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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 405 389
Rank change year-on-year -60 -16 -92
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 189 384 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.57% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 1.76% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 106 226 360
10th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,128 £52,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £54,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +26.15% -14.51% -1.92%

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 11,929 21,782 20,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.42% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,632 13,039 17,227
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,568
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -35 177 £77,500 -3.13% 73
London -2 123 £90,000 +5.88% 38
Work from Home -17 56 £75,000 +11.11% 48
UK excluding London -38 55 £68,750 +26.15% 53
North of England +25 20 £72,500 +52.63% 6
South East -12 17 £60,000 +20.00% 27
South West +13 12 £72,500 +16.00% 6
North West +25 10 £68,750 +7.84% 4
Yorkshire +15 10 £75,000 +66.67% 2
West Midlands +56 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands +46 3 £65,000 - 6
Scotland -13 3 £75,000 +34.53% 7
North East +16 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.59%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.68%) AWS
2 25 (13.23%) Azure
3 23 (12.17%) GCP
4 20 (10.58%) SaaS
5 13 (6.88%) GitHub
6 5 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.65%) Firebase
7 4 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.12%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.59%) Datadog
8 3 (1.59%) Figma
8 3 (1.59%) Serverless
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.06%) Google Play
9 2 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) AMQP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.17%) Big Data
4 6 (3.17%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.17%) MySQL
4 6 (3.17%) Redis
4 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.59%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.59%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.59%) Flink
6 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.05%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) Android Studio
2 7 (3.70%) JIRA
3 4 (2.12%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.12%) git-flow
3 4 (2.12%) JUnit
4 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.06%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.06%) Postman
5 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) Appium
6 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.53%) fastlane
6 1 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.53%) UI Automator
6 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 73 (38.62%) Finance
2 48 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 46 (24.34%) Law
4 45 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (15.34%) Banking
6 19 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (7.41%) Marketing
8 12 (6.35%) Legal
9 8 (4.23%) Retail
10 7 (3.70%) Financial Institution
11 6 (3.17%) Games
12 4 (2.12%) Billing
12 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.59%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.06%) Electronics
14 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.06%) Publishing
15 1 (0.53%) Advertising
15 1 (0.53%) Aviation
15 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (40.21%) Software Engineer
2 59 (31.22%) Developer
3 57 (30.16%) Senior
4 39 (20.63%) Java Engineer
5 36 (19.05%) Lead
6 30 (15.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (10.58%) Lead Software Engineer
7 20 (10.58%) Senior Developer
8 18 (9.52%) Android Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Senior Java Engineer
9 15 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 15 (7.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (7.41%) Android Developer
11 12 (6.35%) Lead Java Engineer
12 10 (5.29%) Mobile Developer
12 10 (5.29%) Ruby Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) Development Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) Lead Developer
13 9 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.46%) Spring
2 25 (13.23%) React
3 23 (12.17%) Kafka
3 23 (12.17%) RESTful
4 22 (11.64%) Spring Boot
5 17 (8.99%) Android Jetpack
5 17 (8.99%) Jetpack Compose
6 16 (8.47%) REST
7 11 (5.82%) Flutter
8 10 (5.29%) React Native
8 10 (5.29%) Web Services
9 8 (4.23%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.23%) SwiftUI
10 7 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (3.70%) Retrofit
11 6 (3.17%) OkHttp
12 5 (2.65%) Android SDK
12 5 (2.65%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.65%) WebGL
12 5 (2.65%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 21 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.76%) Mobile Banking
5 8 (4.23%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.17%) Derivative
7 6 (3.17%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.65%) Blog
8 5 (2.65%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.65%) Mobile Games
9 4 (2.12%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.12%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 66 (34.92%) Android
2 32 (16.93%) Apple iOS
3 12 (6.35%) Linux
4 7 (3.70%) Windows
5 4 (2.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (54.50%) Software Engineering
2 66 (34.92%) Agile
3 60 (31.75%) CI/CD
4 43 (22.75%) Android Development
5 42 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 41 (21.69%) AI
6 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (21.16%) Fintech
8 39 (20.63%) Microservices
9 37 (19.58%) SDLC
10 35 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (15.87%) Mobile Development
12 29 (15.34%) Machine Learning
13 24 (12.70%) Secure Coding
14 23 (12.17%) Test Automation
15 21 (11.11%) Code Quality
15 21 (11.11%) Open Source
16 19 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (10.05%) Design Patterns
17 18 (9.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 128 (67.72%) Java
2 43 (22.75%) Scala
3 25 (13.23%) Swift
4 22 (11.64%) Python
5 16 (8.47%) Go
5 16 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.41%) Ruby
7 13 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.29%) C++
9 8 (4.23%) C#
9 8 (4.23%) SQL
10 7 (3.70%) PHP
11 5 (2.65%) Objective-C
12 4 (2.12%) C
12 4 (2.12%) Groovy
13 2 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 25 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.05%) Degree
3 16 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.35%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.29%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.12%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.12%) OSCE
8 4 (2.12%) OSCP
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) QA
2 5 (2.65%) GDPR
3 4 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.12%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.12%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (8.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) KVM
2 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.05%) Terraform
3 3 (1.59%) Grafana
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (5.29%) Google
2 7 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.65%) Samsung
4 2 (1.06%) VMware
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk