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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 270 160
Rank change year-on-year -63 -110 +133
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 129 98 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.74% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 1.90% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 149
10th Percentile £257 £400 £381
25th Percentile £409 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £479
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +14.82% -23.36%
75th Percentile £569 £706 £541
90th Percentile £738 £840 £628
England median daily rate £471 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +4.21% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £57.43 £36.25
25th Percentile - £59.19 £37.19
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year - +59.07% -
75th Percentile - £68.69 £41.75
90th Percentile - £70.68 £42.00
England median hourly rate £77.50 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.57% +59.07% -48.29%

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 6,378 5,160 6,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 38.76% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,334 3,498 4,485
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £683 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £543
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.25% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 67 47
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -5.48% -19.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.50 £71.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -8 15 £550 -20.58% 26
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 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Trello
2 1 (0.78%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) GitHub
2 23 (17.83%) AWS
3 19 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (12.40%) GCP
5 15 (11.63%) Azure
6 12 (9.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (6.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (5.43%) Cloud Run
8 7 (5.43%) Google Play
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.88%) Serverless
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.33%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.33%) Firebase
12 1 (0.78%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) HTTP
2 2 (1.55%) NFC
3 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.43%) Redis
3 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.33%) Pinecone
4 3 (2.33%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Git
2 14 (10.85%) Gradle
3 13 (10.08%) JUnit
4 8 (6.20%) GitLab
5 6 (4.65%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.10%) JIRA
6 4 (3.10%) Mockito
7 3 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.33%) Gatling
7 3 (2.33%) Maven
8 2 (1.55%) Appium
8 2 (1.55%) fastlane
8 2 (1.55%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.55%) Xcode
8 2 (1.55%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.78%) git-flow
General
1 39 (30.23%) Banking
2 27 (20.93%) Finance
2 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.08%) Front Office
4 11 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Publishing
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Developer
2 25 (19.38%) Software Engineer
3 20 (15.50%) Senior
4 19 (14.73%) Android Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) Mobile Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Android Developer
6 12 (9.30%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Lead
8 7 (5.43%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Senior Android Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Junior
10 5 (3.88%) Junior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) GCP Engineer
12 3 (2.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.03%) Android Jetpack
2 29 (22.48%) REST
3 25 (19.38%) Jetpack Compose
4 23 (17.83%) RESTful
5 16 (12.40%) GraphQL
6 15 (11.63%) Spring
7 13 (10.08%) React
8 11 (8.53%) Android SDK
9 10 (7.75%) Spring Boot
10 8 (6.20%) Kafka
10 8 (6.20%) RxJava
11 7 (5.43%) JSON
11 7 (5.43%) Node.js
11 7 (5.43%) Terraform
12 6 (4.65%) Dagger
13 4 (3.10%) Ktor
13 4 (3.10%) OpenAPI
13 4 (3.10%) Playwright
13 4 (3.10%) Swagger
13 4 (3.10%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.05%) Mobile App
2 15 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.75%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.98%) AI Agents
4 9 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.43%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (3.10%) Fixed Income
9 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.33%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.78%) IoT
10 1 (0.78%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 47 (36.43%) Android
2 14 (10.85%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.10%) Unix
4 3 (2.33%) Windows
5 2 (1.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 44 (34.11%) Agile
3 37 (28.68%) Software Engineering
4 27 (20.93%) AI
5 24 (18.60%) Android Development
5 24 (18.60%) TDD
6 22 (17.05%) Clean Code
6 22 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (17.05%) Test Automation
7 20 (15.50%) MVVM
8 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.95%) Code Quality
9 18 (13.95%) Event-Driven
9 18 (13.95%) Observability
9 18 (13.95%) Refactoring
10 16 (12.40%) DevOps
10 16 (12.40%) Pair Programming
11 15 (11.63%) SDLC
11 15 (11.63%) User Experience
12 13 (10.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.16%) Java
2 30 (23.26%) TypeScript
3 13 (10.08%) SQL
4 12 (9.30%) Swift
5 9 (6.98%) Python
6 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.88%) Scala
8 4 (3.10%) C#
9 3 (2.33%) Go
9 3 (2.33%) Ruby
9 3 (2.33%) Rust
10 2 (1.55%) Elixir
10 2 (1.55%) PHP
10 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) C++
11 1 (0.78%) Korn
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.10%) Degree
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.60%) QA
2 9 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.40%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.43%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) logstash
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (10.08%) Google
2 6 (4.65%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (0.78%) Confluent
4 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft