Kotlin Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 415 512
Rank change year-on-year -53 +97 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 113 77 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 0.96% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 71 51 168
10th Percentile - £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -26.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,875 £91,934
90th Percentile £85,000 £146,300 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £83,577
% change year-on-year +11.11% -19.24% +1.30%

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 9,456 8,011 21,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.95% 30.12% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 5,815 16,455
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kotlin
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 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
North of England -19 55 £72,500 +56.76% 11
Yorkshire -28 40 £72,500 +61.11% 7
South East -37 24 £60,000 +41.18% 8
North West -18 15 £65,000 +13.04% 3
South West -47 14 £81,250 +80.56% 3
Scotland -28 10 £65,000 -18.88% 6
Midlands -29 10 - - 1
East Midlands - 10 - - 1
Kotlin
UK

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.65%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 50 (44.25%) AWS
2 35 (30.97%) Serverless
3 28 (24.78%) GitHub
4 25 (22.12%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (22.12%) Amazon S3
4 25 (22.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 25 (22.12%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (19.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (19.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 20 (17.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 19 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (11.50%) Firebase
9 10 (8.85%) Stripe
9 10 (8.85%) TestFlight
10 8 (7.08%) Datadog
11 5 (4.42%) Azure
12 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (2.65%) Apigee
12 3 (2.65%) GCP
13 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.12%) DynamoDB
2 22 (19.47%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (16.81%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Git
2 13 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.73%) Crashlytics
4 10 (8.85%) XCTest
5 3 (2.65%) Android Studio
5 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.65%) GitLab
5 3 (2.65%) Gradle
5 3 (2.65%) Maven
5 3 (2.65%) Selenium
5 3 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.77%) JUnit
6 2 (1.77%) Mockito
6 2 (1.77%) Xcode
7 1 (0.88%) fastlane
7 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.27%) Games
3 14 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.54%) Retail
5 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.65%) Finance
6 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 68 (60.18%) Developer
2 35 (30.97%) Senior
3 26 (23.01%) Java Developer
4 22 (19.47%) iOS Developer
5 21 (18.58%) Software Engineer
6 18 (15.93%) Senior Developer
7 16 (14.16%) Android Developer
8 11 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (8.85%) Android Engineer
9 10 (8.85%) AWS Developer
9 10 (8.85%) Mobile Engineer
10 9 (7.96%) Senior Android Developer
10 9 (7.96%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (7.08%) Applications Developer
11 8 (7.08%) Applications Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Applications Engineer
13 5 (4.42%) Android Software Engineer
13 5 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.42%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.09%) SwiftUI
2 26 (23.01%) Node.js
3 22 (19.47%) RESTful
4 20 (17.70%) AngularJS
5 15 (13.27%) GraphQL
6 14 (12.39%) Android SDK
6 14 (12.39%) Spring Boot
7 11 (9.73%) Spring
8 10 (8.85%) UIKit
9 6 (5.31%) OAuth
9 6 (5.31%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.42%) Jest
10 5 (4.42%) React
10 5 (4.42%) React Native
11 4 (3.54%) REST
12 3 (2.65%) Drools
12 3 (2.65%) Gherkin
12 3 (2.65%) XML
13 2 (1.77%) .NET
13 2 (1.77%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 59 (52.21%) Mobile App
2 13 (11.50%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (11.50%) Social Media
3 10 (8.85%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.77%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.77%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 59 (52.21%) Android
2 33 (29.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.67%) CI/CD
2 43 (38.05%) Android Development
3 33 (29.20%) iOS Development
4 32 (28.32%) SOLID
5 27 (23.89%) Software Engineering
6 26 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (21.24%) Agile
7 24 (21.24%) DevOps
8 22 (19.47%) Mobile Development
8 22 (19.47%) Performance Optimisation
9 21 (18.58%) DevSecOps
10 20 (17.70%) Design Patterns
10 20 (17.70%) Test Automation
11 19 (16.81%) Memory Management
11 19 (16.81%) Multithreading
12 17 (15.04%) Software Architecture
13 14 (12.39%) AI
13 14 (12.39%) Clean Code
13 14 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (12.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.67%) Java
2 35 (30.97%) Swift
3 22 (19.47%) SQL
4 19 (16.81%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.19%) Python
7 5 (4.42%) Bash
8 3 (2.65%) Groovy
9 2 (1.77%) Elixir
9 2 (1.77%) Erlang
10 1 (0.88%) C
10 1 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.88%) QA
1 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.42%) Terraform
3 3 (2.65%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.77%) Ansible
4 2 (1.77%) Grafana
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Amplitude
1 10 (8.85%) Braze
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.77%) VMware
4 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.88%) Google