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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 470 415
Rank change year-on-year -39 -55 -62
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 204 155 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.12% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 123 113 470
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -22.23% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £108,418 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.37% -26.92% -13.33%

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 15,272 13,838 32,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 33.28% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10,390 10,229 25,158
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,234
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 12 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 April 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 -25 188 £75,000 +7.14% 59
UK excluding London -42 112 £70,000 +47.37% 32
London +11 85 £100,000 +17.65% 42
Work from Home -23 74 £75,000 +42.86% 65
North of England -18 55 £72,500 +56.76% 9
Yorkshire -27 40 £72,500 +61.11% 5
South East -33 24 £60,000 +41.18% 14
North West -12 15 £65,000 +13.04% 3
South West -45 13 £85,000 +88.89% 3
Scotland -32 10 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Midlands -44 10 - -
East Midlands - 10 - -

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 (1.47%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.47%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.16%) AWS
2 37 (18.14%) Serverless
3 36 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (16.67%) GitHub
5 27 (13.24%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (13.24%) Amazon S3
5 27 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (12.75%) Azure
7 23 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (11.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 21 (10.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 21 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.82%) GCP
10 14 (6.86%) Firebase
11 11 (5.39%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.90%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.90%) Google Workspace
12 10 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.90%) Stripe
12 10 (4.90%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.86%) Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) AMQP
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.20%) DynamoDB
1 31 (15.20%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.27%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (2.94%) Redis
4 5 (2.45%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (11.76%) Git
2 15 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.88%) Crashlytics
4 10 (4.90%) XCTest
5 8 (3.92%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.94%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.96%) GitLab
7 4 (1.96%) Maven
8 3 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.47%) Gradle
8 3 (1.47%) Selenium
8 3 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.98%) Xcode
10 1 (0.49%) Appium
10 1 (0.49%) JIRA
10 1 (0.49%) JUnit
10 1 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.49%) Mockito
10 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.25%) Finance
3 21 (10.29%) Banking
4 18 (8.82%) Games
4 18 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.90%) Retail
6 7 (3.43%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.96%) Law
8 3 (1.47%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.47%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.98%) Advertising
9 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.98%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (42.16%) Developer
2 67 (32.84%) Senior
3 38 (18.63%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.20%) Android Engineer
5 30 (14.71%) Java Developer
6 24 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.27%) Lead
8 22 (10.78%) Android Developer
8 22 (10.78%) iOS Developer
9 19 (9.31%) Java Engineer
10 16 (7.84%) Mobile Engineer
10 16 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (7.35%) Senior Java Engineer
12 14 (6.86%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (6.86%) Senior Android Developer
13 12 (5.88%) Development Engineer
14 11 (5.39%) AWS Developer
15 10 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (4.90%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.16%) SwiftUI
2 34 (16.67%) Node.js
3 32 (15.69%) RESTful
4 28 (13.73%) Spring
5 25 (12.25%) Spring Boot
6 23 (11.27%) Android Jetpack
6 23 (11.27%) AngularJS
6 23 (11.27%) Jetpack Compose
7 20 (9.80%) React
8 16 (7.84%) GraphQL
9 15 (7.35%) Android SDK
10 12 (5.88%) React Native
11 10 (4.90%) UIKit
12 8 (3.92%) Kafka
12 8 (3.92%) WebSockets
13 7 (3.43%) REST
14 6 (2.94%) OAuth
14 6 (2.94%) OAuth2
15 5 (2.45%) gRPC
15 5 (2.45%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 76 (37.25%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.86%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.37%) Social Media
4 11 (5.39%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.90%) PKI
6 7 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.94%) Blog
7 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.96%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.96%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.47%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.47%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 97 (47.55%) Android
2 45 (22.06%) Apple iOS
3 15 (7.35%) Linux
4 14 (6.86%) Windows
5 4 (1.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 69 (33.82%) Android Development
3 65 (31.86%) Agile
4 52 (25.49%) Software Engineering
5 43 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.65%) AI
7 33 (16.18%) iOS Development
7 33 (16.18%) SOLID
8 31 (15.20%) TDD
9 30 (14.71%) Design Patterns
10 29 (14.22%) DevOps
10 29 (14.22%) Mobile Development
11 28 (13.73%) Test Automation
12 27 (13.24%) Mentoring
13 26 (12.75%) User Experience
14 24 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (11.27%) Memory Management
15 23 (11.27%) Multithreading
16 22 (10.78%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (10.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 116 (56.86%) Java
2 43 (21.08%) Swift
3 27 (13.24%) JavaScript
3 27 (13.24%) TypeScript
4 25 (12.25%) SQL
5 23 (11.27%) Python
6 15 (7.35%) C++
7 11 (5.39%) C#
8 8 (3.92%) Google Apps Script
9 7 (3.43%) Bash
10 5 (2.45%) Scala
11 3 (1.47%) Groovy
11 3 (1.47%) PHP
12 2 (0.98%) Elixir
12 2 (0.98%) Erlang
12 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.31%) Degree
3 16 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.35%) Master's Degree
5 13 (6.37%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.90%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.90%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.96%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.96%) OSCE
9 4 (1.96%) OSCP
10 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) QA
2 5 (2.45%) GDPR
3 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.96%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (17.65%) Docker
2 8 (3.92%) KVM
2 8 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.31%) Terraform
3 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.90%) Grafana
5 3 (1.47%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.98%) Ansible
6 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (6.37%) Google
2 11 (5.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.90%) Amplitude
3 10 (4.90%) Braze
4 9 (4.41%) VMware
5 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.49%) Intel
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle
5 1 (0.49%) Samsung
5 1 (0.49%) Splunk