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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 526 417
Rank change year-on-year -16 -109 -89
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 197 125 601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 0.93% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 126 75 471
10th Percentile £55,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £86,875 £112,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £136,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

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 16,456 13,389 32,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 31.23% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,442 9,005 25,064
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,924
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.00% -1.96%

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 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 14 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 29 May 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 +1 185 £75,000 +15.38% 79
UK excluding London 0 121 £70,000 +7.69% 56
Work from Home +38 73 £78,750 +36.96% 39
London -15 73 £100,000 +21.21% 41
North of England +9 67 £71,500 +0.35% 19
Yorkshire -15 45 £72,500 +5.45% 5
South East -32 20 £60,000 - 6
North West +10 18 £65,000 -8.77% 12
Midlands -19 13 - - 4
East Midlands - 13 - - 2
South West -52 12 £85,000 +88.89% 6
Scotland -7 7 £65,000 -49.09% 10
North East -33 4 £47,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 6

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 3 (1.52%) JBoss
2 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.02%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.07%) AWS
2 49 (24.87%) GitHub
3 47 (23.86%) Serverless
4 40 (20.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (17.77%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (17.26%) Amazon S3
6 34 (17.26%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (16.75%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (14.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (14.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 27 (13.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (10.66%) Azure
11 19 (9.64%) Firebase
12 14 (7.11%) Datadog
12 14 (7.11%) GCP
12 14 (7.11%) TestFlight
13 13 (6.60%) Stripe
14 8 (4.06%) Entra ID
14 8 (4.06%) Google Workspace
14 8 (4.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.26%) DynamoDB
1 34 (17.26%) NoSQL
2 29 (14.72%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.03%) Redis
4 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.02%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.02%) Looker
4 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (14.72%) Git
2 20 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.14%) Crashlytics
4 13 (6.60%) XCTest
5 8 (4.06%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.55%) Gradle
7 6 (3.05%) fastlane
7 6 (3.05%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.54%) GitLab
9 4 (2.03%) Selenium
10 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.52%) Maven
10 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.02%) JUnit
11 2 (1.02%) Mockito
12 1 (0.51%) Postman
12 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (8.63%) Banking
3 17 (8.63%) Finance
4 14 (7.11%) Games
5 7 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.03%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.03%) Retail
7 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (47.72%) Developer
2 55 (27.92%) Senior
3 36 (18.27%) Java Developer
4 31 (15.74%) Android Engineer
5 29 (14.72%) Android Developer
5 29 (14.72%) Software Engineer
6 27 (13.71%) Senior Developer
7 26 (13.20%) Lead
8 24 (12.18%) Java Engineer
9 18 (9.14%) iOS Developer
9 18 (9.14%) Mobile Engineer
10 16 (8.12%) AWS Developer
10 16 (8.12%) Senior Android Developer
11 14 (7.11%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (5.08%) Senior Java Engineer
14 9 (4.57%) Applications Developer
14 9 (4.57%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (4.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.80%) Node.js
2 33 (16.75%) SwiftUI
3 31 (15.74%) RESTful
4 29 (14.72%) Android Jetpack
4 29 (14.72%) AngularJS
4 29 (14.72%) Jetpack Compose
5 28 (14.21%) Spring Boot
6 27 (13.71%) Spring
7 18 (9.14%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.61%) GraphQL
8 15 (7.61%) React
9 13 (6.60%) UIKit
10 9 (4.57%) React Native
11 6 (3.05%) Kafka
11 6 (3.05%) OAuth
11 6 (3.05%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.54%) Retrofit
13 4 (2.03%) gRPC
13 4 (2.03%) Jest
13 4 (2.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 75 (38.07%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.11%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.60%) Social Media
4 8 (4.06%) PKI
4 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.52%) Blog
8 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 91 (46.19%) Android
2 39 (19.80%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.06%) Linux
3 8 (4.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 67 (34.01%) Android Development
3 62 (31.47%) Agile
4 41 (20.81%) Software Engineering
5 39 (19.80%) DevOps
6 38 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (17.77%) TDD
8 31 (15.74%) AI
8 31 (15.74%) iOS Development
8 31 (15.74%) Test Automation
9 30 (15.23%) SOLID
10 29 (14.72%) Design Patterns
10 29 (14.72%) DevSecOps
11 28 (14.21%) Clean Code
12 26 (13.20%) User Experience
13 25 (12.69%) Mobile Development
14 24 (12.18%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (10.66%) Analytics
15 21 (10.66%) Containerisation
15 21 (10.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 115 (58.38%) Java
2 39 (19.80%) Swift
3 32 (16.24%) SQL
4 31 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.12%) Python
7 10 (5.08%) C++
8 9 (4.57%) Bash
8 9 (4.57%) C#
9 6 (3.05%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (2.03%) Scala
11 3 (1.52%) Groovy
12 2 (1.02%) Elixir
12 2 (1.02%) Erlang
12 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.51%) Dart
13 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.58%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.57%) Degree
3 9 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.05%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.54%) WCAG
3 4 (2.03%) QA
System Software
1 40 (20.30%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) KVM
2 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.64%) Terraform
2 17 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.52%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.02%) Ansible
6 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.11%) Google
2 13 (6.60%) Amplitude
2 13 (6.60%) Braze
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.06%) VMware
5 6 (3.05%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) Intel
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Splunk