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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 275 173
Rank change year-on-year -51 -102 +121
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 128 100 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.74% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 1.92% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 59 149
10th Percentile £250 £395 £375
25th Percentile £406 £469 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% -24.00%
75th Percentile £537 £709 £534
90th Percentile £731 £810 £600
England median daily rate £471 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £57.43 £37.90
25th Percentile - £59.19 £39.62
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year - +54.26% -
75th Percentile - £68.69 £41.88
90th Percentile - £70.68 £42.10
England median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £41.33
% change year-on-year +21.18% +54.26% -45.80%

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 6,342 5,200 6,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.33% 38.64% 40.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 3,570 4,692
10th Percentile £375 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £574
Median % change year-on-year - -4.14% -4.38%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 66 43
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.83 £25.40
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.04
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.95 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% -5.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.63 £59.47
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.88 £78.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -16 12 £550 -16.67% 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 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.78%) Confluence
1 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.66%) GitHub
2 25 (19.53%) AWS
3 19 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (13.28%) Azure
5 15 (11.72%) GCP
6 12 (9.38%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (5.47%) Google Play
8 6 (4.69%) Cloud Run
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.13%) Serverless
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.34%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.56%) Firebase
13 1 (0.78%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) HTTP
2 2 (1.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.78%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.78%) DSL
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.47%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.47%) Redis
3 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.34%) Pinecone
4 3 (2.34%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Power BI
6 1 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) Git
2 13 (10.16%) JUnit
3 12 (9.38%) Gradle
4 9 (7.03%) GitLab
5 6 (4.69%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.13%) JIRA
6 4 (3.13%) Mockito
7 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.34%) Gatling
7 3 (2.34%) Maven
7 3 (2.34%) XCUITest
8 2 (1.56%) Appium
8 2 (1.56%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.78%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.78%) git-flow
9 1 (0.78%) Selenium
9 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (28.13%) Banking
2 28 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 27 (21.09%) Finance
4 13 (10.16%) Front Office
5 11 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.69%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.13%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (29.69%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Software Engineer
3 20 (15.63%) Android Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Senior
5 12 (9.38%) Android Developer
5 12 (9.38%) Java Engineer
5 12 (9.38%) Mobile Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Lead
8 7 (5.47%) Senior Android Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Junior
10 5 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Junior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.13%) Sales Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Workflow Engineer
12 3 (2.34%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.44%) Android Jetpack
2 27 (21.09%) REST
3 23 (17.97%) Jetpack Compose
3 23 (17.97%) RESTful
4 16 (12.50%) Spring
5 14 (10.94%) GraphQL
6 13 (10.16%) React
7 11 (8.59%) Android SDK
7 11 (8.59%) Spring Boot
8 8 (6.25%) Kafka
8 8 (6.25%) RxJava
9 7 (5.47%) JSON
9 7 (5.47%) Node.js
9 7 (5.47%) Terraform
10 6 (4.69%) Dagger
11 4 (3.13%) Ktor
11 4 (3.13%) Playwright
11 4 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (2.34%) JPA
12 3 (2.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.97%) Mobile App
2 15 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.03%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.03%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (5.47%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.47%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.91%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.34%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.78%) Derivative
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 47 (36.72%) Android
2 13 (10.16%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.34%) Unix
3 3 (2.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (45.31%) CI/CD
2 45 (35.16%) Agile
3 40 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 29 (22.66%) AI
5 24 (18.75%) Android Development
6 23 (17.97%) Test Automation
7 22 (17.19%) TDD
8 21 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (15.63%) Clean Code
9 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.06%) Event-Driven
10 18 (14.06%) MVVM
11 17 (13.28%) User Experience
12 16 (12.50%) Code Quality
12 16 (12.50%) Observability
12 16 (12.50%) Refactoring
13 15 (11.72%) Microservices
13 15 (11.72%) Pair Programming
14 14 (10.94%) SDLC
15 13 (10.16%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 68 (53.13%) Java
2 29 (22.66%) TypeScript
3 12 (9.38%) SQL
4 10 (7.81%) Python
4 10 (7.81%) Swift
5 8 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.13%) C#
6 4 (3.13%) Scala
7 3 (2.34%) Go
7 3 (2.34%) Ruby
7 3 (2.34%) Rust
8 2 (1.56%) Elixir
8 2 (1.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) Korn
9 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.13%) Degree
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.31%) QA
2 8 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (10.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) logstash
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Google
2 6 (4.69%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.34%) Oracle
4 1 (0.78%) Confluent
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.78%) Zscaler