Kotlin Job Trends

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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 458 412
Rank change year-on-year -41 -46 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 202 193 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 1.34% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 130 145 456
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £59,190 £45,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.27% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,625 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -6.67%

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 13,778 14,448 30,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.02% 34.07% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,646 10,243 24,384
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,640
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -6 182 £75,000 -6.25% 81
UK excluding London -19 108 £70,000 +21.74% 50
London -23 84 £100,000 +17.65% 41
Work from Home -34 66 £72,500 +20.83% 91
North of England -19 52 £72,500 +61.11% 24
Yorkshire -14 35 £72,500 +61.11% 15
South East -22 23 £60,000 +41.18% 13
North West -12 17 £65,000 +26.83% 7
Scotland -30 11 £67,500 - 4
Midlands -25 10 £75,000 +36.36% 2
South West -34 10 £73,750 +1.72% 4
East Midlands - 9 - -
West Midlands -3 1 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 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 2 (0.99%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.12%) AWS
2 28 (13.86%) GitHub
2 28 (13.86%) Serverless
3 26 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (11.88%) Azure
5 19 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (9.41%) Amazon S3
5 19 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (7.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 16 (7.92%) GCP
6 16 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (7.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (6.93%) Firebase
9 12 (5.94%) SaaS
10 9 (4.46%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.46%) Stripe
10 9 (4.46%) TestFlight
11 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.96%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
2 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.39%) DynamoDB
3 16 (7.92%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.47%) Redis
5 5 (2.48%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.50%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Git
2 13 (6.44%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.45%) Crashlytics
4 9 (4.46%) XCTest
5 7 (3.47%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.97%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.49%) GitLab
7 3 (1.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.99%) Gradle
8 2 (0.99%) Selenium
8 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.99%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Appium
9 1 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.50%) fastlane
9 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (17.33%) Finance
2 34 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.41%) Games
4 18 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.42%) Banking
6 10 (4.95%) Retail
7 9 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.98%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Front Office
13 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (40.10%) Developer
2 67 (33.17%) Senior
3 46 (22.77%) Software Engineer
4 28 (13.86%) Android Engineer
5 22 (10.89%) Java Developer
5 22 (10.89%) Java Engineer
6 21 (10.40%) iOS Developer
6 21 (10.40%) Senior Java Engineer
7 20 (9.90%) Android Developer
7 20 (9.90%) Senior Developer
8 19 (9.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (8.91%) Lead
10 14 (6.93%) Development Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Senior Android Developer
11 12 (5.94%) Software Development Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Mobile Engineer
13 10 (4.95%) Ruby Engineer
14 8 (3.96%) AWS Developer
14 8 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.34%) SwiftUI
2 30 (14.85%) RESTful
3 28 (13.86%) Spring
4 26 (12.87%) Node.js
5 25 (12.38%) Android Jetpack
5 25 (12.38%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (11.88%) Spring Boot
7 20 (9.90%) React
8 18 (8.91%) AngularJS
9 16 (7.92%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.43%) Android SDK
11 9 (4.46%) UIKit
12 8 (3.96%) Kafka
12 8 (3.96%) REST
12 8 (3.96%) WebSockets
13 6 (2.97%) OAuth
13 6 (2.97%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.97%) React Native
14 5 (2.48%) Memcached
15 4 (1.98%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 69 (34.16%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.93%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.44%) Social Media
4 12 (5.94%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.96%) Blog
6 8 (3.96%) PKI
7 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.98%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.98%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.98%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.98%) Mobile Games
10 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 88 (43.56%) Android
2 38 (18.81%) Apple iOS
3 16 (7.92%) Linux
4 12 (5.94%) Windows
5 4 (1.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.09%) CI/CD
2 67 (33.17%) Android Development
3 61 (30.20%) Agile
4 56 (27.72%) Software Engineering
5 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.80%) AI
7 33 (16.34%) Mentoring
7 33 (16.34%) SOLID
8 32 (15.84%) Design Patterns
9 31 (15.35%) iOS Development
9 31 (15.35%) TDD
10 28 (13.86%) Test Automation
11 27 (13.37%) User Experience
12 26 (12.87%) Mobile Development
13 24 (11.88%) DevOps
13 24 (11.88%) Memory Management
14 23 (11.39%) Multithreading
14 23 (11.39%) Performance Optimisation
15 22 (10.89%) Code Quality
15 22 (10.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 125 (61.88%) Java
2 36 (17.82%) Swift
3 24 (11.88%) Python
4 21 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 21 (10.40%) Scala
5 19 (9.41%) SQL
6 18 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 15 (7.43%) C++
8 14 (6.93%) Ruby
9 10 (4.95%) C#
10 7 (3.47%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (2.48%) Bash
12 4 (1.98%) PHP
13 2 (0.99%) C
13 2 (0.99%) Elixir
13 2 (0.99%) Erlang
13 2 (0.99%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) Go
14 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.89%) Degree
3 17 (8.42%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.43%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.95%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.98%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.98%) OSCE
9 4 (1.98%) OSCP
10 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) QA
2 5 (2.48%) GDPR
3 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.98%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (14.85%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) KVM
2 7 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (14.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.92%) Terraform
3 9 (4.46%) Grafana
3 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.45%) Google
2 9 (4.46%) Amplitude
3 8 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.47%) VMware
5 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.50%) Samsung
5 1 (0.50%) Splunk