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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 437 369
Rank change year-on-year -51 -68 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 157 289 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.52% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.54% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 112 172 360
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £67,188 £49,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - -4.28% +4.47%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £131,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +45.00% -20.00% -10.07%

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 11,619 18,824 20,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 33.88% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8,526 11,150 16,669
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £106,250
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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -27 142 £80,000 - 220
London +20 95 £90,000 +5.88% 97
Work from Home -14 56 £77,500 +31.91% 106
UK excluding London -33 50 £72,500 +45.00% 139
North of England +6 20 £75,000 +66.67% 56
South East -9 16 £60,000 +26.32% 25
Yorkshire -4 12 £75,000 +66.67% 16
North West +8 8 £67,500 +10.20% 38
South West +1 7 £95,000 +90.00% 15
Scotland -15 4 £75,000 +50.00% 13
West Midlands +33 3 £65,000 +44.44% 8
Midlands +23 3 £65,000 +44.44% 14
North East +13 2 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.64%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.91%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 54 (34.39%) AWS
2 20 (12.74%) Azure
2 20 (12.74%) SaaS
3 10 (6.37%) GCP
4 6 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (3.82%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.18%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (3.18%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (2.55%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.55%) Figma
6 4 (2.55%) Firebase
6 4 (2.55%) GitHub
6 4 (2.55%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Broadband
2 1 (0.64%) AMQP
2 1 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.10%) Redis
2 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.46%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.18%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.91%) MySQL
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.64%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) Android Studio
2 4 (2.55%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) Postman
4 1 (0.64%) Appium
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.64%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.64%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Gradle
4 1 (0.64%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.64%) JUnit
4 1 (0.64%) Maven
4 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.64%) Xcode
4 1 (0.64%) XCUITest
General
1 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.93%) Finance
3 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.73%) Banking
5 8 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.46%) Retail
7 6 (3.82%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.82%) Games
8 5 (3.18%) Law
9 4 (2.55%) Billing
9 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.91%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.64%) Advertising
11 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 63 (40.13%) Senior
2 56 (35.67%) Developer
3 40 (25.48%) Software Engineer
4 23 (14.65%) Android Engineer
5 21 (13.38%) Senior Developer
6 20 (12.74%) Java Engineer
7 19 (12.10%) Senior Java Engineer
8 17 (10.83%) Java Developer
9 15 (9.55%) Lead
10 13 (8.28%) Development Engineer
10 13 (8.28%) Senior Android Engineer
10 13 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (8.28%) Software Development Engineer
11 12 (7.64%) iOS Developer
12 10 (6.37%) Ruby Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Android Developer
13 8 (5.10%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.46%) Lead Java Developer
14 7 (4.46%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.29%) React
2 21 (13.38%) Spring
3 20 (12.74%) RESTful
4 18 (11.46%) Android Jetpack
4 18 (11.46%) Jetpack Compose
5 14 (8.92%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.28%) SwiftUI
7 11 (7.01%) Flutter
7 11 (7.01%) Kafka
7 11 (7.01%) REST
8 9 (5.73%) WebSockets
9 8 (5.10%) React Native
10 6 (3.82%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.82%) Node.js
11 5 (3.18%) .NET
11 5 (3.18%) Memcached
11 5 (3.18%) Symfony
11 5 (3.18%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 5 (3.18%) WebGL
12 4 (2.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.66%) Mobile App
2 16 (10.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.46%) Blog
4 7 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.46%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.18%) Educational Technology
5 5 (3.18%) Mobile Games
5 5 (3.18%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.55%) Insider Threat
6 4 (2.55%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (2.55%) PKI
7 3 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
9 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.64%) iPad
9 1 (0.64%) iPhone
9 1 (0.64%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 65 (41.40%) Android
2 31 (19.75%) Apple iOS
3 12 (7.64%) Linux
4 9 (5.73%) Windows
5 4 (2.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.03%) Software Engineering
2 44 (28.03%) Agile
3 43 (27.39%) Android Development
4 41 (26.11%) CI/CD
4 41 (26.11%) Mentoring
5 31 (19.75%) AI
6 30 (19.11%) Mobile Development
7 25 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (14.65%) Machine Learning
9 21 (13.38%) TDD
10 20 (12.74%) Architectural Patterns
10 20 (12.74%) Code Quality
10 20 (12.74%) Design Patterns
10 20 (12.74%) Test Automation
11 18 (11.46%) Computer Science
11 18 (11.46%) iOS Development
12 17 (10.83%) Event-Driven
12 17 (10.83%) Memory Management
12 17 (10.83%) Roadmaps
13 16 (10.19%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 95 (60.51%) Java
2 33 (21.02%) Scala
3 25 (15.92%) Swift
4 19 (12.10%) Python
5 17 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.92%) Ruby
7 12 (7.64%) C++
8 11 (7.01%) Go
9 10 (6.37%) C#
10 9 (5.73%) TypeScript
11 8 (5.10%) SQL
12 7 (4.46%) PHP
13 4 (2.55%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (1.91%) Objective-C
15 2 (1.27%) C
16 1 (0.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (16.56%) Degree
2 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.46%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.01%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.37%) SC Cleared
7 7 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.55%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.55%) OSCE
8 4 (2.55%) OSCP
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.64%) QA
2 5 (3.18%) GDPR
3 4 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.55%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (7.01%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) KVM
2 4 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (17.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.10%) Terraform
3 5 (3.18%) Grafana
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.64%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.46%) Google
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.55%) VMware
4 1 (0.64%) Samsung
4 1 (0.64%) Splunk