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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 502 411
Rank change year-on-year -37 -91 -84
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 194 165 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.18% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 123 76 473
10th Percentile £51,250 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,125 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -14.06% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £136,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% -17.04%

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 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -36 183 £75,000 +15.38% 56
UK excluding London +7 128 £70,000 +7.69% 27
Work from Home +22 73 £75,000 +25.00% 29
North of England +20 70 £70,750 +1.07% 5
London -52 64 £86,250 +15.00% 33
Yorkshire +4 47 £72,500 -19.44% 2
South East -11 22 £60,000 - 7
North West +19 18 £65,000 -5.45% 3
Midlands -6 14 - - 1
East Midlands - 14 - -
South West -54 13 £85,000 +88.89% 10
Scotland +12 7 £65,000 -49.09% 3
North East -35 5 £47,000 -
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 (1.55%) JBoss
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.66%) AWS
2 52 (26.80%) GitHub
3 49 (25.26%) Serverless
4 40 (20.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (18.04%) Amazon S3
6 35 (18.04%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.53%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (15.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (15.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 28 (14.43%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (10.82%) Azure
10 21 (10.82%) Firebase
11 15 (7.73%) Datadog
11 15 (7.73%) TestFlight
12 14 (7.22%) Stripe
13 13 (6.70%) GCP
14 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.61%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.53%) DynamoDB
2 33 (17.01%) NoSQL
3 30 (15.46%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.55%) Redis
6 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.03%) Looker
6 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.03%) SQLite
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.43%) Git
2 21 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.31%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.22%) XCTest
5 8 (4.12%) Android Studio
5 8 (4.12%) Gradle
6 7 (3.61%) fastlane
7 5 (2.58%) GitLab
7 5 (2.58%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.06%) JIRA
8 4 (2.06%) Selenium
9 3 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.55%) Maven
9 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.03%) JUnit
10 2 (1.03%) Mockito
11 1 (0.52%) Postman
11 1 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 40 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (7.73%) Banking
4 14 (7.22%) Finance
4 14 (7.22%) Games
5 8 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.06%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.06%) Retail
7 4 (2.06%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (51.03%) Developer
2 49 (25.26%) Senior
3 37 (19.07%) Java Developer
4 30 (15.46%) Android Developer
5 29 (14.95%) Software Engineer
6 27 (13.92%) Senior Developer
7 25 (12.89%) Android Engineer
7 25 (12.89%) Lead
8 22 (11.34%) Java Engineer
9 18 (9.28%) Mobile Engineer
10 17 (8.76%) AWS Developer
11 16 (8.25%) iOS Developer
11 16 (8.25%) Senior Android Developer
12 12 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (5.15%) Lead Developer
15 9 (4.64%) Android Software Engineer
15 9 (4.64%) Applications Developer
16 8 (4.12%) Mobile Developer
16 8 (4.12%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.10%) Node.js
2 34 (17.53%) AngularJS
3 32 (16.49%) SwiftUI
4 28 (14.43%) RESTful
4 28 (14.43%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.40%) Spring
6 25 (12.89%) Android Jetpack
6 25 (12.89%) Jetpack Compose
7 19 (9.79%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.73%) GraphQL
9 14 (7.22%) React
9 14 (7.22%) UIKit
10 9 (4.64%) React Native
11 7 (3.61%) .NET
12 6 (3.09%) OAuth
12 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.09%) Retrofit
13 5 (2.58%) Kafka
14 4 (2.06%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.06%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 73 (37.63%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.70%) Social Media
4 12 (6.19%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.61%) PKI
7 6 (3.09%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Blog
10 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.52%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 85 (43.81%) Android
2 38 (19.59%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.12%) Windows
4 7 (3.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (52.06%) CI/CD
2 62 (31.96%) Agile
3 61 (31.44%) Android Development
4 43 (22.16%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.65%) DevOps
6 41 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.01%) TDD
7 33 (17.01%) Test Automation
8 30 (15.46%) Clean Code
8 30 (15.46%) DevSecOps
8 30 (15.46%) iOS Development
9 28 (14.43%) SOLID
10 27 (13.92%) AI
10 27 (13.92%) Design Patterns
11 25 (12.89%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (11.86%) Analytics
13 23 (11.86%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (11.86%) Mobile Development
13 23 (11.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 111 (57.22%) Java
2 38 (19.59%) Swift
3 37 (19.07%) SQL
4 36 (18.56%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.73%) Python
7 9 (4.64%) Bash
8 8 (4.12%) C#
9 7 (3.61%) C++
10 5 (2.58%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.55%) Groovy
11 3 (1.55%) Scala
12 2 (1.03%) Dart
12 2 (1.03%) Elixir
12 2 (1.03%) Erlang
12 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.15%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Degree
7 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.09%) WCAG
3 3 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 40 (20.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) KVM
2 5 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (9.28%) Terraform
2 16 (8.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.61%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.22%) Amplitude
1 14 (7.22%) Braze
1 14 (7.22%) Google
2 9 (4.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.61%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.61%) VMware
4 2 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.52%) Intel
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.52%) Splunk