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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 265 266
Rank change year-on-year -68 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 83 83 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.69% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 1.75% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 45 88
10th Percentile £313 £375 £363
25th Percentile £455 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £537 £700 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £708
England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £43.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.23% +18.57%
75th Percentile - £45.75 £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -44.38% +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 5,783 4,750 6,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.51% 39.31% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,873 3,335 4,957
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £438 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 34 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £27.88 £23.80
25th Percentile £40.25 £31.75 £40.77
Median hourly rate £58.94 £37.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -26.24% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £64.02
90th Percentile £88.75 £62.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -20 4 £325 -48.00% 2
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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) AWS
2 10 (12.05%) GCP
3 8 (9.64%) Azure
4 6 (7.23%) GitHub
5 5 (6.02%) Cloud Run
5 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.82%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.20%) AuraDB
9 1 (1.20%) Figma
9 1 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.20%) PaaS
9 1 (1.20%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.20%) Serverless
9 1 (1.20%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) VPN
2 1 (1.20%) DSL
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) Power BI
3 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Gradle
2 8 (9.64%) Android Studio
3 6 (7.23%) JUnit
4 4 (4.82%) GitLab
4 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.82%) Selenium
4 4 (4.82%) XCUITest
5 3 (3.61%) Appium
5 3 (3.61%) Git
5 3 (3.61%) Xcode
6 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.41%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.20%) fastlane
7 1 (1.20%) Gatling
7 1 (1.20%) JIRA
7 1 (1.20%) Mockito
7 1 (1.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.20%) Selendroid
General
1 19 (22.89%) Banking
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Front Office
4 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Automotive
6 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Law
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Police
6 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (33.73%) Developer
2 15 (18.07%) Senior
3 13 (15.66%) Mobile Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Android Developer
4 12 (14.46%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Android Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Java Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.02%) QA Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Sales Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Tester
8 5 (6.02%) Workflow Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Applications Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Mobile Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) Spring
1 16 (19.28%) Spring Boot
2 15 (18.07%) REST
3 13 (15.66%) Android Jetpack
3 13 (15.66%) Jetpack Compose
4 9 (10.84%) GraphQL
5 6 (7.23%) RESTful
6 5 (6.02%) RxJava
7 4 (4.82%) Android SDK
7 4 (4.82%) OAuth
7 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.61%) Dagger
8 3 (3.61%) Kafka
8 3 (3.61%) Micronaut
8 3 (3.61%) Node.js
8 3 (3.61%) OkHttp
8 3 (3.61%) OpenID
8 3 (3.61%) React
8 3 (3.61%) SAML
8 3 (3.61%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.43%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.23%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.02%) Data Structures
5 5 (6.02%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.61%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.96%) Android
2 19 (22.89%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.82%) Windows
4 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.41%) Linux
6 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) CI/CD
2 22 (26.51%) Software Engineering
3 21 (25.30%) Agile
4 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
5 14 (16.87%) Android Development
5 14 (16.87%) Mentoring
5 14 (16.87%) User Experience
6 13 (15.66%) AI
7 12 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (13.25%) Microservices
9 9 (10.84%) DevOps
9 9 (10.84%) Observability
9 9 (10.84%) TDD
10 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.64%) Fintech
10 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (8.43%) Mobile Development
11 7 (8.43%) MVVM
11 7 (8.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (61.45%) Java
2 16 (19.28%) Swift
3 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
4 6 (7.23%) Python
5 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.61%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.41%) PHP
8 1 (1.20%) BrightScript
8 1 (1.20%) Cypher
8 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.61%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) QA
2 6 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Grafana
1 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Google
2 5 (6.02%) Splunk
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.20%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.20%) Okta
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Roku