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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 507 405
Rank change year-on-year -55 -102 -57
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 187 169 625
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.34% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.17% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 120 83 446
10th Percentile £53,750 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,563 £55,000 £53,813
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 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £135,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -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 17,645 14,413 31,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 29.33% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 9,591 23,808
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £78,750
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 15 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 15 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 -46 179 £75,000 +9.09% 179
UK excluding London 0 125 £70,000 -3.45% 157
Work from Home +5 70 £80,000 +28.00% 162
North of England +21 68 £70,000 -9.68% 40
London -80 60 £80,000 +14.29% 72
Yorkshire +5 44 £75,000 -16.67% 16
South East -22 21 £60,000 - 26
North West +4 19 £65,000 -11.86% 19
South West -60 16 £85,000 +88.89% 18
Midlands -17 14 - - 23
East Midlands - 14 - - 14
North East -53 5 £47,000 - 5
Scotland +10 4 £65,000 -49.09% 29
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 7

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 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.97%) AWS
2 55 (29.41%) GitHub
3 48 (25.67%) Serverless
4 39 (20.86%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (20.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (17.65%) Amazon S3
8 31 (16.58%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (14.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (14.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 25 (13.37%) AWS Step Functions
11 22 (11.76%) Azure
12 21 (11.23%) Firebase
13 15 (8.02%) TestFlight
14 14 (7.49%) Datadog
14 14 (7.49%) GCP
14 14 (7.49%) Stripe
15 9 (4.81%) Google Play
16 8 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (4.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.95%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.04%) DynamoDB
2 27 (14.44%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (13.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.14%) Redis
4 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.60%) Big Data
6 2 (1.07%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.07%) Looker
6 2 (1.07%) SQLite
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (16.58%) Git
2 21 (11.23%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.70%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.49%) XCTest
5 8 (4.28%) Gradle
6 7 (3.74%) fastlane
7 6 (3.21%) Android Studio
7 6 (3.21%) GitLab
7 6 (3.21%) Selenium
7 6 (3.21%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.14%) JIRA
9 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.60%) JUnit
9 3 (1.60%) Maven
9 3 (1.60%) Postman
9 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.07%) Mockito
General
1 42 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (9.09%) Finance
4 13 (6.95%) Games
5 12 (6.42%) Banking
6 7 (3.74%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.21%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.21%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.67%) Retail
9 4 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.07%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (54.01%) Developer
2 42 (22.46%) Senior
3 36 (19.25%) Java Developer
4 34 (18.18%) Android Developer
5 30 (16.04%) Senior Developer
6 29 (15.51%) Software Engineer
7 26 (13.90%) Android Engineer
8 21 (11.23%) Lead
9 19 (10.16%) Senior Android Developer
10 18 (9.63%) Java Engineer
10 18 (9.63%) Mobile Engineer
11 17 (9.09%) AWS Developer
12 15 (8.02%) iOS Developer
13 13 (6.95%) Android Software Engineer
14 11 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.35%) Lead Developer
16 9 (4.81%) Applications Developer
16 9 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
17 8 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
17 8 (4.28%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.65%) Node.js
2 31 (16.58%) AngularJS
3 30 (16.04%) SwiftUI
4 28 (14.97%) RESTful
4 28 (14.97%) Spring Boot
5 24 (12.83%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (12.83%) Jetpack Compose
5 24 (12.83%) Spring
6 21 (11.23%) Android SDK
7 14 (7.49%) GraphQL
7 14 (7.49%) UIKit
8 11 (5.88%) React
9 8 (4.28%) Kafka
10 7 (3.74%) .NET
10 7 (3.74%) React Native
11 6 (3.21%) Retrofit
12 4 (2.14%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.14%) .NET Framework
12 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 71 (37.97%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.02%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.95%) Social Media
4 9 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.28%) Mobile Banking
5 8 (4.28%) PKI
6 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.14%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) Blog
9 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 84 (44.92%) Android
2 38 (20.32%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.81%) Windows
4 8 (4.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (49.73%) CI/CD
2 63 (33.69%) Agile
3 59 (31.55%) Android Development
4 43 (22.99%) Software Engineering
5 41 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (19.79%) DevOps
6 37 (19.79%) Test Automation
7 35 (18.72%) Clean Code
8 33 (17.65%) AI
9 31 (16.58%) Design Patterns
10 30 (16.04%) TDD
11 29 (15.51%) iOS Development
12 28 (14.97%) SOLID
13 27 (14.44%) DevSecOps
14 25 (13.37%) User Experience
15 23 (12.30%) Analytics
15 23 (12.30%) Deployment Automation
16 22 (11.76%) Containerisation
17 21 (11.23%) Architectural Patterns
17 21 (11.23%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 105 (56.15%) Java
2 36 (19.25%) Swift
3 35 (18.72%) TypeScript
4 34 (18.18%) SQL
5 17 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.49%) Python
7 9 (4.81%) C#
8 8 (4.28%) C++
9 7 (3.74%) Bash
10 6 (3.21%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (3.21%) Scala
11 3 (1.60%) Groovy
12 2 (1.07%) Dart
12 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.81%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.07%) Degree
5 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.21%) QA
2 6 (3.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (20.32%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) KVM
2 6 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 17 (9.09%) Terraform
2 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.21%) Grafana
4 3 (1.60%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (9.09%) Google
2 14 (7.49%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.49%) Braze
3 10 (5.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.81%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.28%) VMware
6 3 (1.60%) Splunk
7 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.07%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.53%) Intel
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle