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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 461 394
Rank change year-on-year -45 -67 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 164 247 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.49% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.44% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 111 154 445
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%
75th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -28.57% -8.20%

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 12,230 17,161 27,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.70% 34.08% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,790 10,074 22,872
10th Percentile £33,729 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 9 February 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 February 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 -30 147 £75,000 -6.25% 88
London +2 88 £100,000 +17.65% 45
UK excluding London -20 67 £60,000 +20.00% 51
Work from Home -20 60 £75,000 +25.00% 40
North of England -2 24 £72,500 +61.11% 17
South East -15 21 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Yorkshire -22 16 £72,500 +61.11% 9
South West -9 10 £73,750 +1.72% 13
Scotland -30 9 £75,000 +30.43% 2
North West +18 8 £58,750 -4.08% 8
West Midlands +23 1 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Midlands +11 1 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Wales - 1 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 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 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.61%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.83%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 61 (37.20%) AWS
2 24 (14.63%) Azure
3 20 (12.20%) SaaS
4 16 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (8.54%) GCP
6 11 (6.71%) GitHub
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.49%) AWS Step Functions
7 9 (5.49%) Serverless
8 8 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.27%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.27%) Google Workspace
9 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (3.05%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (3.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.22%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) AMQP
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.54%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.88%) Redis
4 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.05%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 19 (11.59%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.66%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.05%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.22%) Xcode
5 1 (0.61%) Appium
5 1 (0.61%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) Gradle
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.61%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
5 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.61%) XCUITest
General
1 36 (21.95%) Finance
2 34 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.93%) Banking
4 12 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.88%) Games
5 8 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.66%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.66%) Retail
7 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.44%) Billing
8 4 (2.44%) Law
9 3 (1.83%) Marketing
10 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Front Office
11 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (35.37%) Senior
2 54 (32.93%) Developer
3 44 (26.83%) Software Engineer
4 24 (14.63%) Android Engineer
5 22 (13.41%) Java Engineer
5 22 (13.41%) Senior Java Engineer
6 18 (10.98%) Java Developer
6 18 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (9.76%) Lead
8 15 (9.15%) iOS Developer
9 12 (7.32%) Development Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Software Development Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (6.10%) Ruby Engineer
11 10 (6.10%) Senior Android Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Android Developer
12 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.46%) RESTful
2 24 (14.63%) React
2 24 (14.63%) Spring
3 20 (12.20%) Android Jetpack
3 20 (12.20%) Jetpack Compose
4 18 (10.98%) SwiftUI
5 17 (10.37%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.15%) Node.js
7 14 (8.54%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.10%) REST
9 9 (5.49%) WebSockets
10 8 (4.88%) Kafka
11 7 (4.27%) Flutter
12 6 (3.66%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.66%) React Native
13 5 (3.05%) .NET
13 5 (3.05%) Memcached
13 5 (3.05%) Symfony
13 5 (3.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 5 (3.05%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (24.39%) Mobile App
2 15 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.49%) Mobile Banking
4 7 (4.27%) Blog
4 7 (4.27%) PKI
5 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.66%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.05%) Educational Technology
6 5 (3.05%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.44%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.44%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.22%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.22%) IoT
10 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.61%) Social Media
10 1 (0.61%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 71 (43.29%) Android
2 30 (18.29%) Apple iOS
3 15 (9.15%) Linux
4 11 (6.71%) Windows
5 4 (2.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.76%) Software Engineering
2 54 (32.93%) CI/CD
3 49 (29.88%) Android Development
4 44 (26.83%) Agile
5 35 (21.34%) Mentoring
6 29 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (17.07%) AI
7 28 (17.07%) Mobile Development
8 22 (13.41%) Machine Learning
8 22 (13.41%) Memory Management
9 21 (12.80%) Multithreading
9 21 (12.80%) Performance Optimisation
9 21 (12.80%) TDD
10 19 (11.59%) Roadmaps
10 19 (11.59%) SOLID
10 19 (11.59%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.98%) Event-Driven
11 18 (10.98%) iOS Development
12 17 (10.37%) DevOps
12 17 (10.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 100 (60.98%) Java
2 27 (16.46%) Scala
3 25 (15.24%) Swift
4 22 (13.41%) Python
5 15 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.54%) C++
6 14 (8.54%) Ruby
6 14 (8.54%) SQL
7 11 (6.71%) C#
8 9 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.27%) Go
9 7 (4.27%) PHP
10 6 (3.66%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.83%) Bash
12 2 (1.22%) C
12 2 (1.22%) Elixir
12 2 (1.22%) Erlang
13 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (15.85%) Degree
1 26 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.98%) Master's Degree
3 15 (9.15%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.71%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.27%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.44%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.44%) OSCE
8 4 (2.44%) OSCP
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) QA
2 5 (3.05%) GDPR
3 4 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.44%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (12.80%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) KVM
2 6 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.32%) Terraform
3 8 (4.88%) Grafana
3 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.22%) Ansible
4 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (6.10%) Google
2 6 (3.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.66%) VMware
3 1 (0.61%) Samsung
3 1 (0.61%) Splunk