Kotlin Contracts in the UK excluding London

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kotlin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kotlin over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 322 395
Rank change year-on-year +27 +73 +30
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 49 70 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.34% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 1.41% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 59 31
10th Percentile £386 £300 £450
25th Percentile £400 £378 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -18.60% +2.38%
75th Percentile £541 £518 £694
90th Percentile £603 £601 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £77.85 -
25th Percentile £67.98 £78.38 -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £80.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 £82.13 -
90th Percentile - £82.35 -
UK median hourly rate £58.86 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.42% +128.57% -52.44%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,777 4,956 6,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.87% 23.75% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 3,295 4,425
10th Percentile £320 £319 £344
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £581 £594
90th Percentile £632 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 433 320
10th Percentile £27.91 £37.55 £27.04
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.94 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.84% -0.40% +21.65%

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 6 June 2025.

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 6 June 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
North of England +1 27 £450 +2.86% 90
Yorkshire +12 15 £491 +63.80% 19
North West -2 12 £400 -17.53% 67
Midlands +18 9 £463 +2.78% 26
East Midlands - 9 £463 - 3
South West +41 6 £438 -27.08% 23
Northern Ireland - 5 £504 - 14
South East +31 2 £585 +37.65% 71
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) GitHub
3 7 (14.29%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) CloudBees
4 5 (10.20%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.08%) Firebase
5 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.04%) Bitrise
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.04%) IaaS
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.04%) MySQL
2 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) Git
2 11 (22.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) Gradle
4 4 (8.16%) Xcode
5 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.04%) Crashlytics
5 1 (2.04%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 14 (28.57%) Banking
2 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (67.35%) Developer
2 19 (38.78%) Android Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (12.24%) iOS Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Android Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) React Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (4.08%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Android Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.78%) Android Jetpack
2 14 (28.57%) RESTful
3 12 (24.49%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (14.29%) Android SDK
4 7 (14.29%) CSS
4 7 (14.29%) HTML
5 6 (12.24%) React
6 5 (10.20%) React Native
7 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.12%) Spring
8 2 (4.08%) Apache Avro
8 2 (4.08%) Cocoa
8 2 (4.08%) Cocoa Touch
8 2 (4.08%) iOS SDK
8 2 (4.08%) JSON
8 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.08%) Web Services
8 2 (4.08%) XML
9 1 (2.04%) CSS3
9 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.16%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (4.08%) Derivative
3 2 (4.08%) Equities
3 2 (4.08%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (53.06%) Android
2 6 (12.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) Agile
2 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.86%) TDD
4 20 (40.82%) Android Development
5 16 (32.65%) DevOps
5 16 (32.65%) Scrum
6 12 (24.49%) Mentoring
6 12 (24.49%) User Experience
7 11 (22.45%) Unit Testing
8 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (18.37%) MVVM
10 8 (16.33%) Architectural Design
10 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (16.33%) Design Patterns
10 8 (16.33%) Software Engineering
10 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
11 7 (14.29%) Mobile Development
12 6 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (12.24%) iOS Development
12 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Java
2 12 (24.49%) JavaScript
3 10 (20.41%) Python
4 9 (18.37%) Objective-C
4 9 (18.37%) Swift
5 7 (14.29%) Scala
6 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.16%) C
7 4 (8.16%) C++
7 4 (8.16%) Ruby
8 3 (6.12%) Go
8 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) PMO
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Grafana
2 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Google