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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 520 370
Rank change year-on-year -29 -150 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 263 153 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 1.16% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 182 62 320
10th Percentile £55,000 £41,375 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -12.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £94,625 £111,750 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -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 18,712 13,139 24,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.56% 26.45% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,335 8,501 15,343
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -29 244 £70,000 -5.08% 250
UK excluding London +3 164 £70,000 +7.69% 73
Work from Home +17 91 £80,000 +23.08% 81
London -73 91 £78,750 - 200
North of England +4 75 £70,000 - 18
Yorkshire -10 44 £75,000 +5.26% 7
South West -55 34 £70,000 +55.56% 18
North West +5 26 £70,000 - 11
South East -16 22 £60,000 - 20
Midlands -28 20 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Scotland - 11 £70,000 - 8
West Midlands -22 10 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East Midlands - 10 - - 3
North East -56 5 £47,000 -27.69%
Wales - 2 £66,000 -

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 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.28%) AWS
2 60 (22.81%) GitHub
3 44 (16.73%) GitHub Actions
4 43 (16.35%) Serverless
5 38 (14.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (12.17%) Amazon S3
8 29 (11.03%) Azure
9 28 (10.65%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (10.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (10.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 26 (9.89%) Datadog
12 25 (9.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (7.22%) Firebase
14 18 (6.84%) GCP
15 11 (4.18%) Google Play
15 11 (4.18%) TestFlight
16 10 (3.80%) Stripe
17 8 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.41%) DynamoDB
2 24 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.75%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.66%) Redis
7 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.14%) Big Data
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.76%) Looker
9 2 (0.76%) MySQL
9 2 (0.76%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.76%) SQLite
9 2 (0.76%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (15.97%) Git
2 19 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.08%) Crashlytics
4 12 (4.56%) XCTest
5 10 (3.80%) Gradle
5 10 (3.80%) JUnit
6 9 (3.42%) Android Studio
6 9 (3.42%) Appium
7 7 (2.66%) fastlane
7 7 (2.66%) GitLab
7 7 (2.66%) JIRA
8 5 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.90%) Xcode
9 4 (1.52%) MLflow
9 4 (1.52%) Mockito
9 4 (1.52%) Selenium
10 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.14%) Maven
10 3 (1.14%) Postman
11 2 (0.76%) git-flow
General
1 65 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.15%) Public Sector
3 49 (18.63%) Finance
4 31 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (9.89%) Banking
6 14 (5.32%) Law
7 10 (3.80%) Marketing
8 8 (3.04%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.04%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.66%) Publishing
10 6 (2.28%) Games
11 4 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Retail
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.38%) Legal
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (52.47%) Developer
2 82 (31.18%) Senior
3 48 (18.25%) Senior Developer
3 48 (18.25%) Software Engineer
4 39 (14.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (12.17%) Java Developer
6 31 (11.79%) Android Developer
7 27 (10.27%) Android Engineer
8 25 (9.51%) Lead
9 23 (8.75%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 19 (7.22%) Senior Android Developer
12 17 (6.46%) Android Software Engineer
13 15 (5.70%) AWS Developer
14 14 (5.32%) Mobile Engineer
15 12 (4.56%) iOS Developer
15 12 (4.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 11 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
16 11 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
17 10 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.69%) Node.js
1 36 (13.69%) Spring
2 35 (13.31%) Spring Boot
3 34 (12.93%) RESTful
4 30 (11.41%) AngularJS
5 28 (10.65%) SwiftUI
6 25 (9.51%) Android Jetpack
6 25 (9.51%) Jetpack Compose
7 21 (7.98%) Terraform
8 20 (7.60%) React
8 20 (7.60%) REST
9 19 (7.22%) Kafka
9 19 (7.22%) React Native
10 18 (6.84%) GraphQL
11 16 (6.08%) Android SDK
12 14 (5.32%) UIKit
13 8 (3.04%) Retrofit
14 7 (2.66%) OpenAPI
14 7 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 70 (26.62%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.22%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.18%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.42%) Blog
5 9 (3.42%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (2.66%) Clustering
6 7 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.28%) PKI
7 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.28%) Social Media
8 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.52%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.14%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 95 (36.12%) Android
2 51 (19.39%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.66%) Windows
4 6 (2.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (37.26%) CI/CD
2 75 (28.52%) Agile
3 68 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 68 (25.86%) Software Engineering
4 57 (21.67%) Android Development
5 46 (17.49%) Clean Code
6 43 (16.35%) AI
6 43 (16.35%) DevOps
7 41 (15.59%) Test Automation
8 36 (13.69%) Mobile Development
9 34 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (11.79%) iOS Development
12 30 (11.41%) TDD
13 28 (10.65%) Mentoring
14 27 (10.27%) Design Patterns
15 25 (9.51%) Architectural Patterns
15 25 (9.51%) DevSecOps
15 25 (9.51%) Microservices
15 25 (9.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 117 (44.49%) Java
2 49 (18.63%) TypeScript
3 48 (18.25%) Swift
4 39 (14.83%) SQL
5 22 (8.37%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.46%) Python
7 9 (3.42%) Scala
8 8 (3.04%) C#
9 6 (2.28%) C++
9 6 (2.28%) Go
10 5 (1.90%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.52%) Bash
12 3 (1.14%) PHP
13 2 (0.76%) Dart
14 1 (0.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.94%) Degree
3 9 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.04%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.66%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.28%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.70%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.80%) QA
3 7 (2.66%) WCAG
4 4 (1.52%) GDPR
4 4 (1.52%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (17.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.90%) KVM
2 5 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.80%) Grafana
3 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.52%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (6.84%) Google
2 10 (3.80%) Amplitude
2 10 (3.80%) Braze
3 9 (3.42%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.42%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.66%) VMware
5 4 (1.52%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.52%) Apple
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle
6 3 (1.14%) Splunk
7 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Intel
8 1 (0.38%) Revolut