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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 500 363
Rank change year-on-year -20 -137 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 296 170 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 1.36% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 205 83 273
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -16.67%

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 18,559 12,494 22,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.40% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,136 8,117 13,315
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £109,500
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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -25 275 £70,000 -6.67% 409
UK excluding London +5 192 £70,000 +3.70% 144
Work from Home +27 112 £70,000 -6.67% 175
London -75 96 £77,500 -3.13% 281
North of England +10 91 £70,000 -6.67% 65
Yorkshire +7 51 £70,000 -6.67% 26
South West -31 43 £70,000 +55.56% 17
North West -4 35 £70,000 - 32
South East -29 28 £60,000 - 18
Midlands -40 15 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Scotland +22 13 £70,000 -6.67% 20
West Midlands -29 11 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North East -68 5 £47,000 -27.69% 7
East Midlands - 4 - - 2
Wales -70 2 £66,000 -12.00% 2

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 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 72 (24.32%) AWS
2 58 (19.59%) GitHub
3 44 (14.86%) Azure
4 41 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (11.15%) Serverless
7 30 (10.14%) Amazon S3
8 29 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (9.80%) Datadog
9 26 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
11 18 (6.08%) GCP
12 13 (4.39%) Firebase
13 11 (3.72%) Google Play
14 8 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (2.70%) TestFlight
15 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.78%) DynamoDB
1 26 (8.78%) NoSQL
2 20 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.72%) Redis
4 11 (3.72%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.03%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.69%) Big Data
7 4 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.68%) Looker
8 2 (0.68%) MySQL
8 2 (0.68%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.68%) SQLite
8 2 (0.68%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (14.19%) Git
2 18 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.07%) JUnit
4 11 (3.72%) Android Studio
5 10 (3.38%) GitLab
6 9 (3.04%) Appium
6 9 (3.04%) Crashlytics
6 9 (3.04%) fastlane
6 9 (3.04%) JIRA
7 8 (2.70%) Gradle
8 6 (2.03%) Xcode
8 6 (2.03%) XCTest
9 4 (1.35%) MLflow
9 4 (1.35%) Postman
9 4 (1.35%) Selenium
9 4 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.01%) Mockito
11 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.68%) git-flow
11 2 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 68 (22.97%) Public Sector
2 63 (21.28%) Finance
2 63 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.51%) Banking
4 30 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (6.08%) Law
6 11 (3.72%) Retail Banking
7 10 (3.38%) Marketing
8 8 (2.70%) Retail
9 7 (2.36%) Publishing
9 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.03%) Health Technology
10 6 (2.03%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (54.73%) Developer
2 114 (38.51%) Senior
3 72 (24.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 71 (23.99%) Senior Developer
5 62 (20.95%) Software Engineer
6 38 (12.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 34 (11.49%) Java Developer
8 26 (8.78%) Android Engineer
9 24 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 24 (8.11%) Java Engineer
10 22 (7.43%) Android Developer
11 21 (7.09%) Lead
12 16 (5.41%) AWS Developer
12 16 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (5.07%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (4.73%) Android Software Engineer
15 13 (4.39%) Senior Android Developer
16 12 (4.05%) iOS Developer
17 11 (3.72%) Graduate
17 11 (3.72%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.50%) Node.js
2 36 (12.16%) Spring
3 35 (11.82%) RESTful
4 33 (11.15%) Spring Boot
5 29 (9.80%) AngularJS
6 26 (8.78%) REST
7 25 (8.45%) Android Jetpack
7 25 (8.45%) Jetpack Compose
8 22 (7.43%) React
8 22 (7.43%) SwiftUI
8 22 (7.43%) Terraform
9 20 (6.76%) Kafka
10 15 (5.07%) React Native
11 12 (4.05%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.38%) Android SDK
13 8 (2.70%) OpenAPI
13 8 (2.70%) UIKit
14 7 (2.36%) Dagger
14 7 (2.36%) Retrofit
14 7 (2.36%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.57%) Mobile App
2 22 (7.43%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.74%) Mobile Banking
4 13 (4.39%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.05%) Blog
6 9 (3.04%) Clustering
7 8 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.35%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.35%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.01%) Pricing Data
12 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (28.38%) Android
2 44 (14.86%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.69%) Windows
4 4 (1.35%) Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (36.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 86 (29.05%) CI/CD
3 82 (27.70%) Software Engineering
4 67 (22.64%) Agile
5 49 (16.55%) Test Automation
6 48 (16.22%) AI
6 48 (16.22%) DevOps
7 43 (14.53%) Android Development
8 41 (13.85%) Clean Code
9 34 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (10.81%) Mobile Development
11 31 (10.47%) Mentoring
12 30 (10.14%) Fintech
12 30 (10.14%) Microservices
13 28 (9.46%) TDD
14 27 (9.12%) SDLC
15 26 (8.78%) DevSecOps
16 25 (8.45%) iOS Development
16 25 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (8.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 130 (43.92%) Java
2 60 (20.27%) TypeScript
3 39 (13.18%) SQL
3 39 (13.18%) Swift
4 29 (9.80%) Python
5 19 (6.42%) Go
5 19 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.05%) Rust
7 11 (3.72%) Scala
8 6 (2.03%) C#
9 4 (1.35%) C++
9 4 (1.35%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.01%) PHP
11 2 (0.68%) Bash
11 2 (0.68%) Dart
Qualifications
1 19 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.07%) Degree
3 12 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.74%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.73%) QA
3 6 (2.03%) GDPR
3 6 (2.03%) ISO 20022
3 6 (2.03%) WCAG
4 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (16.22%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) KVM
2 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.04%) Grafana
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.35%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (9.46%) Google
2 8 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.03%) AppDynamics
3 6 (2.03%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.69%) VMware
5 4 (1.35%) Amplitude
5 4 (1.35%) Apple
5 4 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.35%) Braze
6 3 (1.01%) Splunk
7 2 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle
8 1 (0.34%) Revolut