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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 522 377
Rank change year-on-year -26 -145 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 255 152 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 1.16% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 180 61 316
10th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.84% -13.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,625 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -18.37%

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 18,503 13,095 24,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 26.41% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13,149 8,447 15,323
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 13 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 13 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 -14 237 £70,000 -6.67% 372
UK excluding London +5 158 £70,000 +7.69% 135
Work from Home +15 90 £80,000 +23.08% 310
London -58 89 £77,500 -3.13% 262
North of England -1 71 £70,000 - 38
Yorkshire -13 40 £75,000 +5.26% 13
South West -44 34 £70,000 +55.56% 26
North West +4 26 £70,000 - 22
South East -33 23 £60,000 - 32
Midlands -41 18 £55,000 -15.38% 12
West Midlands -32 10 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Scotland - 10 £70,000 - 12
East Midlands - 8 - - 8
North East -57 5 £47,000 -27.69% 3
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 1

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 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.41%) AWS
2 58 (22.75%) GitHub
3 43 (16.86%) GitHub Actions
3 43 (16.86%) Serverless
4 39 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (11.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (11.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 28 (10.98%) Datadog
10 27 (10.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (10.59%) Azure
11 17 (6.67%) GCP
12 16 (6.27%) Firebase
13 10 (3.92%) Google Play
14 9 (3.53%) TestFlight
15 8 (3.14%) Stripe
16 7 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.55%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.20%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.80%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.75%) Redis
7 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.18%) Big Data
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.78%) Looker
9 2 (0.78%) MySQL
9 2 (0.78%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.78%) SQLite
9 2 (0.78%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (16.86%) Git
2 18 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.10%) Crashlytics
4 11 (4.31%) JUnit
5 10 (3.92%) XCTest
6 9 (3.53%) Appium
6 9 (3.53%) Gradle
7 8 (3.14%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.75%) GitLab
8 7 (2.75%) JIRA
9 6 (2.35%) fastlane
10 5 (1.96%) Xcode
11 4 (1.57%) MLflow
11 4 (1.57%) Mockito
11 4 (1.57%) Selenium
11 4 (1.57%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.18%) Maven
12 3 (1.18%) Postman
13 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.39%) Public Sector
3 49 (19.22%) Finance
4 26 (10.20%) Banking
5 25 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.88%) Law
7 10 (3.92%) Marketing
8 8 (3.14%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.14%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.75%) Publishing
10 4 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (53.33%) Developer
2 80 (31.37%) Senior
3 48 (18.82%) Software Engineer
4 47 (18.43%) Senior Developer
5 40 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (13.73%) Java Developer
7 26 (10.20%) Android Developer
8 25 (9.80%) Android Engineer
9 24 (9.41%) Lead
10 23 (9.02%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (6.67%) Android Software Engineer
12 17 (6.67%) AWS Developer
12 17 (6.67%) Senior Android Developer
13 12 (4.71%) iOS Developer
13 12 (4.71%) Mobile Engineer
13 12 (4.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (4.31%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.90%) Node.js
2 35 (13.73%) Spring
3 34 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 33 (12.94%) RESTful
5 32 (12.55%) AngularJS
6 26 (10.20%) SwiftUI
7 23 (9.02%) Android Jetpack
7 23 (9.02%) Jetpack Compose
8 20 (7.84%) React
8 20 (7.84%) REST
8 20 (7.84%) Terraform
9 19 (7.45%) Kafka
9 19 (7.45%) React Native
10 12 (4.71%) GraphQL
10 12 (4.71%) UIKit
11 9 (3.53%) Android SDK
12 7 (2.75%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.75%) Retrofit
13 6 (2.35%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.53%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.31%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.92%) Blog
5 8 (3.14%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (2.75%) Clustering
7 6 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.96%) PKI
9 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.57%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.18%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.78%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 87 (34.12%) Android
2 50 (19.61%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.35%) Windows
4 5 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 68 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 68 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 65 (25.49%) Agile
4 50 (19.61%) Android Development
5 44 (17.25%) DevOps
6 43 (16.86%) Clean Code
7 37 (14.51%) Test Automation
8 36 (14.12%) AI
8 36 (14.12%) Mobile Development
9 31 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (11.37%) iOS Development
11 27 (10.59%) DevSecOps
12 26 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 26 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (10.20%) TDD
13 25 (9.80%) Fintech
14 24 (9.41%) Microservices
14 24 (9.41%) SDLC
15 23 (9.02%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 111 (43.53%) Java
2 51 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 46 (18.04%) Swift
4 41 (16.08%) SQL
5 21 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.27%) Python
7 9 (3.53%) Scala
8 7 (2.75%) C#
9 6 (2.35%) Go
10 5 (1.96%) C++
11 4 (1.57%) Bash
11 4 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.18%) PHP
13 2 (0.78%) Dart
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.71%) Degree
3 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.75%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.31%) QA
3 6 (2.35%) WCAG
4 4 (1.57%) GDPR
4 4 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (18.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.57%) KVM
2 4 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.53%) Grafana
3 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.57%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Google
2 8 (3.14%) Amplitude
2 8 (3.14%) Braze
2 8 (3.14%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.35%) VMware
4 4 (1.57%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.57%) Apple
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle
5 3 (1.18%) Splunk
6 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.39%) Intel
7 1 (0.39%) Revolut