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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 519 386
Rank change year-on-year -15 -133 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 283 162 460
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.27% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 198 74 276
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £40,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 18,350 12,783 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 25.68% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,186 13,630
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -29 263 £70,000 -6.67% 531
UK excluding London +8 185 £70,000 +16.67% 160
Work from Home +37 108 £70,000 -6.67% 200
London -86 90 £77,500 -3.13% 384
North of England -2 87 £70,000 +3.70% 78
Yorkshire +6 49 £70,000 -1.75% 30
South West -40 43 £70,000 +55.56% 17
North West +2 33 £70,000 +3.70% 38
South East -43 25 £60,000 - 24
Midlands -32 16 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Scotland - 12 £70,000 - 21
West Midlands -33 11 £55,000 -15.38% 8
North East -62 5 £47,000 -27.69% 10
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 2

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 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 69 (24.38%) AWS
2 57 (20.14%) GitHub
3 40 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
4 37 (13.07%) Azure
5 34 (12.01%) Serverless
6 33 (11.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (10.60%) Amazon S3
8 29 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (9.89%) Datadog
10 25 (8.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (8.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 24 (8.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 18 (6.36%) GCP
13 14 (4.95%) Firebase
14 11 (3.89%) Google Play
15 8 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (2.83%) TestFlight
16 7 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
17 6 (2.12%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.19%) DynamoDB
2 24 (8.48%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.07%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.53%) Redis
7 5 (1.77%) Big Data
8 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.71%) Looker
9 2 (0.71%) MySQL
9 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.71%) SQLite
9 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (14.49%) Git
2 16 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.30%) JUnit
4 10 (3.53%) Android Studio
4 10 (3.53%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.18%) Appium
5 9 (3.18%) Gradle
6 8 (2.83%) fastlane
6 8 (2.83%) GitLab
6 8 (2.83%) JIRA
7 7 (2.47%) XCTest
8 6 (2.12%) Xcode
9 4 (1.41%) MLflow
9 4 (1.41%) Mockito
9 4 (1.41%) Postman
9 4 (1.41%) Selenium
9 4 (1.41%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.71%) git-flow
10 2 (0.71%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (22.97%) Public Sector
2 61 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 56 (19.79%) Finance
4 34 (12.01%) Banking
5 28 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.01%) Law
7 10 (3.53%) Marketing
8 7 (2.47%) Health Technology
8 7 (2.47%) Publishing
8 7 (2.47%) Retail
8 7 (2.47%) Retail Banking
8 7 (2.47%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (54.77%) Developer
2 106 (37.46%) Senior
3 68 (24.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 67 (23.67%) Senior Developer
5 59 (20.85%) Software Engineer
6 34 (12.01%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (11.31%) Java Developer
8 28 (9.89%) Android Engineer
9 22 (7.77%) Android Developer
9 22 (7.77%) Java Engineer
10 21 (7.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 21 (7.42%) Lead
11 16 (5.65%) Android Software Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (4.59%) Senior Android Developer
13 13 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (3.89%) iOS Developer
15 9 (3.18%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.18%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.01%) Node.js
2 33 (11.66%) RESTful
2 33 (11.66%) Spring
3 31 (10.95%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.25%) AngularJS
5 26 (9.19%) Android Jetpack
5 26 (9.19%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (8.48%) REST
7 22 (7.77%) SwiftUI
8 20 (7.07%) Kafka
9 19 (6.71%) React
9 19 (6.71%) Terraform
10 15 (5.30%) React Native
11 12 (4.24%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.53%) Android SDK
13 9 (3.18%) UIKit
14 8 (2.83%) OpenAPI
15 7 (2.47%) Dagger
15 7 (2.47%) Retrofit
15 7 (2.47%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.02%) Mobile App
2 20 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.95%) Mobile Banking
4 12 (4.24%) Blog
4 12 (4.24%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.83%) Clustering
7 6 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.41%) PKI
10 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.06%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.71%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.35%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (29.68%) Android
2 43 (15.19%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.77%) Windows
4 4 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (35.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (30.04%) CI/CD
3 76 (26.86%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.32%) Agile
5 45 (15.90%) Android Development
5 45 (15.90%) DevOps
5 45 (15.90%) Test Automation
6 43 (15.19%) AI
6 43 (15.19%) Clean Code
7 33 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (11.31%) Mobile Development
9 28 (9.89%) TDD
10 27 (9.54%) DevSecOps
10 27 (9.54%) Fintech
10 27 (9.54%) Mentoring
10 27 (9.54%) Microservices
11 25 (8.83%) iOS Development
11 25 (8.83%) SDLC
12 24 (8.48%) MVVM
12 24 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 120 (42.40%) Java
2 53 (18.73%) TypeScript
3 38 (13.43%) Swift
4 37 (13.07%) SQL
5 24 (8.48%) Python
6 16 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.95%) Go
8 11 (3.89%) Scala
9 8 (2.83%) Rust
10 6 (2.12%) C#
11 4 (1.41%) C++
11 4 (1.41%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.06%) PHP
13 2 (0.71%) Bash
13 2 (0.71%) Dart
Qualifications
1 18 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.95%) Degree
3 11 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.83%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.01%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.95%) QA
3 6 (2.12%) WCAG
4 5 (1.77%) GDPR
4 5 (1.77%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (15.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.41%) KVM
2 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.18%) Grafana
3 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.41%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (8.48%) Google
2 8 (2.83%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.47%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.12%) VMware
5 5 (1.77%) Amplitude
5 5 (1.77%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.77%) Braze
6 4 (1.41%) Apple
6 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.06%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle
9 1 (0.35%) Revolut