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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 454 409
Rank change year-on-year -48 -45 -53
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 200 193 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.45% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.48% 1.33% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 129 144 456
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £45,938 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.35% +3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £109,063 £103,750
90th Percentile £119,750 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -17.86% -6.67%

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 13,540 14,554 30,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.02% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,499 10,215 24,198
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -1.82%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -12 180 £75,000 -6.25% 53
UK excluding London -15 105 £68,750 +19.57% 37
London -16 85 £100,000 +17.65% 28
Work from Home -35 65 £72,500 +20.83% 44
North of England -11 51 £71,250 +54.05% 15
Yorkshire -17 34 £72,500 +61.11% 8
South East -5 22 £60,000 +60.00% 12
North West -9 17 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Scotland -30 11 £67,500 - 4
South West -32 10 £73,750 +1.72% 2
Midlands -13 9 £75,000 +36.36% 1
East Midlands - 8 - -
West Midlands -3 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 2
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 2 (1.00%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.50%) AWS
2 27 (13.50%) GitHub
3 26 (13.00%) Serverless
4 25 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (12.00%) Azure
6 18 (9.00%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (9.00%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.00%) GCP
8 15 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 15 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.50%) Firebase
10 12 (6.00%) SaaS
11 9 (4.50%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.00%) Google Workspace
12 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (4.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.00%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
2 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.00%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.00%) DynamoDB
3 15 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.50%) Redis
5 5 (2.50%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.50%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 18 (9.00%) Git
2 13 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.00%) Crashlytics
4 8 (4.00%) XCTest
5 7 (3.50%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.00%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.50%) GitLab
7 3 (1.50%) Maven
8 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.00%) Gradle
8 2 (1.00%) Selenium
8 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.00%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Appium
9 1 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.50%) fastlane
9 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (17.50%) Finance
2 33 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.50%) Games
4 18 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.50%) Banking
6 10 (5.00%) Retail
7 9 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.50%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.00%) Law
11 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Front Office
13 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (39.50%) Developer
2 66 (33.00%) Senior
3 46 (23.00%) Software Engineer
4 29 (14.50%) Android Engineer
5 22 (11.00%) Java Engineer
6 21 (10.50%) iOS Developer
6 21 (10.50%) Java Developer
6 21 (10.50%) Senior Java Engineer
7 19 (9.50%) Android Developer
7 19 (9.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (9.00%) Lead
8 18 (9.00%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.00%) Development Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Software Development Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Senior Android Developer
12 10 (5.00%) Mobile Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Ruby Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.00%) SwiftUI
2 30 (15.00%) RESTful
3 28 (14.00%) Spring
4 26 (13.00%) Android Jetpack
4 26 (13.00%) Jetpack Compose
5 25 (12.50%) Node.js
6 24 (12.00%) Spring Boot
7 20 (10.00%) React
8 18 (9.00%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.00%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.50%) Android SDK
11 8 (4.00%) Kafka
11 8 (4.00%) REST
11 8 (4.00%) UIKit
11 8 (4.00%) WebSockets
12 6 (3.00%) OAuth
12 6 (3.00%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.00%) React Native
13 5 (2.50%) Memcached
14 4 (2.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 67 (33.50%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.50%) Social Media
4 12 (6.00%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.00%) Blog
6 8 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.00%) PKI
7 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.50%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.00%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.00%) Educational Technology
9 4 (2.00%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.00%) Mobile Games
10 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.50%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 88 (44.00%) Android
2 37 (18.50%) Apple iOS
3 16 (8.00%) Linux
4 12 (6.00%) Windows
5 4 (2.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.00%) CI/CD
2 67 (33.50%) Android Development
3 61 (30.50%) Agile
4 56 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (20.50%) AI
7 34 (17.00%) Mentoring
8 33 (16.50%) Design Patterns
8 33 (16.50%) SOLID
9 31 (15.50%) TDD
10 30 (15.00%) iOS Development
11 27 (13.50%) Test Automation
12 26 (13.00%) Mobile Development
12 26 (13.00%) User Experience
13 24 (12.00%) DevOps
13 24 (12.00%) Memory Management
14 23 (11.50%) Multithreading
14 23 (11.50%) Performance Optimisation
15 22 (11.00%) Code Quality
15 22 (11.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 124 (62.00%) Java
2 35 (17.50%) Swift
3 24 (12.00%) Python
4 21 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 21 (10.50%) Scala
5 18 (9.00%) SQL
6 17 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 15 (7.50%) C++
8 14 (7.00%) Ruby
9 10 (5.00%) C#
10 7 (3.50%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (2.50%) Bash
12 4 (2.00%) PHP
13 2 (1.00%) C
13 2 (1.00%) Elixir
13 2 (1.00%) Erlang
13 2 (1.00%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) Go
14 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.00%) Degree
3 17 (8.50%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.50%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.50%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.00%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.00%) OSCE
9 4 (2.00%) OSCP
10 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.00%) QA
2 5 (2.50%) GDPR
3 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.00%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (15.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.50%) KVM
2 7 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (14.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.00%) Terraform
3 9 (4.50%) Grafana
3 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.50%) Google
2 8 (4.00%) Amplitude
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.50%) VMware
4 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.50%) Samsung
4 1 (0.50%) Splunk