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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 266 164
Rank change year-on-year -63 -102 +133
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 129 99 251
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.74% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 1.90% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 64 151
10th Percentile £262 £400 £381
25th Percentile £410 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £479
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +11.69% -23.36%
75th Percentile £569 £703 £543
90th Percentile £738 £835 £638
England median daily rate £471 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -4.74% +3.98% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile - £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year - +59.07% -
75th Percentile - £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile - £70.68 £42.00
England median hourly rate £77.50 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.57% +59.07% -48.29%

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 6,399 5,204 6,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.67% 38.73% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 3,521 4,516
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £448 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -3.34% -5.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 68 47
10th Percentile £26.51 £25.58 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £44.20 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -6.95% -18.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £71.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -8 15 £550 -20.58% 20
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 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Trello
2 1 (0.78%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.71%) GitHub
2 23 (17.83%) AWS
3 18 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (13.18%) GCP
5 15 (11.63%) Azure
6 12 (9.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (6.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (5.43%) Cloud Run
8 7 (5.43%) Google Play
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.88%) Serverless
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.33%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.33%) Firebase
12 2 (1.55%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) HTTP
2 2 (1.55%) NFC
3 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.43%) Redis
3 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.33%) Pinecone
4 3 (2.33%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Git
2 14 (10.85%) Gradle
3 13 (10.08%) JUnit
4 8 (6.20%) GitLab
5 6 (4.65%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.10%) JIRA
6 4 (3.10%) Mockito
7 3 (2.33%) Appium
7 3 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.33%) Gatling
7 3 (2.33%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (2.33%) Maven
8 2 (1.55%) Selendroid
8 2 (1.55%) Xcode
8 2 (1.55%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (31.01%) Banking
2 28 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.16%) Finance
4 13 (10.08%) Front Office
5 11 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.10%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (29.46%) Developer
2 25 (19.38%) Software Engineer
3 20 (15.50%) Senior
4 18 (13.95%) Android Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) Java Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) Mobile Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Android Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Lead
8 7 (5.43%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Junior
9 6 (4.65%) Senior Android Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Junior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) GCP DevOps
11 4 (3.10%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.26%) Android Jetpack
2 29 (22.48%) REST
3 24 (18.60%) Jetpack Compose
3 24 (18.60%) RESTful
4 16 (12.40%) GraphQL
5 14 (10.85%) Spring
6 12 (9.30%) React
7 11 (8.53%) Android SDK
8 9 (6.98%) Spring Boot
9 8 (6.20%) Kafka
9 8 (6.20%) RxJava
10 7 (5.43%) JSON
10 7 (5.43%) Node.js
10 7 (5.43%) Terraform
11 6 (4.65%) Dagger
12 4 (3.10%) Ktor
12 4 (3.10%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (3.10%) OpenAPI
12 4 (3.10%) Playwright
12 4 (3.10%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.83%) Mobile App
2 16 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.53%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.75%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.98%) AI Agents
6 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.65%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (3.10%) Fixed Income
10 3 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (2.33%) Legacy Code
10 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.78%) IoT
12 1 (0.78%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 47 (36.43%) Android
2 15 (11.63%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.10%) Unix
4 3 (2.33%) Windows
5 2 (1.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 45 (34.88%) Agile
3 37 (28.68%) Software Engineering
4 27 (20.93%) AI
5 24 (18.60%) Android Development
5 24 (18.60%) TDD
5 24 (18.60%) Test Automation
6 23 (17.83%) Clean Code
7 21 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.73%) Code Quality
8 19 (14.73%) MVVM
8 19 (14.73%) Refactoring
9 18 (13.95%) Event-Driven
9 18 (13.95%) Observability
10 17 (13.18%) DevOps
11 16 (12.40%) Pair Programming
11 16 (12.40%) SDLC
12 15 (11.63%) User Experience
13 13 (10.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.16%) Java
2 30 (23.26%) TypeScript
3 13 (10.08%) SQL
3 13 (10.08%) Swift
4 9 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.98%) Python
5 6 (4.65%) Scala
6 4 (3.10%) C#
7 3 (2.33%) Go
7 3 (2.33%) Ruby
7 3 (2.33%) Rust
8 2 (1.55%) Elixir
8 2 (1.55%) PHP
8 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) Korn
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.65%) Degree
4 4 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.38%) QA
2 10 (7.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.43%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) logstash
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (10.85%) Google
2 6 (4.65%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (0.78%) Confluent
4 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.78%) Splunk