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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 392 390
Rank change year-on-year -81 -2 -112
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 200 404 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.59% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 1.88% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 104 232 373
10th Percentile £49,700 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,383 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +0.95%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -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 12,014 21,544 21,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.68% 31.70% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,603 12,806 17,835
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,091
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 £108,750 £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 15 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 15 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 -51 190 £77,500 -3.13% 162
London -10 138 £90,000 +5.88% 100
Work from Home -37 53 £75,000 +3.45% 135
UK excluding London -32 51 £67,500 +22.73% 68
North of England +20 19 £75,000 +33.33% 33
South East -30 17 £60,000 +20.00% 10
South West +19 10 £50,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +14 10 £75,000 +66.67% 7
North West +21 9 £70,000 +9.80% 26
Midlands +53 4 £65,000 +62.50% 2
West Midlands +42 4 £65,000 +62.50% 2
North East +6 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Scotland -18 1 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 4
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.00%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Simulink
2 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.00%) AWS
2 28 (14.00%) Azure
2 28 (14.00%) GCP
3 19 (9.50%) SaaS
4 17 (8.50%) GitHub
5 5 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.00%) Datadog
6 4 (2.00%) Firebase
6 4 (2.00%) Serverless
7 3 (1.50%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.50%) Figma
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.00%) Bitrise
8 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.00%) Google Play
8 2 (1.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
2 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.00%) Big Data
6 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.50%) MySQL
7 6 (3.00%) Redis
7 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.00%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.00%) Flink
9 3 (1.50%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.50%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 21 (10.50%) Git
2 7 (3.50%) Android Studio
2 7 (3.50%) JIRA
3 6 (3.00%) git-flow
4 5 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.50%) JUnit
5 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.00%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.00%) GitLab
6 2 (1.00%) Postman
6 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) UI Automator
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
7 1 (0.50%) Gradle
7 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.50%) Maven
7 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 88 (44.00%) Finance
2 61 (30.50%) Law
3 60 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (26.50%) Social Skills
5 38 (19.00%) Banking
6 21 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (9.00%) Marketing
8 16 (8.00%) Legal
9 8 (4.00%) Retail
10 7 (3.50%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.50%) Games
12 4 (2.00%) Billing
12 4 (2.00%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.50%) Publishing
13 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.00%) Electronics
14 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.50%) Automotive
15 1 (0.50%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (42.00%) Software Engineer
2 59 (29.50%) Developer
3 55 (27.50%) Senior
4 47 (23.50%) Lead
5 45 (22.50%) Java Engineer
6 36 (18.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 29 (14.50%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 18 (9.00%) Android Engineer
9 18 (9.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 17 (8.50%) Lead Java Engineer
11 15 (7.50%) Java Developer
12 14 (7.00%) Android Developer
13 13 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (5.50%) Mobile Developer
15 10 (5.00%) Ruby Engineer
16 9 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (4.50%) AWS Software Engineer
16 9 (4.50%) Lead Developer
16 9 (4.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.00%) Spring
2 30 (15.00%) Kafka
3 25 (12.50%) RESTful
3 25 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 24 (12.00%) React
5 17 (8.50%) Android Jetpack
5 17 (8.50%) Jetpack Compose
5 17 (8.50%) REST
6 12 (6.00%) Web Services
7 11 (5.50%) Flutter
8 10 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (4.50%) React Native
10 8 (4.00%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.00%) Retrofit
11 6 (3.00%) OkHttp
11 6 (3.00%) SwiftUI
12 5 (2.50%) Android SDK
12 5 (2.50%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (2.50%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 62 (31.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.50%) Mobile Banking
5 10 (5.00%) Virtual Team
6 9 (4.50%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.00%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.00%) Derivative
7 8 (4.00%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.50%) Algorithms
9 6 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (2.50%) Educational Technology
10 5 (2.50%) Mobile Games
10 5 (2.50%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (2.00%) Cyberattack
11 4 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 63 (31.50%) Android
2 33 (16.50%) Apple iOS
3 13 (6.50%) Linux
4 7 (3.50%) Windows
5 4 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (58.00%) Software Engineering
2 73 (36.50%) Agile
3 69 (34.50%) CI/CD
4 51 (25.50%) Fintech
5 49 (24.50%) Microservices
6 48 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (23.50%) AI
7 47 (23.50%) SDLC
8 41 (20.50%) Android Development
9 40 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 39 (19.50%) Architectural Patterns
11 31 (15.50%) Machine Learning
12 30 (15.00%) Mobile Development
13 28 (14.00%) Secure Coding
14 26 (13.00%) Open Source
14 26 (13.00%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.00%) Code Quality
16 20 (10.00%) Domain Models
17 19 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (9.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 141 (70.50%) Java
2 47 (23.50%) Scala
3 26 (13.00%) Python
4 24 (12.00%) Swift
5 20 (10.00%) Go
6 16 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.00%) Ruby
8 13 (6.50%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.00%) C++
10 8 (4.00%) C#
10 8 (4.00%) SQL
11 7 (3.50%) PHP
12 5 (2.50%) C
12 5 (2.50%) Groovy
12 5 (2.50%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.00%) Degree
2 16 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.50%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.50%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.00%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.00%) OSCE
7 4 (2.00%) OSCP
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.50%) QA
2 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.50%) GDPR
3 4 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.00%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) KVM
2 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (31.50%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (2.00%) Grafana
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.00%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.50%) Google
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.50%) Samsung
4 2 (1.00%) VMware
5 1 (0.50%) QNX
5 1 (0.50%) Splunk