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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 274 178
Rank change year-on-year -42 -96 +99
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 133 98 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.73% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 1.88% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 56 152
10th Percentile £250 £388 £375
25th Percentile £420 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% -24.00%
75th Percentile £535 £681 £538
90th Percentile £730 £736 £600
England median daily rate £471 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -24.00%
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 6,407 5,214 6,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 38.61% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,293 3,587 4,719
10th Percentile £381 £368 £370
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £704
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 65 40
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.71 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.62
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -5.48% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.75 £63.26
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £78.88
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 11 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 11 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 -14 13 £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 2 (1.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.80%) GitHub
2 26 (19.55%) AWS
3 19 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (12.78%) Azure
5 15 (11.28%) GCP
6 12 (9.02%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (5.26%) Google Play
8 6 (4.51%) Cloud Run
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.26%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.50%) Firebase
12 2 (1.50%) Serverless
13 1 (0.75%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) HTTP
2 2 (1.50%) NFC
3 1 (0.75%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.75%) DSL
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.26%) Redis
3 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.50%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.50%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Power BI
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Git
1 13 (9.77%) JUnit
2 11 (8.27%) Gradle
3 9 (6.77%) GitLab
4 7 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.51%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.76%) JIRA
7 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.01%) XCUITest
8 3 (2.26%) Appium
8 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.26%) Gatling
8 3 (2.26%) Mockito
9 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.50%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.50%) Maven
9 2 (1.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.75%) fastlane
10 1 (0.75%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.75%) Selendroid
General
1 40 (30.08%) Banking
2 29 (21.80%) Finance
3 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.77%) Front Office
5 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.26%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.01%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (29.32%) Developer
2 24 (18.05%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.79%) Android Engineer
3 21 (15.79%) Senior
4 13 (9.77%) Mobile Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Android Developer
5 12 (9.02%) Java Engineer
6 9 (6.77%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Android Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Junior
10 5 (3.76%) Junior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Sales Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.31%) Android Jetpack
2 28 (21.05%) REST
3 25 (18.80%) Jetpack Compose
4 23 (17.29%) RESTful
5 17 (12.78%) Spring
6 13 (9.77%) GraphQL
6 13 (9.77%) React
7 12 (9.02%) Spring Boot
8 11 (8.27%) Android SDK
9 9 (6.77%) RxJava
10 8 (6.02%) Node.js
11 7 (5.26%) Dagger
11 7 (5.26%) JSON
11 7 (5.26%) Kafka
12 6 (4.51%) Terraform
13 4 (3.01%) Ktor
13 4 (3.01%) Next.js
13 4 (3.01%) OkHttp
13 4 (3.01%) Playwright
14 3 (2.26%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.30%) Mobile App
2 16 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.77%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.02%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.76%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.01%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 49 (36.84%) Android
2 16 (12.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
3 3 (2.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.61%) CI/CD
2 45 (33.83%) Agile
3 40 (30.08%) Software Engineering
4 30 (22.56%) AI
5 24 (18.05%) Android Development
6 23 (17.29%) Test Automation
7 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (15.79%) TDD
8 20 (15.04%) Clean Code
8 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.53%) MVVM
10 17 (12.78%) User Experience
11 16 (12.03%) Code Quality
11 16 (12.03%) Event-Driven
11 16 (12.03%) Observability
11 16 (12.03%) Refactoring
12 15 (11.28%) Fintech
12 15 (11.28%) Microservices
12 15 (11.28%) Pair Programming
12 15 (11.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 71 (53.38%) Java
2 30 (22.56%) TypeScript
3 13 (9.77%) Swift
4 11 (8.27%) SQL
5 9 (6.77%) Python
6 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.01%) C#
8 3 (2.26%) Go
8 3 (2.26%) Ruby
8 3 (2.26%) Rust
8 3 (2.26%) Scala
9 2 (1.50%) Elixir
9 2 (1.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) C++
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.01%) Degree
4 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.80%) QA
2 10 (7.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.75%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (8.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) logstash
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (8.27%) Google
2 5 (3.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle
4 1 (0.75%) Confluent
4 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.75%) Zscaler