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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 395 330 232
Rank change year-on-year -65 -98 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 376 1,339 2,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.09% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 2.37% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 354 824 1,273
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,038 £80,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +13.48% -2.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 21,547 56,460 66,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 45.96% 52.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 35,996 45,555
10th Percentile £39,730 £38,442 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,788 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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 -34 359 £83,577 +4.47% 178
London -19 233 £90,000 +2.86% 100
Work from Home -7 216 £80,000 +3.23% 123
UK excluding London -17 123 £60,000 -7.69% 94
North of England -3 36 £57,500 -28.13% 14
South West +71 35 £57,500 - 21
East of England +143 34 £85,000 +70.00% 25
Yorkshire +13 18 £65,000 -18.75% 2
North West +44 15 £57,500 -28.13% 10
South East +86 8 £55,000 -21.43% 33
North East +41 3 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Northern Ireland +24 3 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Wales +17 3 £57,500 - 1
West Midlands +113 2 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Midlands +93 2 £52,500 -16.00% 5
Scotland -21 2 £50,000 -22.78% 1

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 3 (0.80%) nginx
2 2 (0.53%) WordPress
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 215 (57.18%) AWS
2 88 (23.40%) Azure
3 57 (15.16%) GCP
4 12 (3.19%) Figma
4 12 (3.19%) Google Play
5 10 (2.66%) GitHub
6 7 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.33%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.33%) SaaS
8 3 (0.80%) BrowserStack
8 3 (0.80%) Firebase
8 3 (0.80%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.27%) dbt
10 1 (0.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.27%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) Internet
1 3 (0.80%) SSL
2 2 (0.53%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.53%) MQTT
2 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.27%) Multicast
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (15.16%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (8.51%) MySQL
3 27 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.66%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.13%) Big Data
7 7 (1.86%) Redis
8 3 (0.80%) SQLite
9 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.53%) DB2
9 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.27%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (4.52%) Android Studio
2 16 (4.26%) Git
3 15 (3.99%) GitLab
4 14 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.39%) CircleCI
6 8 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.13%) Maven
7 7 (1.86%) Gradle
7 7 (1.86%) Postman
7 7 (1.86%) Selenium
8 6 (1.60%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.33%) fastlane
10 4 (1.06%) Appium
11 3 (0.80%) Calabash
11 3 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.80%) Robolectric
11 3 (0.80%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.80%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (18.09%) Finance
2 62 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 27 (7.18%) Front Office
4 15 (3.99%) Games
5 14 (3.72%) Banking
6 7 (1.86%) Retail
7 6 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Publishing
10 3 (0.80%) Automotive
10 3 (0.80%) Aviation
10 3 (0.80%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.80%) Marketing
10 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.53%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.27%) Environmental Health
12 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (45.48%) Developer
2 114 (30.32%) Software Engineer
3 75 (19.95%) Senior
4 59 (15.69%) Java Developer
5 45 (11.97%) Java Engineer
6 35 (9.31%) Android Developer
7 33 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 32 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
9 30 (7.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (7.98%) Full Stack Engineer
10 28 (7.45%) React Developer
11 24 (6.38%) Lead
12 23 (6.12%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 22 (5.85%) Java Developer - Fintech
14 21 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
15 17 (4.52%) Architect
16 14 (3.72%) Applications Developer
16 14 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
17 12 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 12 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.02%) React
2 50 (13.30%) Kafka
3 32 (8.51%) Spring
4 31 (8.24%) Spring Boot
5 28 (7.45%) GraphQL
6 27 (7.18%) Node.js
7 26 (6.91%) gRPC
8 25 (6.65%) RESTful
9 24 (6.38%) Redux
10 23 (6.12%) Material-UI
11 15 (3.99%) Flutter
11 15 (3.99%) React Native
12 13 (3.46%) REST
13 11 (2.93%) Android Jetpack
13 11 (2.93%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.66%) Quarkus
15 9 (2.39%) HTML
16 7 (1.86%) Hibernate
16 7 (1.86%) Web Services
17 6 (1.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.78%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (6.38%) Mobile App
3 23 (6.12%) Fixed Income
4 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.86%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.86%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.60%) CMDB
7 5 (1.33%) Blog
7 5 (1.33%) Social Media
8 3 (0.80%) Robotics
9 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.53%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.53%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.53%) iPhone
10 1 (0.27%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.27%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.88%) Android
2 37 (9.84%) Apple iOS
3 26 (6.91%) Linux
4 7 (1.86%) Windows
5 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (40.96%) Software Engineering
2 137 (36.44%) Agile
3 111 (29.52%) Fintech
4 76 (20.21%) DevOps
5 66 (17.55%) Full Stack Development
6 60 (15.96%) CI/CD
7 58 (15.43%) TDD
8 44 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (10.37%) Roadmaps
10 37 (9.84%) Android Development
11 34 (9.04%) Investment Management
12 32 (8.51%) Computer Science
13 30 (7.98%) Product Roadmap
14 29 (7.71%) User Experience
15 28 (7.45%) Microservices
16 25 (6.65%) Test Automation
17 24 (6.38%) Analytics
17 24 (6.38%) Clean Code
17 24 (6.38%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 295 (78.46%) Java
2 79 (21.01%) JavaScript
3 64 (17.02%) Scala
3 64 (17.02%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.10%) Python
5 50 (13.30%) Go
6 20 (5.32%) SQL
7 16 (4.26%) Objective-C
8 13 (3.46%) BrightScript
9 10 (2.66%) C#
9 10 (2.66%) Rust
10 9 (2.39%) Clojure
10 9 (2.39%) Ruby
11 8 (2.13%) C++
12 7 (1.86%) Bash
12 7 (1.86%) Swift
13 6 (1.60%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.33%) Groovy
14 5 (1.33%) PHP
15 3 (0.80%) Dart
Qualifications
1 44 (11.70%) Degree
2 19 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.80%) ISEB
6 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.72%) QA
2 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (20.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 82 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 52 (13.83%) Terraform
3 32 (8.51%) Ansible
4 6 (1.60%) Puppet
5 5 (1.33%) SELinux
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Istio
6 1 (0.27%) linkerd
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (5.59%) Google
2 5 (1.33%) Apple
3 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.80%) Facebook
4 3 (0.80%) PayPal
5 2 (0.53%) Brio
5 2 (0.53%) IBM
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe
6 1 (0.27%) New Relic