Kotlin Job Trends

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 460 389
Rank change year-on-year -29 -71 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 173 224 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.47% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.35% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 118 149 452
10th Percentile £55,000 £33,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,813 £52,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £114,875 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.63% -22.86% -9.97%

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 12,735 16,570 27,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.48% 34.43% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,074 10,064 22,891
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -17 154 £75,000 -6.25% 91
London -1 85 £100,000 +17.65% 47
UK excluding London -10 78 £70,000 +29.63% 55
Work from Home -15 62 £73,750 +20.41% 58
North of England -9 31 £72,500 +61.11% 28
South East -10 21 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Yorkshire -19 20 £72,500 +61.11% 11
North West +8 11 £60,000 -2.04% 16
South West -15 10 £73,750 +1.72% 7
Scotland -23 10 £71,250 +18.75% 3
Midlands +1 4 £75,000 +66.67% 3
East Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands +8 1 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 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 2 (1.16%) JBoss
2 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.58%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.73%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.46%) AWS
2 25 (14.45%) Azure
3 22 (12.72%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (10.40%) SaaS
4 18 (10.40%) Serverless
5 16 (9.25%) GitHub
6 15 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (8.67%) Amazon S3
6 15 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.67%) GCP
7 13 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (7.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 13 (7.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (4.62%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.05%) Firebase
9 7 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.05%) Google Workspace
9 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.89%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) AMQP
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.14%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.56%) DynamoDB
3 13 (7.51%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.47%) Redis
6 5 (2.89%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.73%) MySQL
9 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.58%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 18 (10.40%) Git
2 10 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.47%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.89%) Android Studio
5 4 (2.31%) Crashlytics
6 3 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.73%) Maven
6 3 (1.73%) XCTest
7 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.16%) GitLab
7 2 (1.16%) Selenium
7 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.16%) Xcode
8 1 (0.58%) Appium
8 1 (0.58%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.58%) Gradle
8 1 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.58%) Postman
8 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.58%) XCUITest
General
1 36 (20.81%) Finance
2 34 (19.65%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.09%) Banking
4 11 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.62%) Games
6 7 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.47%) Retail
8 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.31%) Billing
9 4 (2.31%) Law
10 3 (1.73%) Marketing
11 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.58%) Advertising
12 1 (0.58%) Front Office
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 61 (35.26%) Senior
2 59 (34.10%) Developer
3 46 (26.59%) Software Engineer
4 24 (13.87%) Android Engineer
5 23 (13.29%) Java Engineer
5 23 (13.29%) Senior Java Engineer
6 21 (12.14%) Java Developer
7 19 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) iOS Developer
9 15 (8.67%) Lead
10 12 (6.94%) Development Engineer
10 12 (6.94%) Software Development Engineer
11 11 (6.36%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.78%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.78%) Ruby Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Senior Android Engineer
14 8 (4.62%) Android Developer
14 8 (4.62%) AWS Developer
15 7 (4.05%) Senior Development Engineer
15 7 (4.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.18%) Spring
2 27 (15.61%) RESTful
3 23 (13.29%) React
3 23 (13.29%) Spring Boot
4 22 (12.72%) Android Jetpack
4 22 (12.72%) Jetpack Compose
4 22 (12.72%) SwiftUI
5 20 (11.56%) Node.js
6 16 (9.25%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.78%) REST
8 8 (4.62%) Kafka
8 8 (4.62%) WebSockets
9 6 (3.47%) .NET
9 6 (3.47%) OAuth
9 6 (3.47%) React Native
10 5 (2.89%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.89%) Memcached
10 5 (2.89%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.89%) Symfony
10 5 (2.89%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.43%) Mobile App
2 16 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.78%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.62%) Blog
6 7 (4.05%) PKI
7 6 (3.47%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.47%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.89%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.89%) Mobile Games
8 5 (2.89%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.31%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.31%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.73%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.16%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.16%) IoT
11 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 71 (41.04%) Android
2 31 (17.92%) Apple iOS
3 15 (8.67%) Linux
4 11 (6.36%) Windows
5 4 (2.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.68%) CI/CD
2 55 (31.79%) Software Engineering
3 51 (29.48%) Android Development
4 47 (27.17%) Agile
5 37 (21.39%) Mentoring
6 29 (16.76%) AI
7 28 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.61%) Mobile Development
9 26 (15.03%) TDD
10 23 (13.29%) DevOps
11 22 (12.72%) Memory Management
11 22 (12.72%) Test Automation
12 21 (12.14%) Event-Driven
12 21 (12.14%) iOS Development
12 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning
12 21 (12.14%) Multithreading
12 21 (12.14%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (11.56%) Design Patterns
13 20 (11.56%) User Experience
14 19 (10.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 108 (62.43%) Java
2 28 (16.18%) Swift
3 24 (13.87%) Python
3 24 (13.87%) Scala
4 18 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.25%) SQL
6 14 (8.09%) C++
6 14 (8.09%) Ruby
7 12 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.36%) C#
9 6 (3.47%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (2.89%) Bash
10 5 (2.89%) PHP
11 3 (1.73%) Go
12 2 (1.16%) C
12 2 (1.16%) Elixir
12 2 (1.16%) Erlang
12 2 (1.16%) Groovy
13 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.45%) Degree
3 17 (9.83%) Master's Degree
4 15 (8.67%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (6.94%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.20%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.31%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.31%) OSCE
8 4 (2.31%) OSCP
9 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) GDPR
3 4 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.31%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (14.45%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) KVM
2 6 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.51%) Terraform
3 8 (4.62%) Grafana
3 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.20%) Google
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.47%) VMware
4 3 (1.73%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.58%) Samsung
5 1 (0.58%) Splunk