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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 522 388
Rank change year-on-year -54 -134 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 219 161 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.13% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 137 72 358
10th Percentile £54,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £48,125
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £103,600 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +37.50% -23.08%

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 18,428 14,191 25,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 28.61% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,072 9,351 18,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,486 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -27 208 £75,000 +7.14% 304
UK excluding London -1 135 £70,000 +1.82% 96
London -79 78 £80,000 +6.67% 226
North of England +22 73 £70,000 -9.68% 48
Work from Home +13 72 £80,000 +23.08% 109
Yorkshire +8 47 £72,500 -13.43% 14
South East -22 23 £60,000 - 10
North West +15 21 £67,500 -8.47% 32
South West -53 18 £85,000 +88.89% 14
Midlands -22 15 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East Midlands - 14 - - 3
North East -51 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
Scotland +10 4 £67,500 -47.13% 8
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 5
West Midlands -34 1 £55,000 -15.38% 6

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 5 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.37%) JBoss
3 2 (0.91%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.62%) AWS
2 59 (26.94%) GitHub
3 47 (21.46%) Serverless
4 42 (19.18%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (15.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (14.61%) Amazon S3
8 30 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (11.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (11.87%) Azure
10 25 (11.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (10.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 23 (10.50%) Firebase
13 17 (7.76%) Datadog
13 17 (7.76%) GCP
14 15 (6.85%) TestFlight
15 14 (6.39%) Stripe
16 10 (4.57%) Google Play
17 8 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.70%) DynamoDB
2 25 (11.42%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (10.96%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.83%) Redis
5 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.37%) Big Data
7 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.91%) Looker
7 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.91%) SQLite
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.46%) MySQL
8 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (16.89%) Git
2 20 (9.13%) Crashlytics
2 20 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.85%) XCTest
4 8 (3.65%) Gradle
5 7 (3.20%) fastlane
5 7 (3.20%) GitLab
6 6 (2.74%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.74%) JIRA
6 6 (2.74%) Selenium
7 5 (2.28%) Appium
7 5 (2.28%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.83%) JUnit
9 3 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.37%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.37%) Maven
9 3 (1.37%) MLflow
9 3 (1.37%) Postman
9 3 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.91%) Mockito
General
1 58 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.53%) Finance
3 27 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.85%) Banking
6 13 (5.94%) Games
7 8 (3.65%) Health Technology
7 8 (3.65%) Law
7 8 (3.65%) Tech for Good
8 6 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Marketing
9 5 (2.28%) Publishing
9 5 (2.28%) Retail
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (53.42%) Developer
2 57 (26.03%) Senior
3 43 (19.63%) Software Engineer
4 37 (16.89%) Android Developer
4 37 (16.89%) Senior Developer
5 35 (15.98%) Java Developer
6 27 (12.33%) Android Engineer
7 23 (10.50%) Lead
8 22 (10.05%) Senior Android Developer
9 20 (9.13%) Java Engineer
10 19 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (8.22%) Mobile Engineer
12 16 (7.31%) Android Software Engineer
12 16 (7.31%) AWS Developer
13 15 (6.85%) iOS Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Mobile Developer
15 11 (5.02%) Senior Java Developer
16 10 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (4.57%) Lead Developer
17 9 (4.11%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.98%) SwiftUI
2 33 (15.07%) Node.js
3 32 (14.61%) RESTful
4 31 (14.16%) Spring Boot
5 30 (13.70%) AngularJS
6 28 (12.79%) Android Jetpack
6 28 (12.79%) Jetpack Compose
6 28 (12.79%) Spring
7 22 (10.05%) Android SDK
8 19 (8.68%) GraphQL
9 18 (8.22%) React
10 17 (7.76%) UIKit
11 15 (6.85%) React Native
12 14 (6.39%) Kafka
13 10 (4.57%) REST
14 8 (3.65%) Retrofit
15 7 (3.20%) .NET
16 5 (2.28%) Flutter
16 5 (2.28%) Jest
17 4 (1.83%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 78 (35.62%) Mobile App
2 17 (7.76%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.94%) Social Media
4 12 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.11%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.74%) Blog
6 6 (2.74%) PKI
7 5 (2.28%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.91%) Clustering
10 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.91%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.91%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 97 (44.29%) Android
2 49 (22.37%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.20%) Windows
4 6 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (48.40%) CI/CD
2 74 (33.79%) Agile
3 66 (30.14%) Android Development
4 62 (28.31%) Software Engineering
5 47 (21.46%) AI
6 43 (19.63%) Clean Code
7 42 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (19.18%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.89%) DevOps
9 36 (16.44%) Design Patterns
10 35 (15.98%) iOS Development
11 32 (14.61%) TDD
12 31 (14.16%) SOLID
13 30 (13.70%) Mobile Development
14 27 (12.33%) Analytics
14 27 (12.33%) Architectural Patterns
14 27 (12.33%) User Experience
15 26 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (11.42%) DevSecOps
17 24 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.51%) Java
2 47 (21.46%) Swift
3 45 (20.55%) TypeScript
4 37 (16.89%) SQL
5 21 (9.59%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.31%) Python
7 8 (3.65%) C#
8 7 (3.20%) Scala
9 6 (2.74%) Bash
9 6 (2.74%) C++
10 5 (2.28%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.37%) Go
11 3 (1.37%) Groovy
12 2 (0.91%) Dart
12 2 (0.91%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.57%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (3.20%) Degree
5 7 (3.20%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.20%) WCAG
3 6 (2.74%) QA
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (18.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.28%) KVM
2 5 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.22%) Terraform
3 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.20%) Grafana
5 3 (1.37%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (7.76%) Google
2 14 (6.39%) Amplitude
2 14 (6.39%) Braze
3 10 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.11%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.20%) VMware
6 3 (1.37%) Apple
6 3 (1.37%) Splunk
7 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.46%) Intel
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle
8 1 (0.46%) Revolut