Hybrid/Remote Kotlin Contract Job Trends

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Kotlin skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 208 302
Rank change year-on-year -80 +94 +13
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 30 111 90
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.91% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 2.58% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 62 78
10th Percentile £363 £400 £445
25th Percentile £450 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -18.37% +2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £663
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £35.70 £72.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £36.75 £73.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £41.16 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -46.90% -3.13%
75th Percentile £58.75 £41.75 £80.63
90th Percentile - £44.60 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.08 £77.50
% change year-on-year +43.47% -48.29% +6.16%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Kotlin falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,567 4,295 5,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.03% 35.40% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,852 4,196
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £787 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 60 147
10th Percentile £35.48 £21.25 £34.70
25th Percentile £52.94 £26.50 £51.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -4.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67.06 £66.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kotlin and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Kotlin job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Kotlin daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Google Play
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.33%) Apigee
3 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Firebase
3 1 (3.33%) Flurry Analytics
3 1 (3.33%) PubNub
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Mixpanel
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) Android Studio
2 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (10.00%) Gradle
4 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.67%) GitLab
6 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.33%) JUnit
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) Selenium
6 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (86.67%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) Android Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) C++ Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.33%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Senior QA Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Android Jetpack
2 8 (26.67%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (16.67%) RESTful
4 4 (13.33%) Android SDK
4 4 (13.33%) React
5 3 (10.00%) Spring
5 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.67%) OAuth
6 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.33%) CSS
7 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.33%) HTML
7 1 (3.33%) iOS SDK
7 1 (3.33%) Jest
7 1 (3.33%) Node.js
7 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.33%) Quarkus
7 1 (3.33%) React Native
7 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Infotainment
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Music Streaming
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Android
2 4 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Android Development
2 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
4 7 (23.33%) MVVM
4 7 (23.33%) Scrum
5 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
6 5 (16.67%) Mobile Development
6 5 (16.67%) User Experience
7 4 (13.33%) BDD
7 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 4 (13.33%) SDLC
7 4 (13.33%) TDD
7 4 (13.33%) UX Design
8 3 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) C++
4 3 (10.00%) Swift
5 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) Objective-C
5 2 (6.67%) Scala
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
6 1 (3.33%) Ruby
6 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks