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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 523 385
Rank change year-on-year -27 -138 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 251 157 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.16% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 171 64 333
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -12.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,625 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £108,750 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,498 13,590 24,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 27.18% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,184 8,888 16,590
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -30 234 £71,500 -1.38% 423
UK excluding London +7 155 £70,000 +7.69% 140
London -65 88 £80,000 +4.92% 324
Work from Home +25 84 £80,000 +23.08% 184
North of England +6 69 £70,000 - 49
Yorkshire -7 40 £75,000 +5.26% 17
South West -54 31 £77,500 +72.22% 28
North West -2 24 £70,000 - 27
South East -34 23 £60,000 - 15
Midlands -26 21 £55,000 -15.38% 18
East Midlands - 11 - - 6
West Midlands -17 10 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Scotland - 9 £70,000 - 17
North East -57 5 £47,000 -27.69% 5
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 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.28%) AWS
2 60 (23.90%) GitHub
3 44 (17.53%) GitHub Actions
4 43 (17.13%) Serverless
5 36 (14.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (12.35%) Amazon S3
8 29 (11.55%) Azure
9 27 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (10.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (10.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 24 (9.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (9.56%) Datadog
12 20 (7.97%) Firebase
13 18 (7.17%) GCP
14 12 (4.78%) TestFlight
15 11 (4.38%) Google Play
15 11 (4.38%) Stripe
16 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.39%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.55%) DynamoDB
2 24 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 23 (9.16%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.39%) Redis
7 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Looker
9 2 (0.80%) MySQL
9 2 (0.80%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.80%) SQLite
9 2 (0.80%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.73%) Git
2 19 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.77%) Crashlytics
4 13 (5.18%) XCTest
5 10 (3.98%) Gradle
6 9 (3.59%) Appium
6 9 (3.59%) JUnit
7 8 (3.19%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.79%) fastlane
8 7 (2.79%) GitLab
8 7 (2.79%) JIRA
9 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.99%) Xcode
10 4 (1.59%) MLflow
10 4 (1.59%) Mockito
10 4 (1.59%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.20%) Maven
11 3 (1.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.80%) git-flow
General
1 64 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.33%) Finance
2 46 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (8.76%) Banking
5 13 (5.18%) Law
6 10 (3.98%) Marketing
7 8 (3.19%) Health Technology
7 8 (3.19%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.79%) Publishing
9 6 (2.39%) Games
10 4 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (52.19%) Developer
2 76 (30.28%) Senior
3 47 (18.73%) Software Engineer
4 45 (17.93%) Senior Developer
5 32 (12.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (12.35%) Android Developer
6 31 (12.35%) Java Developer
7 26 (10.36%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.56%) Lead
9 22 (8.76%) Java Engineer
10 19 (7.57%) Senior Android Developer
11 17 (6.77%) Android Software Engineer
11 17 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.98%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.98%) Mobile Engineer
13 13 (5.18%) iOS Developer
14 11 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (3.98%) Mobile Developer
15 10 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.94%) RESTful
1 35 (13.94%) Spring
2 34 (13.55%) Node.js
2 34 (13.55%) Spring Boot
3 30 (11.95%) SwiftUI
4 29 (11.55%) AngularJS
5 25 (9.96%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (9.96%) Jetpack Compose
6 20 (7.97%) React
6 20 (7.97%) REST
6 20 (7.97%) Terraform
7 19 (7.57%) Kafka
7 19 (7.57%) React Native
8 18 (7.17%) GraphQL
9 16 (6.37%) Android SDK
10 15 (5.98%) UIKit
11 8 (3.19%) Retrofit
12 7 (2.79%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.39%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.89%) Mobile App
2 18 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.58%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.98%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.59%) Blog
5 9 (3.59%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.39%) Clustering
7 6 (2.39%) PKI
7 6 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.39%) Social Media
8 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.20%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 94 (37.45%) Android
2 52 (20.72%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.79%) Windows
4 6 (2.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (39.04%) CI/CD
2 74 (29.48%) Agile
3 68 (27.09%) Software Engineering
4 58 (23.11%) Android Development
4 58 (23.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 47 (18.73%) Clean Code
6 43 (17.13%) AI
7 41 (16.33%) DevOps
7 41 (16.33%) Test Automation
8 36 (14.34%) Mobile Development
9 33 (13.15%) iOS Development
9 33 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (11.55%) TDD
12 27 (10.76%) Design Patterns
13 26 (10.36%) Analytics
13 26 (10.36%) Mentoring
14 25 (9.96%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (9.96%) DevSecOps
14 25 (9.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 113 (45.02%) Java
2 49 (19.52%) Swift
3 48 (19.12%) TypeScript
4 38 (15.14%) SQL
5 22 (8.76%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.37%) Python
7 9 (3.59%) Scala
8 8 (3.19%) C#
9 6 (2.39%) C++
10 5 (1.99%) Go
10 5 (1.99%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.59%) Bash
12 3 (1.20%) PHP
13 2 (0.80%) Dart
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.78%) Degree
3 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.39%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.98%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.98%) QA
3 7 (2.79%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (17.93%) Docker
2 5 (1.99%) KVM
2 5 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (9.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.98%) Grafana
3 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (7.17%) Google
2 11 (4.38%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.38%) Braze
3 9 (3.59%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.79%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) Apple
6 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut