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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 451 377
Rank change year-on-year -44 -74 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 160 264 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.49% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.47% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 110 161 388
10th Percentile £52,375 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.28% +4.47%
75th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -26.92% -7.14%

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 11,774 17,949 22,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.31% 33.65% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 10,498 18,539
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -17 144 £75,000 -6.25% 208
London +15 91 £95,000 +11.76% 31
Work from Home -11 60 £75,000 +25.00% 39
UK excluding London -17 60 £60,000 +26.32% 199
North of England +10 20 £68,750 +52.78% 45
South East -5 19 £60,000 +26.32% 53
Yorkshire -8 13 £72,500 +61.11% 24
South West +4 10 £73,750 +1.72% 27
Scotland -8 8 £75,000 +51.52% 9
North West +15 7 £60,000 -2.04% 16
West Midlands +32 3 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Midlands +20 3 £65,000 +44.44% 28
North East +3 2 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 4

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 (0.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.63%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.25%) AWS
2 23 (14.38%) Azure
3 20 (12.50%) SaaS
4 13 (8.13%) GCP
5 11 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.38%) GitHub
6 7 (4.38%) OpenShift
7 6 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.75%) Google Workspace
7 6 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (3.13%) Serverless
9 4 (2.50%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) AMQP
1 1 (0.63%) Broadband
1 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.00%) Redis
3 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.13%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.88%) MySQL
7 1 (0.63%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 16 (10.00%) Git
2 6 (3.75%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.13%) Android Studio
4 4 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.25%) Postman
5 2 (1.25%) Xcode
6 1 (0.63%) Appium
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.63%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) Gradle
6 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.63%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.63%) XCUITest
General
1 38 (23.75%) Finance
2 37 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.88%) Banking
5 8 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.38%) Games
7 6 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.75%) Retail
8 4 (2.50%) Billing
8 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.50%) Law
9 3 (1.88%) Marketing
9 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 59 (36.88%) Senior
2 51 (31.88%) Developer
3 43 (26.88%) Software Engineer
4 24 (15.00%) Android Engineer
5 22 (13.75%) Java Engineer
5 22 (13.75%) Senior Java Engineer
6 17 (10.63%) Java Developer
6 17 (10.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (8.75%) iOS Developer
7 14 (8.75%) Lead
8 13 (8.13%) Development Engineer
8 13 (8.13%) Software Development Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Senior Android Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Ruby Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Android Developer
11 7 (4.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Senior Development Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.63%) React
2 24 (15.00%) RESTful
2 24 (15.00%) Spring
3 19 (11.88%) Android Jetpack
3 19 (11.88%) Jetpack Compose
4 17 (10.63%) Spring Boot
5 16 (10.00%) SwiftUI
6 10 (6.25%) Node.js
6 10 (6.25%) REST
7 9 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.63%) Flutter
7 9 (5.63%) Kafka
7 9 (5.63%) WebSockets
8 6 (3.75%) React Native
9 5 (3.13%) .NET
9 5 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.13%) Memcached
9 5 (3.13%) Symfony
9 5 (3.13%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 5 (3.13%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 37 (23.13%) Mobile App
2 15 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Blog
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.75%) Mobile Banking
5 6 (3.75%) PKI
5 6 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.13%) Educational Technology
6 5 (3.13%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.50%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.50%) Insider Threat
7 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.25%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.25%) IoT
10 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.63%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 68 (42.50%) Android
2 29 (18.13%) Apple iOS
3 14 (8.75%) Linux
4 11 (6.88%) Windows
5 4 (2.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.75%) Software Engineering
2 48 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 46 (28.75%) Android Development
4 43 (26.88%) Agile
5 37 (23.13%) Mentoring
6 28 (17.50%) AI
6 28 (17.50%) Mobile Development
7 27 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (13.75%) Machine Learning
9 21 (13.13%) TDD
10 20 (12.50%) Memory Management
11 19 (11.88%) Multithreading
11 19 (11.88%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (11.88%) Test Automation
12 18 (11.25%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (11.25%) Code Quality
12 18 (11.25%) Design Patterns
12 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
13 17 (10.63%) Event-Driven
13 17 (10.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 95 (59.38%) Java
2 31 (19.38%) Scala
3 24 (15.00%) Swift
4 22 (13.75%) Python
5 17 (10.63%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.75%) Ruby
7 13 (8.13%) C++
8 12 (7.50%) C#
9 10 (6.25%) SQL
9 10 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.63%) Go
11 7 (4.38%) PHP
12 6 (3.75%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.25%) Bash
13 2 (1.25%) C
13 2 (1.25%) Elixir
13 2 (1.25%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 26 (16.25%) Degree
1 26 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.25%) Master's Degree
3 14 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.75%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.13%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.50%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.50%) OSCE
7 4 (2.50%) OSCP
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) QA
2 5 (3.13%) GDPR
3 4 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.50%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (10.63%) Docker
2 6 (3.75%) KVM
2 6 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Terraform
3 8 (5.00%) Grafana
4 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.25%) Ansible
5 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (5.63%) Google
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.75%) VMware
3 1 (0.63%) Samsung
3 1 (0.63%) Splunk