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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 528 373
Rank change year-on-year -18 -155 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 245 159 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 1.15% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 159 67 354
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,593 13,805 25,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 27.63% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,204 9,058 17,573
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,747 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -8 233 £75,000 +3.45% 65
UK excluding London +11 151 £70,000 +7.69% 54
London -54 88 £80,000 +6.67% 22
North of England +27 81 £70,000 -9.68% 20
Work from Home +26 81 £80,000 +23.08% 42
Yorkshire +10 49 £75,000 -10.45% 9
North West +19 27 £70,000 -5.08% 11
South West -54 24 £85,000 +88.89% 13
South East -19 23 £60,000 - 10
Midlands -21 16 £55,000 -15.38% 5
East Midlands - 12 - -
Scotland +3 5 £70,000 +55.56% 5
North East -57 5 £47,000 -27.69%
West Midlands -24 4 £55,000 -15.38% 5
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 6 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.22%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.84%) AWS
2 62 (25.31%) GitHub
3 48 (19.59%) Serverless
4 44 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (14.69%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.06%) Amazon ECS
9 29 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (11.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (11.02%) Azure
11 26 (10.61%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (8.98%) Datadog
13 21 (8.57%) Firebase
14 17 (6.94%) GCP
15 13 (5.31%) TestFlight
16 12 (4.90%) Stripe
17 10 (4.08%) Google Play
18 8 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.47%) DynamoDB
2 27 (11.02%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.45%) Redis
6 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.22%) Big Data
7 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.82%) Looker
8 2 (0.82%) MySQL
8 2 (0.82%) SQLite
9 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.41%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (16.33%) Git
2 21 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.35%) Crashlytics
4 14 (5.71%) XCTest
5 9 (3.67%) Appium
5 9 (3.67%) Gradle
6 7 (2.86%) fastlane
6 7 (2.86%) GitLab
6 7 (2.86%) JIRA
7 6 (2.45%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.45%) JUnit
8 5 (2.04%) Selenium
8 5 (2.04%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.04%) Xcode
9 4 (1.63%) MLflow
10 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.22%) Maven
10 3 (1.22%) Mockito
10 3 (1.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
General
1 65 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.55%) Finance
3 32 (13.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (12.65%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.16%) Banking
6 13 (5.31%) Law
7 12 (4.90%) Games
8 10 (4.08%) Marketing
9 8 (3.27%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.27%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.45%) Publishing
10 6 (2.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (51.84%) Developer
2 69 (28.16%) Senior
3 47 (19.18%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.33%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.10%) Java Developer
6 36 (14.69%) Android Developer
7 27 (11.02%) Android Engineer
8 25 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (10.20%) Lead
9 22 (8.98%) Senior Android Developer
10 21 (8.57%) Java Engineer
11 18 (7.35%) AWS Developer
12 17 (6.94%) Android Software Engineer
13 16 (6.53%) Mobile Engineer
14 15 (6.12%) iOS Developer
15 13 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (4.90%) Mobile Developer
16 12 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
17 11 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
18 10 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.10%) Node.js
2 34 (13.88%) SwiftUI
3 33 (13.47%) RESTful
3 33 (13.47%) Spring
3 33 (13.47%) Spring Boot
4 31 (12.65%) AngularJS
5 27 (11.02%) Android Jetpack
5 27 (11.02%) Jetpack Compose
6 23 (9.39%) GraphQL
7 22 (8.98%) React
8 21 (8.57%) Android SDK
9 19 (7.76%) Kafka
9 19 (7.76%) React Native
10 17 (6.94%) REST
11 16 (6.53%) UIKit
12 8 (3.27%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.45%) .NET
14 6 (2.45%) OpenAPI
14 6 (2.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 75 (30.61%) Mobile App
2 15 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.90%) Social Media
4 10 (4.08%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (3.67%) Blog
5 9 (3.67%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.45%) PKI
8 5 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.04%) Clustering
8 5 (2.04%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.22%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 101 (41.22%) Android
2 55 (22.45%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.86%) Windows
4 6 (2.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.49%) CI/CD
2 77 (31.43%) Agile
3 70 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 65 (26.53%) Android Development
5 49 (20.00%) AI
6 47 (19.18%) Clean Code
7 43 (17.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 41 (16.73%) DevOps
9 40 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (15.92%) Test Automation
11 36 (14.69%) iOS Development
12 35 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 35 (14.29%) Mobile Development
13 31 (12.65%) SOLID
14 28 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (11.43%) TDD
15 27 (11.02%) Analytics
15 27 (11.02%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (11.02%) DevSecOps
16 26 (10.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (48.57%) Java
2 52 (21.22%) Swift
3 50 (20.41%) TypeScript
4 41 (16.73%) SQL
5 23 (9.39%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.12%) Python
7 8 (3.27%) C#
7 8 (3.27%) Scala
8 6 (2.45%) C++
9 5 (2.04%) Bash
9 5 (2.04%) Go
9 5 (2.04%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.22%) PHP
11 2 (0.82%) Dart
11 2 (0.82%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.08%) Degree
3 9 (3.67%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.27%) QA
3 7 (2.86%) WCAG
4 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (18.37%) Docker
2 5 (2.04%) KVM
2 5 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.16%) Terraform
3 9 (3.67%) Grafana
4 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.63%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.82%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.94%) Google
2 12 (4.90%) Amplitude
2 12 (4.90%) Braze
3 9 (3.67%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.67%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.86%) VMware
5 4 (1.63%) Apple
6 3 (1.22%) Splunk
7 2 (0.82%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle
8 1 (0.41%) Intel
8 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.41%) Revolut