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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 265 281
Rank change year-on-year -81 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 73 86 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.72% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 69
10th Percentile £313 £390 £363
25th Percentile £455 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +7.14% -11.02%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £625
90th Percentile £788 £719 £750
England median daily rate £475 £518 £495
% change year-on-year -8.21% +4.55% -13.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £44.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £80.50
% change year-on-year +23.60% -44.72% +89.30%

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 5,747 5,002 6,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.67% 39.47% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,891 3,509 4,885
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £430 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £710 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
England median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.78% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 56
10th Percentile £34.20 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.44 £35.00 £35.19
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -11.44% -12.61%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.25 £61.94
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.25 £70.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 8 £683 +9.20% 10
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 (8.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.03%) AWS
2 10 (13.70%) GCP
3 9 (12.33%) Azure
4 6 (8.22%) GitHub
5 5 (6.85%) Cloud Run
6 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.48%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (4.11%) Google Play
7 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.74%) Serverless
9 1 (1.37%) AuraDB
9 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.37%) Figma
9 1 (1.37%) PaaS
9 1 (1.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Gradle
2 10 (13.70%) Android Studio
3 7 (9.59%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) JUnit
5 4 (5.48%) GitLab
5 4 (5.48%) JIRA
5 4 (5.48%) Selenium
6 3 (4.11%) Xcode
6 3 (4.11%) XCUITest
7 2 (2.74%) Appium
7 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.37%) fastlane
8 1 (1.37%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.37%) Mockito
8 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 17 (23.29%) Banking
2 16 (21.92%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Front Office
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Automotive
5 2 (2.74%) Police
5 2 (2.74%) Retail
6 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Military
6 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (52.05%) Developer
2 18 (24.66%) Senior
3 13 (17.81%) Android Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Front Office Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Android Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Mobile Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Tester
8 3 (4.11%) Applications Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.11%) iOS Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Sales Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) Spring
1 15 (20.55%) Spring Boot
2 13 (17.81%) REST
3 11 (15.07%) Android Jetpack
3 11 (15.07%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (9.59%) RESTful
5 6 (8.22%) RxJava
6 4 (5.48%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.48%) OAuth
6 4 (5.48%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.11%) Android SDK
7 3 (4.11%) Ktor
7 3 (4.11%) Micronaut
7 3 (4.11%) Node.js
7 3 (4.11%) OpenID
7 3 (4.11%) SAML
7 3 (4.11%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (2.74%) Dagger
8 2 (2.74%) Next.js
8 2 (2.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.14%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.59%) Algorithms
2 7 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.11%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.11%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.37%) Infotainment
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (34.25%) Android
2 14 (19.18%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.48%) Windows
4 3 (4.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.74%) Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.36%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.14%) Agile
3 15 (20.55%) Android Development
4 13 (17.81%) Mentoring
5 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
5 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
6 11 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (13.70%) AI
7 10 (13.70%) DevOps
7 10 (13.70%) Microservices
7 10 (13.70%) Mobile Development
7 10 (13.70%) Unit Testing
7 10 (13.70%) User Experience
8 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.33%) Fintech
9 8 (10.96%) MVVM
9 8 (10.96%) Observability
10 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.59%) TDD
11 6 (8.22%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (64.38%) Java
2 11 (15.07%) Swift
3 6 (8.22%) Python
4 5 (6.85%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.48%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.37%) BrightScript
6 1 (1.37%) Cypher
6 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.11%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) QA
2 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Grafana
3 3 (4.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Google
2 5 (6.85%) Splunk
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.11%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle
5 1 (1.37%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.37%) Okta
5 1 (1.37%) Roku