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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 528 393
Rank change year-on-year -53 -135 -48
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 189 163 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.13% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 121 76 408
10th Percentile £53,750 £27,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,944 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -15.38%

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 17,839 14,378 28,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.28% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,764 9,539 21,135
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,534
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 23 July 2026.

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 July 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 -50 180 £75,000 +7.14% 153
UK excluding London -8 122 £70,000 -1.75% 38
Work from Home +10 70 £80,000 +23.08% 32
North of England +19 67 £70,000 -9.68% 11
London -72 62 £80,000 +6.67% 125
Yorkshire +4 42 £75,000 -3.23% 4
North West +11 20 £65,000 -11.86% 7
South East -18 20 £60,000 - 10
South West -54 16 £85,000 +88.89% 6
Midlands -20 14 - - 2
East Midlands - 14 - - 2
North East -51 5 £47,000 -27.69%
Scotland +15 3 £65,000 -49.09% 4
Wales - 2 £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 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.59%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.10%) AWS
2 56 (29.63%) GitHub
3 46 (24.34%) Serverless
4 39 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (16.93%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (16.40%) Amazon S3
8 29 (15.34%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (13.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (13.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (12.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (12.17%) Azure
11 22 (11.64%) Firebase
12 15 (7.94%) TestFlight
13 14 (7.41%) Datadog
13 14 (7.41%) GCP
13 14 (7.41%) Stripe
14 9 (4.76%) Google Play
15 8 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.81%) DynamoDB
2 25 (13.23%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (12.70%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.12%) Redis
5 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.59%) Big Data
7 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.06%) Looker
7 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.06%) SQLite
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (16.93%) Git
2 21 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.58%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.41%) XCTest
5 8 (4.23%) Gradle
6 7 (3.70%) fastlane
6 7 (3.70%) GitLab
7 6 (3.17%) Android Studio
7 6 (3.17%) Selenium
8 5 (2.65%) JIRA
8 5 (2.65%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.59%) JUnit
9 3 (1.59%) Maven
9 3 (1.59%) Postman
9 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.06%) Appium
10 2 (1.06%) Mockito
11 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 46 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.17%) Finance
3 21 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.88%) Games
5 12 (6.35%) Banking
6 7 (3.70%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.70%) Tech for Good
7 5 (2.65%) Retail
8 4 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Publishing
10 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.06%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (53.44%) Developer
2 44 (23.28%) Senior
3 36 (19.05%) Android Developer
4 34 (17.99%) Java Developer
5 32 (16.93%) Senior Developer
6 31 (16.40%) Software Engineer
7 27 (14.29%) Android Engineer
8 21 (11.11%) Lead
8 21 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
9 19 (10.05%) Java Engineer
10 18 (9.52%) Mobile Engineer
11 15 (7.94%) Android Software Engineer
11 15 (7.94%) AWS Developer
12 14 (7.41%) iOS Developer
13 10 (5.29%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.29%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.76%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.40%) Node.js
2 30 (15.87%) SwiftUI
3 29 (15.34%) AngularJS
3 29 (15.34%) Spring Boot
4 27 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
4 27 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
4 27 (14.29%) RESTful
5 24 (12.70%) Spring
6 22 (11.64%) Android SDK
7 16 (8.47%) GraphQL
8 15 (7.94%) UIKit
9 14 (7.41%) React
10 10 (5.29%) React Native
11 8 (4.23%) Kafka
12 7 (3.70%) .NET
12 7 (3.70%) Retrofit
13 5 (2.65%) REST
14 4 (2.12%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.12%) Entity Framework
14 4 (2.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 72 (38.10%) Mobile App
2 16 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.88%) Social Media
4 9 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.23%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (3.70%) PKI
7 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.65%) Hackathon
9 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Blog
10 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.06%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 87 (46.03%) Android
2 40 (21.16%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.23%) Windows
4 7 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 66 (34.92%) Agile
3 60 (31.75%) Android Development
4 47 (24.87%) Software Engineering
5 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (21.16%) AI
6 40 (21.16%) Test Automation
7 39 (20.63%) Clean Code
8 35 (18.52%) DevOps
9 34 (17.99%) Design Patterns
10 33 (17.46%) TDD
11 29 (15.34%) iOS Development
12 27 (14.29%) SOLID
13 26 (13.76%) User Experience
14 25 (13.23%) DevSecOps
15 24 (12.70%) Analytics
15 24 (12.70%) Architectural Patterns
16 23 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (12.17%) Mentoring
16 23 (12.17%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 104 (55.03%) Java
2 38 (20.11%) Swift
2 38 (20.11%) TypeScript
3 34 (17.99%) SQL
4 19 (10.05%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.41%) Python
6 9 (4.76%) C#
7 7 (3.70%) Bash
7 7 (3.70%) C++
8 6 (3.17%) Scala
9 5 (2.65%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.59%) Groovy
11 2 (1.06%) Dart
11 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.53%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.29%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.12%) Degree
6 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.17%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (19.58%) Docker
2 5 (2.65%) KVM
2 5 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (8.99%) Kubernetes
1 17 (8.99%) Terraform
2 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.17%) Grafana
4 3 (1.59%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (8.47%) Google
2 14 (7.41%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.41%) Braze
3 9 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.70%) VMware
5 3 (1.59%) Splunk
6 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.53%) Apple
7 1 (0.53%) Intel
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) Revolut