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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 278 220
Rank change year-on-year -21 -58 +75
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 139 99 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.73% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 1.88% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 55 109
10th Percentile £255 £375 £373
25th Percentile £451 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £539 £700 £600
90th Percentile £700 £734 £625
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -17.36%
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 £86.00 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +49.57% +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 6,272 5,258 6,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.11% 38.68% 39.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,194 3,690 4,851
10th Percentile £385 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 51 42
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.32 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -6 12 £550 -16.67% 24
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 (2.16%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.71%) AWS
2 25 (17.99%) GitHub
3 19 (13.67%) Azure
4 18 (12.95%) GCP
5 16 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (7.91%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (5.76%) Cloud Run
8 6 (4.32%) Google Play
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.16%) Azure AI
10 3 (2.16%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.16%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.72%) AuraDB
12 1 (0.72%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) HTTP
1 3 (2.16%) VPN
2 2 (1.44%) NFC
3 1 (0.72%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.72%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.32%) Redis
3 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.16%) Power BI
5 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (9.35%) Git
2 11 (7.91%) JUnit
3 10 (7.19%) Gradle
4 8 (5.76%) GitLab
5 6 (4.32%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.60%) Android Studio
6 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.60%) JIRA
7 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.88%) XCUITest
8 3 (2.16%) Appium
8 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.16%) Gatling
8 3 (2.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.44%) Xcode
10 1 (0.72%) fastlane
10 1 (0.72%) Postman
10 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (25.90%) Banking
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 24 (17.27%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.91%) Front Office
6 8 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.88%) Military
10 3 (2.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Automotive
11 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (29.50%) Developer
2 27 (19.42%) Senior
2 27 (19.42%) Software Engineer
3 20 (14.39%) Android Engineer
4 15 (10.79%) Java Engineer
5 14 (10.07%) Android Developer
6 13 (9.35%) Mobile Engineer
7 10 (7.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.76%) QA Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Senior Android Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Junior
10 6 (4.32%) Lead
11 5 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Junior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Junior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Sales Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Tester
11 5 (3.60%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (23.74%) REST
2 29 (20.86%) Android Jetpack
3 24 (17.27%) RESTful
4 23 (16.55%) Jetpack Compose
5 21 (15.11%) Spring
6 17 (12.23%) Spring Boot
7 14 (10.07%) GraphQL
8 13 (9.35%) Android SDK
9 11 (7.91%) React
10 10 (7.19%) Node.js
11 9 (6.47%) RxJava
12 6 (4.32%) Dagger
12 6 (4.32%) JSON
13 5 (3.60%) Kafka
14 4 (2.88%) Ktor
14 4 (2.88%) Next.js
14 4 (2.88%) OAuth
14 4 (2.88%) OAuth2
14 4 (2.88%) Playwright
15 3 (2.16%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.74%) Mobile App
2 19 (13.67%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.47%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.47%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.32%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.32%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.88%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.16%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 51 (36.69%) Android
2 17 (12.23%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.16%) Unix
3 3 (2.16%) Windows
4 2 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.01%) CI/CD
2 43 (30.94%) Agile
2 43 (30.94%) Software Engineering
3 28 (20.14%) AI
4 26 (18.71%) Android Development
5 25 (17.99%) Test Automation
6 22 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.11%) User Experience
8 19 (13.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.67%) TDD
9 18 (12.95%) Observability
10 17 (12.23%) Mentoring
10 17 (12.23%) Microservices
10 17 (12.23%) MVVM
11 16 (11.51%) Pair Programming
12 15 (10.79%) Code Quality
12 15 (10.79%) Fintech
12 15 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (10.07%) Clean Code
13 14 (10.07%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 83 (59.71%) Java
2 27 (19.42%) TypeScript
3 14 (10.07%) Swift
4 11 (7.91%) Python
5 8 (5.76%) SQL
6 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.88%) C#
8 3 (2.16%) Go
8 3 (2.16%) Ruby
8 3 (2.16%) Rust
9 2 (1.44%) Elixir
9 2 (1.44%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.44%) PHP
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Cypher
10 1 (0.72%) Korn
10 1 (0.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.16%) Degree
4 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.58%) QA
2 11 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.72%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (6.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.60%) Grafana
2 5 (3.60%) Terraform
3 4 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (10.07%) Google
2 5 (3.60%) Splunk
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.16%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.16%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.44%) Dynatrace