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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 507 426
Rank change year-on-year -10 -81 -95
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 202 147 556
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.07% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 125 104 461
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,188 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +47.37% -24.00% -16.67%

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 15,617 13,750 32,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.39% 32.44% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,621 10,105 25,014
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £85,420 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 13 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 30 April 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 +12 185 £75,000 +15.38% 46
UK excluding London -34 118 £70,000 +47.37% 20
London +9 78 £100,000 +17.65% 30
Work from Home -9 74 £77,500 +67.57% 66
North of England -28 56 £72,500 +56.76% 10
Yorkshire -31 41 £72,500 +61.11% 7
South East -26 25 £60,000 +26.32% 4
North West -24 15 £65,000 +13.04% 2
South West -50 14 £85,000 +88.89% 2
Midlands -26 12 - - 1
East Midlands - 12 - - 1
Scotland -26 10 £65,000 -18.88%
Wales - 1 £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 3 (1.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.60%) AWS
2 40 (19.80%) Serverless
3 37 (18.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 37 (18.32%) GitHub
4 28 (13.86%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (13.86%) Amazon S3
4 28 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (11.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (11.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 24 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (10.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 19 (9.41%) Azure
8 15 (7.43%) Firebase
8 15 (7.43%) GCP
9 12 (5.94%) Stripe
9 12 (5.94%) TestFlight
10 11 (5.45%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.95%) Datadog
11 10 (4.95%) Google Workspace
11 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.85%) DynamoDB
1 30 (14.85%) NoSQL
2 24 (11.88%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.98%) Redis
4 3 (1.49%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.50%) Looker
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (12.87%) Git
2 15 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.93%) Crashlytics
4 12 (5.94%) XCTest
5 8 (3.96%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.97%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.98%) GitLab
7 4 (1.98%) Gradle
7 4 (1.98%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.49%) Selenium
8 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.99%) JUnit
9 2 (0.99%) Mockito
9 2 (0.99%) Xcode
10 1 (0.50%) fastlane
10 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 37 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.41%) Finance
3 17 (8.42%) Banking
4 16 (7.92%) Games
5 14 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.49%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.49%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.99%) Advertising
10 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (43.07%) Developer
2 64 (31.68%) Senior
3 40 (19.80%) Software Engineer
4 33 (16.34%) Android Engineer
5 31 (15.35%) Java Developer
6 25 (12.38%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.39%) Android Developer
7 23 (11.39%) Lead
8 22 (10.89%) iOS Developer
9 21 (10.40%) Java Engineer
10 17 (8.42%) Mobile Engineer
11 16 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (7.43%) Senior Android Developer
13 14 (6.93%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (6.93%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (5.94%) AWS Developer
15 10 (4.95%) Applications Developer
15 10 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (4.95%) Development Engineer
15 10 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.32%) SwiftUI
2 35 (17.33%) Node.js
3 33 (16.34%) RESTful
4 26 (12.87%) Spring
5 25 (12.38%) Spring Boot
6 24 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 23 (11.39%) Android Jetpack
7 23 (11.39%) Jetpack Compose
8 18 (8.91%) React
9 16 (7.92%) GraphQL
10 15 (7.43%) Android SDK
11 12 (5.94%) UIKit
12 11 (5.45%) React Native
13 8 (3.96%) WebSockets
14 6 (2.97%) gRPC
14 6 (2.97%) Kafka
14 6 (2.97%) OAuth
14 6 (2.97%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.97%) REST
15 5 (2.48%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 77 (38.12%) Mobile App
2 14 (6.93%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.44%) Social Media
4 12 (5.94%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.95%) PKI
6 6 (2.97%) Blog
7 5 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.99%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 96 (47.52%) Android
2 42 (20.79%) Apple iOS
3 11 (5.45%) Linux
4 10 (4.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.56%) CI/CD
2 70 (34.65%) Android Development
3 62 (30.69%) Agile
4 50 (24.75%) Software Engineering
5 41 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.83%) iOS Development
7 33 (16.34%) SOLID
8 31 (15.35%) AI
9 30 (14.85%) Design Patterns
9 30 (14.85%) DevOps
10 29 (14.36%) Mobile Development
10 29 (14.36%) TDD
11 27 (13.37%) Test Automation
12 25 (12.38%) User Experience
13 24 (11.88%) Mentoring
13 24 (11.88%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (11.39%) DevSecOps
14 23 (11.39%) Memory Management
14 23 (11.39%) Multithreading
15 21 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 114 (56.44%) Java
2 42 (20.79%) Swift
3 28 (13.86%) TypeScript
4 27 (13.37%) SQL
5 26 (12.87%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.88%) Python
7 15 (7.43%) C++
8 11 (5.45%) C#
9 8 (3.96%) Bash
9 8 (3.96%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.49%) Groovy
10 3 (1.49%) Scala
11 2 (0.99%) Elixir
11 2 (0.99%) Erlang
11 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.92%) Degree
3 15 (7.43%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.94%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.95%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.47%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.97%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (18.32%) Docker
2 8 (3.96%) KVM
2 8 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.90%) Terraform
3 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.95%) Grafana
5 3 (1.49%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.99%) Ansible
6 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (6.44%) Google
2 12 (5.94%) Amplitude
2 12 (5.94%) Braze
2 12 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.95%) VMware
4 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.50%) Intel
4 1 (0.50%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle