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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 414 376
Rank change year-on-year -55 -38 -52
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 176 368 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.58% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 1.75% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 106 223 360
10th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -20.00% -3.85%

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 11,574 21,032 20,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.33% 32.91% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,399 12,594 17,055
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -30 162 £78,750 -1.56% 66
London +13 112 £90,000 +5.88% 31
Work from Home -22 56 £76,250 +22.00% 44
UK excluding London -30 52 £70,000 +40.00% 58
North of England +16 18 £75,000 +57.89% 5
South East -21 16 £60,000 +20.00% 25
South West +10 11 £72,500 +16.00% 13
Yorkshire +4 10 £75,000 +66.67% 1
North West +24 8 £71,250 +14.00% 4
Scotland -13 4 £75,000 +38.89% 3
West Midlands +49 3 £65,000 +44.44%
Midlands +46 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
North East +10 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 3

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 (2.27%) Confluence
2 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.57%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.14%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.20%) AWS
2 24 (13.64%) Azure
3 20 (11.36%) GCP
3 20 (11.36%) SaaS
4 10 (5.68%) GitHub
5 5 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (2.84%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.27%) Firebase
7 3 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.70%) Datadog
7 3 (1.70%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.70%) Figma
7 3 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.70%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) AMQP
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.68%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.41%) Redis
3 6 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.84%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.84%) MySQL
4 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.27%) Big Data
6 3 (1.70%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.14%) Flink
8 1 (0.57%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.57%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 17 (9.66%) Git
2 6 (3.41%) JIRA
3 4 (2.27%) Android Studio
4 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.70%) git-flow
4 3 (1.70%) JUnit
4 3 (1.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.57%) Appium
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.57%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.57%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
6 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.57%) UI Automator
6 1 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 63 (35.80%) Finance
2 44 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 34 (19.32%) Law
4 33 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (12.50%) Banking
6 18 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.25%) Marketing
8 8 (4.55%) Legal
8 8 (4.55%) Retail
9 7 (3.98%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.41%) Games
10 6 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.27%) Billing
12 3 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.57%) Advertising
14 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.57%) Front Office
14 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (36.93%) Software Engineer
2 59 (33.52%) Senior
3 55 (31.25%) Developer
4 32 (18.18%) Java Engineer
5 28 (15.91%) Lead
6 23 (13.07%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (11.36%) Senior Developer
8 19 (10.80%) Android Engineer
9 17 (9.66%) Senior Java Engineer
10 15 (8.52%) Java Developer
10 15 (8.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (7.95%) Lead Software Engineer
12 11 (6.25%) Android Developer
12 11 (6.25%) Senior Android Engineer
13 10 (5.68%) Ruby Engineer
14 9 (5.11%) Development Engineer
14 9 (5.11%) Software Development Engineer
15 8 (4.55%) Lead Developer
15 8 (4.55%) Mobile Developer
15 8 (4.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.48%) Spring
2 25 (14.20%) React
3 21 (11.93%) RESTful
4 20 (11.36%) Spring Boot
5 19 (10.80%) Kafka
6 17 (9.66%) Android Jetpack
6 17 (9.66%) Jetpack Compose
7 15 (8.52%) REST
8 11 (6.25%) Flutter
9 10 (5.68%) React Native
10 9 (5.11%) SwiftUI
11 8 (4.55%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.98%) Web Services
12 7 (3.98%) WebSockets
13 6 (3.41%) Retrofit
14 5 (2.84%) .NET
14 5 (2.84%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.84%) OkHttp
14 5 (2.84%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 5 (2.84%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.91%) Mobile App
3 17 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.98%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.41%) Mobile Banking
5 6 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.84%) Blog
6 5 (2.84%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.84%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.27%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.27%) Derivative
7 4 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.27%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (36.36%) Android
2 31 (17.61%) Apple iOS
3 13 (7.39%) Linux
4 8 (4.55%) Windows
5 4 (2.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (51.14%) Software Engineering
2 59 (33.52%) Agile
3 53 (30.11%) CI/CD
4 41 (23.30%) Mentoring
5 40 (22.73%) Android Development
6 39 (22.16%) AI
7 36 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (17.61%) Fintech
8 31 (17.61%) Microservices
9 30 (17.05%) Architectural Patterns
9 30 (17.05%) Mobile Development
10 29 (16.48%) SDLC
11 26 (14.77%) Machine Learning
12 22 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 21 (11.93%) Code Quality
14 20 (11.36%) Secure Coding
15 18 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (10.23%) Design Patterns
16 17 (9.66%) Event-Driven
17 16 (9.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 114 (64.77%) Java
2 39 (22.16%) Scala
3 24 (13.64%) Swift
4 22 (12.50%) Python
5 16 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.52%) Go
7 14 (7.95%) Ruby
8 13 (7.39%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.82%) C++
10 9 (5.11%) C#
11 8 (4.55%) SQL
12 7 (3.98%) PHP
13 4 (2.27%) C
13 4 (2.27%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.70%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (1.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.36%) Degree
3 15 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.39%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.27%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.27%) OSCE
9 4 (2.27%) OSCP
10 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.25%) QA
2 5 (2.84%) GDPR
3 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.27%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (8.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) KVM
2 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Terraform
3 4 (2.27%) Grafana
3 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.11%) Google
2 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.84%) Samsung
4 3 (1.70%) VMware
5 1 (0.57%) Splunk