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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 529 391
Rank change year-on-year -19 -138 -62
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 241 160 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 1.14% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 154 71 355
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,063 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -23.08%

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 18,503 14,008 25,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.45% 28.13% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,140 9,185 17,818
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -10 227 £75,000 +3.45% 444
UK excluding London +1 148 £70,000 +3.70% 130
London -66 86 £80,000 +6.67% 343
North of England +14 80 £70,000 -9.68% 63
Work from Home +19 77 £80,000 +23.08% 165
Yorkshire +15 49 £75,000 -10.45% 18
North West -1 26 £70,000 -5.08% 41
South East -23 24 £60,000 - 14
South West -53 20 £85,000 +88.89% 12
Midlands -8 16 £55,000 -15.38% 13
East Midlands - 13 - - 3
Scotland +15 6 £70,000 -45.18% 12
North East -52 5 £47,000 -27.69% 4
West Midlands -22 3 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 8

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 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.24%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.44%) AWS
2 63 (26.14%) GitHub
3 49 (20.33%) Serverless
4 45 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (14.94%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (14.52%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.28%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (11.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (11.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 28 (11.62%) Azure
10 26 (10.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 22 (9.13%) Datadog
11 22 (9.13%) Firebase
12 18 (7.47%) GCP
13 14 (5.81%) TestFlight
14 13 (5.39%) Stripe
15 10 (4.15%) Google Play
16 8 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.69%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.79%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (10.79%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.15%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.49%) Redis
6 4 (1.66%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.24%) Big Data
7 3 (1.24%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.83%) Looker
8 2 (0.83%) MySQL
8 2 (0.83%) SQLite
9 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.41%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (16.60%) Git
2 21 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.88%) Crashlytics
4 15 (6.22%) XCTest
5 9 (3.73%) Appium
5 9 (3.73%) Gradle
6 8 (3.32%) GitLab
7 7 (2.90%) fastlane
7 7 (2.90%) JIRA
8 6 (2.49%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.49%) Selenium
9 5 (2.07%) JUnit
9 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.66%) Maven
10 4 (1.66%) MLflow
10 4 (1.66%) Xcode
11 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.24%) Postman
11 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.43%) Finance
3 31 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.88%) Banking
6 12 (4.98%) Games
6 12 (4.98%) Law
7 10 (4.15%) Marketing
8 8 (3.32%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.32%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.49%) Publishing
11 5 (2.07%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (51.87%) Developer
2 69 (28.63%) Senior
3 47 (19.50%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.60%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.35%) Java Developer
6 36 (14.94%) Android Developer
7 26 (10.79%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.96%) Lead
9 22 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (9.13%) Java Engineer
9 22 (9.13%) Senior Android Developer
10 18 (7.47%) AWS Developer
11 17 (7.05%) Android Software Engineer
11 17 (7.05%) Mobile Engineer
12 16 (6.64%) iOS Developer
13 12 (4.98%) Mobile Developer
13 12 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (4.15%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.77%) Node.js
2 36 (14.94%) SwiftUI
3 35 (14.52%) Spring Boot
4 34 (14.11%) RESTful
5 33 (13.69%) Spring
6 30 (12.45%) AngularJS
7 26 (10.79%) Android Jetpack
7 26 (10.79%) Jetpack Compose
8 23 (9.54%) GraphQL
9 22 (9.13%) React
10 21 (8.71%) Android SDK
11 19 (7.88%) React Native
12 18 (7.47%) Kafka
13 17 (7.05%) UIKit
14 16 (6.64%) REST
15 8 (3.32%) Retrofit
16 7 (2.90%) .NET
17 6 (2.49%) Jest
17 6 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (2.49%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 79 (32.78%) Mobile App
2 17 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.64%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.98%) Social Media
5 10 (4.15%) Mobile Banking
6 9 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.73%) Virtual Team
7 8 (3.32%) Blog
8 6 (2.49%) PKI
9 5 (2.07%) Clustering
9 5 (2.07%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.24%) Pricing Data
12 2 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 100 (41.49%) Android
2 55 (22.82%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.90%) Windows
4 6 (2.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (45.23%) CI/CD
2 78 (32.37%) Agile
3 71 (29.46%) Software Engineering
4 65 (26.97%) Android Development
5 48 (19.92%) AI
6 46 (19.09%) Clean Code
7 42 (17.43%) DevOps
7 42 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (17.43%) Test Automation
8 37 (15.35%) iOS Development
9 36 (14.94%) Design Patterns
10 35 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (14.52%) Mobile Development
11 32 (13.28%) SOLID
12 31 (12.86%) TDD
13 29 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (11.62%) Analytics
14 28 (11.62%) Architectural Patterns
14 28 (11.62%) SDLC
15 27 (11.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 120 (49.79%) Java
2 53 (21.99%) Swift
3 52 (21.58%) TypeScript
4 40 (16.60%) SQL
5 25 (10.37%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.05%) Python
7 8 (3.32%) C#
7 8 (3.32%) Scala
8 6 (2.49%) Bash
8 6 (2.49%) C++
9 5 (2.07%) Go
9 5 (2.07%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.24%) Groovy
10 3 (1.24%) PHP
11 2 (0.83%) Dart
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.15%) AWS Certification
2 10 (4.15%) Degree
3 9 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.32%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (3.32%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.39%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.90%) QA
2 7 (2.90%) WCAG
3 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (18.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.07%) KVM
2 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.71%) Terraform
3 9 (3.73%) Grafana
4 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.66%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.05%) Google
2 13 (5.39%) Amplitude
2 13 (5.39%) Braze
3 10 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.73%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.90%) VMware
6 4 (1.66%) Apple
7 3 (1.24%) Splunk
8 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle
9 1 (0.41%) Intel
9 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.41%) Revolut