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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 517 391
Rank change year-on-year -72 -126 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 183 163 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.13% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 119 76 412
10th Percentile £53,500 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,375 £55,000 £52,500
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 £90,944 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,950 £131,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -15.38%

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 17,736 14,375 29,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 29.22% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,715 9,537 21,441
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,309 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -27 176 £75,000 +7.14% 144
UK excluding London -7 122 £70,000 -3.45% 41
Work from Home 0 68 £80,000 +23.08% 33
North of England +27 67 £70,000 -9.68% 13
London -53 58 £80,000 +6.67% 115
Yorkshire -1 42 £75,000 -16.67% 5
North West +8 20 £65,000 -11.86% 8
South East -31 20 £60,000 - 12
South West -54 16 £85,000 +88.89% 6
Midlands -21 14 - - 2
East Midlands - 14 - - 2
North East -43 5 £47,000 -
Scotland +9 3 £65,000 -49.09% 4
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 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 3 (1.64%) JBoss
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.25%) AWS
2 54 (29.51%) GitHub
3 46 (25.14%) Serverless
4 38 (20.77%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (19.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (17.49%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (16.94%) Amazon S3
8 29 (15.85%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (13.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (13.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (12.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (12.57%) Azure
11 22 (12.02%) Firebase
12 15 (8.20%) TestFlight
13 14 (7.65%) GCP
13 14 (7.65%) Stripe
14 13 (7.10%) Datadog
15 9 (4.92%) Google Play
16 8 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.30%) DynamoDB
2 25 (13.66%) Amazon Athena
2 25 (13.66%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.19%) Redis
4 4 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.64%) Big Data
6 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.09%) Looker
6 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.09%) SQLite
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (16.94%) Git
2 21 (11.48%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.93%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.65%) XCTest
5 8 (4.37%) Gradle
6 7 (3.83%) fastlane
6 7 (3.83%) GitLab
7 6 (3.28%) Android Studio
7 6 (3.28%) Selenium
8 5 (2.73%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.19%) JIRA
10 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.64%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.64%) JUnit
10 3 (1.64%) Maven
10 3 (1.64%) Postman
10 3 (1.64%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.09%) Mockito
General
1 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (9.29%) Finance
4 13 (7.10%) Games
5 11 (6.01%) Banking
6 7 (3.83%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.28%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.28%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.73%) Retail
9 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Publishing
11 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Advertising
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (54.10%) Developer
2 41 (22.40%) Senior
3 34 (18.58%) Android Developer
3 34 (18.58%) Java Developer
4 30 (16.39%) Senior Developer
5 28 (15.30%) Software Engineer
6 25 (13.66%) Android Engineer
7 20 (10.93%) Lead
8 19 (10.38%) Java Engineer
8 19 (10.38%) Senior Android Developer
9 18 (9.84%) Mobile Engineer
10 15 (8.20%) AWS Developer
11 14 (7.65%) iOS Developer
12 13 (7.10%) Android Software Engineer
13 10 (5.46%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.46%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.92%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (4.92%) Mobile Developer
15 8 (4.37%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.49%) Node.js
2 30 (16.39%) SwiftUI
3 29 (15.85%) AngularJS
3 29 (15.85%) Spring Boot
4 28 (15.30%) RESTful
5 25 (13.66%) Spring
6 24 (13.11%) Android Jetpack
6 24 (13.11%) Jetpack Compose
7 21 (11.48%) Android SDK
8 15 (8.20%) UIKit
9 14 (7.65%) GraphQL
10 12 (6.56%) React
11 8 (4.37%) Kafka
11 8 (4.37%) React Native
12 7 (3.83%) .NET
13 6 (3.28%) Retrofit
14 4 (2.19%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.19%) .NET Framework
14 4 (2.19%) ASP.NET
14 4 (2.19%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 70 (38.25%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.10%) Social Media
4 9 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.83%) Mobile Banking
5 7 (3.83%) PKI
6 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.19%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.09%) Blog
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.55%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 82 (44.81%) Android
2 38 (20.77%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.37%) Windows
4 7 (3.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.82%) CI/CD
2 63 (34.43%) Agile
3 58 (31.69%) Android Development
4 42 (22.95%) Software Engineering
5 40 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.77%) Test Automation
7 37 (20.22%) Clean Code
8 35 (19.13%) AI
8 35 (19.13%) DevOps
9 32 (17.49%) Design Patterns
10 30 (16.39%) TDD
11 29 (15.85%) iOS Development
12 27 (14.75%) SOLID
13 25 (13.66%) DevSecOps
14 24 (13.11%) User Experience
15 23 (12.57%) Analytics
15 23 (12.57%) Deployment Automation
16 22 (12.02%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (12.02%) Mentoring
17 21 (11.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (56.28%) Java
2 36 (19.67%) Swift
3 35 (19.13%) TypeScript
4 33 (18.03%) SQL
5 17 (9.29%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.10%) Python
7 9 (4.92%) C#
8 7 (3.83%) Bash
8 7 (3.83%) C++
9 6 (3.28%) Scala
10 5 (2.73%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.64%) Groovy
12 2 (1.09%) Dart
12 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.46%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.37%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.09%) Degree
5 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.28%) QA
2 6 (3.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (19.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) KVM
2 5 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (9.29%) Terraform
2 16 (8.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.73%) Grafana
5 3 (1.64%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Google
2 14 (7.65%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.65%) Braze
3 9 (4.92%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.83%) VMware
5 3 (1.64%) Splunk
6 2 (1.09%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.55%) Apple
7 1 (0.55%) Intel
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle