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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 512 391
Rank change year-on-year -46 -121 -53
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 264 153 484
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 1.18% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 189 65 293
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,400 £40,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -17.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,250 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 18,764 12,971 23,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.98% 26.20% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13,309 8,367 14,509
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -36 245 £70,000 -5.08% 555
UK excluding London -37 162 £70,000 +16.67% 209
Work from Home +17 97 £77,500 +10.71% 233
London -73 94 £77,500 -3.13% 392
North of England -2 74 £70,000 +1.82% 85
Yorkshire -10 41 £70,000 -1.75% 34
South West -46 37 £70,000 +55.56% 33
North West -8 28 £70,000 +1.82% 42
South East -32 22 £60,000 - 33
Midlands -36 16 £55,000 -15.38% 16
West Midlands -30 11 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Scotland - 11 £70,000 - 26
North East -59 5 £47,000 -27.69% 9
East Midlands - 5 - - 6
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 5

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 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 69 (26.14%) AWS
2 54 (20.45%) GitHub
3 40 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
4 35 (13.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 35 (13.26%) Serverless
5 30 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (10.98%) Amazon S3
6 29 (10.98%) Azure
7 28 (10.61%) Datadog
8 26 (9.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (9.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
11 19 (7.20%) GCP
12 13 (4.92%) Firebase
13 10 (3.79%) Google Play
14 8 (3.03%) SaaS
15 7 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (2.27%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.23%) DynamoDB
2 24 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.95%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.03%) Redis
7 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.14%) Big Data
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.76%) Looker
9 2 (0.76%) MySQL
9 2 (0.76%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.76%) SQLite
9 2 (0.76%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (15.91%) Git
2 16 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.92%) JUnit
4 10 (3.79%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.41%) Android Studio
5 9 (3.41%) Appium
5 9 (3.41%) Gradle
6 8 (3.03%) JIRA
7 7 (2.65%) XCTest
8 6 (2.27%) fastlane
8 6 (2.27%) GitLab
8 6 (2.27%) Xcode
9 4 (1.52%) MLflow
9 4 (1.52%) Mockito
9 4 (1.52%) Postman
9 4 (1.52%) Selenium
9 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.76%) git-flow
10 2 (0.76%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.97%) Public Sector
3 51 (19.32%) Finance
4 28 (10.61%) Banking
5 26 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.06%) Law
7 10 (3.79%) Marketing
8 8 (3.03%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.03%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.65%) Publishing
10 6 (2.27%) Retail
11 3 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 141 (53.41%) Developer
2 93 (35.23%) Senior
3 55 (20.83%) Senior Developer
4 51 (19.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 50 (18.94%) Software Engineer
6 33 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 27 (10.23%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.09%) Android Developer
9 23 (8.71%) Java Engineer
10 21 (7.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 20 (7.58%) Lead
12 18 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (6.44%) Android Software Engineer
13 17 (6.44%) AWS Developer
14 15 (5.68%) Senior Android Developer
15 13 (4.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (3.79%) Mobile Engineer
17 9 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.26%) Spring
2 34 (12.88%) Node.js
3 33 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 31 (11.74%) RESTful
5 29 (10.98%) AngularJS
6 25 (9.47%) Android Jetpack
6 25 (9.47%) Jetpack Compose
7 21 (7.95%) React
7 21 (7.95%) REST
7 21 (7.95%) Terraform
8 20 (7.58%) SwiftUI
9 19 (7.20%) Kafka
9 19 (7.20%) React Native
10 12 (4.55%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.79%) Android SDK
12 9 (3.41%) UIKit
13 7 (2.65%) .NET
13 7 (2.65%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.65%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.08%) Mobile App
2 21 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.17%) Blog
5 8 (3.03%) Clustering
5 8 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
6 6 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.89%) PKI
7 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.52%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.14%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.76%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (31.82%) Android
2 44 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.27%) Windows
4 5 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.20%) CI/CD
2 81 (30.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 73 (27.65%) Software Engineering
4 67 (25.38%) Agile
5 47 (17.80%) Android Development
6 45 (17.05%) DevOps
7 41 (15.53%) Clean Code
8 37 (14.02%) AI
9 36 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 34 (12.88%) Mobile Development
11 33 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.23%) Fintech
13 26 (9.85%) Mentoring
13 26 (9.85%) Microservices
13 26 (9.85%) TDD
14 25 (9.47%) DevSecOps
14 25 (9.47%) SDLC
15 24 (9.09%) MVVM
15 24 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (8.71%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 114 (43.18%) Java
2 48 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 39 (14.77%) Swift
4 38 (14.39%) SQL
5 19 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.82%) Python
7 9 (3.41%) Scala
8 7 (2.65%) C#
8 7 (2.65%) Go
9 5 (1.89%) C++
10 4 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.14%) Bash
11 3 (1.14%) PHP
12 2 (0.76%) Dart
13 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.92%) Degree
3 10 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.92%) QA
3 6 (2.27%) WCAG
4 5 (1.89%) GDPR
4 5 (1.89%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (17.05%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) KVM
2 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.41%) Grafana
3 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.52%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.44%) Google
2 8 (3.03%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.27%) VMware
4 5 (1.89%) Amplitude
4 5 (1.89%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.89%) Braze
5 4 (1.52%) Apple
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle
6 3 (1.14%) Splunk
7 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Intel
8 1 (0.38%) Revolut