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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 531 412
Rank change year-on-year +11 -119 -87
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 195 128 592
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 0.92% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 121 91 481
10th Percentile £55,000 £25,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £45,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,125 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -14.29%

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 16,137 13,972 32,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 31.72% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,077 9,722 24,888
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +12 179 £75,000 +15.38% 66
UK excluding London +3 120 £70,000 +21.74% 35
Work from Home +29 74 £77,500 +67.57% 63
London -14 71 £100,000 +23.08% 37
North of England +7 59 £70,000 +33.33% 20
Yorkshire -14 42 £72,500 +56.76% 9
South East -18 23 £60,000 +11.63% 3
North West +15 15 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Midlands -21 13 - - 2
South West -44 13 £85,000 +88.89% 3
East Midlands - 13 - - 1
Scotland -8 10 £65,000 -23.76% 3
North East -37 2 £47,000 - 3
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 3 (1.54%) JBoss
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.03%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.44%) AWS
2 43 (22.05%) Serverless
3 41 (21.03%) GitHub
4 38 (19.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 30 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 24 (12.31%) AWS Step Functions
9 19 (9.74%) Azure
10 17 (8.72%) Firebase
11 14 (7.18%) GCP
12 13 (6.67%) Stripe
12 13 (6.67%) TestFlight
13 12 (6.15%) Datadog
14 9 (4.62%) Google Workspace
14 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (4.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.90%) DynamoDB
1 31 (15.90%) NoSQL
2 26 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.54%) Redis
4 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.03%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.03%) Looker
4 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (13.85%) Git
2 16 (8.21%) Crashlytics
2 16 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.67%) XCTest
4 7 (3.59%) Android Studio
4 7 (3.59%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.56%) Gradle
6 4 (2.05%) GitLab
7 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.54%) fastlane
7 3 (1.54%) Maven
7 3 (1.54%) Selenium
7 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.03%) JUnit
8 2 (1.03%) Mockito
8 2 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 35 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.72%) Banking
3 16 (8.21%) Finance
3 16 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.69%) Games
5 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.05%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.05%) Retail
7 4 (2.05%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (43.59%) Developer
2 58 (29.74%) Senior
3 35 (17.95%) Software Engineer
4 33 (16.92%) Android Engineer
5 32 (16.41%) Java Developer
6 24 (12.31%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.79%) Android Developer
7 23 (11.79%) Java Engineer
8 22 (11.28%) Lead
9 20 (10.26%) iOS Developer
10 18 (9.23%) Mobile Engineer
11 14 (7.18%) AWS Developer
11 14 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (7.18%) Senior Android Developer
11 14 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (5.64%) Senior Java Engineer
13 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.46%) Node.js
1 36 (18.46%) SwiftUI
2 31 (15.90%) RESTful
3 26 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 25 (12.82%) Spring Boot
5 24 (12.31%) Spring
6 23 (11.79%) Android Jetpack
6 23 (11.79%) Jetpack Compose
7 16 (8.21%) Android SDK
7 16 (8.21%) React
8 15 (7.69%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.67%) UIKit
10 11 (5.64%) React Native
11 6 (3.08%) OAuth
11 6 (3.08%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.56%) Jest
12 5 (2.56%) WebSockets
13 4 (2.05%) gRPC
13 4 (2.05%) Kafka
13 4 (2.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 75 (38.46%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.18%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.67%) Social Media
4 9 (4.62%) PKI
5 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.05%) Blog
7 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 93 (47.69%) Android
2 40 (20.51%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.13%) Linux
4 9 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 66 (33.85%) Android Development
3 60 (30.77%) Agile
4 46 (23.59%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.44%) DevOps
7 33 (16.92%) iOS Development
8 31 (15.90%) SOLID
9 30 (15.38%) TDD
10 29 (14.87%) AI
11 28 (14.36%) Design Patterns
11 28 (14.36%) Test Automation
12 26 (13.33%) Mobile Development
13 25 (12.82%) DevSecOps
13 25 (12.82%) User Experience
14 23 (11.79%) Clean Code
15 22 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (10.77%) Performance Optimisation
17 20 (10.26%) Mentoring
17 20 (10.26%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 111 (56.92%) Java
2 41 (21.03%) Swift
3 30 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 29 (14.87%) SQL
5 19 (9.74%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.23%) Python
7 13 (6.67%) C++
8 10 (5.13%) C#
9 9 (4.62%) Bash
10 7 (3.59%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.54%) Groovy
12 2 (1.03%) Elixir
12 2 (1.03%) Erlang
12 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.03%) Scala
13 1 (0.51%) C
13 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.15%) AWS Certification
3 11 (5.64%) Degree
4 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.56%) QA
2 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (18.97%) Docker
2 7 (3.59%) KVM
2 7 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.26%) Terraform
2 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.62%) Grafana
5 3 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (6.67%) Amplitude
1 13 (6.67%) Braze
1 13 (6.67%) Google
2 11 (5.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.62%) VMware
4 3 (1.54%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.51%) Intel
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle