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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 420 373
Rank change year-on-year -80 -47 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 151 323 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.56% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 1.66% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 107 199 355
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £50,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -7.27% +4.47%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £110,800 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +47.50% -20.00% -3.85%

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 11,620 19,457 20,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.84% 33.93% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,557 11,686 16,403
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £106,281
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -53 136 £80,000 - 55
London -10 90 £90,000 +5.88% 12
Work from Home -23 54 £80,000 +33.33% 40
UK excluding London -54 48 £73,750 +47.50% 50
North of England -3 17 £75,000 +57.89% 16
South East -17 17 £60,000 +26.32% 9
Yorkshire -8 10 £75,000 +66.67% 4
South West +8 7 £95,000 +52.00% 10
North West +1 7 £75,000 +20.00% 12
Scotland -16 4 £75,000 +38.89% 5
Midlands +26 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
West Midlands +24 3 £65,000 +44.44%
North East +1 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1
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 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.66%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.99%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.44%) AWS
2 20 (13.25%) Azure
2 20 (13.25%) SaaS
3 11 (7.28%) GCP
4 6 (3.97%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (3.31%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.65%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.65%) Figma
6 4 (2.65%) Firebase
6 4 (2.65%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.32%) GitHub
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.66%) Datadog
8 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.66%) Google Play
8 1 (0.66%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Broadband
2 1 (0.66%) AMQP
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.30%) Redis
1 8 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.64%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.97%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.31%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.66%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Git
2 4 (2.65%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.99%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.32%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) Appium
5 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.66%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.66%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.66%) Gradle
5 1 (0.66%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.66%) JUnit
5 1 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.66%) Xcode
5 1 (0.66%) XCUITest
General
1 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.84%) Finance
3 16 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.30%) Retail
4 8 (5.30%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.64%) Banking
6 6 (3.97%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.97%) Games
7 5 (3.31%) Law
8 4 (2.65%) Billing
8 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.99%) Marketing
10 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.66%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 61 (40.40%) Senior
2 52 (34.44%) Developer
3 41 (27.15%) Software Engineer
4 22 (14.57%) Android Engineer
5 20 (13.25%) Senior Developer
6 18 (11.92%) Java Engineer
7 17 (11.26%) Senior Java Engineer
8 15 (9.93%) Java Developer
9 14 (9.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (8.61%) Development Engineer
10 13 (8.61%) Senior Android Engineer
10 13 (8.61%) Software Development Engineer
11 12 (7.95%) Lead
12 10 (6.62%) iOS Developer
12 10 (6.62%) Ruby Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.64%) Lead Java Developer
14 7 (4.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 7 (4.64%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.23%) React
2 20 (13.25%) Spring
3 17 (11.26%) RESTful
4 16 (10.60%) Android Jetpack
4 16 (10.60%) Jetpack Compose
5 13 (8.61%) Spring Boot
6 12 (7.95%) REST
7 11 (7.28%) Flutter
7 11 (7.28%) Kafka
7 11 (7.28%) SwiftUI
8 9 (5.96%) WebSockets
9 8 (5.30%) React Native
10 5 (3.31%) .NET
10 5 (3.31%) Memcached
10 5 (3.31%) Symfony
10 5 (3.31%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 5 (3.31%) WebGL
11 4 (2.65%) Android NDK
11 4 (2.65%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.87%) Mobile App
2 17 (11.26%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.64%) Blog
4 7 (4.64%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.64%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.31%) Educational Technology
5 5 (3.31%) Mobile Games
5 5 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.65%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.65%) Insider Threat
6 4 (2.65%) PKI
7 3 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.32%) IoT
8 2 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.66%) Mobile Computing
9 1 (0.66%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 63 (41.72%) Android
2 30 (19.87%) Apple iOS
3 14 (9.27%) Linux
4 9 (5.96%) Windows
5 4 (2.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.75%) Software Engineering
2 42 (27.81%) Agile
3 41 (27.15%) Mentoring
4 39 (25.83%) Android Development
5 37 (24.50%) CI/CD
6 31 (20.53%) AI
7 28 (18.54%) Mobile Development
8 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.23%) Machine Learning
10 19 (12.58%) Architectural Patterns
10 19 (12.58%) Code Quality
10 19 (12.58%) Design Patterns
11 18 (11.92%) Computer Science
11 18 (11.92%) TDD
11 18 (11.92%) Test Automation
12 17 (11.26%) iOS Development
13 16 (10.60%) Event-Driven
13 16 (10.60%) User Experience
14 15 (9.93%) Roadmaps
15 14 (9.27%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 92 (60.93%) Java
2 33 (21.85%) Scala
3 24 (15.89%) Swift
4 19 (12.58%) Python
5 17 (11.26%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.27%) C++
6 14 (9.27%) Ruby
7 11 (7.28%) Go
8 10 (6.62%) C#
9 8 (5.30%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.64%) PHP
11 6 (3.97%) SQL
12 4 (2.65%) C
12 4 (2.65%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (1.99%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.66%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (17.22%) Degree
2 22 (14.57%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.92%) Master's Degree
4 14 (9.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.95%) DV Cleared
6 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.65%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.65%) OSCE
8 4 (2.65%) OSCP
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.95%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) GDPR
3 4 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.65%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (6.62%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) KVM
2 4 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (19.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.30%) Terraform
3 5 (3.31%) Grafana
3 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.64%) Google
2 5 (3.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.65%) VMware
4 1 (0.66%) Samsung
4 1 (0.66%) Splunk