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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 357 289
Rank change year-on-year -71 -68 +103
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 212 167 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.61% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 1.85% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 114 168
10th Percentile £321 £359 £375
25th Percentile £407 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -24.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £645 £711 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% -23.08%
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 12,027 9,043 10,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.97% 32.77% 32.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 6,139 7,282
10th Percentile £363 £346 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 262 303
10th Percentile £29.81 £31.25 £30.65
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.83
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -54 132 £475 -8.65% 337
North of England -58 52 £460 +15.00% 32
Yorkshire -35 27 £460 +2.22% 8
North West -45 20 £513 +36.67% 21
South West - 10 £515 - 22
West Midlands -40 7 £470 -8.29% 7
Midlands -55 7 £470 +1.62% 11
South East -67 7 £413 +22.22% 22
North East - 5 £450 - 3
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 (4.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.64%) GitHub
2 47 (22.17%) AWS
3 29 (13.68%) Azure
4 27 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (9.91%) GCP
6 14 (6.60%) Google Play
7 12 (5.66%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (3.77%) Firebase
9 7 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.83%) Cloud Run
11 5 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.36%) Serverless
12 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.89%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.42%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) DNS
2 2 (0.94%) NFC
2 2 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.30%) Redis
3 6 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.83%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.36%) MySQL
5 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.94%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (11.32%) Git
2 20 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.55%) Gradle
3 16 (7.55%) JIRA
4 15 (7.08%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.13%) JUnit
6 10 (4.72%) GitLab
7 6 (2.83%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.83%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.83%) fastlane
8 5 (2.36%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.36%) Gatling
9 4 (1.89%) XCUITest
10 3 (1.42%) Appium
10 3 (1.42%) Mockito
11 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.94%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.94%) Maven
11 2 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 51 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.70%) Banking
3 38 (17.92%) Finance
4 27 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.13%) Front Office
8 8 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.89%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (39.15%) Developer
2 47 (22.17%) Senior
3 41 (19.34%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.15%) Java Developer
5 28 (13.21%) Android Engineer
6 26 (12.26%) Java Engineer
7 24 (11.32%) Android Developer
8 21 (9.91%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) Mobile Engineer
10 13 (6.13%) Lead
10 13 (6.13%) Senior Android Engineer
10 13 (6.13%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.25%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.77%) QA Engineer
13 7 (3.30%) Backend Developer
14 6 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 6 (2.83%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.23%) Android Jetpack
1 45 (21.23%) REST
2 38 (17.92%) Jetpack Compose
3 36 (16.98%) RESTful
4 35 (16.51%) Spring
5 27 (12.74%) Spring Boot
6 25 (11.79%) Android SDK
7 23 (10.85%) Kafka
8 14 (6.60%) GraphQL
8 14 (6.60%) React
9 13 (6.13%) HTML
10 12 (5.66%) Node.js
11 9 (4.25%) RxJava
11 9 (4.25%) Terraform
12 8 (3.77%) OAuth
13 7 (3.30%) Dagger
13 7 (3.30%) JSON
13 7 (3.30%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.83%) Playwright
14 6 (2.83%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.11%) Mobile App
2 30 (14.15%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.79%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.60%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (6.60%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.77%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.36%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.36%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.89%) IoT
11 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (34.91%) Android
2 23 (10.85%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.30%) Linux
4 6 (2.83%) Unix
5 3 (1.42%) AIX
5 3 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (47.17%) CI/CD
2 77 (36.32%) Agile
3 67 (31.60%) Software Engineering
4 49 (23.11%) Test Automation
5 45 (21.23%) Android Development
6 41 (19.34%) TDD
7 38 (17.92%) Event-Driven
8 36 (16.98%) Microservices
9 34 (16.04%) MVVM
10 32 (15.09%) AI
10 32 (15.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 31 (14.62%) Clean Code
11 31 (14.62%) Observability
12 29 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (12.26%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (12.26%) User Experience
14 25 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.32%) DevOps
16 23 (10.85%) Architectural Patterns
17 22 (10.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 141 (66.51%) Java
2 40 (18.87%) TypeScript
3 25 (11.79%) SQL
4 23 (10.85%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.02%) Swift
6 12 (5.66%) Python
7 6 (2.83%) Go
8 5 (2.36%) C#
8 5 (2.36%) Rust
9 4 (1.89%) C++
9 4 (1.89%) Scala
10 3 (1.42%) Ruby
11 2 (0.94%) Elixir
11 2 (0.94%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Korn
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.36%) Degree
4 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.74%) QA
2 20 (9.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.36%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (10.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.30%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) logstash
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.79%) Google
2 6 (2.83%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.36%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.47%) Confluent
5 1 (0.47%) Zscaler