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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 501 369
Rank change year-on-year -23 -132 -19
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 287 169 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% 1.33% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 200 82 274
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £81,250 £89,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -16.67%

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 18,408 12,709 22,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 25.71% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13,012 8,137 13,582
10th Percentile £39,016 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £83,813 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -26 266 £70,000 -6.67% 551
UK excluding London +9 187 £70,000 +7.69% 183
Work from Home +17 110 £70,000 -6.67% 223
London -67 92 £77,500 -3.13% 390
North of England +8 87 £70,000 -6.67% 86
Yorkshire +9 49 £70,000 -6.67% 31
South West -38 44 £70,000 +55.56% 19
North West +1 33 £70,000 - 43
South East -46 26 £60,000 - 24
Midlands -30 15 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Scotland +22 13 £70,000 -6.67% 23
West Midlands -39 11 £55,000 -15.38% 12
North East -68 5 £47,000 -27.69% 12
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
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 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 69 (24.04%) AWS
2 56 (19.51%) GitHub
3 39 (13.59%) Azure
3 39 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
4 33 (11.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (11.50%) Serverless
5 30 (10.45%) Amazon S3
6 29 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (9.76%) Datadog
8 25 (8.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (8.36%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (8.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 24 (8.36%) AWS Step Functions
10 18 (6.27%) GCP
11 13 (4.53%) Firebase
12 11 (3.83%) Google Play
13 8 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (2.44%) TestFlight
15 6 (2.09%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.06%) DynamoDB
2 24 (8.36%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.97%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.83%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.48%) Redis
7 5 (1.74%) Big Data
8 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.70%) Looker
9 2 (0.70%) MySQL
9 2 (0.70%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.70%) SQLite
9 2 (0.70%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (14.29%) Git
2 16 (5.57%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.23%) JUnit
4 10 (3.48%) Android Studio
5 9 (3.14%) Appium
5 9 (3.14%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.14%) Gradle
5 9 (3.14%) JIRA
6 8 (2.79%) fastlane
6 8 (2.79%) GitLab
7 6 (2.09%) Xcode
7 6 (2.09%) XCTest
8 4 (1.39%) MLflow
8 4 (1.39%) Mockito
8 4 (1.39%) Postman
8 4 (1.39%) Selenium
8 4 (1.39%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.70%) git-flow
9 2 (0.70%) Maven
General
1 66 (23.00%) Public Sector
2 61 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 59 (20.56%) Finance
4 36 (12.54%) Banking
5 29 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.27%) Law
7 10 (3.48%) Marketing
8 9 (3.14%) Retail Banking
9 8 (2.79%) Retail
10 7 (2.44%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.44%) Publishing
10 7 (2.44%) Tech for Good
11 6 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (54.70%) Developer
2 107 (37.28%) Senior
3 69 (24.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 68 (23.69%) Senior Developer
5 62 (21.60%) Software Engineer
6 35 (12.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (11.50%) Java Developer
8 27 (9.41%) Android Engineer
9 22 (7.67%) Android Developer
9 22 (7.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 22 (7.67%) Java Engineer
10 20 (6.97%) Lead
11 16 (5.57%) Android Software Engineer
11 16 (5.57%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (4.53%) Senior Android Developer
13 13 (4.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (3.83%) iOS Developer
15 9 (3.14%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.14%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.85%) Node.js
1 34 (11.85%) Spring
2 33 (11.50%) RESTful
3 31 (10.80%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.10%) AngularJS
5 25 (8.71%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (8.71%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (8.36%) REST
7 21 (7.32%) SwiftUI
8 20 (6.97%) Kafka
8 20 (6.97%) React
9 19 (6.62%) Terraform
10 15 (5.23%) React Native
11 12 (4.18%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.48%) Android SDK
13 8 (2.79%) OpenAPI
13 8 (2.79%) UIKit
14 7 (2.44%) Dagger
14 7 (2.44%) Retrofit
14 7 (2.44%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.77%) Mobile App
2 20 (6.97%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.23%) Mobile Banking
4 12 (4.18%) Blog
4 12 (4.18%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.79%) Clustering
5 8 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.39%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.39%) PKI
9 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.05%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.70%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.35%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (29.27%) Android
2 43 (14.98%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.74%) Windows
4 4 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (29.27%) CI/CD
3 79 (27.53%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.00%) Agile
5 47 (16.38%) Test Automation
6 46 (16.03%) AI
7 45 (15.68%) DevOps
8 44 (15.33%) Android Development
9 42 (14.63%) Clean Code
10 33 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (11.50%) Mobile Development
11 29 (10.10%) Fintech
12 28 (9.76%) Microservices
13 27 (9.41%) DevSecOps
13 27 (9.41%) Mentoring
13 27 (9.41%) TDD
14 25 (8.71%) SDLC
15 24 (8.36%) iOS Development
15 24 (8.36%) MVVM
15 24 (8.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.21%) Java
2 56 (19.51%) TypeScript
3 38 (13.24%) Swift
4 37 (12.89%) SQL
5 26 (9.06%) Python
6 17 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.57%) Go
8 11 (3.83%) Scala
9 10 (3.48%) Rust
10 6 (2.09%) C#
11 4 (1.39%) C++
11 4 (1.39%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.05%) PHP
13 2 (0.70%) Bash
13 2 (0.70%) Dart
Qualifications
1 18 (6.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.88%) Degree
3 11 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.92%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.88%) QA
3 6 (2.09%) WCAG
4 5 (1.74%) GDPR
4 5 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (16.03%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) KVM
2 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.14%) Grafana
3 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.39%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (9.06%) Google
2 8 (2.79%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.09%) VMware
5 5 (1.74%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.39%) Amplitude
6 4 (1.39%) Apple
6 4 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.39%) Braze
7 3 (1.05%) Splunk
8 2 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle
9 1 (0.35%) Revolut