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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 507 398
Rank change year-on-year -58 -109 -67
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 193 164 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.36% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.17% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 124 75 479
10th Percentile £51,250 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £40,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,325 £136,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +12.07% -14.07%

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 17,050 14,031 34,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 30.96% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,090 9,275 25,736
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £98,750
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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -41 181 £75,000 +15.38% 37
UK excluding London +2 130 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Work from Home +15 75 £75,000 +25.00% 17
North of England +23 71 £70,000 - 4
London -81 61 £82,500 +17.86% 24
Yorkshire +11 46 £72,500 -19.44% 2
South East -31 21 £60,000 - 6
North West +12 20 £65,000 -5.45% 2
Midlands -10 14 - -
South West -55 14 £85,000 +88.89% 7
East Midlands - 14 - -
Scotland +5 8 £65,000 -49.09%
North East -42 5 £47,000 -
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 (1.55%) JBoss
2 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 76 (39.38%) AWS
2 53 (27.46%) GitHub
3 50 (25.91%) Serverless
4 40 (20.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (20.21%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (18.65%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.62%) Amazon S3
8 33 (17.10%) Amazon ECS
9 29 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (15.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (13.99%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (12.44%) Azure
12 21 (10.88%) Firebase
13 16 (8.29%) GCP
14 15 (7.77%) TestFlight
15 14 (7.25%) Datadog
15 14 (7.25%) Stripe
16 8 (4.15%) Entra ID
16 8 (4.15%) Google Workspace
16 8 (4.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.58%) DynamoDB
2 31 (16.06%) NoSQL
3 29 (15.03%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.04%) Looker
5 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.04%) Redis
5 2 (1.04%) SQLite
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) Big Data
6 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.03%) Git
2 23 (11.92%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.36%) Crashlytics
4 14 (7.25%) XCTest
5 8 (4.15%) Gradle
6 7 (3.63%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.63%) fastlane
7 6 (3.11%) Selenium
7 6 (3.11%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.59%) GitLab
9 4 (2.07%) JIRA
10 3 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.55%) Maven
10 3 (1.55%) Postman
10 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.04%) JUnit
11 2 (1.04%) Mockito
12 1 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 38 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (7.77%) Finance
4 14 (7.25%) Games
5 13 (6.74%) Banking
6 7 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.59%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.59%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (51.30%) Developer
2 49 (25.39%) Senior
3 38 (19.69%) Java Developer
4 30 (15.54%) Android Developer
5 29 (15.03%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.51%) Senior Developer
7 24 (12.44%) Android Engineer
8 23 (11.92%) Lead
9 22 (11.40%) Java Engineer
10 18 (9.33%) Mobile Engineer
11 17 (8.81%) AWS Developer
12 16 (8.29%) Senior Android Developer
13 15 (7.77%) iOS Developer
14 12 (6.22%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.18%) Android Software Engineer
15 10 (5.18%) Lead Developer
15 10 (5.18%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (4.66%) Applications Developer
17 8 (4.15%) Applications Engineer
17 8 (4.15%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.69%) Node.js
2 33 (17.10%) AngularJS
3 31 (16.06%) Spring Boot
3 31 (16.06%) SwiftUI
4 30 (15.54%) RESTful
5 28 (14.51%) Spring
6 23 (11.92%) Android Jetpack
6 23 (11.92%) Jetpack Compose
7 20 (10.36%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.77%) GraphQL
9 14 (7.25%) React
9 14 (7.25%) UIKit
10 9 (4.66%) React Native
11 7 (3.63%) .NET
12 6 (3.11%) Kafka
12 6 (3.11%) OAuth
12 6 (3.11%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.11%) Retrofit
13 4 (2.07%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.07%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 71 (36.79%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.25%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.74%) Social Media
4 10 (5.18%) Mobile Banking
5 9 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.15%) PKI
7 6 (3.11%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.55%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.52%) Blog
10 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.52%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.52%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 83 (43.01%) Android
2 37 (19.17%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.66%) Windows
4 8 (4.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (50.78%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.09%) Agile
3 58 (30.05%) Android Development
4 45 (23.32%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (21.24%) DevOps
7 33 (17.10%) Test Automation
8 31 (16.06%) Clean Code
9 29 (15.03%) AI
9 29 (15.03%) DevSecOps
9 29 (15.03%) iOS Development
9 29 (15.03%) TDD
10 28 (14.51%) SOLID
11 27 (13.99%) Design Patterns
12 24 (12.44%) Containerisation
12 24 (12.44%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.44%) User Experience
13 23 (11.92%) Analytics
13 23 (11.92%) Deployment Automation
14 21 (10.88%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 111 (57.51%) Java
2 37 (19.17%) Swift
3 36 (18.65%) SQL
4 35 (18.13%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.81%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.29%) Python
7 9 (4.66%) Bash
7 9 (4.66%) C#
8 8 (4.15%) C++
9 6 (3.11%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (2.07%) Scala
11 3 (1.55%) Groovy
12 2 (1.04%) Dart
12 2 (1.04%) Elixir
12 2 (1.04%) Erlang
12 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.70%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.11%) WCAG
3 4 (2.07%) QA
System Software
1 42 (21.76%) Docker
2 6 (3.11%) KVM
2 6 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (9.84%) Kubernetes
1 19 (9.84%) Terraform
2 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.15%) Grafana
4 3 (1.55%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.04%) Ansible
5 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (8.29%) Google
2 14 (7.25%) Amplitude
2 14 (7.25%) Braze
3 10 (5.18%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.66%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.15%) VMware
6 3 (1.55%) Splunk
7 2 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Intel
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle