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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 512 387
Rank change year-on-year -36 -125 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 253 151 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 1.16% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 178 60 313
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,375 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -17.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £112,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -16.67%

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 18,457 13,026 24,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.25% 26.34% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,111 8,383 15,238
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,722
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 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 -4 235 £70,000 -6.67% 511
UK excluding London +3 157 £70,000 +7.69% 172
Work from Home +18 90 £80,000 +20.75% 421
London -66 88 £77,500 -6.06% 375
North of England -3 71 £70,000 - 50
Yorkshire +1 40 £75,000 +5.26% 15
South West -52 34 £70,000 +55.56% 27
North West +2 26 £70,000 - 30
South East -31 23 £60,000 - 35
Midlands -33 17 £55,000 -15.38% 22
West Midlands -29 10 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Scotland - 10 £70,000 - 15
East Midlands - 7 - - 10
North East -58 5 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 2

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 6 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.25%) AWS
2 57 (22.53%) GitHub
3 42 (16.60%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (16.60%) Serverless
4 39 (15.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (13.44%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.86%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (11.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 28 (11.07%) Datadog
10 27 (10.67%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (10.67%) Azure
11 17 (6.72%) GCP
12 15 (5.93%) Firebase
13 10 (3.95%) Google Play
14 8 (3.16%) TestFlight
15 7 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.77%) SaaS
15 7 (2.77%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.65%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.28%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.88%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.74%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.77%) Redis
7 4 (1.58%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.58%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.19%) Big Data
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.79%) Looker
9 2 (0.79%) MySQL
9 2 (0.79%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.79%) SQLite
9 2 (0.79%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (17.00%) Git
2 18 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.74%) Crashlytics
4 11 (4.35%) JUnit
5 9 (3.56%) Appium
5 9 (3.56%) Gradle
5 9 (3.56%) XCTest
6 8 (3.16%) Android Studio
7 7 (2.77%) GitLab
7 7 (2.77%) JIRA
8 6 (2.37%) fastlane
9 5 (1.98%) Xcode
10 4 (1.58%) MLflow
10 4 (1.58%) Mockito
10 4 (1.58%) Selenium
10 4 (1.58%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.19%) Maven
11 3 (1.19%) Postman
12 2 (0.79%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.55%) Public Sector
3 48 (18.97%) Finance
4 26 (10.28%) Banking
5 25 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.93%) Law
7 10 (3.95%) Marketing
8 8 (3.16%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.16%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.77%) Publishing
10 4 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (53.36%) Developer
2 80 (31.62%) Senior
3 48 (18.97%) Software Engineer
4 47 (18.58%) Senior Developer
5 41 (16.21%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (13.83%) Java Developer
7 25 (9.88%) Android Developer
7 25 (9.88%) Android Engineer
8 23 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 23 (9.09%) Lead
9 20 (7.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (6.72%) Android Software Engineer
10 17 (6.72%) AWS Developer
11 16 (6.32%) Senior Android Developer
12 12 (4.74%) iOS Developer
12 12 (4.74%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (4.35%) Mobile Engineer
13 11 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.95%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.02%) Node.js
2 35 (13.83%) Spring
3 34 (13.44%) Spring Boot
4 33 (13.04%) RESTful
5 32 (12.65%) AngularJS
6 25 (9.88%) SwiftUI
7 22 (8.70%) Android Jetpack
7 22 (8.70%) Jetpack Compose
8 20 (7.91%) REST
8 20 (7.91%) Terraform
9 19 (7.51%) Kafka
9 19 (7.51%) React
10 18 (7.11%) React Native
11 12 (4.74%) GraphQL
12 11 (4.35%) UIKit
13 9 (3.56%) Android SDK
14 7 (2.77%) OpenAPI
14 7 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.77%) Retrofit
15 6 (2.37%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.53%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.95%) Blog
4 10 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.16%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (2.77%) Clustering
7 6 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.98%) PKI
9 4 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.58%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.19%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.79%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (33.60%) Android
2 48 (18.97%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.37%) Windows
4 5 (1.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.78%) CI/CD
2 69 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 68 (26.88%) Software Engineering
4 64 (25.30%) Agile
5 49 (19.37%) Android Development
6 44 (17.39%) DevOps
7 41 (16.21%) Clean Code
8 36 (14.23%) AI
9 35 (13.83%) Mobile Development
9 35 (13.83%) Test Automation
10 31 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.07%) iOS Development
12 27 (10.67%) DevSecOps
13 26 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.88%) Fintech
14 25 (9.88%) Mentoring
14 25 (9.88%) TDD
15 24 (9.49%) Microservices
16 23 (9.09%) SDLC
17 22 (8.70%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 111 (43.87%) Java
2 50 (19.76%) TypeScript
3 44 (17.39%) Swift
4 41 (16.21%) SQL
5 20 (7.91%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.32%) Python
7 9 (3.56%) Scala
8 7 (2.77%) C#
9 6 (2.37%) Go
10 5 (1.98%) C++
11 4 (1.58%) Bash
11 4 (1.58%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.79%) Dart
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.74%) Degree
3 9 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.77%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.77%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.53%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.35%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) WCAG
4 4 (1.58%) GDPR
4 4 (1.58%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (18.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) KVM
2 4 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.56%) Grafana
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.58%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (6.32%) Google
2 8 (3.16%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.77%) Amplitude
3 7 (2.77%) Braze
4 6 (2.37%) VMware
5 4 (1.58%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.58%) Apple
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle
6 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut