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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 520 383
Rank change year-on-year -22 -137 -41
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 251 157 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.14% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 165 65 348
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.64% -7.58%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £107,500 £108,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,605 13,731 25,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 27.49% 30.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,201 9,004 17,370
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,075 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -17 238 £75,000 +3.45% 53
UK excluding London -8 154 £70,000 +7.69% 42
London -47 91 £80,000 +6.67% 21
Work from Home +12 83 £80,000 +23.08% 31
North of England +19 81 £70,000 -9.68% 9
Yorkshire -4 48 £75,000 -10.45% 4
North West +10 28 £70,000 -5.08% 5
South West -58 25 £85,000 +88.89% 16
South East -19 24 £60,000 - 10
Midlands -20 16 £55,000 -15.38% 3
East Midlands - 11 - - 1
Scotland - 6 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands -29 5 £55,000 -15.38% 2
North East -53 5 £47,000 -27.69%
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 6 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.08%) AWS
2 63 (25.10%) GitHub
3 46 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
3 46 (18.33%) Serverless
4 38 (15.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (13.94%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (13.55%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.95%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (11.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 28 (11.16%) Azure
9 26 (10.36%) AWS Step Functions
10 25 (9.96%) Datadog
11 20 (7.97%) Firebase
12 17 (6.77%) GCP
13 12 (4.78%) TestFlight
14 11 (4.38%) Stripe
15 10 (3.98%) Google Play
16 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.35%) DynamoDB
2 28 (11.16%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.96%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.79%) Redis
7 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Looker
9 2 (0.80%) MySQL
9 2 (0.80%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.80%) SQLite
9 2 (0.80%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.73%) Git
2 20 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.77%) Crashlytics
4 13 (5.18%) XCTest
5 10 (3.98%) Gradle
6 9 (3.59%) Appium
7 8 (3.19%) JUnit
8 7 (2.79%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.79%) fastlane
8 7 (2.79%) GitLab
8 7 (2.79%) JIRA
9 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.99%) Xcode
10 4 (1.59%) MLflow
10 4 (1.59%) Mockito
10 4 (1.59%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.20%) Maven
11 3 (1.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.80%) git-flow
General
1 66 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.93%) Finance
3 36 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.16%) Banking
6 13 (5.18%) Law
7 12 (4.78%) Games
8 10 (3.98%) Marketing
9 8 (3.19%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.19%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.39%) Publishing
10 6 (2.39%) Retail
11 5 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (52.19%) Developer
2 71 (28.29%) Senior
3 47 (18.73%) Software Engineer
4 41 (16.33%) Senior Developer
5 35 (13.94%) Android Developer
5 35 (13.94%) Java Developer
6 29 (11.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (11.16%) Android Engineer
8 26 (10.36%) Lead
9 22 (8.76%) Java Engineer
10 21 (8.37%) Senior Android Developer
11 17 (6.77%) Android Software Engineer
12 16 (6.37%) iOS Developer
13 15 (5.98%) AWS Developer
13 15 (5.98%) Mobile Engineer
14 14 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (5.18%) Senior Java Developer
16 12 (4.78%) Mobile Developer
17 11 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
18 10 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.14%) Node.js
2 34 (13.55%) RESTful
2 34 (13.55%) Spring
2 34 (13.55%) SwiftUI
3 33 (13.15%) Spring Boot
4 31 (12.35%) AngularJS
5 26 (10.36%) Android Jetpack
5 26 (10.36%) Jetpack Compose
6 24 (9.56%) GraphQL
7 21 (8.37%) Android SDK
8 20 (7.97%) Kafka
8 20 (7.97%) React
8 20 (7.97%) Terraform
9 19 (7.57%) React Native
10 18 (7.17%) REST
11 15 (5.98%) UIKit
12 8 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.19%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.79%) OpenAPI
14 6 (2.39%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.28%) Mobile App
2 17 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.58%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.78%) Social Media
5 10 (3.98%) Mobile Banking
5 10 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.59%) Blog
7 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.39%) Clustering
8 6 (2.39%) PKI
9 5 (1.99%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Pricing Data
11 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 102 (40.64%) Android
2 55 (21.91%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.79%) Windows
4 6 (2.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.43%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.08%) Agile
3 72 (28.69%) Software Engineering
4 65 (25.90%) Android Development
5 49 (19.52%) AI
6 48 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (18.33%) Clean Code
8 42 (16.73%) DevOps
9 40 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (15.54%) Test Automation
11 37 (14.74%) Mobile Development
12 36 (14.34%) iOS Development
13 33 (13.15%) Design Patterns
14 32 (12.75%) SOLID
15 29 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.55%) TDD
16 27 (10.76%) DevSecOps
17 26 (10.36%) Analytics
18 25 (9.96%) Mentoring
18 25 (9.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 120 (47.81%) Java
2 52 (20.72%) Swift
2 52 (20.72%) TypeScript
3 42 (16.73%) SQL
4 22 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.37%) Python
6 9 (3.59%) Scala
7 8 (3.19%) C#
8 6 (2.39%) C++
8 6 (2.39%) Go
9 5 (1.99%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (1.59%) Bash
11 3 (1.20%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) Dart
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.78%) Degree
3 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.19%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.39%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.58%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.59%) QA
3 7 (2.79%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (18.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.99%) KVM
2 5 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.98%) Grafana
3 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (6.77%) Google
2 11 (4.38%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.38%) Braze
3 9 (3.59%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.79%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) Apple
6 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut