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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 465 404
Rank change year-on-year -29 -61 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 188 201 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 1.32% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 127 146 458
10th Percentile £55,000 £31,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £46,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £115,250 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -12.50%

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 13,102 15,260 29,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.15% 34.63% 35.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,245 10,344 24,184
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,094
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £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 £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -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 March 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 9 March 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 -9 169 £75,000 -6.25% 94
UK excluding London +1 94 £70,000 +21.74% 68
London -6 84 £100,000 +17.65% 26
Work from Home -20 63 £72,500 +20.83% 103
North of England 0 44 £72,500 +56.76% 27
Yorkshire -19 28 £72,500 +61.11% 15
South East -15 23 £60,000 +60.00% 14
North West -4 16 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Scotland -23 10 £71,250 +18.75% 7
South West -27 10 £73,750 +1.72% 8
Midlands -11 5 £75,000 +36.36% 6
East Midlands - 4 - - 3
West Midlands +3 1 £75,000 +36.36% 3
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 2 (1.06%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.60%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.77%) AWS
2 25 (13.30%) Azure
3 24 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.70%) Serverless
5 21 (11.17%) GitHub
6 18 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (9.57%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.51%) SaaS
8 15 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 15 (7.98%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (7.98%) GCP
9 10 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.26%) Firebase
10 8 (4.26%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.72%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.72%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.66%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.26%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) AMQP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.83%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.70%) DynamoDB
3 15 (7.98%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.72%) Redis
6 5 (2.66%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.60%) MySQL
7 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Git
2 12 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.19%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.66%) Android Studio
4 5 (2.66%) Crashlytics
5 4 (2.13%) XCTest
6 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.60%) GitLab
6 3 (1.60%) Maven
7 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.06%) Selenium
7 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.06%) Xcode
8 1 (0.53%) Appium
8 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.53%) Gradle
8 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Postman
8 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (18.62%) Finance
2 33 (17.55%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.51%) Banking
4 13 (6.91%) Games
5 11 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.32%) Retail
7 9 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.72%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.19%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.13%) Billing
10 4 (2.13%) Law
11 3 (1.60%) Marketing
12 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Front Office
13 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (37.77%) Developer
2 63 (33.51%) Senior
3 46 (24.47%) Software Engineer
4 26 (13.83%) Android Engineer
5 23 (12.23%) Java Engineer
6 22 (11.70%) Senior Java Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Java Developer
8 20 (10.64%) iOS Developer
9 19 (10.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (8.51%) Lead
11 15 (7.98%) Senior Developer
12 13 (6.91%) Android Developer
12 13 (6.91%) Development Engineer
13 12 (6.38%) Software Development Engineer
14 11 (5.85%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (5.32%) Ruby Engineer
16 8 (4.26%) AWS Developer
16 8 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (4.26%) Senior Android Developer
16 8 (4.26%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.43%) RESTful
2 28 (14.89%) Spring
2 28 (14.89%) SwiftUI
3 25 (13.30%) Node.js
4 24 (12.77%) Spring Boot
5 22 (11.70%) Android Jetpack
5 22 (11.70%) Jetpack Compose
6 19 (10.11%) React
7 18 (9.57%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.32%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.79%) Kafka
10 8 (4.26%) Android SDK
10 8 (4.26%) REST
10 8 (4.26%) WebSockets
11 6 (3.19%) .NET
12 5 (2.66%) Memcached
12 5 (2.66%) OAuth
12 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.66%) React Native
13 4 (2.13%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 53 (28.19%) Mobile App
2 16 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.85%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.26%) Blog
6 7 (3.72%) PKI
6 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.72%) Social Media
7 6 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.19%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.66%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.13%) Educational Technology
9 4 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.13%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.13%) Mobile Games
10 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.60%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 80 (42.55%) Android
2 35 (18.62%) Apple iOS
3 15 (7.98%) Linux
4 11 (5.85%) Windows
5 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.83%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.91%) Software Engineering
3 59 (31.38%) Android Development
4 54 (28.72%) Agile
5 36 (19.15%) Mentoring
5 36 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.09%) AI
7 28 (14.89%) Mobile Development
8 27 (14.36%) SOLID
9 26 (13.83%) DevOps
9 26 (13.83%) iOS Development
9 26 (13.83%) TDD
10 24 (12.77%) Design Patterns
10 24 (12.77%) Memory Management
11 23 (12.23%) Multithreading
11 23 (12.23%) Performance Optimisation
12 21 (11.17%) Event-Driven
12 21 (11.17%) Microservices
12 21 (11.17%) Test Automation
12 21 (11.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 115 (61.17%) Java
2 33 (17.55%) Swift
3 23 (12.23%) Python
4 21 (11.17%) Scala
4 21 (11.17%) SQL
5 19 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.51%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.45%) C++
7 14 (7.45%) Ruby
8 12 (6.38%) C#
9 6 (3.19%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (2.66%) Bash
11 4 (2.13%) PHP
12 2 (1.06%) C
12 2 (1.06%) Elixir
12 2 (1.06%) Erlang
12 2 (1.06%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) Go
13 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.77%) Degree
3 17 (9.04%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.91%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.79%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.13%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.13%) OSCE
7 4 (2.13%) OSCP
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) QA
2 5 (2.66%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.13%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (15.43%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) KVM
2 6 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.51%) Terraform
3 8 (4.26%) Grafana
3 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (4.79%) Google
2 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.19%) VMware
4 4 (2.13%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.53%) Samsung
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk