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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 269 157
Rank change year-on-year -47 -112 +140
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 134 98 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.73% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 1.90% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 150
10th Percentile £262 £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £520 £477
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.01% -23.68%
75th Percentile £556 £680 £575
90th Percentile £738 £840 £639
England median daily rate £470 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -5.53% +4.74% -22.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile £50.50 £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate £53.00 £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +59.07% -
75th Percentile £55.50 £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile - £70.68 £42.00
England median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.18% +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 6,498 5,150 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.68% 38.49% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,406 3,489 4,440
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £700
90th Percentile £774 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 68 45
10th Percentile £26.51 £25.58 £27.79
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.06 £38.50
Median hourly rate £52.75 £44.20 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% -10.71% -13.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £71.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +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 15 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 15 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 -19 15 £550 -20.58% 15
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 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Trello
2 1 (0.75%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.13%) GitHub
2 23 (17.16%) AWS
3 21 (15.67%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (13.43%) GCP
5 15 (11.19%) Azure
6 12 (8.96%) GitHub Copilot
7 9 (6.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (5.97%) Cloud Run
8 8 (5.97%) Google Play
9 5 (3.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.73%) Serverless
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.24%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.24%) Firebase
11 3 (2.24%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) HTTP
2 2 (1.49%) NFC
3 1 (0.75%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.22%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.22%) Redis
3 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.24%) Pinecone
4 3 (2.24%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (13.43%) Gradle
2 16 (11.94%) Git
3 15 (11.19%) JUnit
4 9 (6.72%) CircleCI
5 7 (5.22%) GitLab
6 6 (4.48%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.99%) JIRA
7 4 (2.99%) Mockito
8 3 (2.24%) Appium
8 3 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.24%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.24%) Gatling
8 3 (2.24%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (2.24%) Maven
9 2 (1.49%) Selendroid
9 2 (1.49%) Xcode
9 2 (1.49%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.75%) git-flow
General
1 42 (31.34%) Banking
2 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.90%) Finance
4 14 (10.45%) Front Office
5 11 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.48%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.99%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (28.36%) Developer
2 25 (18.66%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Senior
4 20 (14.93%) Android Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) Java Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Android Developer
8 8 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.22%) Lead
9 7 (5.22%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.48%) GCP DevOps
10 6 (4.48%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Junior
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Android Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.88%) Android Jetpack
2 31 (23.13%) REST
3 26 (19.40%) RESTful
4 25 (18.66%) Jetpack Compose
5 17 (12.69%) GraphQL
6 15 (11.19%) Spring
7 12 (8.96%) React
8 11 (8.21%) Android SDK
9 10 (7.46%) Spring Boot
10 9 (6.72%) RxJava
11 8 (5.97%) Kafka
11 8 (5.97%) Terraform
12 7 (5.22%) Dagger
12 7 (5.22%) JSON
12 7 (5.22%) Node.js
13 5 (3.73%) OkHttp
14 4 (2.99%) Ktor
14 4 (2.99%) OpenAPI
14 4 (2.99%) Playwright
14 4 (2.99%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.90%) Mobile App
2 18 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.45%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.21%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.72%) AI Agents
6 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
7 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.48%) Data Structures
8 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.99%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.99%) Legacy Code
11 3 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.75%) Contactless
13 1 (0.75%) Credit Derivative
13 1 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 51 (38.06%) Android
2 17 (12.69%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.99%) Unix
4 3 (2.24%) Windows
5 2 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.51%) CI/CD
2 46 (34.33%) Agile
3 38 (28.36%) Software Engineering
4 27 (20.15%) AI
5 26 (19.40%) Android Development
5 26 (19.40%) Test Automation
6 25 (18.66%) Clean Code
6 25 (18.66%) TDD
7 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.42%) Refactoring
8 21 (15.67%) Code Quality
8 21 (15.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (14.93%) Event-Driven
10 19 (14.18%) DevOps
10 19 (14.18%) MVVM
10 19 (14.18%) Observability
11 17 (12.69%) SDLC
12 16 (11.94%) Pair Programming
13 15 (11.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (11.19%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (50.75%) Java
2 30 (22.39%) TypeScript
3 14 (10.45%) SQL
3 14 (10.45%) Swift
4 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.97%) Python
6 7 (5.22%) Scala
7 4 (2.99%) C#
8 3 (2.24%) Go
8 3 (2.24%) Ruby
8 3 (2.24%) Rust
9 2 (1.49%) Elixir
9 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.75%) C++
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.97%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.40%) QA
2 10 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.75%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.22%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.99%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) logstash
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (11.94%) Google
2 6 (4.48%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle
4 1 (0.75%) Apple
4 1 (0.75%) Confluent
4 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.75%) New Relic
4 1 (0.75%) Splunk