Kotlin Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

JetBrains Kotlin
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 131 116
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 +71
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 8 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.040% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 0.17% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 18
10th Percentile £260 - £443
25th Percentile £262 £511 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% -12.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £481 £534 £700
90th Percentile £518 - £708
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.69%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 741 586 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.97% 23.36% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 368 434
10th Percentile £357 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £391 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile £21.44 £16.78 £17.35
25th Percentile £36.00 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +133.97% +9.59% -24.51%
75th Percentile - £30.31 £54.00
90th Percentile - £50.75 £54.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kotlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in the Midlands

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
East Midlands -14 4 £463 -11.48% 10
West Midlands - 4 £273 - 7
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Android Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Mobile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Android Development
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) API Design
5 2 (25.00%) API Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) MVVM
5 2 (25.00%) User Experience
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Xamarin