Kotlin Contract Job Trends in London

JetBrains Kotlin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 276 175
Rank change year-on-year -48 -101 +107
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 132 95 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.71% 1.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.85% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 55 153
10th Percentile £250 £385 £375
25th Percentile £421 £460 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% -24.00%
75th Percentile £536 £688 £538
90th Percentile £729 £736 £600
England median daily rate £471 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -21.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £45.85 £37.52
25th Percentile - £49.75 £38.66
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year - +39.72% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £41.99
90th Percentile - £69.35 £42.15
England median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.16
% change year-on-year +34.35% +39.72% -46.03%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,316 5,143 6,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.35% 38.53% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,241 3,536 4,691
10th Percentile £380 £368 £365
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £701
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 65 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.71 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -5.48% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.75 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kotlin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Kotlin job vacancy trend in London

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kotlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in London

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kotlin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -12 12 £550 -16.67% 19
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.76%) Confluence
1 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.21%) GitHub
2 26 (19.70%) AWS
3 18 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (12.88%) Azure
5 15 (11.36%) GCP
6 12 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (5.30%) Google Play
8 6 (4.55%) Cloud Run
9 5 (3.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.27%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.27%) Serverless
12 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.52%) Firebase
13 1 (0.76%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) HTTP
2 2 (1.52%) NFC
3 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.76%) DSL
3 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.30%) Redis
3 6 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.52%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.52%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Power BI
6 1 (0.76%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Git
2 13 (9.85%) JUnit
3 11 (8.33%) Gradle
4 8 (6.06%) GitLab
5 6 (4.55%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.03%) JIRA
7 3 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.27%) Gatling
7 3 (2.27%) Mockito
7 3 (2.27%) XCUITest
8 2 (1.52%) Appium
8 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.52%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.76%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.76%) Selenium
9 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (28.79%) Banking
2 28 (21.21%) Finance
3 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.85%) Front Office
5 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.03%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (29.55%) Developer
2 25 (18.94%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.91%) Android Engineer
4 20 (15.15%) Senior
5 12 (9.09%) Android Developer
5 12 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Mobile Engineer
6 9 (6.82%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Lead
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Android Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Junior
10 5 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Junior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Sales Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Workflow Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.48%) Android Jetpack
2 28 (21.21%) REST
3 24 (18.18%) Jetpack Compose
3 24 (18.18%) RESTful
4 17 (12.88%) Spring
5 13 (9.85%) GraphQL
5 13 (9.85%) React
6 12 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 11 (8.33%) Android SDK
8 9 (6.82%) RxJava
9 8 (6.06%) Node.js
10 7 (5.30%) Dagger
10 7 (5.30%) JSON
10 7 (5.30%) Kafka
10 7 (5.30%) Terraform
11 4 (3.03%) Ktor
11 4 (3.03%) Next.js
11 4 (3.03%) OkHttp
11 4 (3.03%) Playwright
12 3 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.94%) Mobile App
2 16 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.06%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.30%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.79%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.27%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.76%) Derivative
9 1 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.76%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.36%) Android
2 14 (10.61%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.27%) Unix
3 3 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.94%) CI/CD
2 45 (34.09%) Agile
3 41 (31.06%) Software Engineering
4 30 (22.73%) AI
5 24 (18.18%) Android Development
6 23 (17.42%) Test Automation
7 22 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (15.91%) TDD
9 20 (15.15%) Clean Code
9 20 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.64%) MVVM
11 17 (12.88%) Event-Driven
11 17 (12.88%) User Experience
12 16 (12.12%) Code Quality
12 16 (12.12%) Observability
12 16 (12.12%) Refactoring
13 15 (11.36%) Fintech
13 15 (11.36%) Microservices
13 15 (11.36%) Pair Programming
13 15 (11.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 70 (53.03%) Java
2 30 (22.73%) TypeScript
3 12 (9.09%) SQL
4 11 (8.33%) Swift
5 10 (7.58%) Python
6 8 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.03%) C#
8 3 (2.27%) Go
8 3 (2.27%) Ruby
8 3 (2.27%) Rust
8 3 (2.27%) Scala
9 2 (1.52%) Elixir
9 2 (1.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.76%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) Korn
10 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.03%) Degree
4 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.94%) QA
2 9 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) logstash
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (8.33%) Google
2 5 (3.79%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.52%) Oracle
4 1 (0.76%) Confluent
4 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.76%) Zscaler