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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 266 230
Rank change year-on-year -38 -36 +76
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 128 95 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.70% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.81% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 54 110
10th Percentile £263 £400 £375
25th Percentile £455 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% -15.29%
75th Percentile £539 £700 £600
90th Percentile £675 £734 £654
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -17.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £43.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.23% -
75th Percentile - £45.75 £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £86.00 £44.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +93.26% +7.23% -

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 6,126 5,258 6,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 30.91% 38.77% 39.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,078 3,686 4,995
10th Percentile £381 £368 £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 £656 £700 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £516 £545
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.32% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 48 46
10th Percentile £34.35 £27.08 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £54.50 £43.16 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% -10.09% -20.14%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.13 £62.23
90th Percentile £88.75 £81.88 £72.19
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 22 July 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 July 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 -11 11 £438 -31.91% 18
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 (2.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.53%) AWS
2 21 (16.41%) GitHub
3 18 (14.06%) Azure
4 17 (13.28%) GCP
5 14 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.03%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (6.25%) Cloud Run
8 6 (4.69%) Google Play
9 4 (3.13%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.34%) Azure AI
10 3 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.78%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) HTTP
1 3 (2.34%) VPN
2 2 (1.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.13%) Redis
3 3 (2.34%) Power BI
4 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) JUnit
2 10 (7.81%) Git
2 10 (7.81%) Gradle
3 6 (4.69%) Android Studio
3 6 (4.69%) CircleCI
3 6 (4.69%) GitLab
4 5 (3.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.13%) XCUITest
6 3 (2.34%) Appium
6 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.34%) Gatling
6 3 (2.34%) JIRA
6 3 (2.34%) Selenium
6 3 (2.34%) Xcode
7 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.56%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.78%) fastlane
8 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.78%) Selendroid
General
1 31 (24.22%) Banking
2 26 (20.31%) Finance
3 21 (16.41%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.81%) Front Office
6 8 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.13%) Military
10 3 (2.34%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Automotive
11 1 (0.78%) Law
11 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.78%) Police
11 1 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (31.25%) Developer
2 26 (20.31%) Senior
3 20 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Android Engineer
5 14 (10.94%) Android Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Java Engineer
6 13 (10.16%) Mobile Engineer
7 9 (7.03%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Lead
9 7 (5.47%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Android Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Tester
11 5 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Sales Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Workflow Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Junior
12 4 (3.13%) Mobile Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.00%) REST
2 28 (21.88%) Android Jetpack
3 22 (17.19%) Jetpack Compose
3 22 (17.19%) RESTful
4 20 (15.63%) Spring
5 18 (14.06%) Spring Boot
6 13 (10.16%) GraphQL
7 11 (8.59%) Android SDK
8 10 (7.81%) Node.js
9 9 (7.03%) RxJava
10 7 (5.47%) React
11 6 (4.69%) Dagger
11 6 (4.69%) Kafka
12 5 (3.91%) JSON
12 5 (3.91%) OAuth
12 5 (3.91%) OAuth2
13 4 (3.13%) Micronaut
13 4 (3.13%) OpenID
13 4 (3.13%) Playwright
14 3 (2.34%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 19 (14.84%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.47%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.69%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.91%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.78%) Contactless
11 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (38.28%) Android
2 18 (14.06%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.13%) Windows
4 3 (2.34%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.06%) CI/CD
2 38 (29.69%) Agile
3 33 (25.78%) Software Engineering
4 25 (19.53%) Android Development
5 24 (18.75%) AI
6 23 (17.97%) Test Automation
7 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.84%) User Experience
8 18 (14.06%) Mentoring
9 17 (13.28%) Microservices
10 16 (12.50%) Observability
10 16 (12.50%) TDD
10 16 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (11.72%) MVVM
12 14 (10.94%) Code Quality
12 14 (10.94%) Event-Driven
12 14 (10.94%) Fintech
12 14 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (10.16%) DevOps
14 12 (9.38%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.94%) Java
2 24 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 15 (11.72%) Swift
4 10 (7.81%) Python
5 7 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.47%) SQL
6 3 (2.34%) C#
6 3 (2.34%) Go
6 3 (2.34%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.34%) Ruby
6 3 (2.34%) Rust
7 2 (1.56%) Elixir
7 2 (1.56%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) Cypher
8 1 (0.78%) Korn
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.34%) Degree
4 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.66%) QA
2 8 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (5.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.91%) Grafana
2 5 (3.91%) Terraform
3 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (10.94%) Google
2 5 (3.91%) Splunk
3 4 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.34%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.34%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.78%) Okta