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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 525 391
Rank change year-on-year -20 -134 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 272 153 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 1.19% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 194 66 285
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £40,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £83,438 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
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 18,653 12,844 23,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 25.90% 30.97%
Number of salaries quoted 13,227 8,240 14,152
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 2 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 2 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 -36 252 £70,000 -3.45% 545
UK excluding London -3 173 £70,000 +16.67% 196
Work from Home +36 104 £75,000 +7.14% 224
London -75 91 £77,500 -3.13% 393
North of England -3 78 £70,000 +3.70% 83
Yorkshire +4 44 £70,000 -1.75% 31
South West -36 41 £70,000 +55.56% 31
North West -12 29 £70,000 +3.70% 42
South East -43 24 £60,000 - 26
Midlands -37 16 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Scotland - 12 £70,000 - 27
West Midlands -35 11 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North East -59 5 £47,000 -27.69% 10
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 6

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 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (24.63%) AWS
2 54 (19.85%) GitHub
3 38 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
4 33 (12.13%) Azure
5 32 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (11.76%) Serverless
6 27 (9.93%) Amazon S3
6 27 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (9.56%) Datadog
8 23 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (8.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (8.09%) AWS Step Functions
10 19 (6.99%) GCP
11 13 (4.78%) Firebase
12 10 (3.68%) Google Play
13 8 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (2.57%) SaaS
14 7 (2.57%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.82%) DynamoDB
2 22 (8.09%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.62%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.31%) Redis
7 4 (1.47%) Big Data
7 4 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.74%) Looker
8 2 (0.74%) MySQL
8 2 (0.74%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.74%) SQLite
8 2 (0.74%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (14.71%) Git
2 16 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.78%) JUnit
4 10 (3.68%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.31%) Android Studio
5 9 (3.31%) Appium
5 9 (3.31%) Gradle
6 8 (2.94%) JIRA
7 7 (2.57%) fastlane
7 7 (2.57%) GitLab
7 7 (2.57%) XCTest
8 6 (2.21%) Xcode
9 4 (1.47%) MLflow
9 4 (1.47%) Mockito
9 4 (1.47%) Postman
9 4 (1.47%) Selenium
9 4 (1.47%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.74%) git-flow
10 2 (0.74%) XCUITest
General
1 62 (22.79%) Public Sector
2 61 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 53 (19.49%) Finance
4 30 (11.03%) Banking
5 26 (9.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.88%) Law
7 10 (3.68%) Marketing
8 8 (2.94%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.94%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.57%) Publishing
10 6 (2.21%) Retail
11 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.37%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (53.68%) Developer
2 99 (36.40%) Senior
3 61 (22.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 61 (22.43%) Senior Developer
4 56 (20.59%) Software Engineer
5 29 (10.66%) Java Developer
6 27 (9.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (9.56%) Android Engineer
8 23 (8.46%) Android Developer
8 23 (8.46%) Java Engineer
9 21 (7.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 19 (6.99%) Lead
11 17 (6.25%) Android Software Engineer
12 15 (5.51%) AWS Developer
13 14 (5.15%) Senior Android Developer
13 14 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (4.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (3.68%) iOS Developer
15 10 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (3.31%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.13%) Spring
2 32 (11.76%) Node.js
2 32 (11.76%) RESTful
3 31 (11.40%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.93%) AngularJS
5 24 (8.82%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (8.82%) Jetpack Compose
6 22 (8.09%) REST
7 21 (7.72%) SwiftUI
8 20 (7.35%) React
8 20 (7.35%) Terraform
9 19 (6.99%) Kafka
10 17 (6.25%) React Native
11 12 (4.41%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.68%) Android SDK
13 9 (3.31%) UIKit
14 7 (2.57%) OpenAPI
14 7 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.57%) Retrofit
15 6 (2.21%) Dagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.12%) Mobile App
2 20 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.41%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.04%) Blog
4 11 (4.04%) Mobile Banking
5 8 (2.94%) Clustering
5 8 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.21%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.84%) PKI
7 5 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.47%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.10%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.51%) Android
2 43 (15.81%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.21%) Windows
4 5 (1.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 82 (30.15%) CI/CD
3 77 (28.31%) Software Engineering
4 66 (24.26%) Agile
5 45 (16.54%) Android Development
6 43 (15.81%) DevOps
7 42 (15.44%) Clean Code
8 41 (15.07%) AI
8 41 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 33 (12.13%) Mobile Development
10 31 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (9.93%) Fintech
11 27 (9.93%) Microservices
12 26 (9.56%) Mentoring
12 26 (9.56%) TDD
13 24 (8.82%) DevSecOps
13 24 (8.82%) iOS Development
13 24 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (8.82%) SDLC
14 23 (8.46%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 114 (41.91%) Java
2 49 (18.01%) TypeScript
3 38 (13.97%) Swift
4 35 (12.87%) SQL
5 22 (8.09%) Python
6 17 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.04%) Go
8 10 (3.68%) Scala
9 7 (2.57%) C#
10 5 (1.84%) C++
10 5 (1.84%) Rust
11 4 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.10%) Bash
12 3 (1.10%) PHP
13 2 (0.74%) Dart
14 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.15%) Degree
3 11 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.78%) QA
3 6 (2.21%) WCAG
4 5 (1.84%) GDPR
4 5 (1.84%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (15.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) KVM
2 4 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.31%) Grafana
3 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.47%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (7.72%) Google
2 8 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.21%) VMware
5 5 (1.84%) Amplitude
5 5 (1.84%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.84%) Braze
6 4 (1.47%) Apple
7 3 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.10%) Oracle
7 3 (1.10%) Splunk
8 2 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.37%) Intel
9 1 (0.37%) Revolut