Kotlin Job Trends

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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 447 387
Rank change year-on-year -28 -60 -49
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 163 257 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.49% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 1.46% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 110 157 427
10th Percentile £52,375 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.28% +4.47%
75th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £114,125 £115,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -26.92% -13.33%

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 11,897 17,622 26,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.93% 33.71% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,589 10,210 21,372
10th Percentile £32,821 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,623 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -23 146 £75,000 -6.25% 83
London +19 91 £95,000 +11.76% 29
UK excluding London -10 63 £60,000 +26.32% 69
Work from Home -9 60 £75,000 +25.00% 61
North of England +13 21 £72,500 +61.11% 16
South East -15 20 £60,000 +29.73% 20
Yorkshire -8 14 £72,500 +61.11% 7
South West -3 10 £73,750 +1.72% 9
Scotland -20 9 £75,000 +38.89% 7
North West +21 7 £60,000 -2.04% 7
West Midlands +24 1 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Midlands +5 1 £75,000 +66.67% 5
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 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 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.61%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.84%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 61 (37.42%) AWS
2 24 (14.72%) Azure
3 20 (12.27%) SaaS
4 15 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (8.59%) GCP
6 10 (6.13%) GitHub
7 8 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (4.91%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.91%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (4.91%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.91%) Serverless
8 7 (4.29%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.29%) Google Workspace
8 7 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (3.07%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (3.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) AMQP
1 1 (0.61%) Broadband
1 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.04%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.98%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (4.91%) Redis
3 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.07%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.84%) MySQL
7 1 (0.61%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.07%) Android Studio
3 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) Xcode
5 1 (0.61%) Appium
5 1 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) Gradle
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.61%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
5 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.61%) XCUITest
General
1 38 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.09%) Finance
3 14 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.75%) Banking
5 8 (4.91%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.29%) Games
7 6 (3.68%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.68%) Retail
8 4 (2.45%) Billing
8 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.45%) Law
9 3 (1.84%) Marketing
10 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Front Office
11 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 59 (36.20%) Senior
2 53 (32.52%) Developer
3 43 (26.38%) Software Engineer
4 24 (14.72%) Android Engineer
5 23 (14.11%) Java Engineer
5 23 (14.11%) Senior Java Engineer
6 18 (11.04%) Java Developer
6 18 (11.04%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (9.20%) iOS Developer
7 15 (9.20%) Lead
8 12 (7.36%) Development Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Software Development Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) Senior Android Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.13%) Ruby Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.29%) Consultant
12 7 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.29%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.95%) React
1 26 (15.95%) RESTful
2 22 (13.50%) Spring
3 19 (11.66%) Android Jetpack
3 19 (11.66%) Jetpack Compose
4 17 (10.43%) SwiftUI
5 15 (9.20%) Spring Boot
6 14 (8.59%) Node.js
7 12 (7.36%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.13%) REST
9 9 (5.52%) Flutter
9 9 (5.52%) WebSockets
10 8 (4.91%) Kafka
11 6 (3.68%) React Native
12 5 (3.07%) .NET
12 5 (3.07%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.07%) Memcached
12 5 (3.07%) Symfony
12 5 (3.07%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (3.07%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.31%) Mobile App
2 15 (9.20%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.29%) Blog
4 7 (4.29%) Mobile Banking
4 7 (4.29%) PKI
5 6 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.68%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.07%) Educational Technology
6 5 (3.07%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.45%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.45%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.23%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
10 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 70 (42.94%) Android
2 30 (18.40%) Apple iOS
3 15 (9.20%) Linux
4 11 (6.75%) Windows
5 4 (2.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (34.36%) Software Engineering
2 51 (31.29%) CI/CD
3 47 (28.83%) Android Development
4 42 (25.77%) Agile
5 36 (22.09%) Mentoring
6 29 (17.79%) Mobile Development
7 28 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (16.56%) AI
9 22 (13.50%) Machine Learning
10 21 (12.88%) Memory Management
11 20 (12.27%) Multithreading
11 20 (12.27%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (11.66%) Roadmaps
12 19 (11.66%) TDD
13 18 (11.04%) iOS Development
13 18 (11.04%) Test Automation
14 17 (10.43%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (10.43%) Computer Science
14 17 (10.43%) Design Patterns
14 17 (10.43%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 97 (59.51%) Java
2 29 (17.79%) Scala
3 25 (15.34%) Swift
4 21 (12.88%) Python
5 15 (9.20%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.59%) C++
6 14 (8.59%) Ruby
7 13 (7.98%) SQL
8 11 (6.75%) C#
9 9 (5.52%) Go
9 9 (5.52%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.29%) PHP
11 6 (3.68%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.84%) Bash
13 2 (1.23%) C
13 2 (1.23%) Elixir
13 2 (1.23%) Erlang
14 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (15.95%) Degree
1 26 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.04%) Master's Degree
3 15 (9.20%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.75%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.29%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.45%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.45%) OSCE
8 4 (2.45%) OSCP
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.75%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) GDPR
3 4 (2.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.45%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (12.27%) Docker
2 6 (3.68%) KVM
2 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.36%) Terraform
3 8 (4.91%) Grafana
3 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.23%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.13%) Google
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.68%) VMware
3 1 (0.61%) Samsung
3 1 (0.61%) Splunk