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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 518 416
Rank change year-on-year -21 -102 -92
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 199 128 594
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.30% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 0.97% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 126 78 475
10th Percentile £55,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £93,125 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £114,375 £131,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -14.29%

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 16,262 13,258 32,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 31.10% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,226 8,942 24,877
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £86,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 May 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 23 May 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 -14 185 £75,000 +15.38% 69
UK excluding London +16 121 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Work from Home +20 75 £80,000 +39.13% 40
London -16 74 £100,000 +23.08% 43
North of England +1 64 £72,500 +7.41% 16
Yorkshire -3 44 £72,500 +5.45% 6
South East -22 21 £60,000 +11.63% 3
North West +8 17 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Midlands -21 13 - - 2
South West -49 13 £85,000 +88.89% 3
East Midlands - 13 - - 1
Scotland 0 8 £65,000 -49.09% 3
North East -39 3 £47,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 4

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 (1.51%) JBoss
2 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.01%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.19%) AWS
2 45 (22.61%) GitHub
2 45 (22.61%) Serverless
3 40 (20.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (16.58%) Amazon S3
5 32 (16.08%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (16.08%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (14.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (14.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 26 (13.07%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (10.05%) Azure
10 18 (9.05%) Firebase
11 14 (7.04%) GCP
12 13 (6.53%) Datadog
12 13 (6.53%) Stripe
12 13 (6.53%) TestFlight
13 9 (4.52%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.52%) Google Workspace
13 9 (4.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.58%) DynamoDB
1 33 (16.58%) NoSQL
2 28 (14.07%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.01%) Redis
4 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.01%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.01%) Looker
4 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.07%) Git
2 18 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.54%) Crashlytics
4 13 (6.53%) XCTest
5 8 (4.02%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.52%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.02%) Gradle
8 5 (2.51%) GitLab
9 4 (2.01%) fastlane
10 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.51%) Maven
10 3 (1.51%) Selenium
10 3 (1.51%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.01%) JUnit
11 2 (1.01%) Mockito
11 2 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 36 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.05%) Finance
3 17 (8.54%) Banking
3 17 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.04%) Games
5 6 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.02%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.01%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.01%) Retail
7 4 (2.01%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.50%) Advertising
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (45.73%) Developer
2 58 (29.15%) Senior
3 34 (17.09%) Java Developer
4 33 (16.58%) Android Engineer
5 32 (16.08%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.07%) Android Developer
7 26 (13.07%) Senior Developer
8 25 (12.56%) Lead
9 24 (12.06%) Java Engineer
10 19 (9.55%) iOS Developer
11 18 (9.05%) Mobile Engineer
12 16 (8.04%) Senior Android Developer
13 15 (7.54%) AWS Developer
14 14 (7.04%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
16 11 (5.53%) Senior Java Engineer
17 10 (5.03%) Senior Java Developer
18 9 (4.52%) Applications Developer
18 9 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
18 9 (4.52%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.10%) Node.js
2 35 (17.59%) SwiftUI
3 31 (15.58%) RESTful
4 28 (14.07%) Android Jetpack
4 28 (14.07%) AngularJS
4 28 (14.07%) Jetpack Compose
5 26 (13.07%) Spring Boot
6 25 (12.56%) Spring
7 17 (8.54%) Android SDK
8 16 (8.04%) React
9 15 (7.54%) GraphQL
10 13 (6.53%) UIKit
11 10 (5.03%) React Native
12 6 (3.02%) OAuth
12 6 (3.02%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.51%) Jest
13 5 (2.51%) Kafka
13 5 (2.51%) WebSockets
14 4 (2.01%) gRPC
14 4 (2.01%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 77 (38.69%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.04%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.53%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.53%) Social Media
4 9 (4.52%) PKI
5 8 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.52%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.01%) Blog
9 3 (1.51%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 94 (47.24%) Android
2 39 (19.60%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.52%) Linux
3 9 (4.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (48.74%) CI/CD
2 69 (34.67%) Android Development
3 63 (31.66%) Agile
4 43 (21.61%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.59%) DevOps
7 34 (17.09%) TDD
8 32 (16.08%) iOS Development
9 31 (15.58%) AI
10 30 (15.08%) Design Patterns
10 30 (15.08%) SOLID
11 29 (14.57%) Test Automation
12 28 (14.07%) DevSecOps
13 27 (13.57%) Clean Code
14 26 (13.07%) User Experience
15 25 (12.56%) Mobile Development
16 23 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
17 21 (10.55%) Containerisation
17 21 (10.55%) Mentoring
18 20 (10.05%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 114 (57.29%) Java
2 40 (20.10%) Swift
3 31 (15.58%) SQL
3 31 (15.58%) TypeScript
4 18 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.54%) Python
6 12 (6.03%) C++
7 10 (5.03%) C#
8 9 (4.52%) Bash
9 7 (3.52%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.51%) Groovy
10 3 (1.51%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) Elixir
11 2 (1.01%) Erlang
11 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.03%) AWS Certification
3 11 (5.53%) Degree
4 9 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.51%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.51%) QA
2 4 (2.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (19.60%) Docker
2 7 (3.52%) KVM
2 7 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.05%) Terraform
2 17 (8.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.52%) Grafana
5 3 (1.51%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.01%) Ansible
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.04%) Google
2 13 (6.53%) Amplitude
2 13 (6.53%) Braze
3 11 (5.53%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.52%) VMware
5 4 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.50%) Intel
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle