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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 482 428
Rank change year-on-year -44 -54 -81
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 201 154 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 1.11% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 121 113 470
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -22.23% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £108,418 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.37% -26.92% -13.33%

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 15,228 13,823 32,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.76% 33.33% 34.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,358 10,205 25,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,750 £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 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 12 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 16 April 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 -27 185 £75,000 +7.14% 68
UK excluding London -34 111 £70,000 +47.37% 36
London +12 83 £100,000 +17.65% 46
Work from Home -30 73 £75,000 +42.86% 72
North of England -23 54 £72,500 +56.76% 11
Yorkshire -22 39 £72,500 +61.11% 5
South East -38 24 £60,000 +41.18% 15
North West -22 15 £65,000 +13.04% 5
South West -58 13 £85,000 +88.89% 3
Scotland -32 10 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Midlands -35 10 - -
East Midlands - 10 - -

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 (1.49%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 85 (42.29%) AWS
2 36 (17.91%) Serverless
3 35 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (16.42%) GitHub
5 26 (12.94%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (12.94%) Amazon S3
5 26 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (12.94%) Azure
6 22 (10.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (10.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 20 (9.95%) AWS Step Functions
7 20 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (8.96%) GCP
9 14 (6.97%) Firebase
10 11 (5.47%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.98%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.98%) Google Workspace
11 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.98%) Stripe
11 10 (4.98%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
2 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.93%) DynamoDB
1 30 (14.93%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.95%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (2.99%) Redis
4 5 (2.49%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (11.44%) Git
2 15 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.97%) Crashlytics
4 10 (4.98%) XCTest
5 8 (3.98%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.99%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.99%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.99%) GitLab
7 4 (1.99%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.49%) Gradle
8 3 (1.49%) Selenium
8 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.00%) Xcode
10 1 (0.50%) Appium
10 1 (0.50%) fastlane
10 1 (0.50%) JIRA
10 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.50%) Mockito
10 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 35 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.44%) Finance
3 21 (10.45%) Banking
4 18 (8.96%) Games
4 18 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.98%) Retail
6 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.99%) Law
8 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.50%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (42.29%) Developer
2 66 (32.84%) Senior
3 38 (18.91%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.42%) Android Engineer
5 29 (14.43%) Java Developer
6 24 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.44%) Lead
8 22 (10.95%) Android Developer
8 22 (10.95%) iOS Developer
9 18 (8.96%) Java Engineer
10 16 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (7.46%) Mobile Engineer
11 15 (7.46%) Senior Java Engineer
12 14 (6.97%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (6.97%) Senior Android Developer
13 12 (5.97%) Development Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) AWS Developer
14 10 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (4.98%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.41%) SwiftUI
2 33 (16.42%) Node.js
3 31 (15.42%) RESTful
4 27 (13.43%) Spring
5 24 (11.94%) Spring Boot
6 23 (11.44%) Android Jetpack
6 23 (11.44%) Jetpack Compose
7 22 (10.95%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.95%) React
9 16 (7.96%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.46%) Android SDK
11 11 (5.47%) React Native
12 10 (4.98%) UIKit
13 8 (3.98%) Kafka
13 8 (3.98%) WebSockets
14 7 (3.48%) REST
15 6 (2.99%) OAuth
15 6 (2.99%) OAuth2
16 5 (2.49%) gRPC
16 5 (2.49%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 76 (37.81%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.97%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.47%) Social Media
4 11 (5.47%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.98%) PKI
6 7 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.99%) Blog
7 6 (2.99%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.49%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.99%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.99%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.49%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.49%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 96 (47.76%) Android
2 44 (21.89%) Apple iOS
3 15 (7.46%) Linux
4 14 (6.97%) Windows
5 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 69 (34.33%) Android Development
3 65 (32.34%) Agile
4 52 (25.87%) Software Engineering
5 43 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.91%) AI
7 33 (16.42%) iOS Development
7 33 (16.42%) SOLID
8 31 (15.42%) TDD
9 30 (14.93%) Design Patterns
10 29 (14.43%) Mobile Development
11 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
12 27 (13.43%) DevOps
12 27 (13.43%) Mentoring
13 26 (12.94%) User Experience
14 24 (11.94%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (11.44%) Memory Management
15 23 (11.44%) Multithreading
16 21 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (10.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 114 (56.72%) Java
2 42 (20.90%) Swift
3 27 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.94%) TypeScript
5 24 (11.94%) SQL
6 23 (11.44%) Python
7 15 (7.46%) C++
8 11 (5.47%) C#
9 8 (3.98%) Google Apps Script
10 7 (3.48%) Bash
11 5 (2.49%) Scala
12 3 (1.49%) Groovy
12 3 (1.49%) PHP
13 2 (1.00%) Elixir
13 2 (1.00%) Erlang
13 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.50%) C
14 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.45%) Degree
3 16 (7.96%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.46%) Master's Degree
5 13 (6.47%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.98%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.98%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.48%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.99%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.99%) OSCE
9 4 (1.99%) OSCP
10 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.48%) QA
2 5 (2.49%) GDPR
3 4 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.99%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (17.41%) Docker
2 8 (3.98%) KVM
2 8 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.45%) Terraform
3 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.98%) Grafana
5 3 (1.49%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.00%) Ansible
6 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (6.47%) Google
2 11 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.98%) Amplitude
3 10 (4.98%) Braze
4 9 (4.48%) VMware
5 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.50%) Intel
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle
5 1 (0.50%) Samsung
5 1 (0.50%) Splunk