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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 513 401
Rank change year-on-year -52 -112 -69
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 189 165 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.17% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 122 79 472
10th Percentile £51,375 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,688 £44,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,889 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,275 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +20.45% -18.52%

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 17,290 14,118 33,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 30.30% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,304 9,362 25,216
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,260 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -28 178 £75,000 +15.38% 108
UK excluding London -2 127 £70,000 +5.66% 43
Work from Home +22 73 £77,500 +29.17% 53
North of England +16 68 £70,000 -5.08% 12
London -74 60 £81,250 +12.07% 72
Yorkshire +5 44 £73,750 -18.06% 5
South East -28 21 £60,000 - 11
North West +9 19 £65,000 -5.45% 6
South West -55 15 £85,000 +88.89% 12
Midlands -26 14 - - 1
East Midlands - 14 - - 1
Scotland +14 7 £65,000 -49.09% 5
North East -48 5 £47,000 - 1
Wales - 2 £66,000 -

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 3 (1.59%) JBoss
2 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.62%) AWS
2 52 (27.51%) GitHub
3 48 (25.40%) Serverless
4 38 (20.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 38 (20.11%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.99%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (16.93%) Amazon S3
7 31 (16.40%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 25 (13.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 24 (12.70%) Azure
11 21 (11.11%) Firebase
12 16 (8.47%) GCP
13 15 (7.94%) TestFlight
14 14 (7.41%) Stripe
15 13 (6.88%) Datadog
16 8 (4.23%) Entra ID
16 8 (4.23%) Google Workspace
16 8 (4.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.87%) DynamoDB
2 28 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 27 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.06%) Looker
5 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.06%) Redis
5 2 (1.06%) SQLite
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Big Data
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.81%) Git
2 22 (11.64%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.58%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.41%) XCTest
5 8 (4.23%) Gradle
6 7 (3.70%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.70%) fastlane
7 6 (3.17%) Selenium
7 6 (3.17%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.65%) GitLab
9 4 (2.12%) JIRA
10 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.59%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.59%) Maven
10 3 (1.59%) Postman
10 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.06%) JUnit
11 2 (1.06%) Mockito
12 1 (0.53%) Xcode
General
1 38 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (8.47%) Finance
4 13 (6.88%) Banking
4 13 (6.88%) Games
5 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.65%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.65%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Publishing
9 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (51.85%) Developer
2 46 (24.34%) Senior
3 36 (19.05%) Java Developer
4 31 (16.40%) Android Developer
5 28 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 28 (14.81%) Software Engineer
6 25 (13.23%) Android Engineer
7 22 (11.64%) Lead
8 20 (10.58%) Java Engineer
9 18 (9.52%) Mobile Engineer
10 17 (8.99%) Senior Android Developer
11 16 (8.47%) AWS Developer
12 15 (7.94%) iOS Developer
13 11 (5.82%) Android Software Engineer
13 11 (5.82%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (5.29%) Lead Developer
14 10 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (4.76%) Applications Developer
16 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
16 8 (4.23%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.52%) Node.js
2 31 (16.40%) AngularJS
2 31 (16.40%) SwiftUI
3 29 (15.34%) RESTful
3 29 (15.34%) Spring Boot
4 26 (13.76%) Spring
5 24 (12.70%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (12.70%) Jetpack Compose
6 20 (10.58%) Android SDK
7 15 (7.94%) GraphQL
8 14 (7.41%) UIKit
9 13 (6.88%) React
10 8 (4.23%) React Native
11 7 (3.70%) .NET
12 6 (3.17%) Kafka
12 6 (3.17%) Retrofit
13 5 (2.65%) OAuth
13 5 (2.65%) OAuth2
14 4 (2.12%) .NET Framework
14 4 (2.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 71 (37.57%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.88%) Social Media
4 10 (5.29%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.23%) PKI
7 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.59%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.06%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.53%) Blog
10 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 84 (44.44%) Android
2 37 (19.58%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.76%) Windows
4 8 (4.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.75%) Agile
3 58 (30.69%) Android Development
4 44 (23.28%) Software Engineering
5 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (20.63%) DevOps
7 33 (17.46%) Test Automation
8 31 (16.40%) Clean Code
9 30 (15.87%) AI
10 29 (15.34%) iOS Development
10 29 (15.34%) TDD
11 28 (14.81%) Design Patterns
11 28 (14.81%) SOLID
12 27 (14.29%) DevSecOps
13 24 (12.70%) Containerisation
13 24 (12.70%) User Experience
14 23 (12.17%) Analytics
14 23 (12.17%) Deployment Automation
15 22 (11.64%) Mentoring
16 21 (11.11%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 107 (56.61%) Java
2 37 (19.58%) Swift
3 34 (17.99%) SQL
3 34 (17.99%) TypeScript
4 17 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.47%) Python
6 9 (4.76%) Bash
6 9 (4.76%) C#
7 8 (4.23%) C++
8 6 (3.17%) Google Apps Script
9 4 (2.12%) Scala
10 3 (1.59%) Groovy
11 2 (1.06%) Dart
11 2 (1.06%) Elixir
11 2 (1.06%) Erlang
11 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.82%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.17%) WCAG
3 4 (2.12%) QA
System Software
1 40 (21.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) KVM
2 6 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.05%) Kubernetes
1 19 (10.05%) Terraform
2 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.23%) Grafana
4 3 (1.59%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.06%) Ansible
5 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (8.47%) Google
2 14 (7.41%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.41%) Braze
3 10 (5.29%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.23%) VMware
6 3 (1.59%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) Intel
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle