Kotlin Job Trends

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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 464 396
Rank change year-on-year -27 -68 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 188 207 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 1.32% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 128 144 455
10th Percentile £55,000 £33,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,438 £46,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £114,875 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -25.71% -12.50%

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 13,218 15,714 28,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 34.38% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,351 10,009 23,174
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -7 169 £75,000 -6.25% 87
UK excluding London 0 92 £70,000 +34.62% 59
London +6 86 £100,000 +17.65% 40
Work from Home -24 63 £72,500 +20.83% 89
North of England -5 43 £72,500 +56.76% 32
Yorkshire -18 28 £72,500 +61.11% 14
South East -19 23 £60,000 +60.00% 12
North West -7 15 £65,000 +13.04% 15
South West -20 10 £73,750 +1.72% 5
Scotland -25 10 £71,250 +18.75% 5
Midlands 0 4 £75,000 +66.67% 3
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
West Midlands +2 1 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 2 (1.06%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.60%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.30%) AWS
2 26 (13.83%) Azure
3 24 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (11.17%) Serverless
5 20 (10.64%) GitHub
6 18 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (9.57%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.57%) SaaS
7 15 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (7.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 15 (7.98%) AWS Step Functions
7 15 (7.98%) GCP
8 9 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.26%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.72%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.72%) Firebase
10 7 (3.72%) Google Workspace
10 7 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.26%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) AMQP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.83%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.70%) DynamoDB
3 15 (7.98%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.72%) Redis
6 5 (2.66%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.60%) MySQL
7 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Git
2 12 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.19%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.66%) Android Studio
5 4 (2.13%) Crashlytics
6 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.60%) GitLab
6 3 (1.60%) Maven
6 3 (1.60%) XCTest
7 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.06%) Selenium
7 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.06%) Xcode
8 1 (0.53%) Appium
8 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.53%) Gradle
8 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Postman
8 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 36 (19.15%) Finance
2 33 (17.55%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.51%) Banking
4 14 (7.45%) Games
5 11 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.79%) Retail
7 7 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.13%) Billing
9 4 (2.13%) Law
10 3 (1.60%) Marketing
11 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Front Office
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (37.23%) Developer
2 64 (34.04%) Senior
3 46 (24.47%) Software Engineer
4 26 (13.83%) Android Engineer
5 24 (12.77%) Java Engineer
6 23 (12.23%) Senior Java Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Java Developer
8 20 (10.64%) iOS Developer
9 19 (10.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (8.51%) Lead
11 15 (7.98%) Senior Developer
12 13 (6.91%) Android Developer
12 13 (6.91%) Development Engineer
13 12 (6.38%) Software Development Engineer
14 11 (5.85%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (5.32%) Ruby Engineer
16 8 (4.26%) AWS Developer
16 8 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (4.26%) Senior Android Developer
16 8 (4.26%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.43%) RESTful
1 29 (15.43%) Spring
2 27 (14.36%) SwiftUI
3 25 (13.30%) Node.js
3 25 (13.30%) Spring Boot
4 22 (11.70%) Android Jetpack
4 22 (11.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 20 (10.64%) React
6 18 (9.57%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.32%) GraphQL
8 9 (4.79%) Kafka
8 9 (4.79%) REST
9 8 (4.26%) Android SDK
9 8 (4.26%) WebSockets
10 6 (3.19%) .NET
11 5 (2.66%) Memcached
11 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.66%) React Native
11 5 (2.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 5 (2.66%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (27.66%) Mobile App
2 17 (9.04%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.85%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.26%) Blog
6 7 (3.72%) PKI
6 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.72%) Social Media
7 6 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.19%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.66%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.66%) Mobile Games
8 5 (2.66%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.13%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.60%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 81 (43.09%) Android
2 35 (18.62%) Apple iOS
3 15 (7.98%) Linux
4 11 (5.85%) Windows
5 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.83%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.91%) Software Engineering
3 59 (31.38%) Android Development
4 54 (28.72%) Agile
5 37 (19.68%) Mentoring
6 36 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (18.62%) AI
8 28 (14.89%) Mobile Development
9 27 (14.36%) SOLID
10 26 (13.83%) DevOps
10 26 (13.83%) TDD
11 25 (13.30%) iOS Development
12 24 (12.77%) Design Patterns
12 24 (12.77%) Memory Management
13 23 (12.23%) Multithreading
13 23 (12.23%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (11.70%) Event-Driven
15 21 (11.17%) Machine Learning
15 21 (11.17%) Microservices
15 21 (11.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (61.70%) Java
2 32 (17.02%) Swift
3 23 (12.23%) Python
4 21 (11.17%) Scala
4 21 (11.17%) SQL
5 19 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.51%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.45%) C++
7 14 (7.45%) Ruby
8 12 (6.38%) C#
9 6 (3.19%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (2.66%) Bash
10 5 (2.66%) PHP
11 2 (1.06%) C
11 2 (1.06%) Elixir
11 2 (1.06%) Erlang
11 2 (1.06%) Groovy
12 1 (0.53%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.77%) Degree
3 17 (9.04%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.91%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.79%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.13%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.13%) OSCE
7 4 (2.13%) OSCP
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) QA
2 5 (2.66%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.13%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (15.43%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) KVM
2 6 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.51%) Terraform
3 8 (4.26%) Grafana
3 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (4.79%) Google
2 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.19%) VMware
4 3 (1.60%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.53%) Samsung
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk