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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 536 390
Rank change year-on-year -25 -146 -57
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 232 160 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.13% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 146 71 354
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 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.94% -4.55%
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 18,575 14,150 25,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.63% 28.36% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,154 9,299 17,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,313 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,497 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -

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 9 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 9 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 -18 219 £75,000 +5.26% 270
UK excluding London +10 144 £70,000 +1.82% 85
London -73 81 £80,000 +6.67% 202
North of England +23 78 £70,000 -9.68% 36
Work from Home +9 78 £80,000 +23.08% 88
Yorkshire +4 48 £73,750 -11.94% 13
North West +11 25 £70,000 -5.08% 21
South East -34 23 £60,000 - 10
South West -52 20 £85,000 +88.89% 15
Midlands -16 16 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East Midlands - 14 - - 3
Scotland +5 5 £68,750 -46.15% 7
North East -50 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
West Midlands -31 2 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 6

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 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.34%) AWS
2 62 (26.72%) GitHub
3 49 (21.12%) Serverless
4 44 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (15.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (14.66%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (12.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (11.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (11.64%) Azure
11 26 (11.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 23 (9.91%) Firebase
13 19 (8.19%) Datadog
14 18 (7.76%) GCP
15 15 (6.47%) TestFlight
16 14 (6.03%) Stripe
17 10 (4.31%) Google Play
18 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.79%) DynamoDB
2 27 (11.64%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (11.21%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.72%) Redis
6 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.29%) Big Data
8 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.86%) Looker
8 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.86%) 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 38 (16.38%) Git
2 21 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.62%) Crashlytics
4 15 (6.47%) XCTest
5 9 (3.88%) Appium
6 8 (3.45%) Gradle
7 7 (3.02%) fastlane
7 7 (3.02%) GitLab
7 7 (3.02%) JIRA
8 6 (2.59%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.59%) Selenium
9 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.72%) JUnit
10 4 (1.72%) MLflow
11 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.29%) Maven
11 3 (1.29%) Postman
11 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.29%) Xcode
General
1 62 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.81%) Finance
3 29 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.33%) Banking
6 12 (5.17%) Games
7 11 (4.74%) Law
8 9 (3.88%) Marketing
9 8 (3.45%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.45%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Publishing
11 5 (2.16%) 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
1 120 (51.72%) Developer
2 65 (28.02%) Senior
3 45 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 38 (16.38%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.95%) Java Developer
6 36 (15.52%) Android Developer
7 27 (11.64%) Android Engineer
8 25 (10.78%) Lead
9 22 (9.48%) Senior Android Developer
10 20 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (8.62%) Java Engineer
11 18 (7.76%) AWS Developer
11 18 (7.76%) Mobile Engineer
12 17 (7.33%) Android Software Engineer
13 15 (6.47%) iOS Developer
14 12 (5.17%) Mobile Developer
15 11 (4.74%) Senior Java Developer
16 10 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (4.31%) Lead Developer
17 9 (3.88%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.52%) Node.js
2 35 (15.09%) SwiftUI
3 33 (14.22%) RESTful
3 33 (14.22%) Spring Boot
4 31 (13.36%) AngularJS
5 30 (12.93%) Spring
6 27 (11.64%) Android Jetpack
6 27 (11.64%) Jetpack Compose
7 22 (9.48%) GraphQL
7 22 (9.48%) React
8 21 (9.05%) Android SDK
9 19 (8.19%) React Native
10 17 (7.33%) UIKit
11 14 (6.03%) Kafka
11 14 (6.03%) REST
12 8 (3.45%) Retrofit
13 7 (3.02%) .NET
14 6 (2.59%) Jest
14 6 (2.59%) WebdriverIO
15 5 (2.16%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 78 (33.62%) Mobile App
2 17 (7.33%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.17%) Social Media
5 11 (4.74%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.02%) Blog
7 7 (3.02%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.59%) PKI
9 5 (2.16%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.29%) Clustering
11 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.86%) Pricing Data
12 2 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 100 (43.10%) Android
2 54 (23.28%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.02%) Windows
4 6 (2.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (46.98%) CI/CD
2 76 (32.76%) Agile
3 67 (28.88%) Software Engineering
4 65 (28.02%) Android Development
5 48 (20.69%) AI
6 46 (19.83%) Clean Code
7 43 (18.53%) Test Automation
8 41 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.81%) DevOps
10 36 (15.52%) iOS Development
11 35 (15.09%) Design Patterns
12 34 (14.66%) Mobile Development
13 31 (13.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (13.36%) TDD
14 30 (12.93%) SOLID
15 29 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (12.07%) Analytics
16 28 (12.07%) User Experience
17 27 (11.64%) DevSecOps
17 27 (11.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 116 (50.00%) Java
2 52 (22.41%) Swift
3 51 (21.98%) TypeScript
4 40 (17.24%) SQL
5 25 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.90%) Python
7 8 (3.45%) C#
8 7 (3.02%) Scala
9 6 (2.59%) Bash
9 6 (2.59%) C++
10 5 (2.16%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.29%) Go
11 3 (1.29%) Groovy
11 3 (1.29%) PHP
12 2 (0.86%) Dart
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.76%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.31%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (3.02%) Degree
5 7 (3.02%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) 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 (5.17%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.02%) WCAG
3 6 (2.59%) QA
4 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (18.97%) Docker
2 5 (2.16%) KVM
2 5 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.19%) Terraform
3 8 (3.45%) Grafana
3 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.72%) Kubeflow
5 3 (1.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (7.33%) Google
2 14 (6.03%) Amplitude
2 14 (6.03%) Braze
3 10 (4.31%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.02%) VMware
6 3 (1.29%) Apple
6 3 (1.29%) Splunk
7 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.86%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.43%) Intel
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Revolut