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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 278 238
Rank change year-on-year -40 -40 +58
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 115 89 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.67% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% 1.71% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 47 111
10th Percentile £313 £370 £375
25th Percentile £455 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £600
90th Percentile £688 £734 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -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% -
75th Percentile - £45.75 £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £44.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +73.03% -44.38% -

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 6,059 5,203 6,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.32% 39.36% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 3,652 5,159
10th Percentile £375 £370 £375
25th Percentile £444 £431 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £521 £540
% change year-on-year -0.10% -3.61% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 48 50
10th Percentile £32.93 £27.08 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £57.63 £41.66 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.35% -16.27% -17.08%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.81 £62.23
90th Percentile £89.13 £81.88 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -16 10 £438 -30.00% 22
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 (2.61%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) AWS
2 15 (13.04%) GCP
3 14 (12.17%) Azure
3 14 (12.17%) GitHub
4 11 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.96%) Cloud Run
6 4 (3.48%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.61%) Google Play
7 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.87%) AuraDB
9 1 (0.87%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.87%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.87%) Google Pay
9 1 (0.87%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) VPN
2 2 (1.74%) NFC
3 1 (0.87%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.87%) DSL
3 1 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.61%) Power BI
3 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.87%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.87%) Redis
4 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.87%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Gradle
1 10 (8.70%) JUnit
2 8 (6.96%) Git
3 7 (6.09%) Android Studio
4 5 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.48%) GitLab
5 4 (3.48%) XCUITest
6 3 (2.61%) Appium
6 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.61%) Gatling
6 3 (2.61%) Selenium
6 3 (2.61%) Xcode
7 2 (1.74%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.87%) fastlane
8 1 (0.87%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.87%) JIRA
8 1 (0.87%) JMeter
8 1 (0.87%) Mockito
General
1 26 (22.61%) Banking
2 21 (18.26%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.83%) Front Office
6 7 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.48%) Military
9 3 (2.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Automotive
10 1 (0.87%) Law
10 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.87%) Police
10 1 (0.87%) Publishing
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (33.04%) Developer
2 25 (21.74%) Senior
3 15 (13.04%) Android Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Android Developer
4 14 (12.17%) Software Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Mobile Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Java Developer
6 9 (7.83%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Lead
8 6 (5.22%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Tester
9 5 (4.35%) Sales Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Android Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Workflow Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Mobile Developer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.61%) Applications Developer
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Tester
11 3 (2.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.74%) REST
2 24 (20.87%) Android Jetpack
3 21 (18.26%) Jetpack Compose
4 18 (15.65%) Spring
4 18 (15.65%) Spring Boot
5 17 (14.78%) RESTful
6 12 (10.43%) GraphQL
7 9 (7.83%) Node.js
8 8 (6.96%) Android SDK
8 8 (6.96%) RxJava
9 6 (5.22%) Kafka
10 5 (4.35%) Dagger
10 5 (4.35%) JSON
10 5 (4.35%) OAuth
10 5 (4.35%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.35%) React
11 4 (3.48%) Micronaut
11 4 (3.48%) OpenID
11 4 (3.48%) Playwright
12 3 (2.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.22%) Mobile App
2 18 (15.65%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.96%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.96%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.09%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.22%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.35%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.61%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.87%) IoT
9 1 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 46 (40.00%) Android
2 19 (16.52%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.48%) Windows
4 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.87%) Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) CI/CD
2 31 (26.96%) Agile
3 26 (22.61%) Software Engineering
4 23 (20.00%) Android Development
5 21 (18.26%) Test Automation
6 18 (15.65%) Mentoring
7 17 (14.78%) AI
7 17 (14.78%) User Experience
8 16 (13.91%) Microservices
9 15 (13.04%) Observability
9 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (12.17%) Event-Driven
10 14 (12.17%) TDD
11 13 (11.30%) Code Quality
12 12 (10.43%) MVVM
13 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.57%) DevOps
13 11 (9.57%) Fintech
14 10 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (55.65%) Java
2 22 (19.13%) TypeScript
3 16 (13.91%) Swift
4 9 (7.83%) Python
5 7 (6.09%) SQL
6 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.61%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.74%) C#
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) PHP
8 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 2 (1.74%) Rust
9 1 (0.87%) BrightScript
9 1 (0.87%) Cypher
9 1 (0.87%) Elixir
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
9 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.61%) Degree
4 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.48%) QA
2 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.35%) Grafana
2 5 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.57%) Google
2 5 (4.35%) Splunk
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.61%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.87%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.87%) Okta
6 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.87%) Roku