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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 348 198
Rank change year-on-year -80 -150 +91
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 568 1,016 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.98% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 2.27% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 468 748 1,249
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.91%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
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 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 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 4 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 -97 497 £83,577 +1.30% 126
London -67 313 £90,000 - 84
Work from Home -62 256 £80,000 -5.88% 72
UK excluding London -18 230 £62,500 -16.67% 50
South East +11 56 £45,000 -40.00% 11
North of England -6 42 £57,500 -30.30% 11
Scotland -35 39 £78,750 +12.50% 7
South West -17 35 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East of England +26 31 £85,000 +54.55% 7
North West -8 28 £57,500 -30.30% 4
Yorkshire +69 14 £36,250 -57.35% 4
Midlands +13 13 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Northern Ireland +34 9 £100,000 +11.11%
West Midlands +12 9 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Wales +11 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 23 (4.05%) Apache
2 19 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.23%) nginx
4 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
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 (2.11%) Simulink
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 291 (51.23%) AWS
2 103 (18.13%) Azure
3 56 (9.86%) GCP
4 37 (6.51%) Google Play
5 23 (4.05%) SaaS
6 16 (2.82%) Firebase
7 11 (1.94%) Serverless
8 9 (1.58%) npm
9 7 (1.23%) Yarn
10 5 (0.88%) AWS IoT
10 5 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.53%) GitHub
11 3 (0.53%) IaaS
12 2 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.35%) CloudFront
12 2 (0.35%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.35%) PaaS
12 2 (0.35%) SonarCloud
13 1 (0.18%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.23%) AMQP
2 6 (1.06%) Internet
3 5 (0.88%) Wireless
4 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (8.10%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.99%) MySQL
4 20 (3.52%) Redis
5 15 (2.64%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.23%) Apache Hive
10 7 (1.23%) Presto
11 5 (0.88%) Big Data
11 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.35%) Bigtable
12 2 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.35%) DB2
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 63 (11.09%) Git
2 45 (7.92%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.40%) JIRA
4 23 (4.05%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.64%) Maven
6 13 (2.29%) Appium
6 13 (2.29%) Vagrant
7 11 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.94%) JUnit
7 11 (1.94%) Selenium
8 9 (1.58%) Xcode
9 7 (1.23%) Mocha
9 7 (1.23%) Subversion
10 6 (1.06%) Crashlytics
10 6 (1.06%) Mockito
11 5 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.88%) GitLab
12 4 (0.70%) fastlane
12 4 (0.70%) Gradle
12 4 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (22.54%) Finance
2 67 (11.80%) Banking
3 49 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (8.10%) Law
4 46 (8.10%) Social Skills
5 39 (6.87%) Investment Banking
6 22 (3.87%) Front Office
7 19 (3.35%) Legal
8 14 (2.46%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.76%) Back Office
9 10 (1.76%) Billing
9 10 (1.76%) Turkish Language
10 9 (1.58%) Marketing
11 7 (1.23%) Aviation
11 7 (1.23%) Electronics
12 6 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 257 (45.25%) Developer
2 213 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 110 (19.37%) Senior
4 74 (13.03%) Lead
5 61 (10.74%) Java Developer
5 61 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 58 (10.21%) Android Developer
7 50 (8.80%) Java Engineer
8 40 (7.04%) Android Engineer
8 40 (7.04%) Senior Android Developer
9 35 (6.16%) Software Developer
10 34 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.75%) Android Software Engineer
12 27 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (4.58%) Mobile Developer
14 25 (4.40%) Full Stack Engineer
15 24 (4.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 24 (4.23%) Lead Developer
16 23 (4.05%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (13.73%) React
2 66 (11.62%) Android Jetpack
3 56 (9.86%) Kafka
4 49 (8.63%) Spring
5 44 (7.75%) Jetpack Compose
6 38 (6.69%) REST
7 35 (6.16%) Node.js
8 34 (5.99%) Spring Boot
9 32 (5.63%) GraphQL
10 31 (5.46%) RESTful
11 30 (5.28%) Middleware
12 27 (4.75%) Redux
13 26 (4.58%) CSS
14 22 (3.87%) gRPC
14 22 (3.87%) HTML
14 22 (3.87%) React Native
15 18 (3.17%) Android SDK
15 18 (3.17%) Material-UI
16 16 (2.82%) .NET
16 16 (2.82%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.39%) Mobile App
2 36 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (5.28%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.35%) Client/Server
7 18 (3.17%) Fixed Income
8 16 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.11%) Animation
12 11 (1.94%) IoT
13 10 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.76%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.23%) Video Editing
16 6 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 6 (1.06%) PropTech
17 5 (0.88%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 161 (28.35%) Android
2 60 (10.56%) Apple iOS
3 42 (7.39%) Linux
4 13 (2.29%) CentOS
4 13 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.29%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (48.94%) Software Engineering
2 262 (46.13%) Agile
3 165 (29.05%) Fintech
4 123 (21.65%) CI/CD
5 83 (14.61%) SDLC
6 76 (13.38%) Microservices
6 76 (13.38%) TDD
7 71 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 71 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 67 (11.80%) Android Development
9 65 (11.44%) MVVM
10 62 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (10.74%) DevOps
11 61 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (10.56%) Computer Science
13 58 (10.21%) Test Automation
14 54 (9.51%) Artificial Intelligence
15 48 (8.45%) Full Stack Development
15 48 (8.45%) User Experience
16 43 (7.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 367 (64.61%) Java
2 101 (17.78%) Python
3 94 (16.55%) JavaScript
4 70 (12.32%) Scala
5 63 (11.09%) SQL
6 62 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 46 (8.10%) Swift
8 44 (7.75%) Go
9 22 (3.87%) C++
10 19 (3.35%) C#
11 14 (2.46%) PHP
12 12 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.41%) Ruby
13 8 (1.41%) Rust
14 6 (1.06%) C
15 5 (0.88%) Dart
16 4 (0.70%) Clojure
16 4 (0.70%) Groovy
16 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 69 (12.15%) Degree
2 39 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.80%) QA
2 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (9.68%) Docker
2 10 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 115 (20.25%) Terraform
2 65 (11.44%) Ansible
3 60 (10.56%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.23%) Grafana
4 7 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
5 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (10.74%) Google
2 31 (5.46%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.11%) Xilinx
4 11 (1.94%) Databricks
5 6 (1.06%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.88%) 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 (0.18%) BEA
9 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.18%) Spotify