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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 275 223
Rank change year-on-year -34 -52 +60
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 133 96 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.71% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.12% 1.84% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 52 108
10th Percentile £250 £378 £371
25th Percentile £444 £456 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £600
90th Percentile £726 £734 £625
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £45.85 £40.59
25th Percentile - £49.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year - +39.13% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £42.12
90th Percentile - £69.35 £42.20
England median hourly rate £86.00 £57.50 £41.33
% change year-on-year +49.57% +39.13% -

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 6,285 5,217 6,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.19% 38.38% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,210 3,656 4,811
10th Percentile £380 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 55 43
10th Percentile £34.05 £26.75 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -8.42% -21.11%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -13 13 £550 -16.67% 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 3 (2.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.55%) GitHub
2 25 (18.80%) AWS
3 18 (13.53%) Azure
4 16 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (9.77%) GCP
6 12 (9.02%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (4.51%) Google Play
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (3.01%) Cloud Run
8 4 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.26%) Azure AI
9 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.50%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.75%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.75%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) HTTP
1 3 (2.26%) VPN
2 2 (1.50%) NFC
3 1 (0.75%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.75%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.51%) Redis
3 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.26%) Power BI
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JUnit
2 10 (7.52%) Git
2 10 (7.52%) Gradle
3 8 (6.02%) GitLab
4 6 (4.51%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.76%) JIRA
6 4 (3.01%) Android Studio
6 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.01%) XCUITest
7 3 (2.26%) Appium
7 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.26%) Gatling
7 3 (2.26%) Selenium
8 2 (1.50%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.75%) fastlane
9 1 (0.75%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.75%) Selendroid
General
1 38 (28.57%) Banking
2 28 (21.05%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.27%) Front Office
6 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.01%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (29.32%) Developer
2 25 (18.80%) Senior
2 25 (18.80%) Software Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) Android Engineer
4 13 (9.77%) Android Developer
4 13 (9.77%) Java Engineer
4 13 (9.77%) Mobile Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) QA Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Senior Android Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Junior
8 6 (4.51%) Lead
9 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Junior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Junior Software Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Sales Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Workflow Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.05%) Android Jetpack
1 28 (21.05%) REST
2 23 (17.29%) RESTful
3 22 (16.54%) Jetpack Compose
4 17 (12.78%) Spring
5 13 (9.77%) GraphQL
5 13 (9.77%) React
5 13 (9.77%) Spring Boot
6 12 (9.02%) Android SDK
7 9 (6.77%) Node.js
7 9 (6.77%) RxJava
8 6 (4.51%) Dagger
8 6 (4.51%) JSON
9 5 (3.76%) Next.js
10 4 (3.01%) Kafka
10 4 (3.01%) Ktor
10 4 (3.01%) OAuth
10 4 (3.01%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.01%) Playwright
11 3 (2.26%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.56%) Mobile App
2 18 (13.53%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.02%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.51%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.51%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.76%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.01%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.09%) Android
2 16 (12.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
4 2 (1.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.75%) Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) CI/CD
2 43 (32.33%) Agile
3 40 (30.08%) Software Engineering
4 28 (21.05%) AI
5 25 (18.80%) Android Development
6 23 (17.29%) Test Automation
7 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.78%) Microservices
9 17 (12.78%) TDD
9 17 (12.78%) User Experience
10 16 (12.03%) MVVM
10 16 (12.03%) Pair Programming
11 15 (11.28%) Code Quality
11 15 (11.28%) Fintech
11 15 (11.28%) Observability
12 14 (10.53%) Clean Code
13 13 (9.77%) Event-Driven
13 13 (9.77%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.77%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 78 (58.65%) Java
2 29 (21.80%) TypeScript
3 13 (9.77%) Swift
4 10 (7.52%) Python
5 8 (6.02%) SQL
6 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.01%) C#
8 3 (2.26%) Go
8 3 (2.26%) Ruby
8 3 (2.26%) Rust
9 2 (1.50%) Elixir
9 2 (1.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) C++
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.26%) Degree
4 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.55%) QA
2 11 (8.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.75%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.01%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (7.52%) Google
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.26%) Zscaler
3 2 (1.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.75%) Splunk