Kotlin Contract Job Trends in Manchester

JetBrains Kotlin
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 81 85
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 8 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.70% 0.35% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.35% 1.33% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 10
10th Percentile £269 £385 £393
25th Percentile £270 £388 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £395 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -9.71% -32.69%
75th Percentile £413 £411 £478
90th Percentile £435 £431 £551
North West median daily rate £375 £395 £438
% change year-on-year -5.06% -9.71% -27.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.75
North West median hourly rate - - £77.50

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 341 301 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.99% 26.33% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 203 398
10th Percentile £313 £361 £325
25th Percentile £359 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £621 £600 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £495
% change year-on-year -5.56% -9.09% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile £22.81 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.62 £82.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.16% +26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £26.43 £100.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kotlin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Kotlin job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kotlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in Manchester

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kotlin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Android Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Mobile Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
5 1 (12.50%) Android Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Android Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (25.00%) Android SDK
2 2 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) SDLC
2 5 (62.50%) API Design
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) Information Security
3 4 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Android Development
5 2 (25.00%) API Integration
5 2 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared