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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 105 153
Rank change year-on-year -20 +48 -8
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 17 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.50% 0.35% 0.093%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.25% 1.37% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £363 £344 £440
25th Percentile £391 £372 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -27.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £506 £497 -
90th Percentile £529 £521 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -17.50%

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 754 437 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 22.24% 25.50% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 286 450
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £409 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £623
90th Percentile £672 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 41 106
10th Percentile £53.53 £61.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £67.88 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -19 14 £500 +14.29% 1
Gloucestershire - 2 £481 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
General
1 1 (5.88%) Banking
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 12 (70.59%) Android Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Android Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Android Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior Android Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Android Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Android SDK
2 10 (58.82%) Android Jetpack
2 10 (58.82%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (11.76%) MapLibre
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Android Development
2 12 (70.59%) MVVM
3 10 (58.82%) SOLID
4 9 (52.94%) Benchmarking
4 9 (52.94%) Open Source
5 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
8 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.76%) Mobile Development
9 1 (5.88%) Agile
9 1 (5.88%) Application Security
9 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
9 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
9 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
9 1 (5.88%) DevOps
9 1 (5.88%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Google