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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 473 412
Rank change year-on-year -41 -61 -59
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 203 162 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.20% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 122 121 472
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,063 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.24% +1.30%
75th Percentile £98,750 £108,418 £102,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -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 14,882 13,499 31,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 32.99% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10,286 10,249 24,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £55,565 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.90% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -22 186 £75,000 +3.45% 74
UK excluding London -61 109 £70,000 +21.74% 38
London +4 87 £100,000 +17.65% 48
Work from Home -23 69 £75,000 +30.43% 89
North of England -33 54 £72,500 +56.76% 12
Yorkshire -24 39 £72,500 +61.11% 4
South East -27 24 £60,000 +60.00% 13
North West -25 15 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Scotland -22 10 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Midlands -44 10 - - 1
South West -53 10 £78,750 +8.62% 6
East Midlands - 10 - -
Wales - 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 3 (1.48%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.48%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.36%) AWS
2 36 (17.73%) Serverless
3 35 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (16.26%) GitHub
5 27 (13.30%) Azure
6 26 (12.81%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (12.81%) Amazon S3
6 26 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (10.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 20 (9.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.87%) GCP
10 14 (6.90%) Firebase
11 11 (5.42%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.93%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.93%) Google Workspace
12 10 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.93%) SaaS
12 10 (4.93%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.90%) Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) AMQP
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.78%) DynamoDB
1 30 (14.78%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.84%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (2.96%) Redis
4 5 (2.46%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (10.84%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.91%) Crashlytics
4 10 (4.93%) XCTest
5 8 (3.94%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.96%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.97%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.97%) GitLab
7 4 (1.97%) Maven
8 3 (1.48%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.48%) Selenium
8 3 (1.48%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.99%) Gradle
9 2 (0.99%) Xcode
10 1 (0.49%) Appium
10 1 (0.49%) fastlane
10 1 (0.49%) JIRA
10 1 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.49%) Postman
10 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 35 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.30%) Finance
3 21 (10.34%) Banking
4 19 (9.36%) Games
5 18 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.93%) Retail
7 7 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.97%) Law
9 3 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.48%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.49%) Advertising
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 86 (42.36%) Developer
2 67 (33.00%) Senior
3 37 (18.23%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.78%) Java Developer
5 28 (13.79%) Android Engineer
6 24 (11.82%) Lead
7 23 (11.33%) Senior Developer
8 22 (10.84%) iOS Developer
9 21 (10.34%) Android Developer
10 19 (9.36%) Java Engineer
11 17 (8.37%) Senior Java Engineer
11 17 (8.37%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (7.39%) Mobile Engineer
13 14 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (6.40%) Development Engineer
14 13 (6.40%) Senior Android Developer
15 11 (5.42%) Software Development Engineer
16 10 (4.93%) AWS Developer
16 10 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (4.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.24%) SwiftUI
2 33 (16.26%) Node.js
3 30 (14.78%) RESTful
4 28 (13.79%) Spring
5 25 (12.32%) Spring Boot
6 23 (11.33%) Android Jetpack
6 23 (11.33%) Jetpack Compose
7 22 (10.84%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.84%) React
8 16 (7.88%) GraphQL
9 15 (7.39%) Android SDK
10 11 (5.42%) React Native
11 10 (4.93%) UIKit
12 8 (3.94%) Kafka
12 8 (3.94%) WebSockets
13 7 (3.45%) REST
14 6 (2.96%) OAuth
14 6 (2.96%) OAuth2
15 5 (2.46%) Jest
15 5 (2.46%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 74 (36.45%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.90%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.40%) Social Media
4 12 (5.91%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.93%) PKI
6 9 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.45%) Blog
8 6 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.97%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.97%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.97%) Insider Threat
10 4 (1.97%) Mobile Games
10 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.48%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 94 (46.31%) Android
2 45 (22.17%) Apple iOS
3 17 (8.37%) Linux
4 14 (6.90%) Windows
5 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (43.84%) CI/CD
2 67 (33.00%) Android Development
3 64 (31.53%) Agile
4 51 (25.12%) Software Engineering
5 43 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.23%) AI
7 33 (16.26%) iOS Development
7 33 (16.26%) SOLID
8 31 (15.27%) Design Patterns
8 31 (15.27%) TDD
9 29 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 28 (13.79%) Mobile Development
10 28 (13.79%) Test Automation
11 27 (13.30%) DevOps
12 26 (12.81%) User Experience
13 24 (11.82%) Memory Management
14 23 (11.33%) Multithreading
14 23 (11.33%) Performance Optimisation
15 22 (10.84%) Containerisation
15 22 (10.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 119 (58.62%) Java
2 42 (20.69%) Swift
3 27 (13.30%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.81%) TypeScript
5 24 (11.82%) Python
5 24 (11.82%) SQL
6 16 (7.88%) C++
7 11 (5.42%) C#
8 8 (3.94%) Google Apps Script
9 7 (3.45%) Bash
9 7 (3.45%) Scala
10 4 (1.97%) PHP
11 3 (1.48%) Groovy
12 2 (0.99%) C
12 2 (0.99%) Elixir
12 2 (0.99%) Erlang
12 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.49%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.85%) Degree
3 16 (7.88%) DV Cleared
3 16 (7.88%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.40%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.93%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.93%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.97%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.97%) OSCE
8 4 (1.97%) OSCP
9 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.45%) QA
2 5 (2.46%) GDPR
3 4 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.97%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (17.73%) Docker
2 8 (3.94%) KVM
2 8 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (13.30%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.36%) Terraform
3 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.93%) Grafana
5 3 (1.48%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.99%) Ansible
6 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (6.40%) Google
2 10 (4.93%) Amplitude
2 10 (4.93%) Braze
2 10 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.94%) VMware
4 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.49%) Intel
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.49%) Samsung
4 1 (0.49%) Splunk