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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 495 422
Rank change year-on-year -26 -73 -85
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 201 152 550
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.36% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 1.09% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 123 109 462
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -22.23% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £108,418 £103,438
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.37% -26.92% -13.33%

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 15,499 13,980 32,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 33.33% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,533 10,268 24,961
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 12 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 April 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 -15 185 £75,000 +7.14% 47
UK excluding London -42 114 £70,000 +47.37% 27
London +12 80 £100,000 +17.65% 33
Work from Home -14 74 £75,000 +57.89% 37
North of England -15 55 £72,500 +56.76% 8
Yorkshire -29 40 £72,500 +61.11% 5
South East -39 24 £60,000 +26.32% 8
North West -19 15 £65,000 +13.04% 2
South West -54 14 £81,250 +80.56% 3
Midlands -40 11 - - 1
East Midlands - 11 - - 1
Scotland -24 10 £65,000 -18.88% 6

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 (1.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.29%) AWS
2 38 (18.91%) Serverless
3 35 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 35 (17.41%) GitHub
4 27 (13.43%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (13.43%) Amazon S3
4 27 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (11.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 23 (11.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 22 (10.95%) Azure
6 22 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (10.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (7.46%) Firebase
8 15 (7.46%) GCP
9 11 (5.47%) Stripe
9 11 (5.47%) TestFlight
10 10 (4.98%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.48%) Datadog
11 9 (4.48%) Google Workspace
11 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.42%) DynamoDB
1 31 (15.42%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.44%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (2.99%) Redis
4 5 (2.49%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (12.44%) Git
2 15 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.47%) Crashlytics
4 11 (5.47%) XCTest
5 7 (3.48%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.99%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.99%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.99%) GitLab
7 4 (1.99%) Gradle
7 4 (1.99%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.49%) Selenium
8 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.00%) JUnit
9 2 (1.00%) Mockito
9 2 (1.00%) Xcode
10 1 (0.50%) fastlane
10 1 (0.50%) JIRA
10 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (18.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.45%) Finance
3 19 (9.45%) Banking
4 17 (8.46%) Games
5 16 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.98%) Retail
8 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.49%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.49%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.00%) Advertising
10 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.00%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (42.79%) Developer
2 65 (32.34%) Senior
3 40 (19.90%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.92%) Android Engineer
5 30 (14.93%) Java Developer
6 24 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.44%) Lead
8 22 (10.95%) Android Developer
8 22 (10.95%) iOS Developer
9 19 (9.45%) Java Engineer
10 16 (7.96%) Mobile Engineer
10 16 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (6.97%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (6.97%) Senior Android Developer
11 14 (6.97%) Senior Java Engineer
12 12 (5.97%) Development Engineer
13 11 (5.47%) AWS Developer
14 10 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (4.98%) Software Development Engineer
15 9 (4.48%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.91%) SwiftUI
2 34 (16.92%) Node.js
3 33 (16.42%) RESTful
4 27 (13.43%) Spring
5 24 (11.94%) Spring Boot
6 23 (11.44%) Android Jetpack
6 23 (11.44%) AngularJS
6 23 (11.44%) Jetpack Compose
7 19 (9.45%) React
8 16 (7.96%) GraphQL
9 15 (7.46%) Android SDK
10 12 (5.97%) React Native
11 11 (5.47%) UIKit
12 8 (3.98%) Kafka
12 8 (3.98%) WebSockets
13 7 (3.48%) REST
14 6 (2.99%) gRPC
14 6 (2.99%) OAuth
14 6 (2.99%) OAuth2
15 5 (2.49%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 77 (38.31%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.97%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.47%) Social Media
4 11 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.98%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.48%) PKI
7 7 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.99%) Blog
8 6 (2.99%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.49%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.00%) Cyberattack
12 2 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (47.76%) Android
2 44 (21.89%) Apple iOS
3 12 (5.97%) Linux
4 11 (5.47%) Windows
5 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (44.28%) CI/CD
2 70 (34.83%) Android Development
3 64 (31.84%) Agile
4 51 (25.37%) Software Engineering
5 42 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.92%) iOS Development
7 33 (16.42%) AI
7 33 (16.42%) SOLID
8 31 (15.42%) TDD
9 30 (14.93%) Design Patterns
9 30 (14.93%) Mobile Development
10 29 (14.43%) DevOps
11 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
12 26 (12.94%) User Experience
13 25 (12.44%) Mentoring
13 25 (12.44%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (11.44%) Memory Management
14 23 (11.44%) Multithreading
15 22 (10.95%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (10.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 113 (56.22%) Java
2 43 (21.39%) Swift
3 27 (13.43%) TypeScript
4 26 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.44%) SQL
6 22 (10.95%) Python
7 14 (6.97%) C++
8 10 (4.98%) C#
9 7 (3.48%) Bash
9 7 (3.48%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (2.49%) Scala
11 3 (1.49%) Groovy
12 2 (1.00%) Elixir
12 2 (1.00%) Erlang
12 2 (1.00%) PHP
12 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.50%) C
13 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.96%) Degree
3 15 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.97%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.97%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.47%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.98%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.00%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.00%) OSCE
9 2 (1.00%) OSCP
10 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.48%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.49%) GDPR
3 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.00%) EU AI Act
3 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (17.41%) Docker
2 7 (3.48%) KVM
2 7 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.96%) Terraform
3 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.48%) Grafana
5 3 (1.49%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.00%) Ansible
6 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (5.97%) Google
2 11 (5.47%) Amplitude
2 11 (5.47%) Braze
2 11 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.48%) VMware
4 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.50%) Intel
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle
4 1 (0.50%) Samsung