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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 346 193
Rank change year-on-year -72 -153 +95
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 574 1,001 3,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.99% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 2.28% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 472 740 1,253
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £94,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +9.62% +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 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 8 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 8 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 -93 504 £83,038 -2.31% 138
London -59 319 £90,000 - 90
Work from Home -73 261 £80,000 -5.88% 84
UK excluding London -8 230 £60,000 -15.79% 59
South East +16 59 £45,000 -40.00% 10
North of England +6 42 £57,500 -30.30% 15
Scotland -27 39 £78,750 +12.50% 11
South West -21 35 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East of England +14 29 £85,000 +54.55% 9
North West -11 28 £57,500 -30.30% 4
Yorkshire +62 14 £36,250 -57.35% 8
Midlands +2 13 £62,500 +13.64% 3
West Midlands +10 9 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland +34 8 £100,000 +11.11%
Wales +6 5 £70,000 +154.55% 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 24 (4.18%) Apache
2 23 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.22%) nginx
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.35%) IIS
5 2 (0.35%) Liferay
5 2 (0.35%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (2.09%) Simulink
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 295 (51.39%) AWS
2 102 (17.77%) Azure
3 60 (10.45%) GCP
4 37 (6.45%) Google Play
5 23 (4.01%) SaaS
6 16 (2.79%) Firebase
7 11 (1.92%) Serverless
8 9 (1.57%) npm
9 7 (1.22%) Yarn
10 5 (0.87%) AWS IoT
10 5 (0.87%) GitHub
11 4 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.70%) SonarCloud
12 3 (0.52%) IaaS
13 2 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.35%) CloudFront
13 2 (0.35%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.35%) PaaS
14 1 (0.17%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.22%) AMQP
2 6 (1.05%) Internet
3 5 (0.87%) Wireless
4 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (18.29%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (8.54%) NoSQL
3 32 (5.57%) MySQL
4 19 (3.31%) Redis
5 14 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.09%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.22%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.22%) Presto
10 5 (0.87%) Big Data
10 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.52%) Bigtable
11 3 (0.52%) Flink
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 63 (10.98%) Git
2 45 (7.84%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.36%) JIRA
4 23 (4.01%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.61%) Maven
6 13 (2.26%) Appium
6 13 (2.26%) Vagrant
7 11 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.92%) JUnit
7 11 (1.92%) Selenium
8 9 (1.57%) Xcode
9 7 (1.22%) Mocha
9 7 (1.22%) Subversion
10 6 (1.05%) Crashlytics
10 6 (1.05%) Gradle
10 6 (1.05%) Mockito
11 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.87%) GitLab
12 4 (0.70%) fastlane
12 4 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 130 (22.65%) Finance
2 67 (11.67%) Banking
3 51 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (8.36%) Law
5 45 (7.84%) Social Skills
6 39 (6.79%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.66%) Front Office
7 21 (3.66%) Legal
8 14 (2.44%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.74%) Back Office
9 10 (1.74%) Billing
9 10 (1.74%) Turkish Language
10 9 (1.57%) Marketing
11 7 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.22%) Aviation
11 7 (1.22%) Electronics
12 6 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 255 (44.43%) Developer
2 220 (38.33%) Software Engineer
3 111 (19.34%) Senior
4 76 (13.24%) Lead
5 61 (10.63%) Senior Developer
6 58 (10.10%) Android Developer
7 57 (9.93%) Java Developer
8 51 (8.89%) Java Engineer
9 40 (6.97%) Android Engineer
9 40 (6.97%) Senior Android Developer
10 36 (6.27%) Software Developer
11 35 (6.10%) Java Software Engineer
11 35 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.70%) Android Software Engineer
12 27 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (4.53%) Full Stack Engineer
13 26 (4.53%) Mobile Developer
14 24 (4.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 24 (4.18%) Lead Developer
15 23 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (14.29%) React
2 66 (11.50%) Android Jetpack
3 59 (10.28%) Kafka
4 48 (8.36%) Spring
5 44 (7.67%) Jetpack Compose
6 38 (6.62%) REST
7 35 (6.10%) Node.js
8 34 (5.92%) Spring Boot
9 32 (5.57%) Middleware
10 31 (5.40%) GraphQL
10 31 (5.40%) RESTful
11 28 (4.88%) CSS
12 26 (4.53%) Redux
13 24 (4.18%) HTML
14 22 (3.83%) React Native
15 20 (3.48%) gRPC
16 18 (3.14%) Android SDK
16 18 (3.14%) AngularJS
16 18 (3.14%) JSON
16 18 (3.14%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.10%) Mobile App
2 36 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (5.23%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.31%) Client/Server
6 18 (3.14%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.96%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.09%) Animation
11 11 (1.92%) IoT
12 10 (1.74%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.22%) Video Editing
14 6 (1.05%) PropTech
15 5 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 160 (27.87%) Android
2 59 (10.28%) Apple iOS
3 45 (7.84%) Linux
4 13 (2.26%) CentOS
4 13 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 267 (46.52%) Agile
3 167 (29.09%) Fintech
4 124 (21.60%) CI/CD
5 85 (14.81%) SDLC
6 77 (13.41%) TDD
7 76 (13.24%) Microservices
8 72 (12.54%) Machine Learning
8 72 (12.54%) Mentoring
9 67 (11.67%) Android Development
10 65 (11.32%) MVVM
11 62 (10.80%) DevOps
12 61 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (10.45%) Test Automation
14 59 (10.28%) Computer Science
15 55 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
16 49 (8.54%) Full Stack Development
17 48 (8.36%) User Experience
18 45 (7.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 375 (65.33%) Java
2 105 (18.29%) Python
3 96 (16.72%) JavaScript
4 71 (12.37%) Scala
5 66 (11.50%) SQL
5 66 (11.50%) TypeScript
6 45 (7.84%) Swift
7 43 (7.49%) Go
8 23 (4.01%) C++
9 20 (3.48%) C#
10 14 (2.44%) PHP
11 12 (2.09%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.39%) Ruby
12 8 (1.39%) Rust
13 7 (1.22%) C
14 6 (1.05%) Clojure
15 5 (0.87%) Dart
16 4 (0.70%) Bash
16 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 68 (11.85%) Degree
2 38 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (3.83%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.06%) QA
2 10 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 54 (9.41%) Docker
2 10 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 117 (20.38%) Terraform
2 66 (11.50%) Ansible
3 62 (10.80%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.22%) Grafana
4 7 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
5 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (10.98%) Google
2 32 (5.57%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.09%) Xilinx
4 11 (1.92%) Databricks
5 6 (1.05%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.87%) Apple
7 4 (0.70%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.35%) OpenText
8 2 (0.35%) Pega
8 2 (0.35%) QNX
8 2 (0.35%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) BEA
9 1 (0.17%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.17%) Spotify