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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 449 371
Rank change year-on-year -49 -78 -41
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 154 278 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 1.49% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 107 168 358
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - -4.28% +4.47%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £115,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £48,750 £63,750
% change year-on-year +48.72% -23.53% -8.60%

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 11,557 18,690 20,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 33.84% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,453 11,016 16,552
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,563
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £106,250
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 1 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 1 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 -19 141 £80,000 - 94
London -16 93 £95,000 +11.76% 35
Work from Home -6 57 £77,500 +29.17% 58
UK excluding London -10 52 £72,500 +48.72% 69
North of England +19 21 £72,500 +61.11% 33
South East -15 16 £60,000 +26.32% 13
Yorkshire 0 13 £72,500 +61.11% 9
North West +20 8 £67,500 +10.20% 23
South West +1 7 £95,000 +55.10% 6
Scotland -7 5 £75,000 +51.52% 8
Midlands +21 3 £65,000 +44.44% 3
West Midlands +18 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
North East +7 2 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 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 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.65%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.95%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 56 (36.36%) AWS
2 20 (12.99%) Azure
2 20 (12.99%) SaaS
3 10 (6.49%) GCP
4 8 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (3.90%) GitHub
6 5 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (3.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.25%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.60%) Figma
7 4 (2.60%) Firebase
7 4 (2.60%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) AMQP
2 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.84%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.19%) Redis
3 8 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.25%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.95%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 15 (9.74%) Git
2 4 (2.60%) Android Studio
2 4 (2.60%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.30%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) Appium
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.65%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.65%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Gradle
5 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.65%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.65%) Xcode
5 1 (0.65%) XCUITest
General
1 40 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.38%) Finance
3 16 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.49%) Banking
5 8 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.55%) Games
7 6 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.90%) Retail
8 5 (3.25%) Law
9 4 (2.60%) Billing
9 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.95%) Marketing
10 3 (1.95%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 59 (38.31%) Senior
2 54 (35.06%) Developer
3 40 (25.97%) Software Engineer
4 24 (15.58%) Android Engineer
5 20 (12.99%) Java Engineer
6 19 (12.34%) Senior Java Engineer
7 18 (11.69%) Java Developer
7 18 (11.69%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.74%) Lead
9 13 (8.44%) Development Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Senior Android Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Software Development Engineer
10 12 (7.79%) iOS Developer
11 10 (6.49%) Ruby Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Android Developer
12 8 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.55%) Senior Development Engineer
13 7 (4.55%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.58%) React
2 21 (13.64%) Spring
3 20 (12.99%) RESTful
4 19 (12.34%) Android Jetpack
4 19 (12.34%) Jetpack Compose
5 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.44%) SwiftUI
7 11 (7.14%) REST
8 10 (6.49%) Flutter
8 10 (6.49%) Kafka
9 9 (5.84%) WebSockets
10 8 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.55%) Node.js
11 7 (4.55%) React Native
12 5 (3.25%) .NET
12 5 (3.25%) Memcached
12 5 (3.25%) Symfony
12 5 (3.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (3.25%) WebGL
13 4 (2.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 15 (9.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.55%) Blog
4 7 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.90%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.25%) Educational Technology
6 5 (3.25%) Mobile Banking
6 5 (3.25%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.60%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.60%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.60%) PKI
7 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.30%) IoT
10 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.65%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 65 (42.21%) Android
2 29 (18.83%) Apple iOS
3 12 (7.79%) Linux
4 9 (5.84%) Windows
5 4 (2.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.77%) Software Engineering
2 45 (29.22%) Android Development
3 43 (27.92%) CI/CD
4 42 (27.27%) Agile
5 39 (25.32%) Mentoring
6 30 (19.48%) AI
7 28 (18.18%) Mobile Development
8 24 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (14.94%) Machine Learning
10 21 (13.64%) TDD
11 19 (12.34%) Code Quality
11 19 (12.34%) Design Patterns
11 19 (12.34%) Test Automation
12 18 (11.69%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (11.69%) Computer Science
12 18 (11.69%) Roadmaps
13 17 (11.04%) Event-Driven
13 17 (11.04%) Memory Management
14 16 (10.39%) iOS Development
14 16 (10.39%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 92 (59.74%) Java
2 33 (21.43%) Scala
3 23 (14.94%) Swift
4 18 (11.69%) Python
5 16 (10.39%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.09%) Ruby
7 12 (7.79%) C++
8 10 (6.49%) C#
8 10 (6.49%) Go
8 10 (6.49%) SQL
8 10 (6.49%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.55%) PHP
10 4 (2.60%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (1.30%) C
11 2 (1.30%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (16.88%) Degree
2 22 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.69%) Master's Degree
4 14 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.60%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.60%) OSCE
7 4 (2.60%) 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 12 (7.79%) QA
2 5 (3.25%) GDPR
3 4 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.60%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (8.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.60%) KVM
2 4 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.55%) Terraform
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (4.55%) Google
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.60%) VMware
4 1 (0.65%) Samsung
4 1 (0.65%) Splunk