Kotlin Contracts in the UK excluding London

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Kotlin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kotlin over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 412 445
Rank change year-on-year +92 +33 -80
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 71 45 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 0.65% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 33 59
10th Percentile £300 £463 £458
25th Percentile £384 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £518 £670 £622
90th Percentile £601 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £495 £580 £588
% change year-on-year -14.66% -1.28% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £77.85 £53.05 £45.37
25th Percentile £78.38 £57.54 £45.94
Median hourly rate £80.50 £65.03 £47.37
Median % change year-on-year +23.80% +37.27% -
75th Percentile £82.13 £72.51 £48.31
90th Percentile £82.35 £77.01 £48.57
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £42.53 £70.90
% change year-on-year +88.12% -40.02% +10.78%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Kotlin is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,829 6,937 8,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 29.03% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 4,944 6,223
10th Percentile £317 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.46% +14.82%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 342 337
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.57 £17.27
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.76 £29.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +17.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.45 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kotlin in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kotlin in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
North of England +49 41 £438 -32.69% 11
North West +40 27 £485 -22.40% 4
Yorkshire +23 14 £300 -56.36% 4
Scotland - 14 £400 - 7
South East +22 10 £425 -19.05% 11
Midlands +23 3 £450 -35.71% 3
West Midlands +22 3 £450 -35.71% 2
South West +15 3 £600 +14.29% 10
Kotlin
UK

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 7 (9.86%) GCP
2 7 (9.86%) GitHub
3 2 (2.82%) Serverless
4 1 (1.41%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.41%) Firebase
4 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.41%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
2 5 (7.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Android Studio
2 8 (11.27%) Git
3 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.86%) Mockito
4 5 (7.04%) Gradle
4 5 (7.04%) JUnit
5 4 (5.63%) JIRA
6 2 (2.82%) Appium
6 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.82%) Selenium
6 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.82%) UI Automator
6 2 (2.82%) XCUITest
7 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.41%) Crashlytics
General
1 7 (9.86%) Banking
1 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.63%) Finance
3 3 (4.23%) Electronics
4 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (70.42%) Developer
2 38 (53.52%) Android Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Java Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
5 7 (9.86%) Android Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Backend Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Android Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Full Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Mobile Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) C++ Android Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Mobile Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Mobile Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.85%) RESTful
2 8 (11.27%) Jetpack Compose
2 8 (11.27%) Spring
2 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
3 7 (9.86%) Android Jetpack
3 7 (9.86%) Kafka
4 6 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (8.45%) OpenTracing
5 5 (7.04%) Dagger
5 5 (7.04%) RxJava
5 5 (7.04%) XML
6 4 (5.63%) Jest
6 4 (5.63%) Node.js
6 4 (5.63%) React
6 4 (5.63%) React Native
6 4 (5.63%) REST
6 4 (5.63%) Retrofit
7 2 (2.82%) CSS3
7 2 (2.82%) Redux
7 2 (2.82%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Mobile App
2 9 (12.68%) Data Structures
2 9 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.86%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (7.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Animation
5 2 (2.82%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.82%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (2.82%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (76.06%) Android
2 4 (5.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (57.75%) Android Development
2 19 (26.76%) Agile
3 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
4 14 (19.72%) Test Automation
4 14 (19.72%) Unit Testing
5 13 (18.31%) Software Engineering
6 12 (16.90%) SDLC
7 11 (15.49%) Microservices
8 9 (12.68%) Dependency Injection
8 9 (12.68%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (12.68%) Mobile Development
9 8 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (11.27%) MVVM
9 8 (11.27%) User Experience
10 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (8.45%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
12 5 (7.04%) Computer Science
12 5 (7.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (60.56%) Java
2 10 (14.08%) Scala
3 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.63%) Python
4 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.23%) C++
6 2 (2.82%) C#
6 2 (2.82%) GLSL
6 2 (2.82%) HLSL
6 2 (2.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
2 6 (8.45%) Zipkin
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Nokia
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.41%) Ariba
3 1 (1.41%) Google
3 1 (1.41%) SAP