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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 262 196
Rank change year-on-year -44 -66 +78
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 128 100 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.75% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 1.94% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 54 129
10th Percentile £250 £400 £375
25th Percentile £430 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.85% -23.20%
75th Percentile £536 £694 £575
90th Percentile £731 £736 £620
England median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% -21.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £45.85 £40.59
25th Percentile - £49.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year - +39.13% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £42.12
90th Percentile - £69.35 £42.20
England median hourly rate £77.25 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +34.35% +39.13% -

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 5,145 6,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.42% 38.44% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,237 3,591 4,775
10th Percentile £382 £375 £373
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £694 £710
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 54 61 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.32 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -6.32% -22.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -14 12 £550 -16.67% 26
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 3 (2.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.09%) GitHub
2 26 (20.31%) AWS
3 17 (13.28%) Azure
3 17 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (9.38%) GCP
4 12 (9.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (4.69%) Google Play
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.34%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.34%) Cloud Run
8 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.78%) Google Pay
10 1 (0.78%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) HTTP
1 3 (2.34%) VPN
2 2 (1.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.47%) Redis
3 4 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.34%) Power BI
5 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) JUnit
2 10 (7.81%) Git
3 9 (7.03%) Gradle
4 7 (5.47%) GitLab
5 6 (4.69%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.91%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.91%) JIRA
7 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.13%) XCUITest
8 3 (2.34%) Appium
8 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.34%) Gatling
9 2 (1.56%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.78%) fastlane
10 1 (0.78%) Postman
10 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.78%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.78%) Selendroid
General
1 37 (28.91%) Banking
2 29 (22.66%) Finance
3 23 (17.97%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.59%) Front Office
6 8 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.13%) Military
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Publishing
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Software Engineer
3 22 (17.19%) Senior
4 20 (15.63%) Android Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Java Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Mobile Engineer
6 11 (8.59%) Android Developer
7 8 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Lead
8 7 (5.47%) Senior Android Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Junior
10 5 (3.91%) Junior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Junior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Sales Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Workflow Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Architect
11 4 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.66%) Android Jetpack
2 25 (19.53%) REST
3 23 (17.97%) Jetpack Compose
3 23 (17.97%) RESTful
4 15 (11.72%) Spring
5 13 (10.16%) React
6 12 (9.38%) GraphQL
7 10 (7.81%) Android SDK
7 10 (7.81%) Spring Boot
8 9 (7.03%) RxJava
9 8 (6.25%) Node.js
10 6 (4.69%) Dagger
10 6 (4.69%) JSON
11 5 (3.91%) Kafka
11 5 (3.91%) Terraform
12 4 (3.13%) Ktor
12 4 (3.13%) Next.js
12 4 (3.13%) Playwright
13 3 (2.34%) OkHttp
13 3 (2.34%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.09%) Mobile App
2 17 (13.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.03%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.69%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.69%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.78%) IoT
10 1 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 47 (36.72%) Android
2 16 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.41%) CI/CD
2 42 (32.81%) Agile
3 41 (32.03%) Software Engineering
4 28 (21.88%) AI
5 23 (17.97%) Android Development
6 21 (16.41%) Test Automation
7 20 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.06%) User Experience
10 17 (13.28%) Microservices
10 17 (13.28%) TDD
11 16 (12.50%) Code Quality
11 16 (12.50%) MVVM
11 16 (12.50%) Pair Programming
12 14 (10.94%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.94%) Fintech
12 14 (10.94%) Observability
13 13 (10.16%) Event-Driven
13 13 (10.16%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.16%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 73 (57.03%) Java
2 29 (22.66%) TypeScript
3 13 (10.16%) Swift
4 11 (8.59%) Python
5 8 (6.25%) SQL
6 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.13%) C#
8 3 (2.34%) Go
8 3 (2.34%) Ruby
8 3 (2.34%) Rust
9 2 (1.56%) Elixir
9 2 (1.56%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) C++
10 1 (0.78%) Korn
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.97%) QA
2 10 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (7.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.78%) logstash
3 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.03%) Google
2 3 (2.34%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.34%) Zscaler
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.78%) Confluent
4 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace