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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 409 374
Rank change year-on-year -42 -35 -84
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 187 392 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.57% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.57% 1.78% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 104 232 368
10th Percentile £49,700 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,383 £52,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.31% -16.92% -

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 11,883 21,985 21,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.29% 32.09% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,609 13,195 17,570
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -42 175 £77,500 -3.13% 193
London -5 122 £90,000 +5.88% 118
Work from Home -11 55 £75,000 +11.11% 141
UK excluding London -45 54 £68,750 +27.31% 88
North of England +18 19 £75,000 +57.89% 32
South East -17 17 £60,000 +20.00% 21
South West +20 11 £62,500 - 12
Yorkshire +13 10 £75,000 +66.67% 5
North West +24 9 £70,000 +9.80% 27
Midlands +66 4 £65,000 - 5
West Midlands +56 4 £65,000 - 3
Scotland -12 3 £75,000 +34.53% 9
North East +16 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 4

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 4 (2.14%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Simulink
2 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (40.11%) AWS
2 25 (13.37%) Azure
3 23 (12.30%) GCP
4 19 (10.16%) SaaS
5 13 (6.95%) GitHub
6 5 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.14%) Firebase
7 4 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.60%) Datadog
8 3 (1.60%) Figma
8 3 (1.60%) Serverless
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.07%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.07%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) AMQP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.74%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.21%) Big Data
4 6 (3.21%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.21%) MySQL
4 6 (3.21%) Redis
4 6 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.60%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.60%) Flink
6 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.16%) Git
2 7 (3.74%) JIRA
3 6 (3.21%) Android Studio
4 4 (2.14%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.14%) git-flow
4 4 (2.14%) JUnit
5 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.07%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.07%) GitLab
6 2 (1.07%) Postman
6 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.53%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 72 (38.50%) Finance
2 48 (25.67%) Social Skills
3 46 (24.60%) Law
4 45 (24.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (15.51%) Banking
6 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (7.49%) Marketing
8 12 (6.42%) Legal
9 8 (4.28%) Retail
10 7 (3.74%) Financial Institution
11 6 (3.21%) Games
12 4 (2.14%) Billing
13 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.07%) Electronics
14 2 (1.07%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.07%) Publishing
15 1 (0.53%) Advertising
15 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.53%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (39.57%) Software Engineer
2 59 (31.55%) Developer
3 55 (29.41%) Senior
4 38 (20.32%) Java Engineer
5 36 (19.25%) Lead
6 29 (15.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) Lead Software Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
9 16 (8.56%) Android Engineer
10 15 (8.02%) Java Developer
11 14 (7.49%) Android Developer
12 13 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (6.42%) Lead Java Engineer
14 10 (5.35%) Mobile Developer
14 10 (5.35%) Ruby Engineer
15 9 (4.81%) Lead Developer
16 8 (4.28%) Development Engineer
16 8 (4.28%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 8 (4.28%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.65%) Spring
2 24 (12.83%) Kafka
2 24 (12.83%) React
3 22 (11.76%) RESTful
3 22 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 17 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
4 17 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
5 15 (8.02%) REST
6 11 (5.88%) Flutter
7 10 (5.35%) Web Services
8 9 (4.81%) React Native
9 7 (3.74%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.74%) Retrofit
9 7 (3.74%) SwiftUI
10 6 (3.21%) OkHttp
11 5 (2.67%) Android SDK
11 5 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 5 (2.67%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (26.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (12.83%) Mobile App
3 21 (11.23%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.81%) Mobile Banking
5 8 (4.28%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.74%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.21%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.21%) Derivative
7 6 (3.21%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.67%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.67%) Mobile Games
9 4 (2.14%) Blog
9 4 (2.14%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.14%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (34.22%) Android
2 32 (17.11%) Apple iOS
3 13 (6.95%) Linux
4 7 (3.74%) Windows
5 4 (2.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 65 (34.76%) Agile
3 60 (32.09%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.93%) AI
4 41 (21.93%) Android Development
4 41 (21.93%) Mentoring
5 40 (21.39%) Fintech
5 40 (21.39%) Microservices
5 40 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (19.79%) SDLC
7 34 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
8 30 (16.04%) Mobile Development
9 28 (14.97%) Machine Learning
10 24 (12.83%) Secure Coding
11 23 (12.30%) Test Automation
12 21 (11.23%) Open Source
13 20 (10.70%) Code Quality
14 18 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (9.63%) Event-Driven
15 17 (9.09%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 127 (67.91%) Java
2 43 (22.99%) Scala
3 24 (12.83%) Python
3 24 (12.83%) Swift
4 17 (9.09%) Go
4 17 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.49%) Ruby
6 12 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.35%) C++
8 8 (4.28%) C#
8 8 (4.28%) SQL
9 7 (3.74%) PHP
10 5 (2.67%) C
10 5 (2.67%) Objective-C
11 4 (2.14%) Groovy
12 2 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.09%) Degree
3 16 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.35%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.35%) Master's Degree
5 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.14%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.14%) OSCE
7 4 (2.14%) OSCP
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) QA
2 5 (2.67%) GDPR
3 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.14%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) KVM
2 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.70%) Terraform
3 4 (2.14%) Grafana
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.07%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (5.35%) Google
2 7 (3.74%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.67%) Samsung
4 2 (1.07%) VMware
5 1 (0.53%) QNX
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk