Kotlin Contract Job Trends

JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 375 395
Rank change year-on-year -43 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 205 152 197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 1.52% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 98 148
10th Percentile £313 £398 £350
25th Percentile £400 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -0.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £675 £708 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £438
% change year-on-year -3.06% +12.00% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 2
10th Percentile - £38.30 £77.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £78.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £80.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -44.10% +89.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.50 £82.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.68 £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £73.23 £80.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% -9.04% +23.80%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,845 10,018 12,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.85% 34.04% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,543 6,785 9,130
10th Percentile £353 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 239 476
10th Percentile £42.33 £22.43 £31.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £68.19
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.20% -

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the UK

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 April 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
England -54 174 £475 -8.65% 58
UK excluding London -33 95 £475 -3.06% 27
London -55 74 £503 -16.25% 44
Work from Home -37 57 £525 +0.96% 41
North of England -38 41 £475 -3.61% 8
North West -18 34 £475 +5.56% 1
South West -11 23 £380 -7.88% 3
South East -25 20 £406 -30.56% 11
Midlands -63 9 £510 +10.27%
West Midlands - 9 £510 -
Yorkshire -57 4 £488 -11.36% 6
North East - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland 0 2 - -

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.39%) Confluence
2 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.24%) AWS
2 19 (9.27%) Azure
3 18 (8.78%) GitHub
4 17 (8.29%) GCP
5 15 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.90%) Cloud Run
6 8 (3.90%) Firebase
6 8 (3.90%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (3.41%) Serverless
7 7 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.93%) Google Play
9 5 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.95%) Sauce Labs
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.98%) Figma
12 2 (0.98%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.41%) VPN
2 3 (1.46%) DSL
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
3 2 (0.98%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.90%) Power BI
3 3 (1.46%) MySQL
4 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.98%) SQLite
5 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.49%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (17.56%) Gradle
2 20 (9.76%) GitLab
3 14 (6.83%) Android Studio
3 14 (6.83%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.34%) Git
5 12 (5.85%) IntelliJ
6 10 (4.88%) JUnit
7 8 (3.90%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.41%) fastlane
9 6 (2.93%) Selenium
10 5 (2.44%) JIRA
11 4 (1.95%) Xcode
12 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.46%) Maven
12 3 (1.46%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.46%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.98%) Appium
13 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.98%) Crashlytics
13 2 (0.98%) Mockito
General
1 31 (15.12%) Public Sector
2 29 (14.15%) Finance
3 22 (10.73%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.27%) Banking
5 10 (4.88%) Front Office
6 5 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.44%) Retail
7 4 (1.95%) Police
8 2 (0.98%) Automotive
8 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (57.56%) Developer
2 48 (23.41%) Senior
3 41 (20.00%) Android Developer
4 29 (14.15%) Java Developer
4 29 (14.15%) Senior Developer
5 25 (12.20%) Mobile Developer
5 25 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 22 (10.73%) Backend Developer
7 16 (7.80%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.32%) Android Engineer
9 14 (6.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (6.83%) Lead
10 13 (6.34%) Architect
11 10 (4.88%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Senior Backend Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Java Mobile Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Lead Mobile Developer
14 7 (3.41%) Front Office Developer
14 7 (3.41%) Senior Android Developer
14 7 (3.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (25.37%) Spring
2 49 (23.90%) Spring Boot
3 37 (18.05%) Android Jetpack
4 36 (17.56%) Jetpack Compose
5 26 (12.68%) REST
6 24 (11.71%) Android SDK
7 16 (7.80%) RESTful
8 13 (6.34%) OAuth
8 13 (6.34%) OAuth2
9 12 (5.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 12 (5.85%) RxJava
10 11 (5.37%) Flutter
11 10 (4.88%) Dagger
11 10 (4.88%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.88%) OkHttp
12 9 (4.39%) Node.js
13 6 (2.93%) RAML
14 5 (2.44%) JSON
14 5 (2.44%) WireMock
14 5 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.85%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.37%) Algorithms
3 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.39%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.93%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.46%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.98%) Contactless
9 2 (0.98%) EMV
9 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 84 (40.98%) Android
2 35 (17.07%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.93%) Linux
4 5 (2.44%) Windows
5 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.80%) CI/CD
2 50 (24.39%) Android Development
3 42 (20.49%) Microservices
4 39 (19.02%) Software Engineering
5 35 (17.07%) Agile
6 32 (15.61%) MVVM
6 32 (15.61%) Test Automation
7 29 (14.15%) User Experience
8 27 (13.17%) Mentoring
9 26 (12.68%) API Design
9 26 (12.68%) TDD
10 22 (10.73%) Event-Driven
10 22 (10.73%) Mobile Development
10 22 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (9.27%) Open Source
13 18 (8.78%) DevOps
13 18 (8.78%) Observability
13 18 (8.78%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 145 (70.73%) Java
2 30 (14.63%) Swift
3 15 (7.32%) TypeScript
4 14 (6.83%) Python
5 8 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.41%) Objective-C
7 4 (1.95%) Go
8 3 (1.46%) SQL
9 2 (0.98%) Dart
9 2 (0.98%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) BrightScript
10 1 (0.49%) C#
10 1 (0.49%) Cypher
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.83%) Degree
4 10 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) SANS
8 1 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.22%) QA
2 12 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.98%) NCSC
5 2 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (6.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.73%) Grafana
3 10 (4.88%) Terraform
4 2 (0.98%) Podman
5 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (14.63%) Google
2 8 (3.90%) Splunk
3 7 (3.41%) Zscaler
4 4 (1.95%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.46%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) Brightcove
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.49%) New Relic
6 1 (0.49%) Okta
6 1 (0.49%) Roku
6 1 (0.49%) Tealium