Kotlin Contract Job Trends in the South West

JetBrains Kotlin
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 115 140
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +31
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 13 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.54% 0.49% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.29% 1.77% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile - - £619
25th Percentile - £406 £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £444 £688
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% -35.45% +20.88%
75th Percentile £393 £500 £703
90th Percentile £471 £523 £709
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.95%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 568 564 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.54% 27.84% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 324 535
10th Percentile £335 £397 £325
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £675
90th Percentile £712 £688 £713
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 53 77
10th Percentile £59.37 £61.25 £46.11
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £69.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.47%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the South West

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the South West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in the South West

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Bristol 0 13 £350 -21.13% 5
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Android Developer
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Android Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) Android SDK
2 5 (38.46%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (30.77%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Android Development
2 9 (69.23%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (61.54%) Benchmarking
3 8 (61.54%) Open Source
4 5 (38.46%) MVVM
5 4 (30.77%) SOLID
6 1 (7.69%) Application Security
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
6 1 (7.69%) Security Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Objective-C
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) GIAC
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Google