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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 466 365
Rank change year-on-year -23 -101 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 153 268 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.48% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 106 160 376
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £49,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.28% +4.47%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% -7.14%

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 11,542 18,125 21,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.38% 33.78% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,455 10,579 17,510
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,750 £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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -17 139 £75,000 -6.25% 114
London +1 88 £95,000 +11.76% 34
Work from Home -2 57 £75,000 +25.00% 48
UK excluding London -9 57 £65,000 +36.84% 94
North of England +10 20 £68,750 +52.78% 25
South East -7 18 £60,000 +26.32% 26
Yorkshire -11 12 £72,500 +61.11% 11
South West 0 9 £75,000 +22.45% 12
North West +20 8 £60,000 -2.04% 12
Scotland -9 7 £75,000 +66.67% 8
Midlands +27 3 £65,000 +44.44% 9
West Midlands +24 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
North East +4 2 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.65%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.96%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.95%) AWS
2 20 (13.07%) Azure
2 20 (13.07%) SaaS
3 10 (6.54%) GCP
4 8 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (3.92%) GitHub
6 5 (3.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.27%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.61%) Figma
7 4 (2.61%) Firebase
7 4 (2.61%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) AMQP
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.84%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.23%) Redis
3 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.27%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.96%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 14 (9.15%) Git
2 5 (3.27%) Android Studio
3 4 (2.61%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.31%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.31%) Postman
5 2 (1.31%) Xcode
6 1 (0.65%) Appium
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.65%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.65%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.65%) GitLab
6 1 (0.65%) Gradle
6 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.65%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.53%) Finance
3 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.54%) Banking
5 8 (5.23%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.58%) Games
7 6 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.92%) Retail
8 4 (2.61%) Billing
8 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.61%) Law
9 3 (1.96%) Marketing
9 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 57 (37.25%) Senior
2 50 (32.68%) Developer
3 42 (27.45%) Software Engineer
4 23 (15.03%) Android Engineer
5 21 (13.73%) Java Engineer
5 21 (13.73%) Senior Java Engineer
6 17 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 16 (10.46%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Lead
9 13 (8.50%) Development Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) iOS Developer
9 13 (8.50%) Software Development Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) Senior Android Engineer
10 12 (7.84%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Ruby Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Lead Java Developer
13 7 (4.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.34%) React
2 23 (15.03%) Spring
3 22 (14.38%) RESTful
4 18 (11.76%) Android Jetpack
4 18 (11.76%) Jetpack Compose
5 16 (10.46%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.80%) SwiftUI
7 11 (7.19%) REST
8 10 (6.54%) Flutter
9 9 (5.88%) Kafka
9 9 (5.88%) WebSockets
10 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
10 8 (5.23%) Node.js
11 6 (3.92%) React Native
12 5 (3.27%) .NET
12 5 (3.27%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.27%) Memcached
12 5 (3.27%) Symfony
12 5 (3.27%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (3.27%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.88%) Mobile App
2 14 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.58%) Blog
5 6 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.27%) Educational Technology
6 5 (3.27%) Mobile Banking
6 5 (3.27%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.61%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.61%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.61%) PKI
8 3 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) IoT
10 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.65%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 65 (42.48%) Android
2 28 (18.30%) Apple iOS
3 12 (7.84%) Linux
4 9 (5.88%) Windows
5 4 (2.61%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.99%) Software Engineering
2 45 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 44 (28.76%) Android Development
4 39 (25.49%) Agile
5 37 (24.18%) Mentoring
6 28 (18.30%) AI
7 27 (17.65%) Mobile Development
8 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (14.38%) Machine Learning
10 21 (13.73%) TDD
11 19 (12.42%) Memory Management
11 19 (12.42%) Test Automation
12 18 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (11.76%) Code Quality
12 18 (11.76%) Design Patterns
12 18 (11.76%) Multithreading
12 18 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 17 (11.11%) Event-Driven
13 17 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 90 (58.82%) Java
2 32 (20.92%) Scala
3 23 (15.03%) Swift
4 19 (12.42%) Python
5 15 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.15%) Ruby
7 11 (7.19%) C++
8 10 (6.54%) C#
8 10 (6.54%) Go
8 10 (6.54%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.88%) SQL
10 7 (4.58%) PHP
11 4 (2.61%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (1.31%) C
13 1 (0.65%) Bash
13 1 (0.65%) Elixir
13 1 (0.65%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 26 (16.99%) Degree
2 23 (15.03%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 14 (9.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.61%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.61%) OSCE
7 4 (2.61%) OSCP
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) QA
2 5 (3.27%) GDPR
3 4 (2.61%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.61%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (8.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) KVM
2 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.23%) Terraform
3 5 (3.27%) Grafana
3 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (3.92%) Google
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.61%) VMware
3 1 (0.65%) Samsung
3 1 (0.65%) Splunk