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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 510 410
Rank change year-on-year -35 -100 -87
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 197 167 621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.38% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.19% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 126 78 473
10th Percentile £53,125 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,188 £40,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -14.06% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £99,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £135,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 16,402 14,006 33,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.66% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 9,215 25,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £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 £98,612
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 9 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 9 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 -33 185 £75,000 +15.38% 67
UK excluding London -9 126 £70,000 +7.69% 29
Work from Home +26 74 £76,250 +29.79% 34
North of England +18 69 £70,750 +1.07% 9
London -79 68 £90,000 +20.00% 41
Yorkshire -1 46 £72,500 -19.44% 2
South East -18 21 £60,000 - 7
North West +19 18 £65,000 -5.45% 4
Midlands -10 14 - - 2
East Midlands - 14 - -
South West -42 13 £85,000 +88.89% 8
Scotland +5 7 £65,000 -49.09% 1
North East -39 5 £47,000 - 3
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 1

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 (1.52%) JBoss
2 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.51%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.07%) AWS
2 51 (25.89%) GitHub
3 48 (24.37%) Serverless
4 40 (20.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (17.26%) Amazon S3
6 34 (17.26%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (16.75%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (14.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (14.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 27 (13.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (11.17%) Azure
11 21 (10.66%) Firebase
12 15 (7.61%) TestFlight
13 14 (7.11%) Datadog
13 14 (7.11%) GCP
13 14 (7.11%) Stripe
14 8 (4.06%) Google Workspace
14 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (4.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.75%) DynamoDB
1 33 (16.75%) NoSQL
2 29 (14.72%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.52%) Redis
3 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.02%) Looker
4 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (14.72%) Git
2 21 (10.66%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.15%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.11%) XCTest
5 9 (4.57%) Android Studio
6 8 (4.06%) Gradle
7 7 (3.55%) fastlane
8 6 (3.05%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.54%) GitLab
10 4 (2.03%) Selenium
11 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.52%) Maven
11 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.02%) JIRA
12 2 (1.02%) JUnit
12 2 (1.02%) Mockito
13 1 (0.51%) Postman
13 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (8.12%) Banking
3 16 (8.12%) Finance
4 14 (7.11%) Games
5 8 (4.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.03%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.03%) Retail
7 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (49.24%) Developer
2 52 (26.40%) Senior
3 36 (18.27%) Java Developer
4 30 (15.23%) Android Developer
5 29 (14.72%) Android Engineer
6 28 (14.21%) Software Engineer
7 27 (13.71%) Senior Developer
8 26 (13.20%) Lead
9 23 (11.68%) Java Engineer
10 19 (9.64%) Mobile Engineer
11 17 (8.63%) iOS Developer
12 16 (8.12%) AWS Developer
12 16 (8.12%) Senior Android Developer
13 13 (6.60%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.08%) Lead Developer
16 9 (4.57%) Android Software Engineer
16 9 (4.57%) Applications Developer
16 9 (4.57%) Senior Java Engineer
17 8 (4.06%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.80%) Node.js
2 33 (16.75%) SwiftUI
3 31 (15.74%) AngularJS
4 30 (15.23%) RESTful
5 28 (14.21%) Android Jetpack
5 28 (14.21%) Jetpack Compose
5 28 (14.21%) Spring Boot
6 26 (13.20%) Spring
7 19 (9.64%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.61%) GraphQL
8 15 (7.61%) React
9 14 (7.11%) UIKit
10 9 (4.57%) React Native
11 6 (3.05%) OAuth
11 6 (3.05%) OAuth2
11 6 (3.05%) Retrofit
12 5 (2.54%) Kafka
13 4 (2.03%) .NET
13 4 (2.03%) Jest
13 4 (2.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 75 (38.07%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.11%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.60%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.60%) Social Media
4 9 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.06%) PKI
6 7 (3.55%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Blog
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.51%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 89 (45.18%) Android
2 39 (19.80%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.06%) Linux
3 8 (4.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 64 (32.49%) Android Development
3 62 (31.47%) Agile
4 42 (21.32%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.30%) DevOps
6 39 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (17.26%) TDD
8 33 (16.75%) Test Automation
9 31 (15.74%) iOS Development
10 30 (15.23%) Clean Code
11 29 (14.72%) AI
11 29 (14.72%) DevSecOps
11 29 (14.72%) SOLID
12 28 (14.21%) Design Patterns
13 26 (13.20%) User Experience
14 24 (12.18%) Mobile Development
15 23 (11.68%) Analytics
15 23 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (11.68%) Mentoring
16 22 (11.17%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (57.36%) Java
2 39 (19.80%) Swift
3 34 (17.26%) SQL
4 33 (16.75%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.12%) Python
7 9 (4.57%) Bash
7 9 (4.57%) C#
7 9 (4.57%) C++
8 6 (3.05%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.52%) Groovy
9 3 (1.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.02%) Dart
10 2 (1.02%) Elixir
10 2 (1.02%) Erlang
10 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.58%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.54%) Degree
7 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.05%) WCAG
3 3 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 40 (20.30%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) KVM
2 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.64%) Terraform
2 17 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.52%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.02%) Ansible
6 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (7.61%) Google
2 14 (7.11%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.11%) Braze
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.06%) VMware
5 7 (3.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) Intel
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Splunk