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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 530 382
Rank change year-on-year -20 -148 -54
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 242 159 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 1.14% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 156 67 354
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
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 18,614 13,908 25,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 27.72% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,179 9,133 17,577
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 17 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 17 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 +3 230 £75,000 +3.45% 224
UK excluding London +3 149 £70,000 +7.69% 97
London -66 87 £80,000 +6.67% 148
North of England +11 81 £70,000 -9.68% 42
Work from Home 0 79 £80,000 +23.08% 103
Yorkshire +10 49 £75,000 -10.45% 17
North West +3 27 £70,000 -5.08% 23
South East -34 23 £60,000 - 14
South West -63 23 £85,000 +88.89% 14
Midlands -15 15 £55,000 -15.38% 10
East Midlands - 12 - -
Scotland +6 5 £70,000 +55.56% 8
North East -59 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
West Midlands -18 3 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 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 6 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.24%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.23%) AWS
2 61 (25.21%) GitHub
3 48 (19.83%) Serverless
4 44 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (16.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (14.88%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (14.46%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.22%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (11.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (11.16%) Azure
11 26 (10.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (9.09%) Datadog
13 21 (8.68%) Firebase
14 17 (7.02%) GCP
15 13 (5.37%) TestFlight
16 12 (4.96%) Stripe
17 10 (4.13%) Google Play
18 8 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.64%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.74%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (10.74%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.13%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.48%) Redis
6 4 (1.65%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.24%) Big Data
7 3 (1.24%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.83%) Looker
8 2 (0.83%) MySQL
8 2 (0.83%) 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 (16.53%) Git
2 21 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.44%) Crashlytics
4 14 (5.79%) XCTest
5 9 (3.72%) Appium
5 9 (3.72%) Gradle
6 8 (3.31%) GitLab
7 7 (2.89%) fastlane
7 7 (2.89%) JIRA
8 6 (2.48%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.48%) JUnit
8 6 (2.48%) Selenium
9 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.65%) Maven
10 4 (1.65%) MLflow
10 4 (1.65%) Xcode
11 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.24%) Mockito
11 3 (1.24%) Postman
General
1 65 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.77%) Finance
3 32 (13.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.26%) Banking
6 13 (5.37%) Law
7 12 (4.96%) Games
8 10 (4.13%) Marketing
9 8 (3.31%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.31%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.48%) Publishing
11 6 (2.48%) 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 (52.48%) Developer
2 68 (28.10%) Senior
3 47 (19.42%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.53%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.29%) Java Developer
6 36 (14.88%) Android Developer
7 27 (11.16%) Android Engineer
8 25 (10.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (9.92%) Lead
10 22 (9.09%) Senior Android Developer
11 21 (8.68%) Java Engineer
12 18 (7.44%) AWS Developer
13 17 (7.02%) Android Software Engineer
14 16 (6.61%) Mobile Engineer
15 15 (6.20%) iOS Developer
16 12 (4.96%) Mobile Developer
16 12 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
17 11 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 11 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
18 10 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.29%) Node.js
2 34 (14.05%) SwiftUI
3 33 (13.64%) RESTful
3 33 (13.64%) Spring Boot
4 32 (13.22%) Spring
5 31 (12.81%) AngularJS
6 27 (11.16%) Android Jetpack
6 27 (11.16%) Jetpack Compose
7 23 (9.50%) GraphQL
8 22 (9.09%) React
9 21 (8.68%) Android SDK
10 19 (7.85%) Kafka
10 19 (7.85%) React Native
11 16 (6.61%) REST
11 16 (6.61%) UIKit
12 8 (3.31%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.48%) .NET
14 6 (2.48%) Jest
14 6 (2.48%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 75 (30.99%) Mobile App
2 15 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.20%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.96%) Social Media
4 10 (4.13%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (3.72%) Blog
5 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.72%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.48%) PKI
7 5 (2.07%) Clustering
7 5 (2.07%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.24%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 100 (41.32%) Android
2 54 (22.31%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.89%) Windows
4 6 (2.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (44.21%) CI/CD
2 78 (32.23%) Agile
3 70 (28.93%) Software Engineering
4 64 (26.45%) Android Development
5 48 (19.83%) AI
6 47 (19.42%) Clean Code
7 41 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (16.53%) DevOps
9 39 (16.12%) Test Automation
10 36 (14.88%) Design Patterns
11 35 (14.46%) iOS Development
12 34 (14.05%) Mobile Development
13 31 (12.81%) SOLID
14 28 (11.57%) Architectural Patterns
14 28 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (11.57%) TDD
15 27 (11.16%) Analytics
16 26 (10.74%) DevSecOps
16 26 (10.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (49.17%) Java
2 51 (21.07%) Swift
2 51 (21.07%) TypeScript
3 40 (16.53%) SQL
4 24 (9.92%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.20%) Python
6 8 (3.31%) C#
6 8 (3.31%) Scala
7 6 (2.48%) Bash
7 6 (2.48%) C++
8 5 (2.07%) Go
8 5 (2.07%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.24%) Groovy
9 3 (1.24%) PHP
10 2 (0.83%) Dart
11 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.13%) AWS Certification
2 10 (4.13%) Degree
3 9 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.31%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (2.89%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.48%) 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 (5.79%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.31%) QA
3 7 (2.89%) WCAG
4 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (18.60%) Docker
2 5 (2.07%) KVM
2 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.68%) Terraform
3 9 (3.72%) Grafana
4 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.65%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.02%) Google
2 12 (4.96%) Amplitude
2 12 (4.96%) Braze
3 9 (3.72%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.72%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.89%) VMware
5 4 (1.65%) Apple
6 3 (1.24%) Splunk
7 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle
8 1 (0.41%) Intel
8 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.41%) Revolut