Kotlin Job Trends in England

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 460 395
Rank change year-on-year -9 -65 -58
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 185 169 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.43% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.23% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 127 123 426
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £108,418 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,000 £117,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £83,577
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.77% +1.30%

All Programming Languages
England

Kotlin falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,005 13,699 25,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.24% 34.81% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,774 9,443 21,752
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kotlin relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Kotlin job vacancy trend in England

Kotlin
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in England

Kotlin
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the England region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
London -5 89 £100,000 +17.65% 38
North of England -12 51 £71,250 +54.05% 11
Yorkshire -16 34 £72,500 +61.11% 6
South East -3 24 £60,000 +60.00% 14
North West +2 17 £65,000 +13.04% 4
South West -28 10 £73,750 +1.72% 3
Midlands -12 8 £75,000 +36.36% 1
East Midlands - 7 - -
West Midlands +2 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Kotlin
UK

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.08%) JBoss
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.62%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 70 (37.84%) AWS
2 25 (13.51%) Serverless
3 24 (12.97%) GitHub
4 21 (11.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (11.35%) Azure
5 18 (9.73%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (9.73%) Amazon S3
5 18 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.65%) SaaS
7 15 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 15 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.95%) Firebase
10 10 (5.41%) GCP
11 7 (3.78%) Stripe
11 7 (3.78%) TestFlight
12 5 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.70%) Datadog
13 4 (2.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.05%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.89%) DynamoDB
3 15 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.78%) Redis
6 5 (2.70%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.62%) MySQL
8 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.54%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 16 (8.65%) Git
2 11 (5.95%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.32%) Crashlytics
4 7 (3.78%) XCTest
5 5 (2.70%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.62%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.62%) GitLab
6 3 (1.62%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.08%) Maven
7 2 (1.08%) Selenium
7 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.08%) Xcode
8 1 (0.54%) Appium
8 1 (0.54%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.54%) JIRA
8 1 (0.54%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
8 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.59%) Finance
3 17 (9.19%) Banking
3 17 (9.19%) Games
3 17 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.41%) Retail
5 9 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.78%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.16%) Billing
8 4 (2.16%) Law
9 3 (1.62%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 78 (42.16%) Developer
2 56 (30.27%) Senior
3 33 (17.84%) Software Engineer
4 29 (15.68%) Android Engineer
5 23 (12.43%) Java Engineer
6 22 (11.89%) Senior Java Engineer
7 21 (11.35%) iOS Developer
8 20 (10.81%) Java Developer
9 18 (9.73%) Android Developer
9 18 (9.73%) Lead
10 17 (9.19%) Senior Developer
11 14 (7.57%) Development Engineer
12 12 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (6.49%) Software Development Engineer
13 10 (5.41%) Senior Android Developer
13 10 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (4.86%) Mobile Engineer
15 8 (4.32%) AWS Developer
15 8 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (4.32%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.30%) SwiftUI
2 30 (16.22%) RESTful
3 28 (15.14%) Spring
4 25 (13.51%) Android Jetpack
4 25 (13.51%) Jetpack Compose
4 25 (13.51%) Spring Boot
5 23 (12.43%) Node.js
6 18 (9.73%) AngularJS
6 18 (9.73%) React
7 15 (8.11%) GraphQL
8 14 (7.57%) Android SDK
9 8 (4.32%) Kafka
10 7 (3.78%) REST
10 7 (3.78%) UIKit
10 7 (3.78%) WebSockets
11 6 (3.24%) OAuth
11 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.70%) .NET
12 5 (2.70%) Memcached
13 4 (2.16%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (35.68%) Mobile App
2 13 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (7.03%) Social Media
3 12 (6.49%) Mobile Banking
4 10 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.78%) Blog
6 7 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.24%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.16%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.16%) Educational Technology
8 4 (2.16%) Insider Threat
8 4 (2.16%) Mobile Games
8 4 (2.16%) PKI
9 3 (1.62%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.62%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.08%) IoT
10 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 83 (44.86%) Android
2 40 (21.62%) Apple iOS
3 12 (6.49%) Linux
4 8 (4.32%) Windows
5 4 (2.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 65 (35.14%) Android Development
3 58 (31.35%) Agile
4 46 (24.86%) Software Engineering
5 40 (21.62%) AI
5 40 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (19.46%) Mentoring
7 34 (18.38%) SOLID
8 33 (17.84%) Design Patterns
9 30 (16.22%) iOS Development
9 30 (16.22%) Mobile Development
10 29 (15.68%) TDD
11 26 (14.05%) Test Automation
12 25 (13.51%) Memory Management
13 24 (12.97%) DevOps
13 24 (12.97%) Multithreading
13 24 (12.97%) Performance Optimisation
13 24 (12.97%) User Experience
14 21 (11.35%) Event-Driven
14 21 (11.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 114 (61.62%) Java
2 38 (20.54%) Swift
3 20 (10.81%) SQL
4 18 (9.73%) Python
5 17 (9.19%) Scala
6 16 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.95%) C++
9 10 (5.41%) Ruby
10 9 (4.86%) C#
11 5 (2.70%) Bash
12 4 (2.16%) PHP
13 3 (1.62%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (1.08%) C
14 2 (1.08%) Elixir
14 2 (1.08%) Erlang
14 2 (1.08%) Groovy
15 1 (0.54%) Go
15 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (13.51%) Degree
2 24 (12.97%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.19%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.49%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.16%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.16%) OSCE
9 4 (2.16%) OSCP
10 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) QA
2 5 (2.70%) GDPR
3 4 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.16%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (13.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.62%) KVM
2 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (12.97%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.03%) Terraform
3 5 (2.70%) Grafana
3 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.08%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (3.78%) Amplitude
2 5 (2.70%) Google
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.62%) VMware
4 1 (0.54%) Samsung
4 1 (0.54%) Splunk