Kotlin Job Trends in London

JetBrains Kotlin
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 322 235
Rank change year-on-year -6 -87 -69
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 75 62 319
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.49% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 1.21% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 50 45 274
10th Percentile £70,000 £25,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £114,688 £117,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £83,038
% change year-on-year +15.38% -21.72% -2.31%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,235 5,142 9,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.69% 40.74% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,697 3,810 7,600
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £128,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in London

Kotlin
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in London

Kotlin
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Central London -7 10 £95,000 +46.15% 10
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
4 6 (8.00%) Google Workspace
4 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.00%) Figma
5 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.00%) SaaS
5 3 (4.00%) Serverless
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.67%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.00%) Redis
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.67%) Couchbase
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.33%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 17 (22.67%) Banking
2 10 (13.33%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.33%) Health Technology
4 4 (5.33%) Tech for Good
5 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) Senior
2 21 (28.00%) Java Engineer
3 20 (26.67%) Android Engineer
4 18 (24.00%) Lead
4 18 (24.00%) Software Engineer
5 16 (21.33%) Developer
6 14 (18.67%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (14.67%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (13.33%) Senior Java Engineer
9 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (9.33%) Development Engineer
10 7 (9.33%) Software Development Engineer
11 6 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Android Developer
12 5 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Senior Android Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Senior Development Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Senior Java Consultant
12 5 (6.67%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.67%) Android Jetpack
1 20 (26.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 13 (17.33%) Spring
3 11 (14.67%) React
3 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
4 10 (13.33%) RESTful
5 8 (10.67%) Node.js
6 7 (9.33%) React Native
7 5 (6.67%) WebSockets
8 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.33%) Kafka
9 3 (4.00%) Android NDK
10 2 (2.67%) gRPC
10 2 (2.67%) Memcached
11 1 (1.33%) .NET
11 1 (1.33%) CSS
11 1 (1.33%) HTML
11 1 (1.33%) JSON
11 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (1.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Mobile App
1 14 (18.67%) Mobile Banking
2 6 (8.00%) PKI
3 5 (6.67%) Blog
4 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.33%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 32 (42.67%) Android
2 7 (9.33%) Apple iOS
3 6 (8.00%) Linux
3 6 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Agile
2 26 (34.67%) CI/CD
3 24 (32.00%) Android Development
4 20 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 19 (25.33%) TDD
6 15 (20.00%) Digital Banking
6 15 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 12 (16.00%) AI
8 11 (14.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (14.67%) Microservices
9 10 (13.33%) Design Patterns
9 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (13.33%) User Experience
10 9 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
11 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
11 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
12 7 (9.33%) Mobile Development
12 7 (9.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 52 (69.33%) Java
2 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (13.33%) Python
4 9 (12.00%) C++
5 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.33%) C#
7 6 (8.00%) Swift
8 4 (5.33%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (4.00%) SQL
10 2 (2.67%) Bash
10 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.67%) Scala
11 1 (1.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 10 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) KVM
2 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (13.33%) Terraform
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Google
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.33%) Intel
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle