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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 522 385
Rank change year-on-year -25 -137 -41
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 261 151 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.39% 1.17% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 185 62 299
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,750 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -17.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £104,500 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -16.67%

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 18,764 12,915 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 26.39% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 8,325 14,640
10th Percentile £38,986 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -38 243 £70,000 -6.67% 435
UK excluding London -22 159 £70,000 +7.69% 152
Work from Home +20 96 £77,500 +10.71% 171
London -76 94 £77,500 -3.13% 312
North of England -11 73 £70,000 - 56
Yorkshire -10 42 £70,000 -1.75% 24
South West -49 36 £70,000 +55.56% 27
North West -20 26 £70,000 - 30
South East -39 22 £60,000 - 32
Midlands -32 16 £55,000 -15.38% 11
West Midlands -41 11 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Scotland - 10 £70,000 - 11
North East -61 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
East Midlands - 5 - - 5
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 5

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 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 71 (27.20%) AWS
2 56 (21.46%) GitHub
3 41 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
4 39 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 39 (14.94%) Serverless
5 34 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (12.64%) Amazon S3
7 29 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (11.11%) Datadog
8 28 (10.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 27 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (10.34%) Azure
10 17 (6.51%) GCP
11 13 (4.98%) Firebase
12 10 (3.83%) Google Play
13 8 (3.07%) SaaS
14 7 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.30%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.88%) DynamoDB
2 26 (9.96%) NoSQL
3 24 (9.20%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.07%) Redis
7 4 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.53%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.15%) Big Data
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.77%) Looker
9 2 (0.77%) MySQL
9 2 (0.77%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.77%) SQLite
9 2 (0.77%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (16.48%) Git
2 18 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.60%) JUnit
4 10 (3.83%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.45%) Android Studio
5 9 (3.45%) Appium
5 9 (3.45%) Gradle
6 8 (3.07%) JIRA
7 7 (2.68%) GitLab
7 7 (2.68%) XCTest
8 6 (2.30%) fastlane
8 6 (2.30%) Xcode
9 5 (1.92%) Selenium
10 4 (1.53%) MLflow
10 4 (1.53%) Mockito
10 4 (1.53%) Postman
10 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.15%) Maven
12 2 (0.77%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.92%) Public Sector
3 51 (19.54%) Finance
4 27 (10.34%) Banking
5 25 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.75%) Law
7 10 (3.83%) Marketing
8 8 (3.07%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.07%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.68%) Publishing
10 5 (1.92%) Retail
11 4 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.38%) Legal
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (53.26%) Developer
2 88 (33.72%) Senior
3 51 (19.54%) Senior Developer
4 49 (18.77%) Software Engineer
5 46 (17.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (13.41%) Java Developer
7 26 (9.96%) Android Engineer
8 25 (9.58%) Android Developer
9 23 (8.81%) Java Engineer
9 23 (8.81%) Lead
10 21 (8.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (6.51%) Android Software Engineer
11 17 (6.51%) AWS Developer
12 16 (6.13%) Senior Android Developer
13 13 (4.98%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (4.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (4.21%) iOS Developer
16 10 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (3.83%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.56%) Node.js
2 35 (13.41%) Spring
3 34 (13.03%) Spring Boot
4 32 (12.26%) AngularJS
4 32 (12.26%) RESTful
5 24 (9.20%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (9.20%) Jetpack Compose
6 22 (8.43%) SwiftUI
7 21 (8.05%) React
7 21 (8.05%) Terraform
8 20 (7.66%) React Native
8 20 (7.66%) REST
9 19 (7.28%) Kafka
10 12 (4.60%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.83%) Android SDK
12 9 (3.45%) UIKit
13 7 (2.68%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.68%) Retrofit
14 6 (2.30%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.07%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.60%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.83%) Blog
5 8 (3.07%) Clustering
5 8 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.07%) Mobile Banking
6 6 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.92%) PKI
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.53%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.15%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.77%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 86 (32.95%) Android
2 46 (17.62%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.30%) Windows
4 5 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 75 (28.74%) Full-Stack Development
3 71 (27.20%) Software Engineering
4 67 (25.67%) Agile
5 49 (18.77%) Android Development
6 45 (17.24%) DevOps
7 40 (15.33%) Clean Code
8 37 (14.18%) AI
9 36 (13.79%) Mobile Development
9 36 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 33 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (10.34%) DevSecOps
11 27 (10.34%) Mentoring
12 26 (9.96%) Fintech
12 26 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (9.58%) iOS Development
13 25 (9.58%) SDLC
13 25 (9.58%) TDD
14 24 (9.20%) Microservices
15 23 (8.81%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 114 (43.68%) Java
2 51 (19.54%) TypeScript
3 42 (16.09%) Swift
4 41 (15.71%) SQL
5 21 (8.05%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.51%) Python
7 9 (3.45%) Scala
8 7 (2.68%) C#
8 7 (2.68%) Go
9 5 (1.92%) C++
10 4 (1.53%) Bash
10 4 (1.53%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.15%) PHP
12 2 (0.77%) Dart
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.98%) Degree
3 10 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.68%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.75%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.60%) QA
3 6 (2.30%) WCAG
4 5 (1.92%) GDPR
4 5 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (18.01%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) KVM
2 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.45%) Grafana
3 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.53%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (6.51%) Google
2 8 (3.07%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.30%) VMware
4 5 (1.92%) Amplitude
4 5 (1.92%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.92%) Braze
5 4 (1.53%) Apple
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle
6 3 (1.15%) Splunk
7 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Intel
8 1 (0.38%) Revolut