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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 524 391
Rank change year-on-year -46 -133 -58
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 195 165 569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.34% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.15% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 122 78 397
10th Percentile £53,750 £28,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,188 £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 £90,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £113,275 £137,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -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 17,963 14,344 27,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 29.20% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,792 9,520 20,263
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 25 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 25 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 -45 186 £75,000 +7.14% 160
UK excluding London -13 123 £70,000 -1.75% 50
Work from Home +10 70 £80,000 +23.08% 48
North of England +20 67 £70,000 -9.68% 18
London -68 67 £80,000 +6.67% 123
Yorkshire -4 42 £75,000 -3.23% 7
South East -36 21 £60,000 - 10
North West +3 20 £65,000 -11.86% 11
South West -60 16 £85,000 +88.89% 8
Midlands -27 14 - - 5
East Midlands - 14 - - 3
North East -47 5 £47,000 -27.69%
Scotland +13 3 £65,000 -49.09% 4
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 2

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 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.54%) JBoss
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.44%) AWS
2 56 (28.72%) GitHub
3 46 (23.59%) Serverless
4 39 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (16.41%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (15.90%) Amazon S3
8 29 (14.87%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (12.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (12.31%) Azure
11 23 (11.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (11.28%) Firebase
13 15 (7.69%) GCP
13 15 (7.69%) TestFlight
14 14 (7.18%) Datadog
14 14 (7.18%) Stripe
15 9 (4.62%) Google Play
16 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (4.10%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.36%) DynamoDB
2 25 (12.82%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (12.31%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.05%) Redis
5 4 (2.05%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.54%) Big Data
6 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.03%) Looker
7 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.03%) SQLite
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (16.92%) Git
2 21 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.26%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.18%) XCTest
5 8 (4.10%) Gradle
6 7 (3.59%) fastlane
6 7 (3.59%) GitLab
7 6 (3.08%) Android Studio
7 6 (3.08%) Selenium
8 5 (2.56%) JIRA
8 5 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.05%) JUnit
10 3 (1.54%) Appium
10 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.54%) Maven
10 3 (1.54%) Postman
10 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.03%) MLflow
11 2 (1.03%) Mockito
General
1 50 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.36%) Finance
3 25 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.18%) Banking
5 13 (6.67%) Games
6 7 (3.59%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.59%) Tech for Good
7 6 (3.08%) Law
8 5 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.56%) Retail
9 4 (2.05%) Marketing
10 3 (1.54%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (52.31%) Developer
2 47 (24.10%) Senior
3 36 (18.46%) Android Developer
3 36 (18.46%) Software Engineer
4 34 (17.44%) Java Developer
5 32 (16.41%) Senior Developer
6 28 (14.36%) Android Engineer
7 22 (11.28%) Lead
8 21 (10.77%) Senior Android Developer
9 19 (9.74%) Java Engineer
10 18 (9.23%) Mobile Engineer
11 16 (8.21%) Android Software Engineer
12 15 (7.69%) AWS Developer
13 14 (7.18%) iOS Developer
14 10 (5.13%) Lead Developer
14 10 (5.13%) Mobile Developer
14 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
15 9 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.90%) Node.js
1 31 (15.90%) SwiftUI
2 29 (14.87%) AngularJS
2 29 (14.87%) RESTful
2 29 (14.87%) Spring Boot
3 27 (13.85%) Android Jetpack
3 27 (13.85%) Jetpack Compose
4 25 (12.82%) Spring
5 22 (11.28%) Android SDK
6 17 (8.72%) GraphQL
7 15 (7.69%) React
7 15 (7.69%) UIKit
8 12 (6.15%) React Native
9 10 (5.13%) Kafka
10 8 (4.10%) Retrofit
11 7 (3.59%) .NET
12 6 (3.08%) REST
13 4 (2.05%) Entity Framework
13 4 (2.05%) OAuth
13 4 (2.05%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.95%) Mobile App
2 16 (8.21%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.67%) Social Media
4 9 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.62%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.08%) PKI
6 5 (2.56%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Blog
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.51%) Clustering
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 90 (46.15%) Android
2 42 (21.54%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.59%) Windows
4 6 (3.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (50.77%) CI/CD
2 69 (35.38%) Agile
3 61 (31.28%) Android Development
4 52 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.54%) AI
6 41 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (21.03%) Test Automation
7 40 (20.51%) Clean Code
8 35 (17.95%) DevOps
9 34 (17.44%) Design Patterns
10 33 (16.92%) TDD
11 30 (15.38%) iOS Development
12 28 (14.36%) SOLID
13 26 (13.33%) User Experience
14 25 (12.82%) Analytics
14 25 (12.82%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (12.82%) DevSecOps
14 25 (12.82%) Mobile Development
15 23 (11.79%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 108 (55.38%) Java
2 40 (20.51%) Swift
3 39 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 35 (17.95%) SQL
5 19 (9.74%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.18%) Python
7 8 (4.10%) C#
8 7 (3.59%) Scala
9 6 (3.08%) Bash
9 6 (3.08%) C++
10 5 (2.56%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.54%) Groovy
12 2 (1.03%) Dart
12 2 (1.03%) Go
13 1 (0.51%) PHP
13 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.56%) Degree
7 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.59%) WCAG
3 6 (3.08%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (18.46%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) KVM
2 5 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (8.72%) Kubernetes
1 17 (8.72%) Terraform
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.08%) Grafana
4 3 (1.54%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.03%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (8.21%) Google
2 14 (7.18%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.18%) Braze
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.62%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.59%) VMware
6 3 (1.54%) Splunk
7 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.51%) Apple
8 1 (0.51%) Intel
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) Revolut