Kotlin Contract Job Trends in the North West

JetBrains Kotlin
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 120 115
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 24 13 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.60% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.68% 2.27% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 5
10th Percentile £400 £270 £335
25th Percentile £425 £350 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £390
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -3.85% -14.52%
75th Percentile £594 £390 £400
90th Percentile £600 £400 £426
England median daily rate £471 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.75% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £76.55 - -
25th Percentile £77.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.25 £63.75 £40.08
% change year-on-year +21.18% +59.07% -48.29%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 894 572 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.47% 25.94% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 437 331
10th Percentile £358 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £360 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £543
90th Percentile £650 £612 £606
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 10 19
10th Percentile £29.96 £29.28 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.89 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.00 £68.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +39.29% +6.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £85.63 £73.00
90th Percentile £87.38 £95.23 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +3.17%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the North West

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the North West over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in the North West

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Kotlin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kotlin in the North West over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kotlin in the North West

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester -22 24 £575 +43.75% 35
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Google Play
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Datadog
3 2 (8.33%) Firebase
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) MySQL
2 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Charles Proxy
1 1 (4.17%) Claude Code
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Senior
4 7 (29.17%) Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (20.83%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (20.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 4 (16.67%) Android Developer
8 3 (12.50%) Android Engineer
8 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
9 2 (8.33%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
10 1 (4.17%) Android Software Engineer
10 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
10 1 (4.17%) iOS Developer
10 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Kafka
1 9 (37.50%) REST
1 9 (37.50%) Spring
1 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 7 (29.17%) Android Jetpack
3 6 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (16.67%) Flutter
4 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 3 (12.50%) Android SDK
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Cloud Native
1 10 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.50%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Android
2 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
3 9 (37.50%) Android Development
3 9 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 9 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Observability
5 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
6 6 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 5 (20.83%) A/B Testing
7 5 (20.83%) Clean Code
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.50%) API Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Cross-Platform Development
8 3 (12.50%) Data Transformation
8 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (12.50%) iOS Development
8 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) Swift
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google