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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 345 204
Rank change year-on-year -84 -141 +84
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 550 1,030 3,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.98% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 2.26% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 458 755 1,263
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
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 £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -93 480 £85,000 +2.41% 131
London -72 303 £90,000 - 91
Work from Home -69 252 £80,000 -5.88% 65
UK excluding London -5 222 £65,000 -13.33% 42
South East +16 47 £45,000 -40.00% 13
North of England +6 43 £57,500 -30.30% 8
Scotland -35 38 £78,750 +12.50% 3
South West +2 36 £65,000 +10.64% 10
East of England +20 31 £85,000 +54.55% 4
North West -8 29 £57,500 -30.30% 2
Yorkshire +69 14 £36,250 -57.35% 4
Midlands +3 13 £62,500 +16.28% 3
Northern Ireland +39 9 £100,000 +11.11% 1
West Midlands +21 9 £75,000 +46.34% 2
Wales +11 5 £70,000 +154.55%

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 21 (3.82%) Apache
2 16 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.27%) nginx
4 3 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
5 2 (0.36%) Liferay
5 2 (0.36%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Simulink
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 286 (52.00%) AWS
2 100 (18.18%) Azure
3 54 (9.82%) GCP
4 36 (6.55%) Google Play
5 23 (4.18%) SaaS
6 16 (2.91%) Firebase
7 11 (2.00%) Serverless
8 9 (1.64%) npm
9 7 (1.27%) Yarn
10 5 (0.91%) AWS IoT
10 5 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.55%) GitHub
11 3 (0.55%) IaaS
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.36%) CloudFront
12 2 (0.36%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.36%) PaaS
12 2 (0.36%) SonarCloud
13 1 (0.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.27%) AMQP
2 6 (1.09%) Internet
3 5 (0.91%) Wireless
4 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (18.73%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.91%) NoSQL
3 34 (6.18%) MySQL
4 20 (3.64%) Redis
5 14 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (2.55%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.27%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.27%) Presto
10 6 (1.09%) Big Data
11 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.36%) DB2
12 2 (0.36%) DTS
12 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 60 (10.91%) Git
2 44 (8.00%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.55%) JIRA
4 23 (4.18%) Bitbucket
5 16 (2.91%) Maven
6 13 (2.36%) Appium
7 11 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.00%) JUnit
7 11 (2.00%) Selenium
8 10 (1.82%) Vagrant
9 9 (1.64%) Xcode
10 7 (1.27%) Mocha
10 7 (1.27%) Subversion
11 6 (1.09%) Crashlytics
11 6 (1.09%) Mockito
12 5 (0.91%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.91%) GitLab
13 4 (0.73%) fastlane
13 4 (0.73%) Gradle
13 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
General
1 123 (22.36%) Finance
2 66 (12.00%) Banking
3 46 (8.36%) Social Skills
4 42 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (7.09%) Law
6 38 (6.91%) Investment Banking
7 24 (4.36%) Front Office
8 14 (2.55%) Tech for Good
9 13 (2.36%) Legal
9 13 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.82%) Turkish Language
11 9 (1.64%) Back Office
11 9 (1.64%) Billing
11 9 (1.64%) Marketing
12 7 (1.27%) Aviation
12 7 (1.27%) Electronics
13 6 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (1.09%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
14 5 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 257 (46.73%) Developer
2 200 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 108 (19.64%) Senior
4 68 (12.36%) Lead
5 61 (11.09%) Java Developer
5 61 (11.09%) Senior Developer
6 58 (10.55%) Android Developer
7 47 (8.55%) Java Engineer
8 40 (7.27%) Senior Android Developer
9 39 (7.09%) Android Engineer
10 35 (6.36%) Software Developer
11 32 (5.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.91%) Full Stack Engineer
12 27 (4.91%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (4.73%) Android Software Engineer
13 26 (4.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 26 (4.73%) Mobile Developer
14 25 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
14 25 (4.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.36%) React
2 65 (11.82%) Android Jetpack
3 53 (9.64%) Kafka
4 49 (8.91%) Spring
5 43 (7.82%) Jetpack Compose
6 38 (6.91%) REST
7 37 (6.73%) Node.js
8 34 (6.18%) GraphQL
9 33 (6.00%) Spring Boot
10 32 (5.82%) RESTful
11 29 (5.27%) Redux
12 26 (4.73%) CSS
13 22 (4.00%) gRPC
13 22 (4.00%) HTML
13 22 (4.00%) Middleware
14 21 (3.82%) React Native
15 20 (3.64%) Material-UI
16 18 (3.27%) Android SDK
17 16 (2.91%) .NET
17 16 (2.91%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.55%) Mobile App
2 35 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (5.27%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.64%) Fixed Income
7 19 (3.45%) Client/Server
8 14 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.18%) Animation
10 12 (2.18%) Cloud Native
11 11 (2.00%) IoT
12 10 (1.82%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.27%) Video Editing
15 6 (1.09%) PropTech
16 5 (0.91%) 3D Graphics
16 5 (0.91%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 158 (28.73%) Android
2 60 (10.91%) Apple iOS
3 35 (6.36%) Linux
4 10 (1.82%) CentOS
4 10 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.82%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (48.00%) Software Engineering
2 252 (45.82%) Agile
3 160 (29.09%) Fintech
4 118 (21.45%) CI/CD
5 82 (14.91%) SDLC
6 75 (13.64%) TDD
7 72 (13.09%) Microservices
8 71 (12.91%) Mentoring
9 67 (12.18%) Android Development
10 66 (12.00%) Machine Learning
11 64 (11.64%) MVVM
12 62 (11.27%) DevOps
13 61 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (10.55%) Computer Science
15 57 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (9.82%) Test Automation
17 49 (8.91%) Full Stack Development
18 48 (8.73%) Artificial Intelligence
19 47 (8.55%) User Experience
20 41 (7.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 350 (63.64%) Java
2 94 (17.09%) JavaScript
2 94 (17.09%) Python
3 68 (12.36%) Scala
4 63 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 55 (10.00%) SQL
6 46 (8.36%) Swift
7 43 (7.82%) Go
8 20 (3.64%) C++
9 19 (3.45%) C#
10 14 (2.55%) PHP
11 11 (2.00%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.64%) Rust
13 8 (1.45%) Ruby
14 5 (0.91%) C
14 5 (0.91%) Dart
15 4 (0.73%) Groovy
15 4 (0.73%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.55%) Clojure
17 2 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 67 (12.18%) Degree
2 37 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.09%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.09%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.91%) QA
2 9 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (9.64%) Docker
2 9 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (19.64%) Terraform
2 61 (11.09%) Ansible
3 56 (10.18%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.27%) Grafana
4 7 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.36%) Puppet
5 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (10.18%) Google
2 27 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.00%) Databricks
4 10 (1.82%) Xilinx
5 6 (1.09%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.91%) Apple
7 4 (0.73%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.36%) OpenText
8 2 (0.36%) Pega
8 2 (0.36%) QNX
8 2 (0.36%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.18%) BEA
9 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.18%) Spotify