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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 514 381
Rank change year-on-year -30 -133 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 249 157 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.14% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 163 65 351
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £107,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,516 13,765 25,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 27.60% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,147 9,018 17,418
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -11 236 £75,000 +3.45% 56
UK excluding London -5 152 £70,000 +7.69% 46
London -70 91 £80,000 +6.67% 20
North of England +21 81 £70,000 -9.68% 9
Work from Home +16 81 £80,000 +23.08% 34
Yorkshire +1 49 £75,000 -10.45% 4
North West -1 27 £70,000 -5.08% 5
South East -27 24 £60,000 - 11
South West -56 24 £85,000 +88.89% 16
Midlands -28 15 £55,000 -15.38% 5
East Midlands - 11 - -
Scotland - 6 £70,000 - 5
North East -51 5 £47,000 -27.69%
West Midlands -34 4 £55,000 -15.38% 5
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 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.33%) AWS
2 63 (25.30%) GitHub
3 47 (18.88%) Serverless
4 46 (18.47%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (15.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (14.06%) Amazon S3
8 31 (12.45%) Amazon ECS
9 29 (11.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (11.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 28 (11.24%) Azure
11 26 (10.44%) AWS Step Functions
12 25 (10.04%) Datadog
13 20 (8.03%) Firebase
14 17 (6.83%) GCP
15 12 (4.82%) TestFlight
16 11 (4.42%) Stripe
17 10 (4.02%) Google Play
18 8 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.85%) DynamoDB
2 28 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 26 (10.44%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.81%) Redis
7 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Looker
9 2 (0.80%) MySQL
9 2 (0.80%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.80%) SQLite
9 2 (0.80%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.87%) Git
2 20 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.83%) Crashlytics
4 13 (5.22%) XCTest
5 10 (4.02%) Gradle
6 9 (3.61%) Appium
7 8 (3.21%) JUnit
8 7 (2.81%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.81%) fastlane
8 7 (2.81%) GitLab
8 7 (2.81%) JIRA
9 5 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.01%) Xcode
10 4 (1.61%) MLflow
10 4 (1.61%) Mockito
10 4 (1.61%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.20%) Maven
11 3 (1.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.80%) XCUITest
General
1 66 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.07%) Finance
3 34 (13.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.24%) Banking
5 13 (5.22%) Law
6 12 (4.82%) Games
7 10 (4.02%) Marketing
8 8 (3.21%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.21%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.41%) Publishing
9 6 (2.41%) Retail
10 5 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (52.21%) Developer
2 69 (27.71%) Senior
3 47 (18.88%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.06%) Senior Developer
5 36 (14.46%) Java Developer
6 35 (14.06%) Android Developer
7 28 (11.24%) Android Engineer
7 28 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (10.44%) Lead
9 22 (8.84%) Java Engineer
10 21 (8.43%) Senior Android Developer
11 17 (6.83%) Android Software Engineer
12 16 (6.43%) AWS Developer
12 16 (6.43%) iOS Developer
13 15 (6.02%) Mobile Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
15 12 (4.82%) Mobile Developer
16 11 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
17 10 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) Node.js
2 34 (13.65%) RESTful
2 34 (13.65%) Spring
2 34 (13.65%) SwiftUI
3 33 (13.25%) Spring Boot
4 31 (12.45%) AngularJS
5 26 (10.44%) Android Jetpack
5 26 (10.44%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (9.64%) GraphQL
7 21 (8.43%) Android SDK
7 21 (8.43%) React
8 20 (8.03%) Kafka
8 20 (8.03%) Terraform
9 19 (7.63%) React Native
10 18 (7.23%) REST
11 15 (6.02%) UIKit
12 8 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.21%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.81%) OpenAPI
14 6 (2.41%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.52%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.82%) Social Media
5 10 (4.02%) Mobile Banking
5 10 (4.02%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.61%) Blog
7 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.41%) Clustering
8 6 (2.41%) PKI
9 5 (2.01%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Pricing Data
11 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 102 (40.96%) Android
2 55 (22.09%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.81%) Windows
4 6 (2.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 77 (30.92%) Agile
3 71 (28.51%) Software Engineering
4 65 (26.10%) Android Development
5 49 (19.68%) AI
6 46 (18.47%) Clean Code
6 46 (18.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 43 (17.27%) DevOps
8 40 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (15.66%) Test Automation
10 36 (14.46%) iOS Development
10 36 (14.46%) Mobile Development
11 33 (13.25%) Design Patterns
12 32 (12.85%) SOLID
13 29 (11.65%) TDD
14 28 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.84%) DevSecOps
16 26 (10.44%) Analytics
17 25 (10.04%) Architectural Patterns
17 25 (10.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 121 (48.59%) Java
2 52 (20.88%) Swift
3 51 (20.48%) TypeScript
4 42 (16.87%) SQL
5 22 (8.84%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.43%) Python
7 9 (3.61%) Scala
8 8 (3.21%) C#
9 6 (2.41%) C++
9 6 (2.41%) Go
10 5 (2.01%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.61%) Bash
12 3 (1.20%) PHP
13 2 (0.80%) Dart
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.82%) Degree
3 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.21%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.62%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.61%) QA
3 7 (2.81%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (18.47%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) KVM
2 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.02%) Grafana
3 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.61%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (6.83%) Google
2 11 (4.42%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.42%) Braze
3 9 (3.61%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.61%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.81%) VMware
5 4 (1.61%) Apple
6 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut