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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 529 386
Rank change year-on-year -8 -143 -50
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 249 156 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.14% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 163 64 350
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £108,750 £107,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,566 13,699 25,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 27.49% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13,177 8,963 17,409
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 22 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 22 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 -17 236 £75,000 +1.69% 215
UK excluding London +19 152 £70,000 +7.69% 91
London -60 91 £80,000 +6.67% 146
Work from Home +17 82 £80,000 +23.08% 97
North of England +11 81 £70,000 -9.68% 28
Yorkshire +3 48 £75,000 -10.45% 9
North West +10 28 £70,000 -5.08% 17
South East -20 24 £60,000 - 15
South West -60 24 £85,000 +88.89% 19
Midlands -28 15 £55,000 -15.38% 12
East Midlands - 11 - - 1
Scotland - 6 £70,000 - 8
North East -48 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
West Midlands -26 4 £55,000 -15.38% 11
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 6 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.92%) AWS
2 63 (25.30%) GitHub
3 46 (18.47%) GitHub Actions
3 46 (18.47%) Serverless
4 38 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 30 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (11.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 28 (11.24%) Azure
9 26 (10.44%) AWS Step Functions
10 25 (10.04%) Datadog
11 20 (8.03%) Firebase
12 17 (6.83%) GCP
13 12 (4.82%) TestFlight
14 11 (4.42%) Stripe
15 10 (4.02%) Google Play
16 8 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.45%) DynamoDB
2 28 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 25 (10.04%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.81%) Redis
7 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Looker
9 2 (0.80%) MySQL
9 2 (0.80%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.80%) SQLite
9 2 (0.80%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.87%) Git
2 20 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.83%) Crashlytics
4 13 (5.22%) XCTest
5 10 (4.02%) Gradle
6 9 (3.61%) Appium
7 8 (3.21%) JUnit
8 7 (2.81%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.81%) fastlane
8 7 (2.81%) GitLab
8 7 (2.81%) JIRA
9 5 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.01%) Xcode
10 4 (1.61%) MLflow
10 4 (1.61%) Mockito
10 4 (1.61%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.20%) Maven
11 3 (1.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.80%) git-flow
General
1 65 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.07%) Finance
3 34 (13.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.24%) Banking
5 13 (5.22%) Law
6 12 (4.82%) Games
7 10 (4.02%) Marketing
8 8 (3.21%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.21%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.41%) Publishing
9 6 (2.41%) Retail
10 5 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (51.81%) Developer
2 70 (28.11%) Senior
3 47 (18.88%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.06%) Senior Developer
5 35 (14.06%) Android Developer
5 35 (14.06%) Java Developer
6 28 (11.24%) Android Engineer
6 28 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (10.44%) Lead
8 22 (8.84%) Java Engineer
9 21 (8.43%) Senior Android Developer
10 17 (6.83%) Android Software Engineer
11 16 (6.43%) iOS Developer
12 15 (6.02%) AWS Developer
12 15 (6.02%) Mobile Engineer
13 14 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
15 12 (4.82%) Mobile Developer
16 11 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
17 10 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) Node.js
2 34 (13.65%) RESTful
2 34 (13.65%) Spring
2 34 (13.65%) SwiftUI
3 33 (13.25%) Spring Boot
4 31 (12.45%) AngularJS
5 26 (10.44%) Android Jetpack
5 26 (10.44%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (9.64%) GraphQL
7 21 (8.43%) Android SDK
8 20 (8.03%) Kafka
8 20 (8.03%) React
8 20 (8.03%) Terraform
9 19 (7.63%) React Native
10 18 (7.23%) REST
11 15 (6.02%) UIKit
12 8 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.21%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.81%) OpenAPI
14 6 (2.41%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.52%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.82%) Social Media
5 10 (4.02%) Mobile Banking
5 10 (4.02%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.61%) Blog
7 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.41%) Clustering
8 6 (2.41%) PKI
9 5 (2.01%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Pricing Data
11 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 102 (40.96%) Android
2 55 (22.09%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.81%) Windows
4 6 (2.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 77 (30.92%) Agile
3 71 (28.51%) Software Engineering
4 65 (26.10%) Android Development
5 49 (19.68%) AI
6 47 (18.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (18.47%) Clean Code
8 42 (16.87%) DevOps
9 40 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (15.66%) Test Automation
11 36 (14.46%) iOS Development
11 36 (14.46%) Mobile Development
12 33 (13.25%) Design Patterns
13 32 (12.85%) SOLID
14 29 (11.65%) TDD
15 28 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (10.84%) DevSecOps
17 26 (10.44%) Analytics
18 25 (10.04%) Architectural Patterns
18 25 (10.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 120 (48.19%) Java
2 52 (20.88%) Swift
3 51 (20.48%) TypeScript
4 42 (16.87%) SQL
5 22 (8.84%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.43%) Python
7 9 (3.61%) Scala
8 8 (3.21%) C#
9 6 (2.41%) C++
9 6 (2.41%) Go
10 5 (2.01%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.61%) Bash
12 3 (1.20%) PHP
13 2 (0.80%) Dart
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.82%) Degree
3 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.21%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.62%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.61%) QA
3 7 (2.81%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (18.47%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) KVM
2 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.02%) Grafana
3 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.61%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (6.83%) Google
2 11 (4.42%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.42%) Braze
3 9 (3.61%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.61%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.81%) VMware
5 4 (1.61%) Apple
6 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut