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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 521 377
Rank change year-on-year -29 -144 -22
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 258 155 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 1.18% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 183 64 305
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile - £56,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -17.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -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 18,721 13,102 24,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.24% 26.51% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,272 8,465 15,075
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 18 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 18 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 -15 240 £70,000 -6.67% 496
UK excluding London -17 159 £70,000 +7.69% 172
Work from Home +34 93 £80,000 +14.29% 192
London -72 91 £77,500 -6.06% 360
North of England -10 72 £70,000 - 55
Yorkshire -13 41 £73,500 +3.16% 16
South West -58 36 £70,000 +55.56% 29
North West +4 26 £70,000 - 33
South East -37 22 £60,000 - 41
Midlands -30 17 £55,000 -15.38% 13
West Midlands -36 11 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Scotland - 10 £70,000 - 17
East Midlands - 6 - - 5
North East -65 5 £47,000 -27.69% 6
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 2

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 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 73 (28.29%) AWS
2 57 (22.09%) GitHub
3 42 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
4 41 (15.89%) Serverless
5 40 (15.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (13.57%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (13.18%) Amazon S3
8 30 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
9 29 (11.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 29 (11.24%) Datadog
10 27 (10.47%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (10.47%) Azure
11 17 (6.59%) GCP
12 14 (5.43%) Firebase
13 10 (3.88%) Google Play
14 8 (3.10%) SaaS
15 7 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (2.71%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.40%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.08%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.69%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.10%) Redis
7 4 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.16%) 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 (16.67%) Git
2 18 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.65%) JUnit
4 11 (4.26%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.49%) Appium
5 9 (3.49%) Gradle
6 8 (3.10%) Android Studio
6 8 (3.10%) JIRA
6 8 (3.10%) XCTest
7 7 (2.71%) GitLab
8 6 (2.33%) fastlane
9 5 (1.94%) Selenium
9 5 (1.94%) Xcode
10 4 (1.55%) MLflow
10 4 (1.55%) Mockito
10 4 (1.55%) Postman
10 4 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.16%) Maven
12 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.16%) Public Sector
3 50 (19.38%) Finance
4 27 (10.47%) Banking
5 25 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.81%) Law
7 10 (3.88%) Marketing
8 8 (3.10%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.10%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.71%) Publishing
10 4 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.55%) 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 (52.71%) Developer
2 86 (33.33%) Senior
3 49 (18.99%) Senior Developer
3 49 (18.99%) Software Engineer
4 43 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (13.57%) Java Developer
6 26 (10.08%) Android Engineer
7 25 (9.69%) Android Developer
8 23 (8.91%) Java Engineer
8 23 (8.91%) Lead
9 21 (8.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (6.59%) Android Software Engineer
10 17 (6.59%) AWS Developer
11 16 (6.20%) Senior Android Developer
12 13 (5.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (4.26%) iOS Developer
14 11 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (3.88%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (3.88%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.12%) Node.js
2 35 (13.57%) Spring
3 34 (13.18%) Spring Boot
4 32 (12.40%) AngularJS
4 32 (12.40%) RESTful
5 23 (8.91%) Android Jetpack
5 23 (8.91%) Jetpack Compose
5 23 (8.91%) SwiftUI
6 21 (8.14%) Terraform
7 20 (7.75%) React
7 20 (7.75%) REST
8 19 (7.36%) Kafka
9 18 (6.98%) React Native
10 12 (4.65%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.88%) UIKit
12 9 (3.49%) Android SDK
13 7 (2.71%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.71%) Retrofit
14 6 (2.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.71%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.88%) Blog
5 9 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.10%) Clustering
6 8 (3.10%) Mobile Banking
7 6 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.94%) PKI
9 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.55%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.16%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.78%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (32.95%) Android
2 46 (17.83%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.33%) Windows
4 5 (1.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.11%) CI/CD
2 72 (27.91%) Full-Stack Development
3 70 (27.13%) Software Engineering
4 66 (25.58%) Agile
5 49 (18.99%) Android Development
6 45 (17.44%) DevOps
7 40 (15.50%) Clean Code
8 37 (14.34%) AI
9 36 (13.95%) Test Automation
10 35 (13.57%) Mobile Development
11 33 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.47%) DevSecOps
13 26 (10.08%) Fintech
13 26 (10.08%) iOS Development
13 26 (10.08%) Mentoring
13 26 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.69%) TDD
15 24 (9.30%) Microservices
15 24 (9.30%) SDLC
16 22 (8.53%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 113 (43.80%) Java
2 51 (19.77%) TypeScript
3 42 (16.28%) SQL
3 42 (16.28%) Swift
4 20 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.59%) Python
6 9 (3.49%) Scala
7 7 (2.71%) C#
7 7 (2.71%) Go
8 5 (1.94%) C++
9 4 (1.55%) Bash
9 4 (1.55%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.16%) PHP
11 2 (0.78%) Dart
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.04%) Degree
3 10 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.71%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.94%) 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 14 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.65%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) WCAG
4 5 (1.94%) GDPR
4 5 (1.94%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (18.22%) Docker
2 4 (1.55%) KVM
2 4 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.49%) Grafana
3 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.55%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (6.20%) Google
2 8 (3.10%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.10%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.33%) Amplitude
3 6 (2.33%) Braze
3 6 (2.33%) VMware
4 5 (1.94%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.55%) Apple
6 3 (1.16%) Oracle
6 3 (1.16%) Splunk
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.39%) Intel
8 1 (0.39%) Revolut