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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 527 379
Rank change year-on-year -29 -148 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 252 154 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.18% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 173 62 329
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +1.72% -12.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £111,750 £105,000
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 18,482 13,035 24,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 26.57% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,182 8,419 16,033
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 4 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 4 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 -14 235 £70,000 -3.45% 418
UK excluding London +3 156 £70,000 +7.69% 120
London -66 88 £80,000 +3.23% 335
Work from Home +2 84 £80,000 +23.08% 173
North of England -5 69 £70,000 - 42
Yorkshire -9 41 £75,000 +5.26% 14
South West -50 33 £70,000 +55.56% 24
North West -3 23 £70,000 - 24
South East -37 23 £60,000 - 14
Midlands -20 20 £55,000 -15.38% 14
West Midlands -20 10 £55,000 -15.38% 10
East Midlands - 10 - - 4
Scotland - 9 £70,000 - 15
North East -59 5 £47,000 -27.69% 4
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 3

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 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.76%) AWS
2 59 (23.41%) GitHub
3 43 (17.06%) GitHub Actions
4 42 (16.67%) Serverless
5 36 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (12.30%) Amazon S3
8 29 (11.51%) Azure
9 27 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (10.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 24 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (9.52%) Datadog
12 19 (7.54%) Firebase
13 18 (7.14%) GCP
14 11 (4.37%) Google Play
14 11 (4.37%) TestFlight
15 10 (3.97%) Stripe
16 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.51%) DynamoDB
2 24 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 23 (9.13%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.38%) Redis
7 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.19%) Big Data
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.79%) Looker
9 2 (0.79%) MySQL
9 2 (0.79%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.79%) SQLite
9 2 (0.79%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.67%) Git
2 19 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.35%) Crashlytics
4 12 (4.76%) XCTest
5 10 (3.97%) Gradle
6 9 (3.57%) Appium
6 9 (3.57%) JUnit
7 8 (3.17%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.78%) fastlane
8 7 (2.78%) GitLab
8 7 (2.78%) JIRA
9 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.98%) Xcode
10 4 (1.59%) MLflow
10 4 (1.59%) Mockito
10 4 (1.59%) Selenium
11 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.19%) Maven
11 3 (1.19%) Postman
12 2 (0.79%) XCUITest
General
1 63 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 46 (18.25%) Finance
4 29 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (8.73%) Banking
6 13 (5.16%) Law
7 10 (3.97%) Marketing
8 8 (3.17%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.17%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.78%) Publishing
10 6 (2.38%) Games
11 4 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Legal
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (52.38%) Developer
2 77 (30.56%) Senior
3 47 (18.65%) Software Engineer
4 45 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 33 (13.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (12.30%) Android Developer
6 31 (12.30%) Java Developer
7 26 (10.32%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.52%) Lead
9 22 (8.73%) Java Engineer
10 19 (7.54%) Senior Android Developer
11 18 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (6.75%) Android Software Engineer
13 15 (5.95%) AWS Developer
14 14 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (5.16%) iOS Developer
16 11 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
17 10 (3.97%) Java Software Engineer
17 10 (3.97%) Mobile Developer
17 10 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.89%) RESTful
1 35 (13.89%) Spring
2 34 (13.49%) Node.js
2 34 (13.49%) Spring Boot
3 29 (11.51%) AngularJS
3 29 (11.51%) SwiftUI
4 25 (9.92%) Android Jetpack
4 25 (9.92%) Jetpack Compose
5 20 (7.94%) React
5 20 (7.94%) REST
5 20 (7.94%) Terraform
6 19 (7.54%) Kafka
6 19 (7.54%) React Native
7 18 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 16 (6.35%) Android SDK
9 14 (5.56%) UIKit
10 8 (3.17%) Retrofit
11 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 69 (27.38%) Mobile App
2 18 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.97%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.57%) Blog
5 9 (3.57%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.38%) Clustering
7 6 (2.38%) PKI
7 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.38%) Social Media
8 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.19%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 94 (37.30%) Android
2 51 (20.24%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.78%) Windows
4 6 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (38.49%) CI/CD
2 74 (29.37%) Agile
3 67 (26.59%) Software Engineering
4 60 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 58 (23.02%) Android Development
6 46 (18.25%) Clean Code
7 43 (17.06%) AI
8 41 (16.27%) DevOps
9 40 (15.87%) Test Automation
10 36 (14.29%) Mobile Development
11 33 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (12.70%) iOS Development
13 31 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (11.51%) TDD
15 27 (10.71%) Design Patterns
16 26 (10.32%) Mentoring
17 25 (9.92%) Analytics
17 25 (9.92%) Architectural Patterns
17 25 (9.92%) SDLC
17 25 (9.92%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 113 (44.84%) Java
2 48 (19.05%) Swift
2 48 (19.05%) TypeScript
3 38 (15.08%) SQL
4 22 (8.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.35%) Python
6 9 (3.57%) Scala
7 8 (3.17%) C#
8 6 (2.38%) C++
9 5 (1.98%) Go
9 5 (1.98%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (1.59%) Bash
11 3 (1.19%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) Dart
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.76%) Degree
3 8 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.95%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.97%) QA
3 7 (2.78%) WCAG
4 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (17.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) KVM
2 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.97%) Grafana
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (7.14%) Google
2 10 (3.97%) Amplitude
2 10 (3.97%) Braze
3 9 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.78%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) Apple
6 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle
6 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut