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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 347 289
Rank change year-on-year -75 -58 +96
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 208 166 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.61% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.86% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 113 168
10th Percentile £313 £359 £375
25th Percentile £407 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% - -21.81%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £711 £604
UK median daily rate £475 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -3.83% +3.98% -21.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £76.48 £45.85 £40.59
25th Percentile £76.81 £49.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £82.81 £65.38 £42.12
90th Percentile £90.13 £69.35 £42.20
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +34.35% +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 11,885 8,910 10,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.04% 32.74% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,698 6,070 7,343
10th Percentile £363 £347 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -6.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 262 307
10th Percentile £29.67 £31.25 £32.34
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 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 4 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 4 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 -61 129 £475 -8.65% 335
North of England -67 51 £460 +15.00% 42
Yorkshire -43 26 £460 +2.22% 14
North West -41 20 £513 +36.67% 24
South West - 10 £515 - 24
South East -70 7 £413 +22.22% 18
Midlands -53 6 £465 +0.54% 14
West Midlands - 6 £465 - 10
North East - 5 £450 - 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 10 (4.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.60%) GitHub
2 46 (22.12%) AWS
3 28 (13.46%) Azure
4 26 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (9.62%) GCP
6 13 (6.25%) Google Play
7 12 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (3.37%) Firebase
9 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.40%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.92%) Serverless
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.44%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) NFC
2 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.37%) Redis
3 6 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.40%) MySQL
5 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) SQLite
6 1 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 22 (10.58%) Git
2 19 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.69%) JIRA
4 15 (7.21%) Bitbucket
5 14 (6.73%) Gradle
6 12 (5.77%) JUnit
7 9 (4.33%) GitLab
8 6 (2.88%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.88%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.88%) fastlane
9 5 (2.40%) Crashlytics
9 5 (2.40%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.40%) Gatling
10 4 (1.92%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.44%) Appium
12 2 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.96%) Mockito
12 2 (0.96%) Selenium
13 1 (0.48%) RhodeCode
13 1 (0.48%) Selendroid
General
1 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.63%) Banking
3 38 (18.27%) Finance
4 27 (12.98%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.77%) Front Office
8 7 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.92%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (38.46%) Developer
2 46 (22.12%) Senior
3 40 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 29 (13.94%) Java Developer
5 28 (13.46%) Android Engineer
6 25 (12.02%) Java Engineer
7 23 (11.06%) Android Developer
8 20 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Mobile Engineer
10 13 (6.25%) Lead
10 13 (6.25%) Senior Android Engineer
10 13 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.33%) Mobile Developer
12 8 (3.85%) QA Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Backend Developer
14 6 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) Junior
14 6 (2.88%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.15%) Android Jetpack
2 43 (20.67%) REST
3 37 (17.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 36 (17.31%) RESTful
5 34 (16.35%) Spring
6 26 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 24 (11.54%) Android SDK
8 22 (10.58%) Kafka
9 14 (6.73%) React
10 13 (6.25%) GraphQL
10 13 (6.25%) HTML
11 12 (5.77%) Node.js
12 9 (4.33%) RxJava
12 9 (4.33%) Terraform
13 8 (3.85%) OAuth
14 7 (3.37%) OAuth2
15 6 (2.88%) Dagger
15 6 (2.88%) JSON
15 6 (2.88%) Playwright
16 5 (2.40%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.56%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.42%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (12.02%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (6.73%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.40%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.92%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.92%) IoT
11 3 (1.44%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.48%) Contactless
12 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (35.10%) Android
2 23 (11.06%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.37%) Linux
4 6 (2.88%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) AIX
6 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (46.63%) CI/CD
2 75 (36.06%) Agile
3 66 (31.73%) Software Engineering
4 48 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 44 (21.15%) Android Development
6 38 (18.27%) TDD
7 36 (17.31%) Event-Driven
7 36 (17.31%) Microservices
8 33 (15.87%) MVVM
9 31 (14.90%) AI
10 30 (14.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 30 (14.42%) Observability
11 29 (13.94%) Clean Code
11 29 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (12.50%) User Experience
13 25 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (11.06%) Architectural Patterns
14 23 (11.06%) DevOps
15 22 (10.58%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 139 (66.83%) Java
2 39 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 24 (11.54%) SQL
4 23 (11.06%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.17%) Swift
6 12 (5.77%) Python
7 6 (2.88%) Go
8 5 (2.40%) C#
8 5 (2.40%) Rust
9 4 (1.92%) C++
10 3 (1.44%) Ruby
10 3 (1.44%) Scala
11 2 (0.96%) Elixir
11 2 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) Korn
12 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.92%) Degree
5 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.50%) QA
2 20 (9.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (10.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.88%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) logstash
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (11.54%) Google
2 6 (2.88%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.40%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.48%) Confluent
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle
5 1 (0.48%) Zscaler