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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 498 391
Rank change year-on-year -37 -107 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 281 156 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 1.22% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 200 69 279
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,800 £40,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £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 £81,250 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -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 18,347 12,793 22,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 25.76% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,020 8,190 13,763
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £84,982
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 8 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 8 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 -23 261 £70,000 -6.67% 499
UK excluding London +26 181 £70,000 +16.67% 162
Work from Home +29 106 £71,000 -5.33% 190
London -82 92 £77,500 -3.13% 352
North of England +1 83 £70,000 +3.70% 80
Yorkshire +6 48 £70,000 -1.75% 33
South West -34 43 £70,000 +55.56% 19
North West 0 30 £70,000 +3.70% 38
South East -41 25 £60,000 - 19
Midlands -28 16 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Scotland - 12 £70,000 - 23
West Midlands -32 11 £55,000 -15.38% 8
North East -57 5 £47,000 -27.69% 9
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 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 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 70 (24.91%) AWS
2 57 (20.28%) GitHub
3 40 (14.23%) GitHub Actions
4 34 (12.10%) Azure
4 34 (12.10%) Serverless
5 33 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (10.68%) Amazon S3
7 29 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (9.96%) Datadog
9 25 (8.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (8.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (8.54%) AWS Step Functions
11 18 (6.41%) GCP
12 14 (4.98%) Firebase
13 11 (3.91%) Google Play
14 8 (2.85%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (2.85%) TestFlight
15 7 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.25%) DynamoDB
2 24 (8.54%) NoSQL
3 20 (7.12%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.56%) Redis
7 5 (1.78%) Big Data
8 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.71%) Looker
9 2 (0.71%) MySQL
9 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.71%) SQLite
9 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (14.59%) Git
2 16 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.98%) JUnit
4 10 (3.56%) Android Studio
4 10 (3.56%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.20%) Appium
5 9 (3.20%) Gradle
6 8 (2.85%) fastlane
6 8 (2.85%) GitLab
6 8 (2.85%) JIRA
7 7 (2.49%) XCTest
8 6 (2.14%) Xcode
9 4 (1.42%) MLflow
9 4 (1.42%) Mockito
9 4 (1.42%) Postman
9 4 (1.42%) Selenium
9 4 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.71%) git-flow
10 2 (0.71%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (23.13%) Public Sector
2 62 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.86%) Finance
4 30 (10.68%) Banking
5 27 (9.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.69%) Law
7 10 (3.56%) Marketing
8 8 (2.85%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.85%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.49%) Publishing
10 6 (2.14%) Retail
11 5 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.42%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
14 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.36%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (55.16%) Developer
2 107 (38.08%) Senior
3 68 (24.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 67 (23.84%) Senior Developer
5 57 (20.28%) Software Engineer
6 34 (12.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (11.39%) Java Developer
8 27 (9.61%) Android Engineer
9 23 (8.19%) Java Engineer
10 22 (7.83%) Android Developer
11 21 (7.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 21 (7.47%) Lead
12 16 (5.69%) Android Software Engineer
12 16 (5.69%) AWS Developer
13 15 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Senior Android Developer
14 13 (4.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (3.91%) iOS Developer
16 10 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
17 9 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.10%) Node.js
2 33 (11.74%) RESTful
2 33 (11.74%) Spring
3 31 (11.03%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.32%) AngularJS
5 25 (8.90%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (8.90%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (8.54%) REST
7 22 (7.83%) SwiftUI
8 20 (7.12%) Kafka
9 19 (6.76%) React
9 19 (6.76%) Terraform
10 16 (5.69%) React Native
11 12 (4.27%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.56%) Android SDK
13 9 (3.20%) UIKit
14 8 (2.85%) OpenAPI
15 7 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.49%) Retrofit
15 7 (2.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.15%) Mobile App
2 20 (7.12%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.27%) Virtual Team
4 11 (3.91%) Blog
4 11 (3.91%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.85%) Clustering
7 6 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.42%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.42%) PKI
10 3 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.07%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.71%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.36%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (29.89%) Android
2 43 (15.30%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.78%) Windows
4 4 (1.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (35.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (30.25%) CI/CD
3 74 (26.33%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.49%) Agile
5 45 (16.01%) Android Development
5 45 (16.01%) DevOps
6 42 (14.95%) Clean Code
6 42 (14.95%) Test Automation
7 40 (14.23%) AI
8 33 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (11.39%) Mobile Development
10 28 (9.96%) TDD
11 27 (9.61%) DevSecOps
11 27 (9.61%) Mentoring
11 27 (9.61%) Microservices
12 26 (9.25%) Fintech
13 25 (8.90%) iOS Development
13 25 (8.90%) SDLC
14 24 (8.54%) MVVM
14 24 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.64%) Java
2 50 (17.79%) TypeScript
3 39 (13.88%) Swift
4 37 (13.17%) SQL
5 21 (7.47%) Python
6 16 (5.69%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.91%) Go
7 11 (3.91%) Scala
8 6 (2.14%) C#
9 5 (1.78%) Rust
10 4 (1.42%) C++
10 4 (1.42%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.07%) PHP
12 2 (0.71%) Bash
12 2 (0.71%) Dart
Qualifications
1 18 (6.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.98%) Degree
3 11 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.69%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.63%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) WCAG
4 5 (1.78%) GDPR
4 5 (1.78%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (16.01%) Docker
2 4 (1.42%) KVM
2 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.20%) Grafana
3 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.42%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (7.47%) Google
2 8 (2.85%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.49%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.14%) VMware
5 5 (1.78%) Amplitude
5 5 (1.78%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.78%) Braze
6 4 (1.42%) Apple
6 4 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.07%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) Revolut