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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 504 404
Rank change year-on-year -68 -100 -74
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 189 171 632
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.18% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 121 84 456
10th Percentile £53,750 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,944 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £133,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,750 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.07% +27.27% -18.52%

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 17,618 14,438 32,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.03% 29.63% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,514 9,618 24,412
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -34 179 £75,000 +7.14% 118
UK excluding London -5 126 £70,750 +1.07% 46
Work from Home +14 71 £77,500 +24.00% 39
North of England +18 68 £70,000 -9.68% 14
London -62 60 £80,000 +6.67% 87
Yorkshire +5 45 £73,750 -18.06% 2
South East -38 20 £60,000 - 8
North West +8 18 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South West -54 17 £85,000 +88.89% 13
Midlands -17 14 - -
East Midlands - 14 - -
Scotland +2 5 £65,000 -49.09% 8
North East -40 5 £47,000 - 3
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 (1.59%) JBoss
2 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.62%) AWS
2 55 (29.10%) GitHub
3 49 (25.93%) Serverless
4 40 (21.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.99%) Amazon S3
8 32 (16.93%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (14.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 26 (13.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (12.70%) Azure
12 21 (11.11%) Firebase
13 16 (8.47%) GCP
14 15 (7.94%) TestFlight
15 14 (7.41%) Datadog
15 14 (7.41%) Stripe
16 9 (4.76%) Entra ID
16 9 (4.76%) Google Workspace
16 9 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.40%) DynamoDB
2 28 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.12%) Redis
3 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.59%) Big Data
5 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.06%) Looker
5 2 (1.06%) SQLite
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (16.93%) Git
2 22 (11.64%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.58%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.41%) XCTest
5 8 (4.23%) Gradle
6 7 (3.70%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.70%) fastlane
6 7 (3.70%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.17%) GitLab
7 6 (3.17%) Selenium
8 4 (2.12%) JIRA
9 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.59%) Maven
9 3 (1.59%) Postman
9 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.06%) JUnit
10 2 (1.06%) Mockito
11 1 (0.53%) Xcode
General
1 40 (21.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (9.52%) Finance
4 13 (6.88%) Games
5 12 (6.35%) Banking
6 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.65%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.65%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Retail
9 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.06%) Publishing
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (52.91%) Developer
2 44 (23.28%) Senior
3 37 (19.58%) Java Developer
4 33 (17.46%) Android Developer
5 29 (15.34%) Senior Developer
5 29 (15.34%) Software Engineer
6 25 (13.23%) Android Engineer
7 22 (11.64%) Lead
8 18 (9.52%) Java Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Mobile Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Senior Android Developer
9 17 (8.99%) AWS Developer
10 14 (7.41%) iOS Developer
11 12 (6.35%) Android Software Engineer
12 11 (5.82%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (5.29%) Lead Developer
13 10 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.52%) Node.js
2 32 (16.93%) AngularJS
3 30 (15.87%) SwiftUI
4 28 (14.81%) RESTful
4 28 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 25 (13.23%) Spring
6 24 (12.70%) Android Jetpack
6 24 (12.70%) Jetpack Compose
7 21 (11.11%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.94%) GraphQL
9 14 (7.41%) UIKit
10 12 (6.35%) React
11 8 (4.23%) Kafka
11 8 (4.23%) React Native
12 7 (3.70%) .NET
13 6 (3.17%) Retrofit
14 4 (2.12%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET
14 4 (2.12%) Jest
14 4 (2.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 70 (37.04%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.88%) Social Media
4 9 (4.76%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.76%) PKI
4 9 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.59%) Hackathon
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.06%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.53%) Blog
9 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 83 (43.92%) Android
2 36 (19.05%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.29%) Windows
4 9 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 64 (33.86%) Agile
3 58 (30.69%) Android Development
4 44 (23.28%) Software Engineering
5 42 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (20.63%) DevOps
7 36 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 34 (17.99%) Clean Code
9 31 (16.40%) AI
9 31 (16.40%) Design Patterns
10 30 (15.87%) TDD
11 29 (15.34%) DevSecOps
12 28 (14.81%) iOS Development
13 27 (14.29%) SOLID
14 25 (13.23%) User Experience
15 24 (12.70%) Containerisation
16 23 (12.17%) Analytics
16 23 (12.17%) Deployment Automation
17 21 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
17 21 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 108 (57.14%) Java
2 36 (19.05%) Swift
3 35 (18.52%) SQL
3 35 (18.52%) TypeScript
4 18 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.47%) Python
6 10 (5.29%) C#
7 9 (4.76%) C++
8 8 (4.23%) Bash
9 7 (3.70%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (3.17%) Scala
11 3 (1.59%) Groovy
12 2 (1.06%) Dart
12 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.53%) Elixir
13 1 (0.53%) Erlang
13 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.35%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.17%) WCAG
3 5 (2.65%) QA
System Software
1 41 (21.69%) Docker
2 7 (3.70%) KVM
2 7 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.05%) Kubernetes
1 19 (10.05%) Terraform
2 11 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.23%) Grafana
4 3 (1.59%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.52%) Google
2 14 (7.41%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.41%) Braze
3 11 (5.82%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.76%) VMware
5 3 (1.59%) Splunk
6 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.53%) Intel
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle