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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 215 298
Rank change year-on-year -107 +83 +8
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 70 147 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 1.09% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 2.80% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 90 78
10th Percentile £375 £387 £445
25th Percentile £500 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -1.19% -11.39%
75th Percentile £788 £630 £644
90th Percentile £850 £734 £750
England median daily rate £513 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +2.00% -15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £35.45 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £36.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% - -
75th Percentile £48.00 £44.13 -
90th Percentile - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +41.03% -51.25% +59.84%

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 5,518 5,248 6,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.45% 38.87% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,720 3,493 4,869
10th Percentile £363 £373 £385
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 £694 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 38 68
10th Percentile £19.89 £32.43 £26.68
25th Percentile £39.51 £38.15 £39.15
Median hourly rate £56.38 £47.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.96% -8.07% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.80 £64.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £86.63 £94.88 £72.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -7.20%

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 February 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 February 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 -18 7 £725 +43.56% 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 6 (8.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) AWS
2 12 (17.14%) GCP
3 9 (12.86%) Azure
4 7 (10.00%) GitHub
5 6 (8.57%) Google Play
6 5 (7.14%) Cloud Run
7 4 (5.71%) Firebase
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.29%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (4.29%) Sentry
9 2 (2.86%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.86%) Figma
9 2 (2.86%) Serverless
10 1 (1.43%) AuraDB
10 1 (1.43%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.43%) PaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) HBase
5 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (20.00%) Android Studio
1 14 (20.00%) Gradle
2 11 (15.71%) Git
3 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 6 (8.57%) JUnit
5 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.71%) Xcode
5 4 (5.71%) XCUITest
6 3 (4.29%) Appium
6 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.29%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (4.29%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (4.29%) Postman
7 2 (2.86%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.86%) Mockito
8 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.43%) Maven
8 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 29 (41.43%) Finance
2 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Front Office
4 12 (17.14%) Banking
5 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Automotive
7 2 (2.86%) Law
7 2 (2.86%) Police
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Military
8 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.43%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 20 (28.57%) Android Developer
3 15 (21.43%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Front Office Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Java Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Applications Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Lead
10 3 (4.29%) Mobile Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) QA Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 2 (2.86%) iOS Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Lead Android Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.86%) Android Jetpack
2 15 (21.43%) Jetpack Compose
3 12 (17.14%) RESTful
4 11 (15.71%) REST
4 11 (15.71%) Spring
5 10 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 8 (11.43%) RxJava
7 5 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.71%) Dagger
8 4 (5.71%) Kafka
9 3 (4.29%) Android SDK
9 3 (4.29%) OAuth
9 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
9 3 (4.29%) OpenID
9 3 (4.29%) RAML
9 3 (4.29%) React
9 3 (4.29%) React Native
9 3 (4.29%) Web Services
9 3 (4.29%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (4.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.29%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.43%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.43%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (44.29%) Android
2 14 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 5 (7.14%) Windows
4 3 (4.29%) Linux
4 3 (4.29%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 24 (34.29%) Agile
3 22 (31.43%) Android Development
4 16 (22.86%) User Experience
5 15 (21.43%) DevOps
6 14 (20.00%) MVVM
7 13 (18.57%) Test Automation
8 12 (17.14%) Analytics
8 12 (17.14%) Mobile Development
9 10 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.86%) Fintech
10 9 (12.86%) Unit Testing
11 8 (11.43%) Design Patterns
11 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 7 (10.00%) Microservices
12 7 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 48 (68.57%) Java
2 12 (17.14%) Swift
3 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.57%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.14%) Objective-C
6 4 (5.71%) C++
7 3 (4.29%) Scala
7 3 (4.29%) SQL
8 2 (2.86%) Go
8 2 (2.86%) Python
8 2 (2.86%) Rust
9 1 (1.43%) BrightScript
9 1 (1.43%) Clojure
9 1 (1.43%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) QA
2 7 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Google
2 8 (11.43%) Databricks
2 8 (11.43%) Splunk
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Adobe
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) Alibaba
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.43%) Okta
5 1 (1.43%) Roku
5 1 (1.43%) Xamarin