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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 192 289
Rank change year-on-year -111 +97 +18
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 77 180 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 1.28% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 3.35% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 104 86
10th Percentile £375 £396 £445
25th Percentile £500 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -8.05% -6.25%
75th Percentile £788 £630 £650
90th Percentile £850 £713 £739
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £48.05 £35.53 -
25th Percentile £51.13 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.47% - -
75th Percentile £65.38 £42.94 -
90th Percentile £69.35 £51.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.08 £80.00
% change year-on-year +37.23% -49.90% +59.84%

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 5,373 5,372 6,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.40% 38.25% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,617 3,576 4,741
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 35 64
10th Percentile £26.03 £35.00 £26.44
25th Percentile £35.75 £39.54 £36.70
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £68.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.85%

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 15 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kotlin in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kotlin in London

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 15 January 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 -21 7 £725 +45.00% 10
West London -18 1 £300 -11.76%
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 6 (7.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.30%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.18%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure
2 9 (11.69%) GCP
3 8 (10.39%) GitHub
4 7 (9.09%) Google Play
5 5 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.49%) Sentry
6 4 (5.19%) Firebase
7 2 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.60%) Figma
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.30%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.30%) PaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Serverless
8 1 (1.30%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.30%) Broadband
2 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
1 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.19%) MySQL
4 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.30%) HBase
5 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Gradle
2 11 (14.29%) JUnit
3 10 (12.99%) Android Studio
4 8 (10.39%) Git
4 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.79%) JIRA
5 6 (7.79%) XCUITest
6 5 (6.49%) Appium
6 5 (6.49%) Charles Proxy
6 5 (6.49%) CircleCI
6 5 (6.49%) Katalon Studio
6 5 (6.49%) Postman
7 4 (5.19%) IntelliJ
8 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.60%) Mockito
10 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.30%) Maven
10 1 (1.30%) Selenium
10 1 (1.30%) Xcode
General
1 34 (44.16%) Finance
2 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Banking
3 13 (16.88%) Front Office
4 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Automotive
5 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Law
5 1 (1.30%) Military
5 1 (1.30%) Police
5 1 (1.30%) Retail
5 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.30%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (67.53%) Developer
2 23 (29.87%) Android Developer
3 13 (16.88%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Front Office Developer
5 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.49%) iOS Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Mobile Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Mobile Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) Android Jetpack
2 15 (19.48%) Jetpack Compose
3 13 (16.88%) RESTful
4 10 (12.99%) RxJava
5 7 (9.09%) Spring
6 6 (7.79%) Android SDK
6 6 (7.79%) Dagger
6 6 (7.79%) iOS SDK
6 6 (7.79%) React
6 6 (7.79%) REST
7 5 (6.49%) GraphQL
7 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.49%) Web Services
8 4 (5.19%) Android NDK
8 4 (5.19%) JNI
8 4 (5.19%) OkHttp
8 4 (5.19%) RAML
8 4 (5.19%) WireMock
9 3 (3.90%) FHIR
9 3 (3.90%) Ktor
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.68%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.79%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.19%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.30%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (48.05%) Android
2 19 (24.68%) Apple iOS
3 8 (10.39%) Linux
4 4 (5.19%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.90%) Windows
6 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Android Development
2 25 (32.47%) CI/CD
3 24 (31.17%) Agile
4 15 (19.48%) User Experience
5 14 (18.18%) MVVM
6 13 (16.88%) DevOps
6 13 (16.88%) Fintech
7 12 (15.58%) Analytics
7 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing
8 11 (14.29%) Mobile Development
8 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 10 (12.99%) Computer Science
9 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
10 9 (11.69%) Clean Code
11 8 (10.39%) Microservices
11 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
12 7 (9.09%) Design Patterns
12 7 (9.09%) iOS Development
12 7 (9.09%) OO
12 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.04%) Java
2 13 (16.88%) Swift
3 12 (15.58%) C++
4 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.79%) SQL
6 5 (6.49%) Objective-C
6 5 (6.49%) Python
6 5 (6.49%) Scala
7 4 (5.19%) Rust
8 2 (2.60%) Go
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) Clojure
9 1 (1.30%) Groovy
9 1 (1.30%) PHP
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (11.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Google
2 8 (10.39%) Databricks
3 5 (6.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe
5 2 (2.60%) Alibaba
6 1 (1.30%) Xamarin