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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 420 369
Rank change year-on-year -56 -51 -55
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 174 370 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.57% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.75% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 104 223 363
10th Percentile £49,700 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,003 £51,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -20.00% -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 11,532 21,200 20,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.30% 32.69% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,359 12,708 17,139
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,788
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 December 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 December 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 -29 160 £77,500 -3.13% 52
London 0 110 £90,000 +5.88% 19
Work from Home -26 54 £75,000 +20.00% 33
UK excluding London -40 52 £70,000 +40.00% 44
North of England 0 18 £75,000 +57.89% 5
South East -8 16 £60,000 +20.00% 13
South West +10 11 £72,500 +16.00% 10
Yorkshire +6 10 £75,000 +66.67%
North West +20 8 £71,250 +14.00% 5
Scotland -13 4 £75,000 +38.89% 3
West Midlands +54 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Midlands +50 3 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North East +12 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 4

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 4 (2.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.15%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.57%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.66%) AWS
2 24 (13.79%) Azure
3 20 (11.49%) GCP
3 20 (11.49%) SaaS
4 10 (5.75%) GitHub
5 5 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (2.87%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.30%) Firebase
7 3 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.72%) Datadog
7 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.72%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) AMQP
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.75%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.45%) Redis
3 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.87%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.87%) MySQL
4 5 (2.87%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.30%) Big Data
6 3 (1.72%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.15%) Flink
8 1 (0.57%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.57%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 17 (9.77%) Git
2 6 (3.45%) JIRA
3 4 (2.30%) Android Studio
4 3 (1.72%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.72%) git-flow
4 3 (1.72%) JUnit
4 3 (1.72%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.57%) Appium
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.57%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.57%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
6 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.57%) UI Automator
6 1 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 62 (35.63%) Finance
2 44 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 34 (19.54%) Law
4 33 (18.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (12.64%) Banking
6 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.32%) Marketing
8 8 (4.60%) Legal
8 8 (4.60%) Retail
9 7 (4.02%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.45%) Games
11 4 (2.30%) Billing
11 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.57%) Advertising
14 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.57%) Front Office
14 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (37.36%) Software Engineer
2 57 (32.76%) Senior
3 55 (31.61%) Developer
4 32 (18.39%) Java Engineer
5 28 (16.09%) Lead
6 23 (13.22%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (11.49%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.77%) Android Engineer
8 17 (9.77%) Senior Java Engineer
9 15 (8.62%) Java Developer
9 15 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (8.05%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (6.32%) Android Developer
12 10 (5.75%) Ruby Engineer
13 9 (5.17%) Development Engineer
13 9 (5.17%) Senior Android Engineer
13 9 (5.17%) Software Development Engineer
14 8 (4.60%) Lead Developer
14 8 (4.60%) Mobile Developer
14 8 (4.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.67%) Spring
2 25 (14.37%) React
3 20 (11.49%) RESTful
3 20 (11.49%) Spring Boot
4 19 (10.92%) Kafka
5 16 (9.20%) Android Jetpack
5 16 (9.20%) Jetpack Compose
6 15 (8.62%) REST
7 11 (6.32%) Flutter
8 10 (5.75%) React Native
9 9 (5.17%) SwiftUI
10 8 (4.60%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.02%) Web Services
12 6 (3.45%) Retrofit
13 5 (2.87%) .NET
13 5 (2.87%) OkHttp
13 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.87%) Symfony
13 5 (2.87%) WebGL
13 5 (2.87%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.94%) Mobile App
3 17 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.02%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.45%) Mobile Banking
5 6 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.87%) Blog
6 5 (2.87%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.87%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.30%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.30%) Derivative
7 4 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.30%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.30%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (35.63%) Android
2 31 (17.82%) Apple iOS
3 13 (7.47%) Linux
4 8 (4.60%) Windows
5 4 (2.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (51.72%) Software Engineering
2 58 (33.33%) Agile
3 53 (30.46%) CI/CD
4 41 (23.56%) Mentoring
5 38 (21.84%) Android Development
6 37 (21.26%) AI
7 36 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (17.82%) Fintech
8 31 (17.82%) Microservices
9 30 (17.24%) Architectural Patterns
10 29 (16.67%) Mobile Development
10 29 (16.67%) SDLC
11 26 (14.94%) Machine Learning
12 22 (12.64%) Test Automation
13 20 (11.49%) Code Quality
13 20 (11.49%) Secure Coding
14 18 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (10.34%) Design Patterns
15 17 (9.77%) Event-Driven
16 16 (9.20%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 114 (65.52%) Java
2 39 (22.41%) Scala
3 24 (13.79%) Swift
4 22 (12.64%) Python
5 16 (9.20%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.62%) Go
7 14 (8.05%) Ruby
8 13 (7.47%) TypeScript
9 11 (6.32%) C++
10 9 (5.17%) C#
11 8 (4.60%) SQL
12 7 (4.02%) PHP
13 4 (2.30%) C
13 4 (2.30%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.72%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (1.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.34%) Degree
3 15 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.90%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.30%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.30%) OSCE
9 4 (2.30%) OSCP
10 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) QA
2 5 (2.87%) GDPR
3 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.30%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (8.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) KVM
2 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.77%) Terraform
3 4 (2.30%) Grafana
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.17%) Google
2 7 (4.02%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.87%) Samsung
4 3 (1.72%) VMware
5 1 (0.57%) Splunk