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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 261 299
Rank change year-on-year -65 +38 +7
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 76 97 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.93% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 57 73
10th Percentile £368 £379 £449
25th Percentile £459 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -11.02%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £625
90th Percentile £850 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £35.38 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.57% - -
75th Percentile £48.00 £46.31 -
90th Percentile - £54.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £41.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year +31.74% -47.81% +88.12%

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 5,725 5,018 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 34.37% 39.09% 34.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,868 3,468 4,798
10th Percentile £363 £375 £387
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 33 60
10th Percentile £18.72 £29.91 £25.75
25th Percentile £39.75 £38.25 £40.58
Median hourly rate £54.75 £46.50 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +17.74% -9.05% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £61.50 £60.44
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.30 £70.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -10 8 £725 +16.00% 16
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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) AWS
2 11 (14.47%) GCP
3 10 (13.16%) Azure
4 6 (7.89%) Google Play
5 5 (6.58%) Cloud Run
5 5 (6.58%) GitHub
6 4 (5.26%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.63%) Firebase
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.63%) Serverless
8 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.32%) AuraDB
9 1 (1.32%) PaaS
9 1 (1.32%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) MySQL
4 2 (2.63%) Power BI
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) HBase
5 1 (1.32%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Gradle
2 15 (19.74%) Android Studio
3 9 (11.84%) Git
3 9 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) JUnit
6 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.95%) Selenium
6 3 (3.95%) Xcode
6 3 (3.95%) XCUITest
7 2 (2.63%) Appium
7 2 (2.63%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.63%) GitLab
7 2 (2.63%) Mockito
7 2 (2.63%) Postman
7 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.32%) Maven
8 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (30.26%) Finance
2 15 (19.74%) Banking
3 12 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.47%) Front Office
4 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Automotive
5 2 (2.63%) Law
5 2 (2.63%) Police
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Military
6 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (63.16%) Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Senior
3 10 (13.16%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Front Office Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Java Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Applications Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.95%) iOS Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Tester
9 2 (2.63%) Android Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.74%) Jetpack Compose
1 15 (19.74%) Spring
2 14 (18.42%) Android Jetpack
2 14 (18.42%) REST
2 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 11 (14.47%) RESTful
4 7 (9.21%) RxJava
5 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.26%) Android SDK
6 4 (5.26%) Kafka
6 4 (5.26%) OAuth
6 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.95%) FHIR
7 3 (3.95%) Ktor
7 3 (3.95%) Micronaut
7 3 (3.95%) Node.js
7 3 (3.95%) OpenID
7 3 (3.95%) SAML
7 3 (3.95%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (2.63%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.89%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.21%) Algorithms
2 7 (9.21%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.95%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.32%) NHS
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (36.84%) Android
2 13 (17.11%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.26%) Windows
4 3 (3.95%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.63%) Linux
6 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.16%) CI/CD
2 24 (31.58%) Agile
3 21 (27.63%) Android Development
4 14 (18.42%) DevOps
5 13 (17.11%) Mobile Development
5 13 (17.11%) MVVM
5 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
5 13 (17.11%) User Experience
6 12 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 12 (15.79%) Unit Testing
7 11 (14.47%) Analytics
8 10 (13.16%) Fintech
8 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.84%) Microservices
10 8 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.21%) Design Patterns
11 7 (9.21%) Observability
11 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (71.05%) Java
2 11 (14.47%) Swift
3 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.26%) Objective-C
4 4 (5.26%) Python
5 3 (3.95%) C++
5 3 (3.95%) Scala
6 2 (2.63%) SQL
7 1 (1.32%) BrightScript
7 1 (1.32%) Clojure
7 1 (1.32%) Cypher
7 1 (1.32%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Google
2 6 (7.89%) Splunk
3 5 (6.58%) Databricks
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.32%) Adobe
6 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.32%) Okta
6 1 (1.32%) Roku