JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Kotlin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kotlin over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 338 184
Rank change year-on-year -79 -154 +108
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 598 989 3,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 1.00% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 2.32% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 477 737 1,215
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kotlin.

Salary trend for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -79 526 £82,500 -2.94% 192
London -60 332 £90,000 - 151
Work from Home -75 261 £80,000 -5.88% 110
UK excluding London +20 242 £60,000 -14.29% 99
South East +21 71 £45,000 -40.00% 66
North of England +16 42 £57,500 -30.30% 10
Scotland -24 41 £76,250 +8.93% 7
South West -14 33 £65,000 +13.04% 1
East of England +6 28 £85,000 +54.55% 13
North West -11 28 £57,500 -30.30% 4
Yorkshire +70 14 £36,250 -57.35% 4
Midlands -8 14 £62,500 +13.64% 2
West Midlands +8 10 £67,500 +14.89% 1
Northern Ireland +34 8 £100,000 +11.11%
Wales +1 5 £70,000 +154.55%

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 30 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 28 (4.68%) Apache
3 11 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.17%) nginx
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 2 (0.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.33%) Liferay
6 2 (0.33%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (2.68%) Simulink
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 310 (51.84%) AWS
2 115 (19.23%) Azure
3 72 (12.04%) GCP
4 37 (6.19%) Google Play
5 23 (3.85%) SaaS
6 16 (2.68%) Firebase
7 12 (2.01%) Serverless
8 11 (1.84%) GitHub
9 9 (1.51%) npm
10 7 (1.17%) Yarn
11 5 (0.84%) AWS IoT
12 4 (0.67%) SonarCloud
13 3 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.50%) IaaS
14 2 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.33%) CloudFront
14 2 (0.33%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.33%) PaaS
15 1 (0.17%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.17%) AMQP
2 5 (0.84%) Wireless
3 4 (0.67%) Internet
4 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (17.73%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (9.87%) NoSQL
3 31 (5.18%) MySQL
4 19 (3.18%) Redis
5 13 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.84%) Apache Hive
7 11 (1.84%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.84%) Presto
8 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.50%) Big Data
9 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.50%) Bigtable
9 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.50%) Flink
10 2 (0.33%) DTS
10 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (11.54%) Git
2 46 (7.69%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.18%) JIRA
4 24 (4.01%) Bitbucket
5 17 (2.84%) Vagrant
6 14 (2.34%) Maven
7 13 (2.17%) Appium
7 13 (2.17%) Selenium
8 11 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.84%) GitLab
8 11 (1.84%) JUnit
9 9 (1.51%) Xcode
10 7 (1.17%) Mocha
10 7 (1.17%) Subversion
11 6 (1.00%) Crashlytics
11 6 (1.00%) Gradle
11 6 (1.00%) Mockito
12 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.67%) fastlane
13 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (21.40%) Finance
2 68 (11.37%) Banking
3 53 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (8.36%) Law
5 42 (7.02%) Social Skills
6 39 (6.52%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.85%) Legal
8 17 (2.84%) Front Office
9 15 (2.51%) Tech for Good
10 14 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.01%) Turkish Language
12 11 (1.84%) Back Office
12 11 (1.84%) Billing
12 11 (1.84%) Electronics
13 9 (1.51%) Marketing
14 8 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
15 6 (1.00%) Aviation
15 6 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
17 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 252 (42.14%) Developer
2 240 (40.13%) Software Engineer
3 120 (20.07%) Senior
4 82 (13.71%) Lead
5 62 (10.37%) Senior Developer
6 59 (9.87%) Android Developer
6 59 (9.87%) Java Developer
7 50 (8.36%) Java Engineer
8 43 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (6.86%) Android Engineer
9 41 (6.86%) Senior Android Developer
10 36 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
11 35 (5.85%) Software Developer
12 27 (4.52%) Android Software Engineer
13 25 (4.18%) Mobile Developer
13 25 (4.18%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.01%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.68%) Full Stack Engineer
15 22 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.51%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.88%) React
2 67 (11.20%) Android Jetpack
3 62 (10.37%) Kafka
4 49 (8.19%) Spring
5 45 (7.53%) REST
6 44 (7.36%) Jetpack Compose
7 43 (7.19%) Middleware
8 37 (6.19%) Spring Boot
9 33 (5.52%) GraphQL
10 32 (5.35%) Node.js
10 32 (5.35%) RESTful
11 28 (4.68%) CSS
12 24 (4.01%) HTML
13 23 (3.85%) React Native
14 22 (3.68%) Redux
15 20 (3.34%) gRPC
16 19 (3.18%) Android SDK
17 18 (3.01%) .NET
17 18 (3.01%) JSON
17 18 (3.01%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.87%) Mobile App
2 39 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (5.02%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.18%) Client/Server
5 19 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.34%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.01%) Animation
8 12 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.84%) IoT
9 11 (1.84%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.17%) Video Editing
12 6 (1.00%) PropTech
13 5 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 166 (27.76%) Android
2 60 (10.03%) Apple iOS
3 54 (9.03%) Linux
4 17 (2.84%) CentOS
4 17 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.84%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (52.17%) Software Engineering
2 288 (48.16%) Agile
3 166 (27.76%) Fintech
4 142 (23.75%) CI/CD
5 89 (14.88%) Microservices
6 86 (14.38%) SDLC
7 81 (13.55%) Machine Learning
8 78 (13.04%) TDD
9 72 (12.04%) Mentoring
9 72 (12.04%) Test Automation
10 70 (11.71%) Android Development
11 67 (11.20%) Computer Science
12 65 (10.87%) MVVM
13 64 (10.70%) DevOps
13 64 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (10.03%) Artificial Intelligence
15 60 (10.03%) Scrum
16 49 (8.19%) Full Stack Development
17 45 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 405 (67.73%) Java
2 111 (18.56%) Python
3 95 (15.89%) JavaScript
4 84 (14.05%) Scala
5 79 (13.21%) SQL
6 62 (10.37%) TypeScript
7 45 (7.53%) Go
7 45 (7.53%) Swift
8 25 (4.18%) C++
9 18 (3.01%) C#
10 14 (2.34%) PHP
11 13 (2.17%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.34%) Clojure
13 7 (1.17%) C
13 7 (1.17%) Rust
14 6 (1.00%) Ruby
15 4 (0.67%) Bash
15 4 (0.67%) Dart
15 4 (0.67%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 72 (12.04%) Degree
2 45 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (5.18%) Security Cleared
4 30 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.87%) QA
2 11 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (9.53%) Docker
2 17 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 132 (22.07%) Terraform
2 70 (11.71%) Ansible
3 64 (10.70%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.34%) Grafana
4 8 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.33%) Puppet
5 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (12.04%) Google
2 42 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.68%) Xilinx
4 15 (2.51%) Databricks
5 6 (1.00%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.84%) Apple
7 4 (0.67%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.33%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.33%) OpenText
8 2 (0.33%) Pega
8 2 (0.33%) QNX
8 2 (0.33%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) BEA
9 1 (0.17%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.17%) Spotify