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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 526 397
Rank change year-on-year -49 -129 -68
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 206 162 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.13% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 128 75 362
10th Percentile £53,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,688 £55,000 £50,000
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 £110,425 £119,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -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 18,347 14,285 25,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 28.77% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13,045 9,453 18,225
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -36 196 £75,000 +5.26% 215
UK excluding London +3 128 £70,000 +3.70% 70
Work from Home +10 72 £80,000 +23.08% 73
London -68 72 £80,000 +6.67% 160
North of England +15 70 £70,000 -9.68% 30
Yorkshire +2 45 £72,500 -6.45% 8
South East -20 21 £60,000 - 8
North West +8 20 £66,250 -10.17% 22
South West -60 17 £85,000 +88.89% 15
Midlands -18 15 £55,000 -15.38% 7
East Midlands - 14 - - 3
North East -51 5 £47,000 -27.69%
Scotland +5 3 £65,000 -49.09% 7
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 1
West Midlands -40 1 £55,000 -15.38% 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 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.46%) JBoss
3 2 (0.97%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.38%) AWS
2 58 (28.16%) GitHub
3 47 (22.82%) Serverless
4 41 (19.90%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (16.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (16.02%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (15.53%) Amazon S3
8 30 (14.56%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (12.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (12.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (12.62%) Azure
10 24 (11.65%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (11.17%) Firebase
12 17 (8.25%) GCP
13 16 (7.77%) Datadog
14 15 (7.28%) TestFlight
15 14 (6.80%) Stripe
16 10 (4.85%) Google Play
17 8 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.08%) DynamoDB
2 26 (12.62%) Amazon Athena
3 25 (12.14%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.94%) Redis
5 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.46%) Big Data
7 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.97%) Looker
7 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.97%) SQLite
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (17.48%) Git
2 21 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.71%) Crashlytics
4 14 (6.80%) XCTest
5 8 (3.88%) Gradle
6 7 (3.40%) fastlane
6 7 (3.40%) GitLab
7 6 (2.91%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.91%) JIRA
7 6 (2.91%) Selenium
8 5 (2.43%) Appium
8 5 (2.43%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.94%) JUnit
10 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.46%) Maven
10 3 (1.46%) Postman
10 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.97%) MLflow
11 2 (0.97%) Mockito
General
1 55 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.05%) Finance
3 26 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.80%) Banking
5 13 (6.31%) Games
6 11 (5.34%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.88%) Health Technology
7 8 (3.88%) Tech for Good
8 7 (3.40%) Law
9 5 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.43%) Marketing
9 5 (2.43%) Retail
10 4 (1.94%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (52.43%) Developer
2 53 (25.73%) Senior
3 40 (19.42%) Software Engineer
4 37 (17.96%) Android Developer
5 36 (17.48%) Senior Developer
6 35 (16.99%) Java Developer
7 27 (13.11%) Android Engineer
8 23 (11.17%) Lead
9 22 (10.68%) Senior Android Developer
10 20 (9.71%) Java Engineer
11 18 (8.74%) Mobile Engineer
12 16 (7.77%) Android Software Engineer
12 16 (7.77%) AWS Developer
13 14 (6.80%) iOS Developer
14 12 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (5.34%) Mobile Developer
16 10 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (4.85%) Lead Developer
16 10 (4.85%) Senior Java Developer
17 9 (4.37%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.02%) Node.js
2 32 (15.53%) SwiftUI
3 30 (14.56%) AngularJS
3 30 (14.56%) RESTful
3 30 (14.56%) Spring Boot
4 28 (13.59%) Android Jetpack
4 28 (13.59%) Jetpack Compose
5 26 (12.62%) Spring
6 22 (10.68%) Android SDK
7 19 (9.22%) GraphQL
8 18 (8.74%) React
9 16 (7.77%) UIKit
10 15 (7.28%) React Native
11 11 (5.34%) Kafka
12 9 (4.37%) REST
13 8 (3.88%) Retrofit
14 7 (3.40%) .NET
15 5 (2.43%) Flutter
15 5 (2.43%) Jest
16 4 (1.94%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 75 (36.41%) Mobile App
2 17 (8.25%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.31%) Social Media
4 11 (5.34%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.37%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.91%) PKI
7 5 (2.43%) Blog
7 5 (2.43%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.97%) Clustering
10 2 (0.97%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.49%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 95 (46.12%) Android
2 46 (22.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.40%) Windows
4 6 (2.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (50.97%) CI/CD
2 72 (34.95%) Agile
3 64 (31.07%) Android Development
4 58 (28.16%) Software Engineering
5 46 (22.33%) AI
6 43 (20.87%) Clean Code
7 42 (20.39%) Test Automation
8 41 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (17.96%) DevOps
10 35 (16.99%) Design Patterns
11 32 (15.53%) iOS Development
11 32 (15.53%) TDD
12 28 (13.59%) Mobile Development
12 28 (13.59%) SOLID
13 27 (13.11%) User Experience
14 26 (12.62%) Analytics
14 26 (12.62%) Architectural Patterns
14 26 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.62%) DevSecOps
15 24 (11.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (53.88%) Java
2 44 (21.36%) Swift
2 44 (21.36%) TypeScript
3 36 (17.48%) SQL
4 21 (10.19%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.28%) Python
6 8 (3.88%) C#
7 7 (3.40%) Scala
8 6 (2.91%) Bash
8 6 (2.91%) C++
9 5 (2.43%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.46%) Go
10 3 (1.46%) Groovy
11 2 (0.97%) Dart
11 2 (0.97%) PHP
12 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.85%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (3.40%) Degree
5 7 (3.40%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.34%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.40%) WCAG
3 6 (2.91%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (19.42%) Docker
2 5 (2.43%) KVM
2 5 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.74%) Terraform
3 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.40%) Grafana
5 3 (1.46%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.97%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (8.25%) Google
2 14 (6.80%) Amplitude
2 14 (6.80%) Braze
3 10 (4.85%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.37%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.40%) VMware
6 3 (1.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.97%) Apple
7 2 (0.97%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.49%) Intel
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle
8 1 (0.49%) Revolut