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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 461 417
Rank change year-on-year -27 -44 -62
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 208 181 534
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.44% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 1.31% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 132 140 457
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,125 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,250 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -6.67%

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 14,109 13,804 31,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.07% 33.82% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,842 10,205 24,552
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,528
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £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 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +3.31% -1.82%

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 28 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 28 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 +1 188 £75,000 -3.23% 74
UK excluding London -25 114 £70,000 +21.74% 38
London -4 84 £100,000 +17.65% 48
Work from Home -43 69 £75,000 +25.00% 89
North of England -17 57 £72,500 +56.76% 12
Yorkshire -28 40 £72,500 +61.11% 4
South East -28 24 £60,000 +60.00% 13
North West -14 17 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Scotland -34 11 £67,500 - 3
Midlands -23 10 £75,000 +36.36% 1
South West -45 10 £73,750 +1.72% 6
East Midlands - 9 - -
West Midlands -12 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 2

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 (1.44%) JBoss
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.44%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.94%) AWS
2 33 (15.87%) Serverless
3 31 (14.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 31 (14.90%) GitHub
4 24 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 24 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (11.54%) Azure
5 20 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (9.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 19 (9.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 18 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (7.69%) GCP
9 13 (6.25%) Firebase
10 11 (5.29%) SaaS
11 9 (4.33%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.33%) Stripe
11 9 (4.33%) TestFlight
12 8 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.48%) AMQP
2 1 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.94%) NoSQL
2 28 (13.46%) DynamoDB
3 20 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.37%) Redis
5 5 (2.40%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.48%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 20 (9.62%) Git
2 15 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.29%) Crashlytics
4 9 (4.33%) XCTest
5 7 (3.37%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.88%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.92%) GitLab
7 4 (1.92%) Maven
8 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.44%) Selenium
8 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.96%) Gradle
9 2 (0.96%) Xcode
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) fastlane
10 1 (0.48%) JIRA
10 1 (0.48%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Postman
10 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 35 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Finance
3 19 (9.13%) Games
4 18 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.17%) Banking
6 10 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.81%) Retail
7 7 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.92%) Law
10 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.48%) Advertising
12 1 (0.48%) Front Office
12 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (41.83%) Developer
2 70 (33.65%) Senior
3 46 (22.12%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.98%) Android Engineer
5 26 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 23 (11.06%) iOS Developer
6 23 (11.06%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.58%) Android Developer
8 21 (10.10%) Java Engineer
8 21 (10.10%) Lead
9 20 (9.62%) Senior Java Engineer
10 19 (9.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Development Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Senior Android Developer
12 12 (5.77%) Mobile Engineer
12 12 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (5.77%) Software Development Engineer
13 10 (4.81%) Ruby Engineer
14 9 (4.33%) AWS Developer
15 8 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.83%) SwiftUI
2 31 (14.90%) Node.js
2 31 (14.90%) RESTful
3 28 (13.46%) Spring
4 25 (12.02%) Android Jetpack
4 25 (12.02%) Jetpack Compose
4 25 (12.02%) Spring Boot
5 21 (10.10%) AngularJS
6 20 (9.62%) React
7 16 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 15 (7.21%) Android SDK
9 9 (4.33%) UIKit
10 8 (3.85%) Kafka
10 8 (3.85%) React Native
10 8 (3.85%) REST
10 8 (3.85%) WebSockets
11 6 (2.88%) OAuth
11 6 (2.88%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.40%) Jest
12 5 (2.40%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 70 (33.65%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.25%) Social Media
3 12 (5.77%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.85%) Blog
5 8 (3.85%) PKI
6 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.92%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.92%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.92%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.92%) Mobile Games
8 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.44%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 92 (44.23%) Android
2 42 (20.19%) Apple iOS
3 16 (7.69%) Linux
4 12 (5.77%) Windows
5 4 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (41.35%) CI/CD
2 69 (33.17%) Android Development
3 61 (29.33%) Agile
4 55 (26.44%) Software Engineering
5 44 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.23%) AI
7 34 (16.35%) Mentoring
7 34 (16.35%) SOLID
8 33 (15.87%) Design Patterns
8 33 (15.87%) iOS Development
9 30 (14.42%) TDD
10 27 (12.98%) DevOps
10 27 (12.98%) Mobile Development
10 27 (12.98%) Test Automation
10 27 (12.98%) User Experience
11 25 (12.02%) Memory Management
12 24 (11.54%) Multithreading
12 24 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
13 22 (10.58%) Microservices
14 21 (10.10%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 127 (61.06%) Java
2 40 (19.23%) Swift
3 24 (11.54%) Python
4 23 (11.06%) JavaScript
4 23 (11.06%) SQL
4 23 (11.06%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.62%) Scala
6 15 (7.21%) C++
7 13 (6.25%) Ruby
8 10 (4.81%) C#
9 7 (3.37%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (2.88%) Bash
11 4 (1.92%) PHP
12 3 (1.44%) Groovy
13 2 (0.96%) C
13 2 (0.96%) Elixir
13 2 (0.96%) Erlang
14 1 (0.48%) Go
14 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.58%) Degree
3 17 (8.17%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.21%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.29%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.33%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.92%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.92%) OSCE
9 4 (1.92%) OSCP
10 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.88%) QA
2 5 (2.40%) GDPR
3 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.92%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (16.35%) Docker
2 7 (3.37%) KVM
2 7 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.17%) Terraform
3 9 (4.33%) Grafana
3 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.44%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.29%) Google
2 9 (4.33%) Amplitude
3 8 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.37%) VMware
5 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.48%) Samsung
5 1 (0.48%) Splunk