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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 503 414
Rank change year-on-year -36 -89 -85
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 195 165 639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.18% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 125 75 477
10th Percentile £51,250 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £136,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +12.07% -14.07%

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 16,716 13,966 34,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 31.23% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,809 9,201 25,948
10th Percentile £36,750 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -29 184 £75,000 +15.38% 38
UK excluding London +11 130 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Work from Home +24 76 £75,000 +25.00% 21
North of England +24 72 £70,750 +1.07% 4
London -63 63 £86,250 +18.97% 19
Yorkshire +8 48 £72,500 -19.44% 2
South East -16 22 £60,000 - 5
North West +23 19 £65,000 -5.45% 2
Midlands -14 14 - - 2
East Midlands - 14 - -
South West -59 13 £85,000 +88.89% 7
Scotland +9 7 £65,000 -49.09%
North East -43 5 £47,000 -
Wales - 2 £66,000 -

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 3 (1.54%) JBoss
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.49%) AWS
2 54 (27.69%) GitHub
3 51 (26.15%) Serverless
4 42 (21.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (18.46%) Amazon S3
8 35 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (15.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (15.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 29 (14.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (11.79%) Azure
12 21 (10.77%) Firebase
13 15 (7.69%) Datadog
13 15 (7.69%) GCP
13 15 (7.69%) TestFlight
14 14 (7.18%) Stripe
15 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (4.10%) Entra ID
15 8 (4.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.44%) DynamoDB
2 33 (16.92%) NoSQL
3 31 (15.90%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.03%) Looker
5 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.03%) Redis
5 2 (1.03%) SQLite
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Big Data
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (14.87%) Git
2 23 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.26%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.18%) XCTest
5 8 (4.10%) Android Studio
5 8 (4.10%) Gradle
6 7 (3.59%) fastlane
7 6 (3.08%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.56%) GitLab
8 5 (2.56%) Selenium
9 4 (2.05%) JIRA
10 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.54%) Maven
10 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.03%) JUnit
11 2 (1.03%) Mockito
11 2 (1.03%) Postman
12 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (7.18%) Banking
3 14 (7.18%) Finance
3 14 (7.18%) Games
4 8 (4.10%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.56%) Health Technology
5 5 (2.56%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (51.79%) Developer
2 49 (25.13%) Senior
3 39 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 30 (15.38%) Android Developer
5 28 (14.36%) Senior Developer
5 28 (14.36%) Software Engineer
6 24 (12.31%) Android Engineer
6 24 (12.31%) Lead
7 22 (11.28%) Java Engineer
8 18 (9.23%) AWS Developer
8 18 (9.23%) Mobile Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) iOS Developer
9 16 (8.21%) Senior Android Developer
10 12 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (5.64%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.62%) Android Software Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.10%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.51%) Node.js
2 35 (17.95%) AngularJS
3 32 (16.41%) SwiftUI
4 30 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 29 (14.87%) RESTful
6 27 (13.85%) Spring
7 24 (12.31%) Android Jetpack
7 24 (12.31%) Jetpack Compose
8 19 (9.74%) Android SDK
9 15 (7.69%) GraphQL
10 14 (7.18%) React
10 14 (7.18%) UIKit
11 9 (4.62%) React Native
12 7 (3.59%) .NET
13 6 (3.08%) OAuth
13 6 (3.08%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.08%) Retrofit
14 5 (2.56%) Kafka
15 4 (2.05%) Entity Framework
15 4 (2.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (37.44%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.67%) Social Media
4 11 (5.64%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.10%) PKI
7 6 (3.08%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.54%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.51%) Blog
10 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.51%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 84 (43.08%) Android
2 38 (19.49%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.62%) Windows
4 8 (4.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (51.79%) CI/CD
2 61 (31.28%) Agile
3 60 (30.77%) Android Development
4 44 (22.56%) Software Engineering
5 43 (22.05%) DevOps
6 41 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (16.92%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.90%) DevSecOps
8 31 (15.90%) TDD
9 30 (15.38%) Clean Code
9 30 (15.38%) iOS Development
10 29 (14.87%) SOLID
11 28 (14.36%) AI
12 27 (13.85%) Design Patterns
13 24 (12.31%) Mentoring
14 23 (11.79%) Analytics
14 23 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (11.79%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (11.79%) Mobile Development
14 23 (11.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 112 (57.44%) Java
2 38 (19.49%) SQL
2 38 (19.49%) Swift
3 36 (18.46%) TypeScript
4 17 (8.72%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.21%) Python
6 9 (4.62%) Bash
6 9 (4.62%) C#
7 8 (4.10%) C++
8 6 (3.08%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.54%) Groovy
9 3 (1.54%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) Dart
10 2 (1.03%) Elixir
10 2 (1.03%) Erlang
10 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.08%) WCAG
3 3 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 43 (22.05%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) KVM
2 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.74%) Terraform
2 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.10%) Grafana
5 3 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (7.69%) Google
2 14 (7.18%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.18%) Braze
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.10%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.10%) VMware
5 2 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Intel
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle