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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 485 373
Rank change year-on-year -34 -112 -15
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 297 173 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 1.38% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 206 86 273
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £40,000
25th Percentile - £58,125 £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 £80,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -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 18,486 12,502 22,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.56% 25.41% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,150 8,123 13,402
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,862 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,938 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 15 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 15 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 -35 276 £70,000 -6.67% 402
UK excluding London -22 193 £70,000 +3.70% 146
Work from Home +22 112 £70,000 -6.67% 237
London -92 96 £77,500 -6.06% 273
North of England +3 92 £70,000 -6.67% 66
Yorkshire +6 51 £70,000 -6.67% 25
South West -38 43 £70,000 +55.56% 18
North West -2 36 £70,000 - 34
South East -43 28 £60,000 - 16
Midlands -33 15 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Scotland +26 13 £70,000 -6.67% 20
West Midlands -39 11 £55,000 -15.38% 6
North East -60 5 £47,000 -27.69% 7
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
Wales -65 2 £66,000 -12.00% 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 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.58%) AWS
2 59 (19.87%) GitHub
3 45 (15.15%) Azure
4 42 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (11.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (11.11%) Serverless
7 30 (10.10%) Amazon S3
8 29 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (9.76%) Datadog
9 26 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (8.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (8.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 18 (6.06%) GCP
12 13 (4.38%) Firebase
13 11 (3.70%) Google Play
14 8 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (2.69%) TestFlight
15 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 26 (8.75%) DynamoDB
3 20 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.70%) Redis
5 11 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.68%) Big Data
8 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.67%) Looker
9 2 (0.67%) MySQL
9 2 (0.67%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.67%) SQLite
9 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (14.48%) Git
2 19 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.05%) JUnit
4 11 (3.70%) Android Studio
4 11 (3.70%) GitLab
5 9 (3.03%) Appium
5 9 (3.03%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.03%) fastlane
5 9 (3.03%) JIRA
6 8 (2.69%) Gradle
7 6 (2.02%) Xcode
7 6 (2.02%) XCTest
8 4 (1.35%) MLflow
8 4 (1.35%) Postman
8 4 (1.35%) Selenium
8 4 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.01%) Mockito
10 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.67%) git-flow
10 2 (0.67%) Maven
General
1 68 (22.90%) Public Sector
2 64 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.21%) Finance
4 40 (13.47%) Banking
5 30 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.06%) Law
7 11 (3.70%) Retail Banking
8 10 (3.37%) Marketing
9 8 (2.69%) Retail
10 7 (2.36%) Publishing
10 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.02%) Health Technology
11 6 (2.02%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Advertising
13 1 (0.34%) Billing
13 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.34%) Legal
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (54.55%) Developer
2 115 (38.72%) Senior
3 72 (24.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 71 (23.91%) Senior Developer
5 62 (20.88%) Software Engineer
6 38 (12.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 34 (11.45%) Java Developer
8 26 (8.75%) Android Engineer
9 25 (8.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (8.42%) Java Engineer
10 22 (7.41%) Android Developer
11 21 (7.07%) Lead
12 16 (5.39%) AWS Developer
12 16 (5.39%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (4.71%) Android Software Engineer
14 13 (4.38%) Senior Android Developer
15 12 (4.04%) iOS Developer
16 11 (3.70%) Graduate
16 11 (3.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.79%) Node.js
2 37 (12.46%) Spring
3 36 (12.12%) RESTful
4 34 (11.45%) Spring Boot
5 29 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 27 (9.09%) REST
7 25 (8.42%) Android Jetpack
7 25 (8.42%) Jetpack Compose
8 23 (7.74%) React
8 23 (7.74%) Terraform
9 22 (7.41%) SwiftUI
10 20 (6.73%) Kafka
11 15 (5.05%) React Native
12 12 (4.04%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.37%) Android SDK
14 8 (2.69%) OpenAPI
14 8 (2.69%) UIKit
15 7 (2.36%) Dagger
15 7 (2.36%) Retrofit
15 7 (2.36%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.51%) Mobile App
2 23 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.72%) Mobile Banking
4 13 (4.38%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.04%) Blog
6 9 (3.03%) Clustering
7 8 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.35%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.35%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.01%) Pricing Data
12 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (28.28%) Android
2 44 (14.81%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.68%) Windows
4 4 (1.35%) Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (36.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 87 (29.29%) CI/CD
3 83 (27.95%) Software Engineering
4 68 (22.90%) Agile
5 49 (16.50%) DevOps
5 49 (16.50%) Test Automation
6 48 (16.16%) AI
7 43 (14.48%) Android Development
8 41 (13.80%) Clean Code
9 34 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (10.77%) Mentoring
10 32 (10.77%) Mobile Development
11 31 (10.44%) Microservices
12 30 (10.10%) Fintech
13 28 (9.43%) SDLC
13 28 (9.43%) TDD
14 26 (8.75%) DevSecOps
15 25 (8.42%) iOS Development
15 25 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (8.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.11%) Java
2 61 (20.54%) TypeScript
3 40 (13.47%) SQL
4 39 (13.13%) Swift
5 29 (9.76%) Python
6 20 (6.73%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.40%) Go
8 12 (4.04%) Rust
9 11 (3.70%) Scala
10 6 (2.02%) C#
11 4 (1.35%) C++
11 4 (1.35%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.01%) PHP
13 2 (0.67%) Bash
13 2 (0.67%) Dart
Qualifications
1 20 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.05%) Degree
3 12 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.37%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.72%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.71%) QA
3 6 (2.02%) GDPR
3 6 (2.02%) ISO 20022
3 6 (2.02%) WCAG
4 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (16.50%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) KVM
2 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.03%) Grafana
3 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.35%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (9.43%) Google
2 8 (2.69%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.02%) AppDynamics
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.68%) VMware
5 4 (1.35%) Amplitude
5 4 (1.35%) Apple
5 4 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.35%) Braze
6 3 (1.01%) Splunk
7 2 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle
8 1 (0.34%) Revolut