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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 501 404
Rank change year-on-year -57 -97 -73
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 195 164 647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.17% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 125 74 482
10th Percentile £51,250 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,938 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £136,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +17.12% -17.78%

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 16,891 13,994 34,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.12% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,961 9,238 26,001
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 June 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 June 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 -40 183 £75,000 +15.38% 42
UK excluding London +4 131 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Work from Home +28 75 £75,000 +25.00% 21
North of England +32 72 £70,750 +1.07% 4
London -56 62 £86,250 +23.21% 25
Yorkshire +7 48 £72,500 -19.44% 2
South East -26 21 £60,000 - 6
North West +17 19 £65,000 -5.45% 2
Midlands -7 14 - - 1
South West -57 14 £85,000 +88.89% 7
East Midlands - 14 - -
Scotland 0 8 £65,000 -49.09%
North East -43 5 £47,000 -
Wales - 2 £66,000 -

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 3 (1.54%) JBoss
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.49%) AWS
2 54 (27.69%) GitHub
3 51 (26.15%) Serverless
4 42 (21.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (18.46%) Amazon S3
8 35 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (15.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (15.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 29 (14.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (11.79%) Azure
12 21 (10.77%) Firebase
13 15 (7.69%) Datadog
13 15 (7.69%) GCP
13 15 (7.69%) TestFlight
14 14 (7.18%) Stripe
15 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (4.10%) Entra ID
15 8 (4.10%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.44%) DynamoDB
2 33 (16.92%) NoSQL
3 31 (15.90%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.03%) Looker
5 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.03%) Redis
5 2 (1.03%) SQLite
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Big Data
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (15.38%) Git
2 23 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.26%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.18%) XCTest
5 8 (4.10%) Gradle
6 7 (3.59%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.59%) fastlane
7 6 (3.08%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.56%) GitLab
8 5 (2.56%) Selenium
9 4 (2.05%) JIRA
10 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.54%) Maven
10 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.03%) JUnit
11 2 (1.03%) Mockito
11 2 (1.03%) Postman
12 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (7.69%) Finance
4 14 (7.18%) Banking
4 14 (7.18%) Games
5 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.56%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Retail
8 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Publishing
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (51.28%) Developer
2 49 (25.13%) Senior
3 39 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 30 (15.38%) Android Developer
5 29 (14.87%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.36%) Senior Developer
7 25 (12.82%) Android Engineer
8 24 (12.31%) Lead
9 22 (11.28%) Java Engineer
10 18 (9.23%) AWS Developer
10 18 (9.23%) Mobile Engineer
11 16 (8.21%) Senior Android Developer
12 15 (7.69%) iOS Developer
13 12 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (5.64%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Android Software Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Lead Developer
16 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
17 8 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
17 8 (4.10%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.51%) Node.js
2 35 (17.95%) AngularJS
3 31 (15.90%) SwiftUI
4 30 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 29 (14.87%) RESTful
6 27 (13.85%) Spring
7 24 (12.31%) Android Jetpack
7 24 (12.31%) Jetpack Compose
8 20 (10.26%) Android SDK
9 15 (7.69%) GraphQL
10 14 (7.18%) React
10 14 (7.18%) UIKit
11 9 (4.62%) React Native
12 7 (3.59%) .NET
13 6 (3.08%) OAuth
13 6 (3.08%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.08%) Retrofit
14 5 (2.56%) Kafka
15 4 (2.05%) Entity Framework
15 4 (2.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (36.41%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.67%) Social Media
4 11 (5.64%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.10%) PKI
7 6 (3.08%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.54%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.51%) Blog
10 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.51%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 84 (43.08%) Android
2 37 (18.97%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.62%) Windows
4 8 (4.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 61 (31.28%) Agile
3 59 (30.26%) Android Development
4 45 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 43 (22.05%) DevOps
6 42 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (16.92%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.90%) Clean Code
8 31 (15.90%) DevSecOps
9 30 (15.38%) TDD
10 29 (14.87%) iOS Development
11 28 (14.36%) AI
12 27 (13.85%) SOLID
13 26 (13.33%) Design Patterns
14 24 (12.31%) Mentoring
14 24 (12.31%) User Experience
15 23 (11.79%) Analytics
15 23 (11.79%) Containerisation
15 23 (11.79%) Deployment Automation
16 22 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 113 (57.95%) Java
2 38 (19.49%) SQL
3 37 (18.97%) Swift
4 36 (18.46%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.72%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.21%) Python
7 9 (4.62%) Bash
7 9 (4.62%) C#
8 8 (4.10%) C++
9 6 (3.08%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.54%) Groovy
10 3 (1.54%) Scala
11 2 (1.03%) Dart
11 2 (1.03%) Elixir
11 2 (1.03%) Erlang
11 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.08%) WCAG
3 4 (2.05%) QA
System Software
1 43 (22.05%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) KVM
2 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.74%) Terraform
2 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.10%) Grafana
5 3 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (8.21%) Google
2 14 (7.18%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.18%) Braze
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.10%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.10%) VMware
5 2 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Intel
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle