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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 408 383
Rank change year-on-year -48 -25 -74
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 188 383 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.57% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 1.76% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 106 226 358
10th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,128 £52,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £83,038
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +3.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £114,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £54,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.31% -13.60% -3.85%

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 11,914 21,764 20,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.07% 32.57% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,634 13,009 17,212
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,418 £105,000
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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -26 175 £77,500 -3.13% 72
London -5 121 £90,000 +5.88% 33
Work from Home -16 56 £75,000 +15.38% 50
UK excluding London -18 55 £68,750 +27.31% 58
North of England +5 20 £72,500 +52.63% 7
South East -12 17 £60,000 +20.00% 25
South West +8 12 £72,500 +16.00% 9
North West +29 10 £68,750 +7.84% 5
Yorkshire +17 10 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Midlands +62 3 £65,000 +44.44% 5
West Midlands +57 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Scotland -13 3 £75,000 +34.53% 6
North East +11 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 3
Wales - 1 £75,000 -

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 4 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.13%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.43%) AWS
2 26 (13.83%) Azure
3 24 (12.77%) GCP
4 20 (10.64%) SaaS
5 13 (6.91%) GitHub
6 5 (2.66%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.66%) Firebase
6 5 (2.66%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.60%) Datadog
8 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.60%) Figma
8 3 (1.60%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.60%) Serverless
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) AMQP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.72%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.19%) Big Data
4 6 (3.19%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.19%) MySQL
4 6 (3.19%) Redis
4 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.60%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.60%) Flink
6 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Git
2 7 (3.72%) JIRA
3 6 (3.19%) Android Studio
4 4 (2.13%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.13%) git-flow
5 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.60%) JUnit
5 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.06%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.06%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Appium
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.53%) fastlane
7 1 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.53%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.53%) UI Automator
General
1 73 (38.83%) Finance
2 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 45 (23.94%) Law
4 44 (23.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (14.89%) Banking
6 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.91%) Marketing
8 12 (6.38%) Legal
9 8 (4.26%) Retail
10 7 (3.72%) Financial Institution
11 6 (3.19%) Games
12 4 (2.13%) Billing
12 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.06%) Electronics
14 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.06%) Publishing
15 1 (0.53%) Advertising
15 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.53%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 74 (39.36%) Software Engineer
2 59 (31.38%) Developer
3 57 (30.32%) Senior
4 38 (20.21%) Java Engineer
5 35 (18.62%) Lead
6 29 (15.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (10.64%) Senior Developer
8 19 (10.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (9.57%) Senior Java Engineer
10 17 (9.04%) Android Engineer
11 15 (7.98%) Java Developer
11 15 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (7.45%) Android Developer
13 11 (5.85%) Lead Java Engineer
14 10 (5.32%) Ruby Engineer
15 9 (4.79%) Development Engineer
15 9 (4.79%) Mobile Developer
15 9 (4.79%) Senior Android Engineer
15 9 (4.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 9 (4.79%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.55%) Spring
2 25 (13.30%) React
3 23 (12.23%) Kafka
3 23 (12.23%) RESTful
4 22 (11.70%) Spring Boot
5 16 (8.51%) Android Jetpack
5 16 (8.51%) Jetpack Compose
5 16 (8.51%) REST
6 11 (5.85%) Flutter
7 10 (5.32%) React Native
8 9 (4.79%) SwiftUI
8 9 (4.79%) Web Services
9 8 (4.26%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.19%) Retrofit
12 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.66%) OkHttp
12 5 (2.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (2.66%) WebGL
12 5 (2.66%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.89%) Mobile App
3 21 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.26%) Mobile Banking
4 8 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.72%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.72%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.19%) Derivative
6 6 (3.19%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.66%) Blog
7 5 (2.66%) Educational Technology
7 5 (2.66%) Mobile Games
8 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.13%) Insider Threat
8 4 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 65 (34.57%) Android
2 32 (17.02%) Apple iOS
3 13 (6.91%) Linux
4 8 (4.26%) Windows
5 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (53.72%) Software Engineering
2 66 (35.11%) Agile
3 60 (31.91%) CI/CD
4 42 (22.34%) Android Development
4 42 (22.34%) Mentoring
5 41 (21.81%) AI
5 41 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (20.74%) Fintech
7 38 (20.21%) Microservices
8 36 (19.15%) SDLC
9 34 (18.09%) Architectural Patterns
10 30 (15.96%) Mobile Development
11 29 (15.43%) Machine Learning
12 23 (12.23%) Secure Coding
12 23 (12.23%) Test Automation
13 21 (11.17%) Code Quality
14 20 (10.64%) Open Source
15 19 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.11%) Design Patterns
16 18 (9.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 128 (68.09%) Java
2 43 (22.87%) Scala
3 25 (13.30%) Swift
4 23 (12.23%) Python
5 17 (9.04%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.51%) Go
7 14 (7.45%) Ruby
8 13 (6.91%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.85%) C++
10 9 (4.79%) C#
11 8 (4.26%) SQL
12 7 (3.72%) PHP
13 5 (2.66%) Objective-C
14 4 (2.13%) C
14 4 (2.13%) Groovy
15 3 (1.60%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 26 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.11%) Degree
3 16 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.85%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.19%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.13%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.13%) OSCE
8 4 (2.13%) OSCP
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) QA
2 5 (2.66%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.13%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (9.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) KVM
2 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (29.26%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.64%) Terraform
3 4 (2.13%) Grafana
3 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.85%) Google
2 8 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.66%) Samsung
4 3 (1.60%) VMware
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk