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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 516 401
Rank change year-on-year -60 -115 -65
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 188 166 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.34% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.15% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 122 79 435
10th Percentile £53,750 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,063 £55,000 £53,125
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 £91,889 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,275 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -17.29%

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 17,604 14,419 30,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 29.35% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,591 9,580 22,957
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,195
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 17 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 17 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 -50 180 £75,000 +7.14% 80
UK excluding London -5 126 £70,000 -1.75% 38
North of England +28 70 £70,000 -9.68% 8
Work from Home +3 70 £80,000 +25.49% 29
London -64 59 £80,000 +6.67% 53
Yorkshire +4 45 £75,000 -16.67% 1
North West +7 20 £65,000 -11.86% 7
South East -23 20 £60,000 - 13
South West -48 16 £85,000 +88.89% 10
Midlands -18 14 - - 2
East Midlands - 14 - - 2
North East -53 5 £47,000 -
Scotland 0 4 £65,000 -49.09% 2
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 (1.60%) JBoss
2 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.83%) AWS
2 57 (30.32%) GitHub
3 49 (26.06%) Serverless
4 40 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (20.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (18.62%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (18.09%) Amazon S3
8 32 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (14.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 26 (13.83%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (12.23%) Azure
12 22 (11.70%) Firebase
13 15 (7.98%) Datadog
13 15 (7.98%) TestFlight
14 14 (7.45%) GCP
14 14 (7.45%) Stripe
15 9 (4.79%) Google Play
16 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.49%) DynamoDB
2 28 (14.89%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (14.89%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.13%) Redis
4 4 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.60%) Big Data
6 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.06%) Looker
6 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.06%) SQLite
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (18.09%) Git
2 22 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.64%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.45%) XCTest
5 8 (4.26%) Gradle
6 7 (3.72%) fastlane
6 7 (3.72%) GitLab
7 6 (3.19%) Android Studio
7 6 (3.19%) Selenium
8 5 (2.66%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.13%) JIRA
10 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.60%) JUnit
10 3 (1.60%) Maven
10 3 (1.60%) Postman
10 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.06%) Mockito
General
1 43 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (9.04%) Finance
4 13 (6.91%) Games
5 12 (6.38%) Banking
6 7 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.19%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.19%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.66%) Retail
9 4 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Publishing
11 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (54.26%) Developer
2 43 (22.87%) Senior
3 37 (19.68%) Java Developer
4 34 (18.09%) Android Developer
5 31 (16.49%) Senior Developer
6 29 (15.43%) Software Engineer
7 26 (13.83%) Android Engineer
8 21 (11.17%) Lead
9 19 (10.11%) Java Engineer
9 19 (10.11%) Senior Android Developer
10 18 (9.57%) Mobile Engineer
11 17 (9.04%) AWS Developer
12 14 (7.45%) iOS Developer
13 13 (6.91%) Android Software Engineer
14 11 (5.85%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.32%) Lead Developer
16 9 (4.79%) Applications Developer
16 9 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
16 9 (4.79%) Mobile Developer
16 9 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.62%) Node.js
2 32 (17.02%) AngularJS
3 30 (15.96%) SwiftUI
4 29 (15.43%) Spring Boot
5 28 (14.89%) RESTful
6 25 (13.30%) Android Jetpack
6 25 (13.30%) Jetpack Compose
6 25 (13.30%) Spring
7 21 (11.17%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.98%) UIKit
9 14 (7.45%) GraphQL
10 12 (6.38%) React
11 8 (4.26%) Kafka
11 8 (4.26%) React Native
12 7 (3.72%) .NET
13 6 (3.19%) Retrofit
14 4 (2.13%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.13%) .NET Framework
14 4 (2.13%) ASP.NET
14 4 (2.13%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 70 (37.23%) Mobile App
2 15 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.91%) Social Media
4 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.26%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (3.72%) PKI
7 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.13%) Hackathon
8 4 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.06%) Blog
10 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 84 (44.68%) Android
2 38 (20.21%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.26%) Windows
4 7 (3.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (51.60%) CI/CD
2 64 (34.04%) Agile
3 59 (31.38%) Android Development
4 43 (22.87%) Software Engineering
5 40 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.21%) DevOps
6 38 (20.21%) Test Automation
7 37 (19.68%) Clean Code
8 35 (18.62%) AI
9 32 (17.02%) Design Patterns
10 31 (16.49%) TDD
11 29 (15.43%) iOS Development
12 28 (14.89%) DevSecOps
13 27 (14.36%) SOLID
14 24 (12.77%) User Experience
15 23 (12.23%) Analytics
15 23 (12.23%) Deployment Automation
16 22 (11.70%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (11.70%) Mentoring
17 21 (11.17%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (56.91%) Java
2 37 (19.68%) TypeScript
3 36 (19.15%) SQL
3 36 (19.15%) Swift
4 17 (9.04%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.91%) Python
6 9 (4.79%) C#
7 7 (3.72%) Bash
7 7 (3.72%) C++
8 6 (3.19%) Scala
9 5 (2.66%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.60%) Groovy
11 2 (1.06%) Dart
11 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.32%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (3.19%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.06%) Degree
5 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.19%) QA
2 6 (3.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (20.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) KVM
2 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (9.04%) Terraform
2 16 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.66%) Grafana
5 3 (1.60%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (8.51%) Google
2 14 (7.45%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.45%) Braze
3 9 (4.79%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.72%) VMware
5 3 (1.60%) Splunk
6 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.53%) Apple
7 1 (0.53%) Intel
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle