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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 522 391
Rank change year-on-year -23 -131 -63
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 235 158 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.13% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 149 70 355
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -23.08%

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 18,574 14,028 25,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 28.18% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,152 9,204 17,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 11 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 11 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 -21 222 £75,000 +5.26% 293
UK excluding London +11 145 £70,000 +3.70% 94
London -53 83 £80,000 +6.67% 217
North of England +19 79 £70,000 -9.68% 45
Work from Home +10 77 £80,000 +23.08% 101
Yorkshire +9 48 £73,750 -11.94% 13
North West +4 26 £70,000 -5.08% 30
South East -31 23 £60,000 - 10
South West -62 20 £85,000 +88.89% 14
Midlands -36 16 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East Midlands - 13 - - 3
Scotland +11 5 £68,750 -46.15% 8
North East -54 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
West Midlands -37 3 £55,000 -15.38% 6
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 6 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.28%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.89%) AWS
2 62 (26.38%) GitHub
3 48 (20.43%) Serverless
4 43 (18.30%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (16.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (14.47%) Amazon S3
8 32 (13.62%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (11.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (11.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (11.49%) Azure
11 26 (11.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (9.36%) Firebase
13 20 (8.51%) Datadog
14 18 (7.66%) GCP
15 14 (5.96%) TestFlight
16 13 (5.53%) Stripe
17 10 (4.26%) Google Play
18 8 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.04%) DynamoDB
2 27 (11.49%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (11.06%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.13%) Redis
6 4 (1.70%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.28%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.85%) Looker
8 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.85%) SQLite
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (16.60%) Git
2 21 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.09%) Crashlytics
4 15 (6.38%) XCTest
5 9 (3.83%) Appium
6 8 (3.40%) Gradle
7 7 (2.98%) fastlane
7 7 (2.98%) GitLab
7 7 (2.98%) JIRA
8 6 (2.55%) Android Studio
8 6 (2.55%) Selenium
9 5 (2.13%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.70%) JUnit
10 4 (1.70%) MLflow
10 4 (1.70%) Xcode
11 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.28%) Maven
11 3 (1.28%) Postman
11 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 64 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.45%) Finance
3 30 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.23%) Banking
6 12 (5.11%) Games
6 12 (5.11%) Law
7 9 (3.83%) Marketing
8 8 (3.40%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.40%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.55%) Publishing
11 5 (2.13%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (51.49%) Developer
2 67 (28.51%) Senior
3 46 (19.57%) Software Engineer
4 39 (16.60%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.74%) Java Developer
6 36 (15.32%) Android Developer
7 26 (11.06%) Android Engineer
8 24 (10.21%) Lead
9 22 (9.36%) Senior Android Developer
10 21 (8.94%) Java Engineer
11 20 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (7.66%) AWS Developer
13 17 (7.23%) Android Software Engineer
13 17 (7.23%) Mobile Engineer
14 15 (6.38%) iOS Developer
15 12 (5.11%) Mobile Developer
16 11 (4.68%) Senior Java Developer
17 10 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
17 10 (4.26%) Lead Developer
17 10 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.74%) Node.js
2 35 (14.89%) SwiftUI
3 34 (14.47%) Spring Boot
4 33 (14.04%) RESTful
5 31 (13.19%) Spring
6 30 (12.77%) AngularJS
7 26 (11.06%) Android Jetpack
7 26 (11.06%) Jetpack Compose
8 22 (9.36%) GraphQL
8 22 (9.36%) React
9 21 (8.94%) Android SDK
10 19 (8.09%) React Native
11 17 (7.23%) UIKit
12 16 (6.81%) Kafka
13 15 (6.38%) REST
14 8 (3.40%) Retrofit
15 7 (2.98%) .NET
16 6 (2.55%) Jest
16 6 (2.55%) WebdriverIO
17 5 (2.13%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 78 (33.19%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.81%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.11%) Social Media
4 10 (4.26%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.40%) Blog
6 8 (3.40%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.55%) PKI
8 5 (2.13%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.70%) Clustering
9 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.85%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.85%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 99 (42.13%) Android
2 54 (22.98%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.98%) Windows
4 6 (2.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.96%) CI/CD
2 76 (32.34%) Agile
3 69 (29.36%) Software Engineering
4 64 (27.23%) Android Development
5 47 (20.00%) AI
6 45 (19.15%) Clean Code
7 42 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (17.87%) Test Automation
8 40 (17.02%) DevOps
9 36 (15.32%) Design Patterns
9 36 (15.32%) iOS Development
10 34 (14.47%) Mobile Development
11 33 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (13.19%) SOLID
13 30 (12.77%) TDD
14 29 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (11.91%) Architectural Patterns
15 28 (11.91%) SDLC
16 27 (11.49%) Analytics
16 27 (11.49%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 117 (49.79%) Java
2 52 (22.13%) Swift
3 51 (21.70%) TypeScript
4 40 (17.02%) SQL
5 25 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.81%) Python
7 8 (3.40%) C#
8 7 (2.98%) Scala
9 6 (2.55%) Bash
9 6 (2.55%) C++
10 5 (2.13%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.70%) Go
12 3 (1.28%) Groovy
12 3 (1.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.85%) Dart
14 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.40%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (3.40%) Degree
5 7 (2.98%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.53%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.98%) WCAG
3 6 (2.55%) QA
4 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 44 (18.72%) Docker
2 5 (2.13%) KVM
2 5 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (9.79%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.51%) Terraform
3 8 (3.40%) Grafana
3 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.70%) Kubeflow
5 3 (1.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (7.23%) Google
2 13 (5.53%) Amplitude
2 13 (5.53%) Braze
3 10 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.83%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.98%) VMware
6 4 (1.70%) Apple
7 3 (1.28%) Splunk
8 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.43%) Intel
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle
9 1 (0.43%) Revolut