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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 543 412
Rank change year-on-year -2 -131 -87
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 197 124 594
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 0.89% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 123 89 480
10th Percentile £55,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £45,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £114,750 £131,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -14.29%

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 16,117 13,903 32,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 31.53% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,092 9,655 24,888
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 14 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 20 May 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 +16 182 £75,000 +15.38% 76
UK excluding London +1 121 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Work from Home +31 74 £77,500 +63.16% 56
London +5 72 £100,000 +23.08% 47
North of England +14 62 £70,000 +21.74% 19
Yorkshire -9 43 £72,500 +52.63% 7
South East -19 22 £60,000 - 5
North West +14 16 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Midlands -21 13 - - 2
South West -59 13 £85,000 +88.89% 2
East Midlands - 13 - - 1
Scotland -4 9 £65,000 -38.95% 3
North East -37 3 £47,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 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 3 (1.52%) JBoss
2 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.02%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.06%) AWS
2 44 (22.34%) GitHub
2 44 (22.34%) Serverless
3 39 (19.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (16.24%) Amazon S3
5 31 (15.74%) Amazon ECS
5 31 (15.74%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (13.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (13.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 25 (12.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (10.15%) Azure
9 18 (9.14%) Firebase
10 14 (7.11%) GCP
11 13 (6.60%) Datadog
11 13 (6.60%) Stripe
11 13 (6.60%) TestFlight
12 9 (4.57%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.57%) Google Workspace
12 9 (4.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.24%) DynamoDB
1 32 (16.24%) NoSQL
2 27 (13.71%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.03%) Redis
4 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.02%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.02%) Looker
4 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.21%) Git
2 17 (8.63%) Crashlytics
2 17 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.60%) XCTest
4 8 (4.06%) Android Studio
5 7 (3.55%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.05%) Gradle
7 5 (2.54%) GitLab
8 4 (2.03%) fastlane
9 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.52%) Maven
9 3 (1.52%) Selenium
9 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.02%) JUnit
10 2 (1.02%) Mockito
10 2 (1.02%) Xcode
General
1 36 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.63%) Banking
2 17 (8.63%) Finance
2 17 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (7.11%) Games
4 6 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.54%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.03%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.03%) Retail
6 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (44.67%) Developer
2 58 (29.44%) Senior
3 34 (17.26%) Software Engineer
4 33 (16.75%) Android Engineer
4 33 (16.75%) Java Developer
5 26 (13.20%) Android Developer
6 25 (12.69%) Senior Developer
7 24 (12.18%) Lead
8 23 (11.68%) Java Engineer
9 19 (9.64%) iOS Developer
10 18 (9.14%) Mobile Engineer
11 15 (7.61%) AWS Developer
11 15 (7.61%) Senior Android Developer
12 14 (7.11%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (5.58%) Senior Java Engineer
15 10 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
16 9 (4.57%) Applications Developer
16 9 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 9 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.78%) Node.js
2 35 (17.77%) SwiftUI
3 31 (15.74%) RESTful
4 27 (13.71%) AngularJS
5 26 (13.20%) Android Jetpack
5 26 (13.20%) Jetpack Compose
6 25 (12.69%) Spring Boot
7 24 (12.18%) Spring
8 17 (8.63%) Android SDK
9 16 (8.12%) React
10 15 (7.61%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.60%) UIKit
12 10 (5.08%) React Native
13 6 (3.05%) OAuth
13 6 (3.05%) OAuth2
14 5 (2.54%) Jest
14 5 (2.54%) Kafka
14 5 (2.54%) WebSockets
15 4 (2.03%) gRPC
15 4 (2.03%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 76 (38.58%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.11%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.60%) Social Media
4 9 (4.57%) PKI
5 8 (4.06%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.55%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.54%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Blog
9 3 (1.52%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 94 (47.72%) Android
2 39 (19.80%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.08%) Linux
4 9 (4.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (47.72%) CI/CD
2 67 (34.01%) Android Development
3 62 (31.47%) Agile
4 45 (22.84%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (18.27%) DevOps
7 33 (16.75%) TDD
8 32 (16.24%) iOS Development
9 30 (15.23%) AI
9 30 (15.23%) SOLID
10 29 (14.72%) Design Patterns
10 29 (14.72%) Test Automation
11 27 (13.71%) DevSecOps
12 26 (13.20%) Clean Code
12 26 (13.20%) User Experience
13 25 (12.69%) Mobile Development
14 23 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (10.15%) Analytics
15 20 (10.15%) Mentoring
15 20 (10.15%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (57.36%) Java
2 40 (20.30%) Swift
3 31 (15.74%) TypeScript
4 30 (15.23%) SQL
5 18 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.63%) Python
7 13 (6.60%) C++
8 10 (5.08%) C#
9 9 (4.57%) Bash
10 7 (3.55%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.52%) Groovy
11 3 (1.52%) Scala
12 2 (1.02%) Elixir
12 2 (1.02%) Erlang
12 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.51%) C
13 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (10.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.09%) AWS Certification
3 11 (5.58%) Degree
4 10 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.06%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.54%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.54%) QA
2 4 (2.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (19.29%) Docker
2 7 (3.55%) KVM
2 7 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.15%) Terraform
2 17 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.57%) Grafana
5 3 (1.52%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.02%) Ansible
6 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.11%) Google
2 13 (6.60%) Amplitude
2 13 (6.60%) Braze
3 11 (5.58%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.57%) VMware
5 4 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) Intel
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle