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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 502 384
Rank change year-on-year -39 -118 -49
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 248 159 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.16% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 168 65 346
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,524 13,683 25,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 27.38% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,960 17,340
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 26 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 26 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 -22 234 £72,500 - 88
UK excluding London +8 152 £70,000 +7.69% 51
London -69 89 £80,000 +6.67% 55
Work from Home +39 83 £80,000 +23.08% 46
North of England +7 74 £70,000 -9.68% 14
Yorkshire -5 43 £75,000 -10.45% 6
South West -56 28 £80,000 +77.78% 24
North West +11 26 £70,000 -5.08% 8
South East -26 24 £60,000 - 6
Midlands -21 18 £55,000 -15.38% 3
East Midlands - 11 - - 1
West Midlands -26 7 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Scotland - 6 £70,000 - 4
North East -59 5 £47,000 -27.69%
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 6 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.45%) AWS
2 61 (24.60%) GitHub
3 46 (18.55%) Serverless
4 45 (18.15%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (15.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (14.11%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (13.71%) Amazon S3
8 30 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (11.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (10.89%) Azure
11 26 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 25 (10.08%) Datadog
13 20 (8.06%) Firebase
14 17 (6.85%) GCP
15 12 (4.84%) TestFlight
16 11 (4.44%) Google Play
16 11 (4.44%) Stripe
17 8 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 27 (10.89%) NoSQL
3 25 (10.08%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.82%) Redis
7 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.21%) Big Data
8 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.81%) Looker
9 2 (0.81%) MySQL
9 2 (0.81%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.81%) SQLite
9 2 (0.81%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.94%) Git
2 19 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.85%) Crashlytics
4 13 (5.24%) XCTest
5 10 (4.03%) Gradle
6 9 (3.63%) Appium
7 8 (3.23%) JUnit
8 7 (2.82%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.82%) fastlane
8 7 (2.82%) JIRA
9 6 (2.42%) GitLab
10 5 (2.02%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.02%) Xcode
11 4 (1.61%) MLflow
11 4 (1.61%) Mockito
11 4 (1.61%) Selenium
12 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.21%) Maven
12 3 (1.21%) Postman
13 2 (0.81%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.55%) Finance
3 37 (14.92%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.27%) Banking
6 13 (5.24%) Law
7 10 (4.03%) Marketing
8 8 (3.23%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.23%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.82%) Publishing
10 6 (2.42%) Games
10 6 (2.42%) Retail
11 5 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (52.82%) Developer
2 74 (29.84%) Senior
3 47 (18.95%) Software Engineer
4 43 (17.34%) Senior Developer
5 35 (14.11%) Java Developer
6 31 (12.50%) Android Developer
6 31 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (10.48%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.68%) Lead
9 21 (8.47%) Java Engineer
10 19 (7.66%) Senior Android Developer
11 17 (6.85%) Android Software Engineer
12 15 (6.05%) AWS Developer
12 15 (6.05%) Mobile Engineer
13 14 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (5.65%) iOS Developer
14 13 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
15 11 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (4.03%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.92%) Node.js
2 35 (14.11%) RESTful
3 34 (13.71%) Spring
4 33 (13.31%) Spring Boot
5 32 (12.90%) SwiftUI
6 31 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 26 (10.48%) Android Jetpack
7 26 (10.48%) Jetpack Compose
8 20 (8.06%) Kafka
9 19 (7.66%) React
9 19 (7.66%) React Native
9 19 (7.66%) REST
9 19 (7.66%) Terraform
10 18 (7.26%) GraphQL
11 16 (6.45%) Android SDK
12 15 (6.05%) UIKit
13 8 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (3.23%) Retrofit
14 7 (2.82%) OpenAPI
15 6 (2.42%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 70 (28.23%) Mobile App
2 17 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.03%) Mobile Banking
4 10 (4.03%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.63%) Blog
6 7 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.42%) Clustering
7 6 (2.42%) PKI
7 6 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.42%) Social Media
8 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.21%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 95 (38.31%) Android
2 53 (21.37%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.82%) Windows
4 6 (2.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (40.73%) CI/CD
2 73 (29.44%) Agile
3 71 (28.63%) Software Engineering
4 60 (24.19%) Android Development
5 50 (20.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (18.95%) Clean Code
7 42 (16.94%) AI
7 42 (16.94%) DevOps
8 40 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 37 (14.92%) Mobile Development
10 34 (13.71%) iOS Development
11 33 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (11.69%) TDD
13 27 (10.89%) Design Patterns
13 27 (10.89%) DevSecOps
14 26 (10.48%) Analytics
14 26 (10.48%) SOLID
15 25 (10.08%) SDLC
15 25 (10.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 115 (46.37%) Java
2 50 (20.16%) Swift
2 50 (20.16%) TypeScript
3 41 (16.53%) SQL
4 21 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.45%) Python
6 9 (3.63%) Scala
7 7 (2.82%) C#
8 6 (2.42%) C++
8 6 (2.42%) Go
9 5 (2.02%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (1.61%) Bash
11 3 (1.21%) PHP
12 2 (0.81%) Dart
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.84%) Degree
3 8 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.65%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.03%) QA
3 7 (2.82%) WCAG
4 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.21%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (18.55%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) KVM
2 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.03%) Grafana
3 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.61%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (7.26%) Google
2 11 (4.44%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.44%) Braze
3 9 (3.63%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.63%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.82%) VMware
5 4 (1.61%) Apple
6 3 (1.21%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle
6 3 (1.21%) Splunk
7 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut