302 £382 £350
25th Percentile £375 £452 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £636 £613
90th Percentile £683 £713 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 2
10th Percentile - £37.48 £77.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.19 £78.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.75 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.91% -44.41% +89.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £50.25 £82.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.00 £82.35
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £80.50
% change year-on-year +22.22% -44.10% +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 10,938 8,204 10,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.33% 33.67% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,300 5,627 7,897
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -5.29%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 212 433
10th Percentile £41.90 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -80 69 £524 -16.16% 48
North of England -45 40 £475 +1.06% 12
North West -18 34 £475 +11.76% 6
South West -10 24 £390 -5.45% 6
South East -33 19 £406 -30.56% 13
Midlands -66 9 £510 +3.82% 1
West Midlands - 9 £510 - 1
North East - 4 £575 - 2
Yorkshire -58 3 £488 -11.36% 4
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (27.38%) AWS
2 17 (10.12%) Azure
2 17 (10.12%) GitHub
3 14 (8.33%) GCP
3 14 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (4.17%) Firebase
5 6 (3.57%) Cloud Run
5 6 (3.57%) Google Play
5 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.38%) Sauce Labs
7 4 (2.38%) Serverless
8 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.19%) Bitrise
8 2 (1.19%) Figma
8 2 (1.19%) Sentry
8 2 (1.19%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) VPN
2 2 (1.19%) DSL
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.57%) Power BI
3 3 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.79%) MySQL
3 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.19%) SQLite
5 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (20.83%) Gradle
2 19 (11.31%) GitLab
3 15 (8.93%) Android Studio
4 14 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.14%) Git
5 12 (7.14%) IntelliJ
6 9 (5.36%) JUnit
7 7 (4.17%) CircleCI
8 6 (3.57%) JIRA
9 5 (2.98%) fastlane
9 5 (2.98%) Selenium
10 4 (2.38%) Xcode
11 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.79%) Maven
11 3 (1.79%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.79%) XCUITest
12 2 (1.19%) Crashlytics
12 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.19%) Mockito
General
1 30 (17.86%) Finance
2 21 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.31%) Banking
4 17 (10.12%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Front Office
6 3 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Retail
7 2 (1.19%) Automotive
7 2 (1.19%) Police
7 2 (1.19%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (56.55%) Developer
2 40 (23.81%) Android Developer
3 38 (22.62%) Senior
4 24 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 22 (13.10%) Java Developer
5 22 (13.10%) Senior Developer
6 21 (12.50%) Backend Developer
7 15 (8.93%) Java Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) Mobile Developer
8 14 (8.33%) Android Engineer
8 14 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Architect
10 8 (4.76%) Java Mobile Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Front Office Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior Android Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
12 5 (2.98%) Applications Developer
12 5 (2.98%) iOS Developer
12 5 (2.98%) Mobile Engineer
13 4 (2.38%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.60%) Spring
2 42 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 35 (20.83%) Android Jetpack
4 33 (19.64%) Jetpack Compose
5 25 (14.88%) Android SDK
6 23 (13.69%) REST
7 14 (8.33%) RESTful
8 13 (7.74%) OAuth
8 13 (7.74%) OAuth2
9 12 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.95%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.95%) RxJava
11 8 (4.76%) Dagger
11 8 (4.76%) OkHttp
12 6 (3.57%) Node.js
12 6 (3.57%) RAML
13 5 (2.98%) JSON
13 5 (2.98%) React
13 5 (2.98%) WireMock
14 4 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (30.36%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.95%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.57%) Legacy Code
8 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.60%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 70 (41.67%) Android
2 24 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.98%) Windows
4 4 (2.38%) Linux
5 3 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.17%) Android Development
2 43 (25.60%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.83%) Microservices
4 34 (20.24%) Agile
4 34 (20.24%) Software Engineering
5 30 (17.86%) MVVM
6 29 (17.26%) Test Automation
7 28 (16.67%) User Experience
8 24 (14.29%) API Design
8 24 (14.29%) TDD
9 22 (13.10%) Mentoring
10 19 (11.31%) Event-Driven
10 19 (11.31%) Open Source
11 18 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (10.12%) Design Patterns
12 17 (10.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (8.93%) DevOps
13 15 (8.93%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 122 (72.62%) Java
2 19 (11.31%) Swift
3 11 (6.55%) Python
4 10 (5.95%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.17%) Objective-C
7 5 (2.98%) Go
8 3 (1.79%) SQL
9 2 (1.19%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.60%) C#
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Cypher
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.74%) Degree
4 8 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.19%) SANS
7 1 (0.60%) GIAC
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.31%) QA
2 13 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.19%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.90%) Grafana
3 6 (3.57%) Terraform
4 2 (1.19%) Podman
5 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (16.07%) Google
2 7 (4.17%) Splunk
3 6 (3.57%) Zscaler
4 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.79%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle
6 2 (1.19%) Databricks
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.60%) Okta
7 1 (0.60%) Roku