Kotlin Contracts

JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 432 436
Rank change year-on-year +68 +4 -177
Contract jobs citing Kotlin 242 278 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.50% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.47% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 222 384
10th Percentile £350 £463 £456
25th Percentile £400 £513 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £680
90th Percentile £675 £750 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -18.60% - +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £48.10 - £48.37
25th Percentile £59.13 - £66.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.00 £73.60
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -52.44% +14.99%
75th Percentile £81.75 - £77.09
90th Percentile £82.20 - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +13.28%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,032 18,971 31,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 34.05% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,198 13,653 23,242
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 437 498
10th Percentile £31.95 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.00 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kotlin.

Daily rate trend for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kotlin.

Hourly rate trend for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 12 Contract 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 8 June 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
England +58 212 £475 -20.83% 118
London +29 150 £490 -18.33% 89
Work from Home +44 75 £475 -20.83% 79
UK excluding London +67 70 £438 -18.60% 35
North of England +49 39 £438 -31.37% 6
North West +36 25 £485 -22.40% 3
Scotland - 16 £400 - 5
Yorkshire +21 14 £300 -57.14% 3
South East +7 10 £425 -19.05% 7
South West +6 3 £600 +14.29% 2
Midlands +11 2 £450 -35.71% 1
West Midlands +5 2 £450 -35.71% 1

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.24%) nginx
3 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.41%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 46 (19.01%) AWS
2 35 (14.46%) GitHub
3 27 (11.16%) Azure
4 24 (9.92%) GCP
5 9 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (2.89%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.48%) Serverless
8 5 (2.07%) Firebase
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.65%) Datadog
9 4 (1.65%) Flurry Analytics
9 4 (1.65%) PubNub
10 3 (1.24%) npm
10 3 (1.24%) Yarn
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.83%) Sentry
12 1 (0.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) SSL
2 3 (1.24%) AMQP
3 2 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.37%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.89%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.48%) MySQL
3 6 (2.48%) SQLite
4 4 (1.65%) Mixpanel
4 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) Big Data
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Redis
5 1 (0.41%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 27 (11.16%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.92%) Android Studio
3 22 (9.09%) Gradle
3 22 (9.09%) Postman
4 18 (7.44%) Git
5 16 (6.61%) Cypress.io
6 15 (6.20%) JUnit
6 15 (6.20%) Selenium
7 11 (4.55%) Appium
8 8 (3.31%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.89%) Mockito
10 5 (2.07%) JIRA
10 5 (2.07%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.24%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.24%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (1.24%) Mocha
13 2 (0.83%) Charles Proxy
13 2 (0.83%) XCUITest
General
1 46 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.81%) Finance
3 20 (8.26%) Banking
4 15 (6.20%) Back Office
5 13 (5.37%) Front Office
6 9 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Electronics
9 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Military
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (59.50%) Developer
2 68 (28.10%) Android Developer
3 54 (22.31%) Senior
4 27 (11.16%) Java Developer
5 24 (9.92%) Senior Developer
6 21 (8.68%) Android Engineer
7 18 (7.44%) Full Stack Developer
8 16 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.79%) React Developer
10 13 (5.37%) Analyst
10 13 (5.37%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.37%) Test Analyst
11 12 (4.96%) Senior Android Developer
12 11 (4.55%) Backend Developer
12 11 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
13 10 (4.13%) Full Stack Engineer
14 7 (2.89%) Mobile Developer
14 7 (2.89%) Mobile Engineer
14 7 (2.89%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.05%) RESTful
2 33 (13.64%) REST
3 32 (13.22%) Node.js
3 32 (13.22%) React
4 27 (11.16%) Spring
5 25 (10.33%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (10.33%) Jetpack Compose
6 22 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.20%) Kafka
8 14 (5.79%) React Native
9 13 (5.37%) GraphQL
9 13 (5.37%) RxJava
10 11 (4.55%) CSS
10 11 (4.55%) Jest
11 10 (4.13%) Dagger
11 10 (4.13%) HTML
12 9 (3.72%) Android SDK
13 8 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (3.31%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.03%) Mobile App
2 17 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 14 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.37%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.96%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (4.13%) Legacy Code
8 7 (2.89%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.24%) Animation
10 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.83%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.83%) Mixed Reality
11 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.41%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 134 (55.37%) Android
2 22 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.83%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.40%) Agile
2 75 (30.99%) Android Development
3 50 (20.66%) CI/CD
4 46 (19.01%) Test Automation
5 44 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 43 (17.77%) Software Engineering
7 29 (11.98%) Full Stack Development
7 29 (11.98%) SDLC
8 27 (11.16%) MVVM
8 27 (11.16%) Unit Testing
9 26 (10.74%) Microservices
10 22 (9.09%) TDD
10 22 (9.09%) User Experience
11 21 (8.68%) Fintech
11 21 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (8.26%) Computer Science
12 20 (8.26%) DevOps
12 20 (8.26%) Mobile Development
13 16 (6.61%) Software Testing
14 15 (6.20%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 121 (50.00%) Java
2 36 (14.88%) JavaScript
2 36 (14.88%) TypeScript
3 25 (10.33%) Python
4 20 (8.26%) Scala
5 18 (7.44%) Swift
6 10 (4.13%) Go
6 10 (4.13%) Objective-C
7 9 (3.72%) C#
8 7 (2.89%) SQL
9 6 (2.48%) C
10 3 (1.24%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) GLSL
11 2 (0.83%) HLSL
11 2 (0.83%) PHP
12 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (8.68%) Degree
2 17 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.13%) QA
2 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (8.68%) Docker
2 7 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.79%) Terraform
3 11 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.31%) Zipkin
5 5 (2.07%) Ansible
5 5 (2.07%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (4.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.31%) Apple
3 5 (2.07%) Checkmarx
4 4 (1.65%) Nokia
5 2 (0.83%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.83%) New Relic
5 2 (0.83%) SAP
5 2 (0.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.41%) Ariba
6 1 (0.41%) Google
6 1 (0.41%) HP
6 1 (0.41%) IBM