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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 331 182
Rank change year-on-year -89 -149 +111
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 601 988 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 1.01% 2.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 2.36% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 471 740 1,199
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
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 £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 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 28 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 -95 529 £80,000 -5.88% 144
London -53 335 £90,000 - 110
Work from Home -78 256 £80,000 -5.88% 90
UK excluding London -3 243 £60,000 -14.29% 43
South East +17 75 £45,000 -40.00% 11
North of England +25 42 £55,000 -33.33% 10
Scotland -23 41 £76,250 +8.93% 7
South West -29 32 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North West -7 27 £58,750 -28.79% 4
East of England -8 26 £85,000 +54.55% 10
Yorkshire +70 15 £36,250 -57.35% 4
Midlands -5 14 £62,500 +6.38% 2
West Midlands +9 10 £67,500 +8.00% 2
Northern Ireland +27 8 £100,000 +11.11% 2
Wales -6 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 31 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.99%) Apache
3 11 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.16%) nginx
5 4 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 2 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) Liferay
7 2 (0.33%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.00%) Simulink
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 313 (52.08%) AWS
2 112 (18.64%) Azure
3 75 (12.48%) GCP
4 37 (6.16%) Google Play
5 23 (3.83%) SaaS
6 16 (2.66%) Firebase
7 14 (2.33%) GitHub
8 12 (2.00%) Serverless
9 9 (1.50%) npm
10 7 (1.16%) Yarn
11 6 (1.00%) 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 (1.16%) AMQP
2 5 (0.83%) Wireless
3 4 (0.67%) Internet
4 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (17.80%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.15%) NoSQL
3 29 (4.83%) MySQL
4 19 (3.16%) Redis
5 13 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.83%) Apache Hive
7 11 (1.83%) Presto
8 10 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.67%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.67%) Bigtable
10 4 (0.67%) Flink
11 3 (0.50%) Big Data
11 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.33%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.33%) DB2
12 2 (0.33%) DTS
Development Applications
1 71 (11.81%) Git
2 46 (7.65%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.16%) JIRA
4 24 (3.99%) Bitbucket
5 19 (3.16%) Vagrant
6 14 (2.33%) GitLab
6 14 (2.33%) Maven
7 13 (2.16%) Appium
7 13 (2.16%) Selenium
8 11 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.83%) JUnit
9 10 (1.66%) Xcode
10 7 (1.16%) Mocha
10 7 (1.16%) Subversion
11 6 (1.00%) Crashlytics
11 6 (1.00%) Gradle
11 6 (1.00%) Mockito
12 5 (0.83%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.67%) fastlane
13 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (21.30%) Finance
2 66 (10.98%) Banking
3 56 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (8.82%) Law
5 42 (6.99%) Social Skills
6 38 (6.32%) Investment Banking
7 26 (4.33%) Legal
8 15 (2.50%) Front Office
8 15 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 13 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.00%) Electronics
10 12 (2.00%) Turkish Language
11 10 (1.66%) Back Office
11 10 (1.66%) Billing
12 9 (1.50%) Marketing
13 8 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Aviation
14 6 (1.00%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.00%) Mandarin Language
15 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 249 (41.43%) Developer
2 247 (41.10%) Software Engineer
3 121 (20.13%) Senior
4 83 (13.81%) Lead
5 61 (10.15%) Senior Developer
6 60 (9.98%) Java Developer
7 59 (9.82%) Android Developer
8 49 (8.15%) Java Engineer
9 47 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 41 (6.82%) Android Engineer
10 41 (6.82%) Senior Android Developer
11 37 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
12 33 (5.49%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.49%) Android Software Engineer
14 25 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
14 25 (4.16%) Mobile Developer
15 24 (3.99%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.99%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (3.83%) Architect
17 21 (3.49%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.31%) React
2 67 (11.15%) Android Jetpack
3 61 (10.15%) Kafka
4 48 (7.99%) REST
5 47 (7.82%) Spring
6 46 (7.65%) Middleware
7 44 (7.32%) Jetpack Compose
8 35 (5.82%) Spring Boot
9 34 (5.66%) GraphQL
10 33 (5.49%) RESTful
11 30 (4.99%) Node.js
12 28 (4.66%) CSS
13 24 (3.99%) HTML
14 23 (3.83%) React Native
15 21 (3.49%) Web Services
16 20 (3.33%) Redux
17 19 (3.16%) Android SDK
17 19 (3.16%) Lambda Expressions
18 18 (3.00%) .NET
18 18 (3.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.82%) Mobile App
2 38 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (4.99%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (3.49%) Cloud Native
8 19 (3.16%) Client/Server
9 15 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.16%) Animation
11 12 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.00%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.83%) IoT
12 11 (1.83%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.16%) Video Editing
16 6 (1.00%) PropTech
17 5 (0.83%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 167 (27.79%) Android
2 60 (9.98%) Apple iOS
3 58 (9.65%) Linux
4 19 (3.16%) CentOS
4 19 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (3.16%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (53.41%) Software Engineering
2 292 (48.59%) Agile
3 167 (27.79%) Fintech
4 148 (24.63%) CI/CD
5 92 (15.31%) Microservices
6 86 (14.31%) SDLC
7 84 (13.98%) Machine Learning
8 78 (12.98%) TDD
9 77 (12.81%) Test Automation
10 72 (11.98%) Mentoring
11 70 (11.65%) Android Development
11 70 (11.65%) Computer Science
12 68 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (10.82%) MVVM
14 63 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
14 63 (10.48%) Scrum
15 62 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (10.15%) DevOps
17 49 (8.15%) Full Stack Development
17 49 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 411 (68.39%) Java
2 113 (18.80%) Python
3 93 (15.47%) JavaScript
4 89 (14.81%) Scala
5 82 (13.64%) SQL
6 60 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 45 (7.49%) Swift
8 44 (7.32%) Go
9 27 (4.49%) C++
10 17 (2.83%) C#
11 13 (2.16%) PHP
12 12 (2.00%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.33%) Clojure
14 7 (1.16%) C
15 6 (1.00%) Rust
16 5 (0.83%) Ruby
17 4 (0.67%) Bash
18 3 (0.50%) Dart
18 3 (0.50%) Groovy
18 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 75 (12.48%) Degree
2 48 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.82%) Security Cleared
4 34 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.98%) QA
2 10 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (9.48%) Docker
2 18 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 140 (23.29%) Terraform
2 75 (12.48%) Ansible
3 62 (10.32%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.33%) Grafana
4 8 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (12.31%) Google
2 43 (7.15%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.00%) Xilinx
4 15 (2.50%) Databricks
5 6 (1.00%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.83%) 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