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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 234 294
Rank change year-on-year -90 +60 +12
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 77 117 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.88% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 2.26% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 70 75
10th Percentile £353 £381 £445
25th Percentile £467 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +7.62% -11.21%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £625
90th Percentile £850 £740 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -15.25%
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 5,720 5,181 6,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.20% 39.04% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,868 3,486 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
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 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £801
England median daily rate £507 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.45% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 35 67
10th Percentile £19.09 £31.60 £26.06
25th Percentile £39.34 £37.43 £38.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.38 £62.13
90th Percentile £79.63 £93.75 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -28 7 £725 +41.81% 8
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 (7.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) AWS
2 12 (15.58%) GCP
3 9 (11.69%) Azure
4 7 (9.09%) GitHub
5 6 (7.79%) Google Play
6 5 (6.49%) Cloud Run
7 4 (5.19%) Firebase
7 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.90%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (3.90%) Sentry
9 2 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.60%) Figma
9 2 (2.60%) Serverless
10 1 (1.30%) AuraDB
10 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.30%) Vercel
10 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) HTTP
2 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.30%) HBase
5 1 (1.30%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Android Studio
1 16 (20.78%) Gradle
2 11 (14.29%) Git
3 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.79%) JIRA
4 6 (7.79%) JUnit
5 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.19%) Xcode
5 4 (5.19%) XCUITest
6 3 (3.90%) Appium
6 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.90%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (3.90%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (3.90%) Postman
7 2 (2.60%) GitLab
7 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.60%) Mockito
7 2 (2.60%) Selenium
8 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 29 (37.66%) Finance
2 14 (18.18%) Banking
2 14 (18.18%) Front Office
2 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Retail
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Automotive
5 2 (2.60%) Law
5 2 (2.60%) Police
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Military
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.30%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (67.53%) Developer
2 22 (28.57%) Android Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Front Office Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Applications Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Mobile Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Tester
10 2 (2.60%) iOS Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) Android Jetpack
2 15 (19.48%) Jetpack Compose
3 14 (18.18%) REST
4 13 (16.88%) Spring
5 12 (15.58%) RESTful
5 12 (15.58%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.39%) RxJava
7 7 (9.09%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.49%) Android SDK
9 4 (5.19%) Dagger
9 4 (5.19%) Kafka
10 3 (3.90%) FHIR
10 3 (3.90%) Ktor
10 3 (3.90%) OAuth
10 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.90%) OkHttp
10 3 (3.90%) RAML
10 3 (3.90%) React
10 3 (3.90%) React Native
10 3 (3.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.47%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.30%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Music Streaming
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (42.86%) Android
2 14 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.19%) Windows
4 3 (3.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.60%) Linux
6 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) CI/CD
2 26 (33.77%) Agile
3 24 (31.17%) Android Development
4 16 (20.78%) User Experience
5 15 (19.48%) DevOps
6 14 (18.18%) MVVM
6 14 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 13 (16.88%) Analytics
8 12 (15.58%) Mobile Development
9 11 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 11 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
11 9 (11.69%) Fintech
12 8 (10.39%) Design Patterns
12 8 (10.39%) Microservices
12 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
12 8 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
13 7 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 52 (67.53%) Java
2 12 (15.58%) Swift
3 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.49%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.90%) C++
6 3 (3.90%) Python
6 3 (3.90%) Scala
7 2 (2.60%) SQL
8 1 (1.30%) BrightScript
8 1 (1.30%) Clojure
8 1 (1.30%) Cypher
8 1 (1.30%) Go
8 1 (1.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) QA
2 8 (10.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.49%) Grafana
3 2 (2.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Google
2 8 (10.39%) Databricks
2 8 (10.39%) Splunk
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.30%) Okta
5 1 (1.30%) Roku
5 1 (1.30%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.30%) Zscaler