Kotlin Jobs in the UK excluding London

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kotlin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kotlin over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 529 530
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -178
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 68 241 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 1.07% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 46 186 190
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,563 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £146,300 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -3.03% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,621 22,464 23,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.64% 31.41% 40.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,068 16,334 13,300
10th Percentile £33,425 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,938 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kotlin in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
South East +46 24 £53,750 +19.44% 73
Scotland +88 17 £106,466 +39.63% 5
North of England +16 13 £52,500 -8.70% 69
South West +86 11 £45,000 -30.77% 8
Yorkshire +59 7 £46,250 +27.59% 15
North West -24 5 £67,500 +17.39% 49
Midlands +53 3 £55,000 -12.00% 6
West Midlands +41 3 £55,000 -18.52% 3
North East - 1 - - 5
Kotlin
UK

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.82%) AWS
2 2 (2.94%) Azure
2 2 (2.94%) Firebase
2 2 (2.94%) GitHub
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (1.47%) Bitrise
3 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.47%) GCP
3 1 (1.47%) Serverless
3 1 (1.47%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Internet
2 7 (10.29%) SSL
3 4 (5.88%) HTTP
3 4 (5.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (1.47%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.76%) Maven
4 3 (4.41%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.94%) JIRA
6 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) JUnit
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 24 (35.29%) Banking
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Legal
4 5 (7.35%) Law
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
5 2 (2.94%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
6 1 (1.47%) French Language
6 1 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 11 (16.18%) Lead
3 10 (14.71%) Android Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Graduate
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Android Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Development Manager
7 6 (8.82%) Mobile Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Mobile Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Applications Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Gen AI Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Mobile Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
1 17 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 14 (20.59%) RESTful
3 9 (13.24%) SwiftUI
4 8 (11.76%) UIKit
5 7 (10.29%) OAuth
5 7 (10.29%) React
6 6 (8.82%) Flutter
7 5 (7.35%) Android SDK
8 3 (4.41%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.41%) React Native
9 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.94%) Node.js
10 1 (1.47%) Express.js
10 1 (1.47%) iOS SDK
10 1 (1.47%) JSON
10 1 (1.47%) Kafka
10 1 (1.47%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (1.47%) REST
10 1 (1.47%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (63.24%) Mobile App
2 19 (27.94%) Product Ownership
3 15 (22.06%) Virtual Team
4 9 (13.24%) Hackathon
4 9 (13.24%) Learning Management System
4 9 (13.24%) Online Banking
5 8 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 42 (61.76%) Android
2 21 (30.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) Android Development
2 21 (30.88%) Agile
2 21 (30.88%) Computer Science
2 21 (30.88%) DevOps
2 21 (30.88%) Software Engineering
3 20 (29.41%) User Experience
4 18 (26.47%) Containerisation
4 18 (26.47%) Mobile Development
5 17 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (19.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.65%) Microservices
8 12 (17.65%) Mobile Application Development
8 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 11 (16.18%) iOS Development
9 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
10 10 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (14.71%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 42 (61.76%) Java
2 25 (36.76%) JavaScript
3 17 (25.00%) Swift
4 14 (20.59%) Python
5 10 (14.71%) TypeScript
6 9 (13.24%) C#
6 9 (13.24%) C++
7 7 (10.29%) C
7 7 (10.29%) Objective-C
8 5 (7.35%) Go
9 2 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (44.12%) Degree
2 16 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (20.59%) Master's Degree
4 9 (13.24%) PhD
5 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) IEC 62304
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (13.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Google
2 9 (13.24%) IBM
2 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.47%) Intel