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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 531 376
Rank change year-on-year -13 -155 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 243 159 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 1.14% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 156 67 355
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -23.08%

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 18,617 13,892 25,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.42% 27.77% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,173 9,121 17,625
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 16 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 16 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 -16 231 £75,000 +3.45% 62
UK excluding London +1 150 £70,000 +7.69% 50
London -65 87 £80,000 +6.67% 22
North of England +11 82 £70,000 -9.68% 20
Work from Home +15 79 £80,000 +23.08% 36
Yorkshire +9 49 £75,000 -10.45% 10
North West +13 28 £70,000 -5.08% 10
South East -35 24 £60,000 - 9
South West -67 21 £85,000 +88.89% 12
Midlands -14 16 £55,000 -15.38% 4
East Midlands - 13 - -
Scotland +7 5 £70,000 +55.56% 5
North East -60 5 £47,000 -27.69%
West Midlands -29 3 £55,000 -15.38% 4
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 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.23%) Confluence
2 3 (1.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 80 (32.92%) AWS
2 62 (25.51%) GitHub
3 49 (20.16%) Serverless
4 45 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (14.40%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.17%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (11.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (11.11%) Azure
11 26 (10.70%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (9.05%) Datadog
12 22 (9.05%) Firebase
13 17 (7.00%) GCP
14 14 (5.76%) TestFlight
15 13 (5.35%) Stripe
16 10 (4.12%) Google Play
17 8 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.58%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.70%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (10.70%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.47%) Redis
6 4 (1.65%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.23%) Big Data
7 3 (1.23%) 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 (16.46%) Git
2 21 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.82%) Crashlytics
4 15 (6.17%) XCTest
5 9 (3.70%) Appium
5 9 (3.70%) Gradle
6 8 (3.29%) GitLab
7 7 (2.88%) fastlane
7 7 (2.88%) JIRA
8 6 (2.47%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.47%) JUnit
8 6 (2.47%) Selenium
9 5 (2.06%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.65%) Maven
10 4 (1.65%) MLflow
10 4 (1.65%) Xcode
11 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.23%) Mockito
11 3 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 66 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.70%) Finance
3 32 (13.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.23%) Banking
6 13 (5.35%) Law
7 12 (4.94%) Games
8 10 (4.12%) Marketing
9 8 (3.29%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.29%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.47%) Publishing
11 6 (2.47%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (52.26%) Developer
2 68 (27.98%) Senior
3 47 (19.34%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.46%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.23%) Java Developer
6 36 (14.81%) Android Developer
7 27 (11.11%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (9.88%) Lead
9 22 (9.05%) Senior Android Developer
10 21 (8.64%) Java Engineer
11 18 (7.41%) AWS Developer
12 17 (7.00%) Android Software Engineer
12 17 (7.00%) Mobile Engineer
13 16 (6.58%) iOS Developer
14 12 (4.94%) Mobile Developer
14 12 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
15 11 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (4.12%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.23%) Node.js
2 36 (14.81%) SwiftUI
3 34 (13.99%) RESTful
3 34 (13.99%) Spring Boot
4 33 (13.58%) Spring
5 31 (12.76%) AngularJS
6 27 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
6 27 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
7 23 (9.47%) GraphQL
8 22 (9.05%) React
9 21 (8.64%) Android SDK
10 19 (7.82%) Kafka
10 19 (7.82%) React Native
11 17 (7.00%) UIKit
12 16 (6.58%) REST
13 8 (3.29%) Retrofit
14 7 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.47%) .NET
15 6 (2.47%) Jest
15 6 (2.47%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 78 (32.10%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.94%) Social Media
5 10 (4.12%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (3.70%) Blog
6 9 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.47%) PKI
8 5 (2.06%) Clustering
8 5 (2.06%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.23%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 101 (41.56%) Android
2 56 (23.05%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.88%) Windows
4 6 (2.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 78 (32.10%) Agile
3 70 (28.81%) Software Engineering
4 65 (26.75%) Android Development
5 48 (19.75%) AI
5 48 (19.75%) Clean Code
6 41 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.87%) Test Automation
7 40 (16.46%) DevOps
8 39 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (15.23%) iOS Development
10 36 (14.81%) Design Patterns
11 35 (14.40%) Mobile Development
12 32 (13.17%) SOLID
13 29 (11.93%) TDD
14 28 (11.52%) Analytics
14 28 (11.52%) Architectural Patterns
14 28 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (11.11%) SDLC
16 26 (10.70%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 120 (49.38%) Java
2 53 (21.81%) Swift
3 51 (20.99%) TypeScript
4 40 (16.46%) SQL
5 24 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.17%) Python
7 8 (3.29%) C#
7 8 (3.29%) Scala
8 6 (2.47%) Bash
8 6 (2.47%) C++
9 5 (2.06%) Go
9 5 (2.06%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.23%) Groovy
10 3 (1.23%) PHP
11 2 (0.82%) Dart
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.12%) AWS Certification
2 10 (4.12%) Degree
3 9 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (2.88%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.47%) 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 (5.76%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.29%) QA
3 7 (2.88%) WCAG
4 3 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (18.52%) Docker
2 5 (2.06%) KVM
2 5 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.64%) Terraform
3 9 (3.70%) Grafana
4 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.65%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.23%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.00%) Google
2 13 (5.35%) Amplitude
2 13 (5.35%) Braze
3 9 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.88%) VMware
5 4 (1.65%) Apple
6 3 (1.23%) 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