Kotlin Job Trends

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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 473 382
Rank change year-on-year -19 -91 -24
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 181 211 516
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 1.33% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 122 146 463
10th Percentile £55,000 £33,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,813 £47,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -25.71% -12.50%

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 12,888 15,901 28,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.36% 34.32% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,125 9,981 23,332
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% +5.99% -1.36%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +5 162 £75,000 -6.25% 91
UK excluding London -18 87 £70,000 +34.62% 64
London +7 84 £100,000 +17.65% 35
Work from Home -39 62 £72,500 +20.83% 65
North of England +1 39 £72,500 +61.11% 24
Yorkshire -22 25 £72,500 +61.11% 9
South East -15 22 £60,000 +41.18% 16
North West +6 14 £65,000 +13.04% 14
South West -18 10 £73,750 +1.72% 10
Scotland -31 10 £71,250 +18.75% 5
Midlands -4 4 £75,000 +66.67% 4
East Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands +3 1 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 2 (1.10%) JBoss
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.66%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.57%) AWS
2 26 (14.36%) Azure
3 22 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (9.94%) GitHub
4 18 (9.94%) SaaS
4 18 (9.94%) Serverless
5 15 (8.29%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (8.29%) Amazon S3
5 15 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (8.29%) GCP
6 13 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (7.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 13 (7.18%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.42%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.87%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.87%) Firebase
8 7 (3.87%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) AMQP
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.71%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.05%) DynamoDB
3 13 (7.18%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.31%) Redis
6 5 (2.76%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.66%) MySQL
7 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.55%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 19 (10.50%) Git
2 11 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.31%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.76%) Android Studio
5 4 (2.21%) Crashlytics
6 3 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.66%) GitLab
6 3 (1.66%) Maven
6 3 (1.66%) XCTest
7 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.10%) Selenium
7 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.10%) Xcode
8 1 (0.55%) Appium
8 1 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.55%) Gradle
8 1 (0.55%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.55%) Postman
8 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (19.34%) Finance
2 32 (17.68%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.73%) Banking
3 14 (7.73%) Games
4 11 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.42%) Retail
6 7 (3.87%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.21%) Billing
8 4 (2.21%) Law
9 3 (1.66%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Front Office
11 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (35.36%) Developer
2 62 (34.25%) Senior
3 46 (25.41%) Software Engineer
4 25 (13.81%) Android Engineer
5 24 (13.26%) Java Engineer
6 23 (12.71%) Senior Java Engineer
7 19 (10.50%) iOS Developer
7 19 (10.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (9.94%) Java Developer
9 15 (8.29%) Lead
10 13 (7.18%) Android Developer
10 13 (7.18%) Development Engineer
10 13 (7.18%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Software Development Engineer
12 10 (5.52%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.52%) Ruby Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) AWS Developer
13 8 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Senior Android Developer
13 8 (4.42%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.47%) RESTful
1 28 (15.47%) Spring
2 25 (13.81%) SwiftUI
3 24 (13.26%) Spring Boot
4 22 (12.15%) Node.js
5 21 (11.60%) Android Jetpack
5 21 (11.60%) Jetpack Compose
6 20 (11.05%) React
7 16 (8.84%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.52%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.97%) REST
10 8 (4.42%) Android SDK
10 8 (4.42%) Kafka
10 8 (4.42%) WebSockets
11 6 (3.31%) .NET
12 5 (2.76%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.76%) React Native
12 5 (2.76%) Symfony
12 5 (2.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (2.76%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.18%) Mobile App
2 17 (9.39%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.52%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.42%) Blog
6 7 (3.87%) PKI
6 7 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.87%) Social Media
7 6 (3.31%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.31%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.76%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.76%) Mobile Games
8 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.21%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.21%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.10%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 79 (43.65%) Android
2 34 (18.78%) Apple iOS
3 15 (8.29%) Linux
4 11 (6.08%) Windows
5 4 (2.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.12%) CI/CD
2 58 (32.04%) Software Engineering
3 57 (31.49%) Android Development
4 53 (29.28%) Agile
5 37 (20.44%) Mentoring
6 35 (19.34%) AI
6 35 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.92%) Mobile Development
8 26 (14.36%) SOLID
9 25 (13.81%) TDD
10 24 (13.26%) Design Patterns
10 24 (13.26%) DevOps
10 24 (13.26%) iOS Development
11 23 (12.71%) Memory Management
12 22 (12.15%) Multithreading
12 22 (12.15%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (11.60%) Event-Driven
13 21 (11.60%) Machine Learning
13 21 (11.60%) Test Automation
14 20 (11.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 112 (61.88%) Java
2 31 (17.13%) Swift
3 23 (12.71%) Python
4 21 (11.60%) Scala
5 19 (10.50%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.94%) SQL
7 14 (7.73%) C++
7 14 (7.73%) Ruby
7 14 (7.73%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.63%) C#
9 6 (3.31%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (2.76%) Bash
10 5 (2.76%) PHP
11 2 (1.10%) C
11 2 (1.10%) Elixir
11 2 (1.10%) Erlang
11 2 (1.10%) Groovy
12 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.26%) Degree
3 17 (9.39%) Master's Degree
4 15 (8.29%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.97%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.97%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.21%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.21%) OSCE
7 4 (2.21%) OSCP
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) QA
2 5 (2.76%) GDPR
3 4 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.21%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (14.36%) Docker
2 6 (3.31%) KVM
2 6 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.29%) Terraform
3 8 (4.42%) Grafana
3 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.10%) Ansible
4 2 (1.10%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (4.97%) Google
2 7 (3.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.31%) VMware
4 3 (1.66%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.55%) Samsung
5 1 (0.55%) Splunk