JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 514 409
Rank change year-on-year -15 -105 -73
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 198 145 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.04% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 122 101 474
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £114,875 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +47.37% -20.83% -20.00%

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 15,816 13,995 32,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.30% 32.04% 33.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,773 10,057 25,057
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the UK

Kotlin
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 13 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 May 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
England -2 181 £75,000 +15.38% 67
UK excluding London -22 117 £70,000 +47.37% 33
London -1 75 £100,000 +14.29% 35
Work from Home -3 73 £77,500 +72.22% 41
North of England -10 56 £72,500 +61.11% 24
Yorkshire -22 41 £72,500 +61.11% 13
South East -19 24 £60,000 +26.32% 4
North West -7 15 £65,000 +26.83% 7
South West -54 14 £85,000 +88.89% 2
Midlands -16 12 - - 1
East Midlands - 12 - - 1
Scotland -21 10 £65,000 -18.88% 1
Wales - 1 £66,000 - 1

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.01%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.89%) AWS
2 40 (20.20%) Serverless
3 37 (18.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 37 (18.69%) GitHub
4 28 (14.14%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (14.14%) Amazon S3
4 28 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 24 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 18 (9.09%) Azure
8 15 (7.58%) Firebase
8 15 (7.58%) GCP
9 12 (6.06%) Stripe
9 12 (6.06%) TestFlight
10 11 (5.56%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.05%) Entra ID
11 10 (5.05%) Google Workspace
11 10 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.15%) DynamoDB
1 30 (15.15%) NoSQL
2 24 (12.12%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.02%) Redis
4 3 (1.52%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.51%) Looker
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (13.13%) Git
2 15 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.07%) Crashlytics
4 12 (6.06%) XCTest
5 8 (4.04%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.03%) Android Studio
7 4 (2.02%) GitLab
7 4 (2.02%) Gradle
7 4 (2.02%) Maven
8 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.52%) Selenium
8 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.01%) JUnit
9 2 (1.01%) Mockito
9 2 (1.01%) Xcode
10 1 (0.51%) fastlane
10 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 36 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.09%) Finance
3 17 (8.59%) Banking
4 15 (7.58%) Games
5 14 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.53%) Retail
7 5 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.02%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.02%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (42.42%) Developer
2 60 (30.30%) Senior
3 42 (21.21%) Software Engineer
4 32 (16.16%) Android Engineer
5 31 (15.66%) Java Developer
6 24 (12.12%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.62%) Java Engineer
8 22 (11.11%) Android Developer
8 22 (11.11%) Lead
9 21 (10.61%) iOS Developer
10 17 (8.59%) Mobile Engineer
11 16 (8.08%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (7.07%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (7.07%) Senior Android Developer
13 13 (6.57%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (6.06%) AWS Developer
15 11 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (5.05%) Applications Developer
16 10 (5.05%) Development Engineer
16 10 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.18%) SwiftUI
2 35 (17.68%) Node.js
3 31 (15.66%) RESTful
4 26 (13.13%) Spring
5 25 (12.63%) Spring Boot
6 24 (12.12%) AngularJS
7 22 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
7 22 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
8 17 (8.59%) React
9 16 (8.08%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.58%) Android SDK
11 12 (6.06%) UIKit
12 11 (5.56%) React Native
13 6 (3.03%) Kafka
13 6 (3.03%) OAuth
13 6 (3.03%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.03%) WebSockets
14 5 (2.53%) gRPC
14 5 (2.53%) Jest
14 5 (2.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.37%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.07%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.57%) Social Media
4 12 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (5.05%) PKI
6 9 (4.55%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.03%) Blog
8 5 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.52%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 92 (46.46%) Android
2 40 (20.20%) Apple iOS
3 11 (5.56%) Linux
4 10 (5.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.43%) CI/CD
2 66 (33.33%) Android Development
3 60 (30.30%) Agile
4 50 (25.25%) Software Engineering
5 41 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (16.67%) iOS Development
7 32 (16.16%) SOLID
8 30 (15.15%) Design Patterns
8 30 (15.15%) DevOps
9 29 (14.65%) TDD
10 28 (14.14%) AI
11 27 (13.64%) Mobile Development
12 26 (13.13%) Test Automation
13 23 (11.62%) DevSecOps
13 23 (11.62%) User Experience
14 22 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 22 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (10.61%) Memory Management
15 21 (10.61%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 114 (57.58%) Java
2 41 (20.71%) Swift
3 28 (14.14%) TypeScript
4 27 (13.64%) SQL
5 25 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 23 (11.62%) Python
7 14 (7.07%) C++
8 11 (5.56%) C#
9 8 (4.04%) Bash
9 8 (4.04%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.52%) Groovy
10 3 (1.52%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) Elixir
11 2 (1.01%) Erlang
11 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.07%) Degree
2 14 (7.07%) DV Cleared
3 13 (6.57%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.53%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (18.69%) Docker
2 8 (4.04%) KVM
2 8 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.10%) Terraform
3 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.05%) Grafana
5 3 (1.52%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.01%) Ansible
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (6.57%) Google
2 12 (6.06%) Amplitude
2 12 (6.06%) Braze
2 12 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.05%) VMware
4 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.51%) Intel
4 1 (0.51%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle