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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 522 398
Rank change year-on-year -37 -124 -68
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 230 161 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.14% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 145 72 356
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
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 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +37.50% -23.08%

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 18,470 14,138 25,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 28.50% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,121 9,294 17,967
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -26 217 £75,000 +7.14% 262
UK excluding London +12 142 £70,000 +1.82% 81
London -53 81 £80,000 +6.67% 197
Work from Home +16 77 £80,000 +23.08% 87
North of England +12 77 £70,000 -9.68% 35
Yorkshire +17 47 £73,750 -11.94% 13
North West +8 25 £70,000 -5.08% 20
South East -17 23 £60,000 - 9
South West -56 19 £85,000 +88.89% 14
Midlands -22 16 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East Midlands - 14 - - 3
Scotland +16 5 £68,750 -46.15% 7
North East -50 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
West Midlands -34 2 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 5

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 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 81 (35.22%) AWS
2 61 (26.52%) GitHub
3 48 (20.87%) Serverless
4 43 (18.70%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (15.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (14.78%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (14.35%) Amazon S3
8 31 (13.48%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (11.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 27 (11.74%) Azure
10 26 (11.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (10.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 23 (10.00%) Firebase
13 18 (7.83%) Datadog
13 18 (7.83%) GCP
14 15 (6.52%) TestFlight
15 14 (6.09%) Stripe
16 10 (4.35%) Google Play
17 8 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.48%) DynamoDB
2 26 (11.30%) Amazon Athena
3 25 (10.87%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.74%) Redis
6 4 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.87%) Looker
8 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.87%) SQLite
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.43%) MySQL
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (16.09%) Git
2 21 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.70%) Crashlytics
4 15 (6.52%) XCTest
5 9 (3.91%) Appium
6 8 (3.48%) Gradle
7 7 (3.04%) fastlane
7 7 (3.04%) GitLab
7 7 (3.04%) JIRA
8 6 (2.61%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.61%) Selenium
9 5 (2.17%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.74%) JUnit
10 4 (1.74%) MLflow
11 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.30%) Maven
11 3 (1.30%) Postman
11 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.87%) Mockito
General
1 61 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.96%) Finance
3 29 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.83%) Banking
6 12 (5.22%) Games
7 11 (4.78%) Law
8 9 (3.91%) Marketing
9 8 (3.48%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.48%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.17%) Publishing
11 5 (2.17%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (51.74%) Developer
2 64 (27.83%) Senior
3 45 (19.57%) Software Engineer
4 38 (16.52%) Senior Developer
5 36 (15.65%) Android Developer
5 36 (15.65%) Java Developer
6 28 (12.17%) Android Engineer
7 25 (10.87%) Lead
8 22 (9.57%) Senior Android Developer
9 20 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (8.70%) Java Engineer
10 18 (7.83%) Mobile Engineer
11 17 (7.39%) Android Software Engineer
11 17 (7.39%) AWS Developer
12 15 (6.52%) iOS Developer
13 12 (5.22%) Mobile Developer
14 11 (4.78%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (4.35%) Lead Developer
16 9 (3.91%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.22%) Node.js
1 35 (15.22%) SwiftUI
2 33 (14.35%) RESTful
2 33 (14.35%) Spring Boot
3 30 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 30 (13.04%) Spring
4 28 (12.17%) Android Jetpack
4 28 (12.17%) Jetpack Compose
5 22 (9.57%) GraphQL
5 22 (9.57%) React
6 21 (9.13%) Android SDK
7 19 (8.26%) React Native
8 17 (7.39%) UIKit
9 14 (6.09%) Kafka
10 13 (5.65%) REST
11 8 (3.48%) Retrofit
12 7 (3.04%) .NET
13 6 (2.61%) Jest
13 6 (2.61%) WebdriverIO
14 5 (2.17%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 78 (33.91%) Mobile App
2 17 (7.39%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (6.96%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.22%) Mobile Banking
4 12 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.22%) Social Media
5 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.04%) Blog
6 7 (3.04%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.61%) PKI
8 5 (2.17%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Clustering
10 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.87%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.87%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 100 (43.48%) Android
2 53 (23.04%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.04%) Windows
4 6 (2.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (46.96%) CI/CD
2 77 (33.48%) Agile
3 67 (29.13%) Software Engineering
4 65 (28.26%) Android Development
5 47 (20.43%) AI
6 46 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 43 (18.70%) Test Automation
8 41 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (16.52%) DevOps
10 35 (15.22%) Design Patterns
10 35 (15.22%) iOS Development
11 33 (14.35%) Mobile Development
12 32 (13.91%) TDD
13 30 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (13.04%) SOLID
14 29 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (12.17%) Analytics
15 28 (12.17%) User Experience
16 27 (11.74%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (11.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 116 (50.43%) Java
2 51 (22.17%) Swift
3 50 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 39 (16.96%) SQL
5 25 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.96%) Python
7 8 (3.48%) C#
8 7 (3.04%) Scala
9 6 (2.61%) Bash
9 6 (2.61%) C++
10 5 (2.17%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.30%) Go
11 3 (1.30%) Groovy
11 3 (1.30%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Dart
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.48%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (3.04%) Degree
5 7 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.04%) WCAG
3 6 (2.61%) QA
4 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (18.70%) Docker
2 5 (2.17%) KVM
2 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.26%) Terraform
3 8 (3.48%) Grafana
3 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.74%) Kubeflow
5 3 (1.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (7.39%) Google
2 14 (6.09%) Amplitude
2 14 (6.09%) Braze
3 10 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.91%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.04%) VMware
6 3 (1.30%) Apple
6 3 (1.30%) Splunk
7 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.43%) Intel
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Revolut