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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 375 380
Rank change year-on-year -115 +5 -120
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 188 419 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.62% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 1.95% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 96 250 399
10th Percentile £48,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,625
90th Percentile £108,750 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -3.85%

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 12,398 21,465 22,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.60% 31.57% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,293 12,813 18,307
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 2025. 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 -71 180 £75,000 -6.25% 136
London -36 130 £90,000 +5.88% 75
Work from Home -70 51 £75,000 - 83
UK excluding London -67 49 £65,000 +18.18% 92
North of England -9 19 £75,000 +15.38% 14
South East -47 17 £60,000 +20.00% 47
Yorkshire +20 10 £75,000 - 2
North West -8 9 £70,000 +3.70% 10
South West +29 8 £45,000 -28.00% 16
Midlands +46 4 £65,000 +62.50% 4
West Midlands +43 4 £65,000 +62.50% 1
North East +10 2 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Scotland -34 1 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 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 5 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.13%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Simulink
2 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.89%) AWS
2 26 (13.83%) GCP
3 25 (13.30%) Azure
4 17 (9.04%) SaaS
5 16 (8.51%) GitHub
6 5 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.13%) Datadog
7 4 (2.13%) Serverless
8 3 (1.60%) Firebase
8 3 (1.60%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.06%) Bitrise
9 2 (1.06%) Figma
9 2 (1.06%) Google Play
10 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.32%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.79%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.26%) Big Data
5 7 (3.72%) MySQL
6 6 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.66%) Redis
7 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.13%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.13%) Flink
9 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.06%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.11%) Git
2 6 (3.19%) Android Studio
2 6 (3.19%) git-flow
2 6 (3.19%) JIRA
3 5 (2.66%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.66%) JUnit
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.06%) GitLab
5 2 (1.06%) Postman
5 2 (1.06%) UI Automator
6 1 (0.53%) Appium
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.53%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.53%) fastlane
6 1 (0.53%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 85 (45.21%) Finance
2 61 (32.45%) Law
3 60 (31.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (26.60%) Social Skills
5 38 (20.21%) Banking
6 20 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (9.57%) Marketing
8 16 (8.51%) Legal
9 7 (3.72%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.72%) Retail
10 4 (2.13%) Billing
10 4 (2.13%) Games
10 4 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.60%) Publishing
11 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.06%) Electronics
12 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Aviation
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (40.96%) Software Engineer
2 57 (30.32%) Developer
3 52 (27.66%) Senior
4 47 (25.00%) Lead
5 43 (22.87%) Java Engineer
6 35 (18.62%) Java Software Engineer
7 29 (15.43%) Lead Software Engineer
8 19 (10.11%) Senior Developer
9 18 (9.57%) Android Engineer
10 17 (9.04%) Lead Java Engineer
11 16 (8.51%) Senior Java Engineer
12 14 (7.45%) Java Developer
13 13 (6.91%) Android Developer
14 12 (6.38%) Mobile Developer
14 12 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (5.32%) Ruby Engineer
16 9 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (4.79%) AWS Software Engineer
16 9 (4.79%) Lead Developer
17 8 (4.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.62%) Spring
2 28 (14.89%) Kafka
3 24 (12.77%) Spring Boot
4 23 (12.23%) RESTful
5 22 (11.70%) React
6 16 (8.51%) Android Jetpack
6 16 (8.51%) Jetpack Compose
7 15 (7.98%) REST
8 12 (6.38%) Web Services
9 11 (5.85%) Flutter
10 9 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (4.79%) React Native
11 8 (4.26%) Retrofit
12 7 (3.72%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.19%) OkHttp
14 5 (2.66%) .NET
14 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.66%) SwiftUI
15 4 (2.13%) Hibernate
15 4 (2.13%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 60 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.30%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (12.23%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.91%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.79%) Virtual Team
6 8 (4.26%) Derivative
6 8 (4.26%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (3.72%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.72%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.66%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.13%) Educational Technology
9 4 (2.13%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.13%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 61 (32.45%) Android
2 32 (17.02%) Apple iOS
3 12 (6.38%) Linux
4 6 (3.19%) Windows
5 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (58.51%) Software Engineering
2 70 (37.23%) Agile
3 66 (35.11%) CI/CD
4 50 (26.60%) Fintech
5 48 (25.53%) Microservices
6 47 (25.00%) SDLC
7 46 (24.47%) AI
7 46 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (21.28%) Android Development
9 38 (20.21%) Mentoring
10 37 (19.68%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (15.96%) Mobile Development
12 28 (14.89%) Machine Learning
12 28 (14.89%) Secure Coding
13 25 (13.30%) Open Source
14 24 (12.77%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.70%) Code Quality
16 20 (10.64%) Domain Models
17 19 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (9.04%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 131 (69.68%) Java
2 46 (24.47%) Scala
3 24 (12.77%) Swift
4 20 (10.64%) Go
4 20 (10.64%) Python
5 14 (7.45%) Ruby
6 13 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.79%) C++
9 7 (3.72%) C#
9 7 (3.72%) SQL
10 6 (3.19%) PHP
11 5 (2.66%) C
11 5 (2.66%) Groovy
11 5 (2.66%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.45%) Degree
4 7 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.72%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.13%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.13%) OSCE
7 4 (2.13%) OSCP
8 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) QA
2 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.13%) EU AI Act
2 4 (2.13%) GDPR
2 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (9.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) KVM
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.77%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (4.79%) Google
2 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.66%) Samsung
4 1 (0.53%) QNX
4 1 (0.53%) Splunk
4 1 (0.53%) VMware