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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 471 410
Rank change year-on-year -19 -61 -51
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 213 172 542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.48% 1.25% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 132 132 461
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,625 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -13.33%

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 14,407 13,724 31,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.05% 33.56% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,999 10,208 24,719
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,508
25th Percentile £46,276 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,050 £56,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +5.09% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -23 193 £75,000 -1.64% 74
UK excluding London -34 114 £70,000 +21.74% 38
London -2 89 £100,000 +17.65% 48
Work from Home -24 70 £74,500 +24.17% 89
North of England -25 58 £72,500 +56.76% 12
Yorkshire -19 41 £72,500 +61.11% 4
South East -33 23 £60,000 +60.00% 13
North West -15 17 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Scotland -35 11 £67,500 - 3
Midlands -28 10 £75,000 +36.36% 1
South West -40 10 £73,750 +1.72% 6
East Midlands - 9 - -
West Midlands -20 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 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 3 (1.41%) JBoss
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.41%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 85 (39.91%) AWS
2 35 (16.43%) Serverless
3 34 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (15.02%) GitHub
5 26 (12.21%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (12.21%) Amazon S3
5 26 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (12.21%) Azure
6 22 (10.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (10.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 20 (9.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.98%) GCP
10 13 (6.10%) Firebase
11 10 (4.69%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.69%) SaaS
12 9 (4.23%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.23%) Google Workspace
12 9 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.23%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.08%) DynamoDB
1 30 (14.08%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.33%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (3.29%) Redis
4 5 (2.35%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.86%) Git
2 15 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.16%) Crashlytics
4 9 (4.23%) XCTest
5 7 (3.29%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.82%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.88%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.88%) GitLab
7 4 (1.88%) Maven
8 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.41%) Selenium
8 3 (1.41%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.94%) Gradle
9 2 (0.94%) Xcode
10 1 (0.47%) Appium
10 1 (0.47%) fastlane
10 1 (0.47%) JIRA
10 1 (0.47%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.47%) XCUITest
General
1 37 (17.37%) Finance
2 36 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.39%) Banking
4 19 (8.92%) Games
5 18 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.69%) Retail
7 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.88%) Law
10 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.41%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Front Office
11 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (42.25%) Developer
2 70 (32.86%) Senior
3 46 (21.60%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.08%) Java Developer
5 27 (12.68%) Android Engineer
6 24 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 23 (10.80%) Lead
8 22 (10.33%) iOS Developer
9 21 (9.86%) Android Developer
10 20 (9.39%) Java Engineer
11 19 (8.92%) Senior Java Engineer
11 19 (8.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (6.57%) Development Engineer
13 13 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (6.10%) Senior Android Developer
14 12 (5.63%) Mobile Engineer
14 12 (5.63%) Software Development Engineer
15 10 (4.69%) AWS Developer
15 10 (4.69%) Ruby Engineer
15 10 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.96%) SwiftUI
2 33 (15.49%) Node.js
3 30 (14.08%) RESTful
4 29 (13.62%) Spring
5 26 (12.21%) Spring Boot
6 24 (11.27%) Android Jetpack
6 24 (11.27%) Jetpack Compose
7 23 (10.80%) React
8 22 (10.33%) AngularJS
9 16 (7.51%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.04%) Android SDK
11 10 (4.69%) React Native
12 9 (4.23%) Kafka
12 9 (4.23%) UIKit
13 8 (3.76%) REST
13 8 (3.76%) WebSockets
14 6 (2.82%) OAuth
14 6 (2.82%) OAuth2
15 5 (2.35%) Jest
15 5 (2.35%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 71 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.10%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.10%) Social Media
4 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.23%) PKI
6 8 (3.76%) Blog
7 6 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.35%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.88%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.88%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.88%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.88%) Mobile Games
9 4 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.41%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 91 (42.72%) Android
2 42 (19.72%) Apple iOS
3 17 (7.98%) Linux
4 13 (6.10%) Windows
5 4 (1.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (41.78%) CI/CD
2 67 (31.46%) Android Development
3 64 (30.05%) Agile
4 60 (28.17%) Software Engineering
5 44 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (18.78%) AI
7 33 (15.49%) SOLID
8 32 (15.02%) Design Patterns
8 32 (15.02%) iOS Development
8 32 (15.02%) Mentoring
9 30 (14.08%) TDD
10 28 (13.15%) DevOps
10 28 (13.15%) Mobile Development
11 27 (12.68%) Test Automation
12 26 (12.21%) User Experience
13 24 (11.27%) Memory Management
14 23 (10.80%) Microservices
14 23 (10.80%) Multithreading
14 23 (10.80%) Performance Optimisation
15 22 (10.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 132 (61.97%) Java
2 40 (18.78%) Swift
3 27 (12.68%) TypeScript
4 26 (12.21%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.74%) Python
5 25 (11.74%) SQL
6 19 (8.92%) Scala
7 16 (7.51%) C++
8 12 (5.63%) Ruby
9 11 (5.16%) C#
10 7 (3.29%) Bash
10 7 (3.29%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.88%) PHP
12 3 (1.41%) Groovy
13 2 (0.94%) C
13 2 (0.94%) Elixir
13 2 (0.94%) Erlang
13 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.33%) Degree
3 17 (7.98%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.51%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.63%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.88%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.88%) OSCE
9 4 (1.88%) OSCP
10 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.82%) QA
2 5 (2.35%) GDPR
3 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.88%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (16.90%) Docker
2 7 (3.29%) KVM
2 7 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (13.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.92%) Terraform
3 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.23%) Grafana
5 3 (1.41%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.94%) Ansible
6 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (5.63%) Google
2 9 (4.23%) Amplitude
2 9 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.29%) VMware
4 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.47%) Intel
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle
4 1 (0.47%) Samsung
4 1 (0.47%) Splunk