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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 506 396
Rank change year-on-year -58 -110 -55
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 190 173 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 1.20% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 121 85 454
10th Percentile £53,750 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £132,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -18.52%

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 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -44 180 £75,000 +9.09% 155
UK excluding London -2 126 £70,000 - 89
Work from Home +26 72 £80,000 +28.00% 42
North of England +18 69 £70,000 -9.68% 13
London -67 61 £81,250 +8.33% 105
Yorkshire +8 45 £73,750 -18.06% 1
South East -41 20 £60,000 - 8
North West +11 19 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South West -53 16 £85,000 +88.89% 55
Midlands -18 14 - -
East Midlands - 14 - -
Scotland +9 5 £65,000 -49.09% 11
North East -42 5 £47,000 - 4
Wales - 2 £66,000 -

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 3 (1.58%) JBoss
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 74 (38.95%) AWS
2 55 (28.95%) GitHub
3 49 (25.79%) Serverless
4 40 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (20.53%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (18.42%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.89%) Amazon S3
8 32 (16.84%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (14.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (14.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 26 (13.68%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (12.63%) Azure
12 21 (11.05%) Firebase
13 16 (8.42%) GCP
14 15 (7.89%) TestFlight
15 14 (7.37%) Datadog
15 14 (7.37%) Stripe
16 9 (4.74%) Entra ID
16 9 (4.74%) Google Workspace
16 9 (4.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.32%) DynamoDB
2 28 (14.74%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (14.74%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.11%) Redis
3 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.58%) Big Data
5 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.05%) Looker
5 2 (1.05%) SQLite
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (16.84%) Git
2 22 (11.58%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.53%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.37%) XCTest
5 8 (4.21%) Gradle
6 7 (3.68%) fastlane
6 7 (3.68%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.16%) Android Studio
7 6 (3.16%) GitLab
7 6 (3.16%) Selenium
8 4 (2.11%) JIRA
9 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.58%) JUnit
9 3 (1.58%) Maven
9 3 (1.58%) Postman
9 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.05%) Mockito
General
1 41 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (8.95%) Finance
4 13 (6.84%) Banking
4 13 (6.84%) Games
5 7 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.16%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.16%) Tech for Good
7 5 (2.63%) Retail
8 4 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.05%) Publishing
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (52.63%) Developer
2 43 (22.63%) Senior
3 37 (19.47%) Java Developer
4 33 (17.37%) Android Developer
5 29 (15.26%) Senior Developer
5 29 (15.26%) Software Engineer
6 26 (13.68%) Android Engineer
7 22 (11.58%) Lead
8 19 (10.00%) Java Engineer
9 18 (9.47%) Mobile Engineer
9 18 (9.47%) Senior Android Developer
10 17 (8.95%) AWS Developer
11 14 (7.37%) iOS Developer
12 12 (6.32%) Android Software Engineer
13 11 (5.79%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (5.26%) Lead Developer
14 10 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (4.74%) Applications Developer
15 9 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.42%) Node.js
2 32 (16.84%) AngularJS
3 29 (15.26%) Spring Boot
3 29 (15.26%) SwiftUI
4 28 (14.74%) RESTful
5 25 (13.16%) Spring
6 24 (12.63%) Android Jetpack
6 24 (12.63%) Jetpack Compose
7 21 (11.05%) Android SDK
8 14 (7.37%) GraphQL
8 14 (7.37%) UIKit
9 12 (6.32%) React
10 8 (4.21%) Kafka
11 7 (3.68%) .NET
11 7 (3.68%) React Native
12 6 (3.16%) Retrofit
13 4 (2.11%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.11%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.11%) OAuth
13 4 (2.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 69 (36.32%) Mobile App
2 15 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.84%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.84%) Social Media
4 9 (4.74%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.74%) PKI
4 9 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.58%) Hackathon
7 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.05%) Blog
8 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 83 (43.68%) Android
2 37 (19.47%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.26%) Windows
4 9 (4.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 64 (33.68%) Agile
3 58 (30.53%) Android Development
4 44 (23.16%) Software Engineering
5 42 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (20.53%) DevOps
7 36 (18.95%) Test Automation
8 35 (18.42%) Clean Code
9 32 (16.84%) AI
10 30 (15.79%) Design Patterns
10 30 (15.79%) TDD
11 29 (15.26%) DevSecOps
12 28 (14.74%) iOS Development
13 27 (14.21%) SOLID
14 25 (13.16%) User Experience
15 24 (12.63%) Containerisation
16 23 (12.11%) Analytics
16 23 (12.11%) Deployment Automation
17 21 (11.05%) Mentoring
18 20 (10.53%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 110 (57.89%) Java
2 35 (18.42%) SQL
2 35 (18.42%) Swift
2 35 (18.42%) TypeScript
3 18 (9.47%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.42%) Python
5 10 (5.26%) C#
6 9 (4.74%) C++
7 8 (4.21%) Bash
8 7 (3.68%) Google Apps Script
9 6 (3.16%) Scala
10 3 (1.58%) Groovy
11 2 (1.05%) Dart
11 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.53%) Elixir
12 1 (0.53%) Erlang
12 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.32%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.74%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.16%) QA
2 6 (3.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (21.58%) Docker
2 7 (3.68%) KVM
2 7 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 19 (10.00%) Terraform
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.21%) Grafana
4 3 (1.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.47%) Google
2 14 (7.37%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.37%) Braze
3 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.74%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.74%) VMware
5 3 (1.58%) Splunk
6 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.53%) Intel
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle