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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 356 347
Rank change year-on-year -41 -9 +37
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 184 120 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 1.46% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 69 131
10th Percentile £313 £398 £350
25th Percentile £388 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -17.50%
75th Percentile £539 £630 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £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% +88.12%
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% +88.12%

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 10,881 8,206 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.51% 33.73% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,185 5,697 7,901
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 210 446
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.31 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.42% -0.40% +1.46%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -59 81 £475 -15.56% 41
North of England -30 53 £450 -3.07% 19
North West -12 34 £475 +18.75% 8
South East -43 20 £406 -30.56% 5
South West -14 17 £481 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire -47 14 £403 -18.32% 9
Midlands -62 7 £527 +13.93% 2
West Midlands - 7 £527 - 1
North East - 6 £488 - 2
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 9 (4.89%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.72%) AWS
2 26 (14.13%) GitHub
3 21 (11.41%) Azure
4 18 (9.78%) GCP
4 18 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.35%) Firebase
6 7 (3.80%) Google Play
7 6 (3.26%) Cloud Run
7 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (2.17%) Serverless
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.09%) Figma
10 2 (1.09%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) VPN
2 3 (1.63%) DSL
2 3 (1.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.26%) Power BI
2 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.09%) SQLite
3 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.54%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (21.20%) Gradle
2 19 (10.33%) GitLab
3 18 (9.78%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.07%) Android Studio
4 13 (7.07%) IntelliJ
4 13 (7.07%) JUnit
5 12 (6.52%) Git
6 8 (4.35%) CircleCI
6 8 (4.35%) fastlane
6 8 (4.35%) JIRA
7 6 (3.26%) Selenium
8 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.17%) Crashlytics
9 4 (2.17%) Xcode
10 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.63%) Maven
10 3 (1.63%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.63%) XCUITest
11 2 (1.09%) Mockito
11 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (14.13%) Finance
2 24 (13.04%) Banking
2 24 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.72%) Front Office
7 3 (1.63%) Retail
8 2 (1.09%) Automotive
8 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Police
8 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Military
9 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (50.54%) Developer
2 36 (19.57%) Android Developer
3 32 (17.39%) Java Developer
3 32 (17.39%) Senior
4 27 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.87%) Backend Developer
6 19 (10.33%) Android Engineer
7 18 (9.78%) Java Engineer
8 15 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) Mobile Developer
9 14 (7.61%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.52%) Mobile Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Architect
12 8 (4.35%) Java Mobile Developer
13 7 (3.80%) Senior Backend Developer
14 5 (2.72%) Applications Developer
14 5 (2.72%) Sales Engineer
14 5 (2.72%) Tester
14 5 (2.72%) Workflow Engineer
15 4 (2.17%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.09%) Spring
2 43 (23.37%) Spring Boot
3 39 (21.20%) Android Jetpack
4 38 (20.65%) Jetpack Compose
5 29 (15.76%) REST
6 21 (11.41%) Android SDK
7 16 (8.70%) RESTful
8 13 (7.07%) GraphQL
8 13 (7.07%) OAuth
8 13 (7.07%) OAuth2
8 13 (7.07%) RxJava
9 12 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.43%) Dagger
10 10 (5.43%) OkHttp
11 7 (3.80%) WireMock
12 6 (3.26%) Node.js
12 6 (3.26%) RAML
12 6 (3.26%) SwiftUI
13 5 (2.72%) JSON
13 5 (2.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.26%) Mobile App
2 17 (9.24%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.89%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.89%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.35%) Legacy Code
5 8 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.80%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.72%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.54%) Infotainment
10 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (40.22%) Android
2 26 (14.13%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.43%) Linux
4 5 (2.72%) Windows
5 4 (2.17%) Unix
6 3 (1.63%) AIX
6 3 (1.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 46 (25.00%) Agile
2 46 (25.00%) Android Development
3 43 (23.37%) Microservices
3 43 (23.37%) Software Engineering
4 41 (22.28%) Test Automation
5 34 (18.48%) MVVM
6 31 (16.85%) User Experience
7 24 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 24 (13.04%) TDD
8 23 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 22 (11.96%) API Design
9 22 (11.96%) DevOps
9 22 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.33%) Design Patterns
12 15 (8.15%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (8.15%) Observability
12 15 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (71.74%) Java
2 21 (11.41%) Swift
3 14 (7.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.07%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.98%) Python
6 6 (3.26%) SQL
7 5 (2.72%) Objective-C
8 4 (2.17%) Go
9 2 (1.09%) PHP
9 2 (1.09%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) Bash
10 1 (0.54%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.54%) C#
10 1 (0.54%) Cypher
10 1 (0.54%) Groovy
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) Degree
4 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.96%) QA
2 12 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.63%) WCAG
5 2 (1.09%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.87%) Grafana
3 8 (4.35%) Terraform
4 2 (1.09%) Podman
5 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (14.67%) Google
2 6 (3.26%) Dynatrace
2 6 (3.26%) Splunk
2 6 (3.26%) Zscaler
3 5 (2.72%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle
5 1 (0.54%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.54%) Okta
5 1 (0.54%) Roku