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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 266 253
Rank change year-on-year -56 -13 +24
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 101 91 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.74% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 1.88% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 48 100
10th Percentile £313 £371 £363
25th Percentile £455 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £600
90th Percentile £675 £734 £654
England median daily rate £475 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.51% -20.83%
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% +128.57%

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 5,928 4,852 6,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.48% 39.61% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,952 3,400 5,063
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £440 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £705 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 40 52
10th Percentile £32.93 £28.84 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.00 £33.25 £38.83
Median hourly rate £58.50 £39.06 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.79% -22.66% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.50 £55.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £86.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -18 8 £325 -52.73% 7
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 (2.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.79%) AWS
2 12 (11.88%) GCP
3 11 (10.89%) GitHub
4 10 (9.90%) Azure
4 10 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (6.93%) Cloud Run
6 4 (3.96%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.99%) Apigee
9 1 (0.99%) AuraDB
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.99%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.99%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.99%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) VPN
2 1 (0.99%) DSL
2 1 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.97%) Power BI
3 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Gradle
2 9 (8.91%) JUnit
3 8 (7.92%) Android Studio
4 5 (4.95%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.96%) GitLab
5 4 (3.96%) XCUITest
6 3 (2.97%) Appium
6 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.97%) Gatling
6 3 (2.97%) Git
6 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.97%) Selenium
6 3 (2.97%) Xcode
7 2 (1.98%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.99%) fastlane
8 1 (0.99%) JIRA
8 1 (0.99%) Mockito
8 1 (0.99%) Postman
8 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
General
1 23 (22.77%) Banking
2 17 (16.83%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.88%) Social Skills
5 7 (6.93%) Front Office
6 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Military
7 3 (2.97%) Retail
8 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Automotive
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Police
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (32.67%) Developer
2 19 (18.81%) Senior
3 13 (12.87%) Mobile Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Software Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Android Developer
4 12 (11.88%) Android Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Java Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.94%) Lead
7 6 (5.94%) QA Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Tester
8 5 (4.95%) Sales Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Workflow Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (2.97%) Applications Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Architect
10 3 (2.97%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Senior Tester
10 3 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.82%) REST
2 17 (16.83%) Android Jetpack
2 17 (16.83%) Spring
2 17 (16.83%) Spring Boot
3 16 (15.84%) Jetpack Compose
4 9 (8.91%) GraphQL
4 9 (8.91%) RESTful
5 8 (7.92%) RxJava
6 6 (5.94%) Node.js
7 5 (4.95%) Dagger
7 5 (4.95%) React
8 4 (3.96%) Android SDK
8 4 (3.96%) Kafka
8 4 (3.96%) Micronaut
8 4 (3.96%) OAuth
8 4 (3.96%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.96%) Playwright
9 3 (2.97%) OpenID
9 3 (2.97%) SAML
9 3 (2.97%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Mobile App
2 13 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.92%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.93%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.95%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.96%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.97%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.98%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (37.62%) Android
2 19 (18.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.96%) Windows
4 3 (2.97%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.64%) CI/CD
2 25 (24.75%) Agile
3 23 (22.77%) Software Engineering
4 21 (20.79%) Test Automation
5 17 (16.83%) Android Development
6 15 (14.85%) Mentoring
6 15 (14.85%) User Experience
7 14 (13.86%) AI
7 14 (13.86%) Microservices
8 13 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (11.88%) DevOps
9 12 (11.88%) Observability
10 11 (10.89%) TDD
11 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (9.90%) Event-Driven
11 10 (9.90%) Fintech
12 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (7.92%) Data Protection
13 8 (7.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 56 (55.45%) Java
2 18 (17.82%) TypeScript
3 16 (15.84%) Swift
4 6 (5.94%) Python
5 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.95%) SQL
6 3 (2.97%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.98%) PHP
8 1 (0.99%) BrightScript
8 1 (0.99%) Cypher
8 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.77%) QA
2 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.95%) Grafana
2 5 (4.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Google
2 5 (4.95%) Splunk
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.97%) Zscaler
4 2 (1.98%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.99%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.99%) Okta
5 1 (0.99%) Roku