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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 270 180
Rank change year-on-year -50 -90 +110
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 130 98 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.74% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 1.91% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 55 152
10th Percentile £250 £385 £375
25th Percentile £428 £460 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% -24.00%
75th Percentile £536 £688 £538
90th Percentile £733 £736 £600
England median daily rate £474 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.21% - -21.81%
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 6,364 5,127 6,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.55% 38.52% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 3,548 4,680
10th Percentile £385 £373 £370
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £689 £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 55 64 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.90 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.95 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% -5.37% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.75 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £78.75
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 5 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 5 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 -12 13 £550 -16.67% 18
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 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.54%) GitHub
2 25 (19.23%) AWS
3 18 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (12.31%) Azure
5 14 (10.77%) GCP
6 12 (9.23%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.38%) Google Play
8 6 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.85%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.31%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.54%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.54%) Firebase
13 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.77%) Apigee
13 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) HTTP
2 2 (1.54%) NFC
3 1 (0.77%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.77%) DSL
3 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.38%) Redis
3 5 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.77%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.77%) Power BI
5 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.77%) SQLite
5 1 (0.77%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Git
1 12 (9.23%) JUnit
2 10 (7.69%) Gradle
3 8 (6.15%) GitLab
4 6 (4.62%) CircleCI
4 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.85%) JIRA
6 4 (3.08%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.08%) XCUITest
7 3 (2.31%) Appium
7 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.31%) Gatling
8 2 (1.54%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.54%) Mockito
8 2 (1.54%) Selenium
9 1 (0.77%) fastlane
9 1 (0.77%) Postman
9 1 (0.77%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.77%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.77%) Selendroid
General
1 38 (29.23%) Banking
2 29 (22.31%) Finance
3 25 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.23%) Front Office
5 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.08%) Military
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Publishing
9 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (28.46%) Developer
2 25 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 22 (16.92%) Senior
4 20 (15.38%) Android Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Mobile Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Android Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.15%) QA Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Lead
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Android Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Junior
11 5 (3.85%) Junior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Junior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Sales Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.08%) Android Jetpack
2 27 (20.77%) REST
3 24 (18.46%) Jetpack Compose
4 23 (17.69%) RESTful
5 16 (12.31%) Spring
6 13 (10.00%) React
7 12 (9.23%) GraphQL
8 11 (8.46%) Android SDK
8 11 (8.46%) Spring Boot
9 9 (6.92%) RxJava
10 8 (6.15%) Node.js
11 7 (5.38%) Dagger
11 7 (5.38%) JSON
12 6 (4.62%) Kafka
12 6 (4.62%) Terraform
13 4 (3.08%) Ktor
13 4 (3.08%) Next.js
13 4 (3.08%) OkHttp
13 4 (3.08%) Playwright
14 3 (2.31%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 16 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.38%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.38%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.85%) Fixed Income
8 4 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 4 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.31%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.77%) IoT
10 1 (0.77%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.92%) Android
2 16 (12.31%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.31%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) Windows
5 1 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.08%) CI/CD
2 44 (33.85%) Agile
3 41 (31.54%) Software Engineering
4 28 (21.54%) AI
5 24 (18.46%) Android Development
6 22 (16.92%) Test Automation
7 21 (16.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.38%) TDD
9 17 (13.08%) Clean Code
9 17 (13.08%) MVVM
9 17 (13.08%) User Experience
10 16 (12.31%) Code Quality
10 16 (12.31%) Pair Programming
11 15 (11.54%) Microservices
11 15 (11.54%) Observability
11 15 (11.54%) Refactoring
12 14 (10.77%) Event-Driven
12 14 (10.77%) Fintech
12 14 (10.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 71 (54.62%) Java
2 30 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 13 (10.00%) Swift
4 10 (7.69%) SQL
5 9 (6.92%) Python
6 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.08%) C#
8 3 (2.31%) Go
8 3 (2.31%) Ruby
8 3 (2.31%) Rust
9 2 (1.54%) Elixir
9 2 (1.54%) PHP
9 2 (1.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.77%) C++
10 1 (0.77%) Korn
10 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) Degree
5 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) QA
2 10 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.77%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.77%) Grafana
3 1 (0.77%) logstash
3 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (8.46%) Google
2 4 (3.08%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.77%) Confluent
4 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle
4 1 (0.77%) Zscaler