Kotlin Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 250 312
Rank change year-on-year -3 +62 +6
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 57 85 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 1.86% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 111
10th Percentile £385 £390 £463
25th Percentile £443 £419 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £700
90th Percentile £713 £625 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £605
% change year-on-year -5.00% -17.36% +4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £40.59 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £40.62 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £41.33 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £42.12 -
90th Percentile - £42.20 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £41.33 -
% change year-on-year +39.13% - -

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 3,757 4,570 7,870
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.82% 34.71% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,610 3,303 5,779
10th Percentile £343 £338 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £674
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 86 181
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.50 £26.75
25th Percentile £48.99 £37.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £85.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

Kotlin
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kotlin trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kotlin
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kotlin.

Kotlin daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Kotlin daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kotlin.

Kotlin hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) AWS
2 7 (12.28%) GitHub
3 5 (8.77%) Firebase
3 5 (8.77%) GCP
4 4 (7.02%) Azure
5 3 (5.26%) CloudBees
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.51%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (3.51%) Google Play
7 1 (1.75%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Flurry Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) PubNub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Mixpanel
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.02%) JUnit
4 3 (5.26%) Android Studio
4 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.26%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 2 (3.51%) Mockito
6 1 (1.75%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.75%) fastlane
6 1 (1.75%) Gatling
6 1 (1.75%) GitLab
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
6 1 (1.75%) Postman
6 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.75%) Spock
6 1 (1.75%) XCUITest
General
1 10 (17.54%) Banking
1 10 (17.54%) Finance
2 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (52.63%) Developer
2 21 (36.84%) Android Developer
3 14 (24.56%) Senior
4 7 (12.28%) Senior Android Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Java Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Architect
6 5 (8.77%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Android Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (3.51%) React Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Android Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) Android Jetpack
1 12 (21.05%) Android SDK
1 12 (21.05%) Dagger
2 10 (17.54%) RESTful
3 9 (15.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (7.02%) React
4 4 (7.02%) React Native
5 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.26%) Spring
5 3 (5.26%) Web Services
6 2 (3.51%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.51%) Flutter
6 2 (3.51%) iOS SDK
6 2 (3.51%) JSON
6 2 (3.51%) Material Design
6 2 (3.51%) Retrofit
6 2 (3.51%) XML
7 1 (1.75%) Micronaut
7 1 (1.75%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.75%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.09%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.77%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Derivative
3 2 (3.51%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Equities
3 2 (3.51%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.88%) Android
2 3 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Agile
2 22 (38.60%) MVVM
3 21 (36.84%) Android Development
4 16 (28.07%) CI/CD
5 13 (22.81%) Architectural Patterns
5 13 (22.81%) User Experience
6 12 (21.05%) Code Quality
6 12 (21.05%) Design Patterns
7 11 (19.30%) Mobile Development
8 9 (15.79%) DevOps
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Architectural Design
9 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (14.04%) TDD
10 7 (12.28%) Dependency Injection
10 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.28%) Unit Testing
11 6 (10.53%) Mobile Application Development
11 6 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Java
2 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
3 6 (10.53%) Python
4 4 (7.02%) Scala
4 4 (7.02%) Swift
5 3 (5.26%) Go
5 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.51%) Groovy
6 2 (3.51%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.75%) Ada
7 1 (1.75%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.02%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) Grafana
3 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (3.51%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.75%) Pega