JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 384 251
Rank change year-on-year -22 -133 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 440 453 2,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.76% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.88% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 261 425 859
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £119,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -7.69% +13.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,808 24,089 68,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.15% 40.52% 48.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 18,693 38,261
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,646 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 14 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 23 October 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 -44 405 £80,000 -5.88% 109
London -27 237 £85,000 -5.56% 62
UK excluding London +2 190 £52,000 -13.33% 48
Work from Home -29 172 £72,500 -9.38% 150
South East +80 103 £50,000 -33.33% 10
North of England -28 38 £65,000 +8.33% 13
North West -5 29 £67,500 +17.39% 12
Scotland +18 28 £70,000 +40.00% 2
South West -30 16 £62,500 +8.70% 13
Yorkshire +13 5 - -
North East -30 4 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Midlands -30 3 £40,000 -39.62% 1
West Midlands -36 3 £40,000 -39.62% 1
East of England -75 2 - - 9

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 26 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.64%) Apache
3 5 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.45%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (6.82%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 244 (55.45%) AWS
2 98 (22.27%) GCP
3 94 (21.36%) Azure
4 25 (5.68%) GitHub
5 6 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (1.36%) Amazon MSK
6 5 (1.14%) Google Play
6 5 (1.14%) Serverless
7 4 (0.91%) SaaS
7 4 (0.91%) WhatsApp
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.68%) ChatGPT
8 3 (0.68%) Firebase
9 2 (0.45%) Sentry
9 2 (0.45%) SonarCloud
9 2 (0.45%) Stripe
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.27%) Network Security
2 8 (1.82%) HTTP
3 7 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.23%) DAB
4 1 (0.23%) MQTT
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.68%) NoSQL
2 47 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.73%) MySQL
4 11 (2.50%) Flink
4 11 (2.50%) Redis
5 10 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.36%) Big Data
8 6 (1.36%) DB2
9 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.91%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.91%) Bigtable
10 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.91%) Presto
11 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 83 (18.86%) Git
2 34 (7.73%) GitLab
3 32 (7.27%) Vagrant
4 20 (4.55%) Android Studio
5 19 (4.32%) Jenkins
6 18 (4.09%) JUnit
7 11 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.05%) JIRA
9 8 (1.82%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.36%) Gatling
11 5 (1.14%) Appium
11 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.14%) Gradle
11 5 (1.14%) Maven
11 5 (1.14%) Robolectric
11 5 (1.14%) XCTest
12 4 (0.91%) Selenium
13 3 (0.68%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
14 2 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 65 (14.77%) Finance
2 52 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (7.05%) Banking
5 21 (4.77%) Law
6 16 (3.64%) Marketing
7 13 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.95%) Electronics
7 13 (2.95%) Legal
8 12 (2.73%) Front Office
8 12 (2.73%) Retail Banking
9 10 (2.27%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.59%) Billing
12 6 (1.36%) Games
13 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Back Office
14 4 (0.91%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.68%) Advertising
16 2 (0.45%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 201 (45.68%) Software Engineer
2 158 (35.91%) Developer
3 99 (22.50%) Senior
4 64 (14.55%) Android Developer
5 63 (14.32%) Lead
6 50 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 39 (8.86%) Senior Developer
8 38 (8.64%) Lead Software Engineer
9 30 (6.82%) Java Developer
9 30 (6.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 25 (5.68%) Java Engineer
11 23 (5.23%) Senior Android Developer
12 21 (4.77%) Architect
13 16 (3.64%) Data Architect
13 16 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (3.41%) Android Engineer
14 15 (3.41%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.41%) Software Developer
15 14 (3.18%) AWS Developer
16 13 (2.95%) Java Developer - Fintech
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.64%) RESTful
2 59 (13.41%) React
3 58 (13.18%) Middleware
4 40 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
4 40 (9.09%) Android SDK
5 36 (8.18%) Web Services
6 34 (7.73%) Jetpack Compose
7 33 (7.50%) REST
8 32 (7.27%) GraphQL
8 32 (7.27%) Spring
9 31 (7.05%) Kafka
10 29 (6.59%) Spring Boot
11 27 (6.14%) Node.js
12 23 (5.23%) AngularJS
13 22 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
14 16 (3.64%) CSS
14 16 (3.64%) HTML
14 16 (3.64%) Vue
15 12 (2.73%) NumPy
15 12 (2.73%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.23%) Mobile App
2 31 (7.05%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (5.23%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.32%) Media Streaming
6 15 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.59%) Online Banking
12 7 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.36%) Blog
13 6 (1.36%) Educational Technology
14 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.68%) Blockchain
17 2 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 156 (35.45%) Android
2 69 (15.68%) Linux
3 36 (8.18%) Apple iOS
4 32 (7.27%) CentOS
4 32 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (7.27%) Ubuntu
5 14 (3.18%) Windows
6 3 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (58.18%) Software Engineering
2 223 (50.68%) Agile
3 105 (23.86%) CI/CD
3 105 (23.86%) Microservices
4 88 (20.00%) Fintech
5 80 (18.18%) Android Development
6 75 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (16.82%) Test Automation
8 67 (15.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 59 (13.41%) Computer Science
10 58 (13.18%) Scrum
11 57 (12.95%) Machine Learning
12 55 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
13 53 (12.05%) TDD
14 49 (11.14%) Continuous Integration
15 48 (10.91%) DevOps
16 46 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
16 46 (10.45%) Mobile Development
17 45 (10.23%) Kanban
18 36 (8.18%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 362 (82.27%) Java
2 107 (24.32%) Python
2 107 (24.32%) Scala
3 81 (18.41%) SQL
4 72 (16.36%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.64%) C++
7 19 (4.32%) Go
7 19 (4.32%) Swift
8 16 (3.64%) C#
9 9 (2.05%) Clojure
10 8 (1.82%) PHP
11 6 (1.36%) C
12 4 (0.91%) Rust
12 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.68%) Bash
14 2 (0.45%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.45%) Solidity
15 1 (0.23%) JSX
15 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (13.86%) Degree
2 54 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 51 (11.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (10.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.14%) QA
2 4 (0.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 51 (11.59%) Docker
2 29 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (27.95%) Terraform
2 58 (13.18%) Kubernetes
3 57 (12.95%) Ansible
4 1 (0.23%) Argo
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.23%) Podman
4 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 47 (10.68%) Google
2 37 (8.41%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.82%) Xilinx
4 11 (2.50%) Databricks
5 10 (2.27%) Brio
5 10 (2.27%) Xamarin
6 4 (0.91%) ION Trading
6 4 (0.91%) YouTube
7 3 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.45%) Apple
8 2 (0.45%) Foundry
8 2 (0.45%) Splunk
9 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco
9 1 (0.23%) Intel
9 1 (0.23%) Juniper
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle
9 1 (0.23%) Perforce
9 1 (0.23%) Sparx
9 1 (0.23%) VMware