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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 404 386
Rank change year-on-year -62 -18 -90
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 188 382 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.57% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 1.76% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 105 226 359
10th Percentile £50,100 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,511 £50,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +29.63% -16.92% -

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 11,860 21,726 21,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.33% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,585 12,992 17,368
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,645
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -37 176 £77,500 -3.13% 73
London +1 123 £90,000 +5.88% 37
Work from Home -10 56 £75,000 +13.21% 50
UK excluding London -32 54 £70,000 +29.63% 52
North of England +18 19 £75,000 +57.89% 8
South East -15 17 £60,000 +20.00% 27
South West +25 12 £72,500 +16.00% 6
Yorkshire +20 10 £75,000 +66.67% 2
North West +30 9 £70,000 +9.80% 6
Midlands +56 3 £65,000 - 3
West Midlands +53 3 £65,000 - 1
Scotland -15 3 £75,000 +34.53% 4
North East +17 2 £65,000 +30.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 - 3

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 4 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.13%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.89%) AWS
2 25 (13.30%) Azure
3 23 (12.23%) GCP
4 19 (10.11%) SaaS
5 13 (6.91%) GitHub
6 5 (2.66%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.13%) Firebase
7 4 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.13%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.60%) Datadog
8 3 (1.60%) Figma
8 3 (1.60%) Serverless
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.06%) Google Play
9 2 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) AMQP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.72%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.19%) Big Data
4 6 (3.19%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.19%) MySQL
4 6 (3.19%) Redis
4 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.60%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.60%) Flink
6 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.11%) Git
2 7 (3.72%) Android Studio
2 7 (3.72%) JIRA
3 4 (2.13%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.13%) git-flow
3 4 (2.13%) JUnit
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.06%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.06%) Postman
5 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.53%) fastlane
6 1 (0.53%) Gradle
6 1 (0.53%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 73 (38.83%) Finance
2 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 46 (24.47%) Law
4 45 (23.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (15.43%) Banking
6 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (7.45%) Marketing
8 12 (6.38%) Legal
9 8 (4.26%) Retail
10 7 (3.72%) Financial Institution
11 6 (3.19%) Games
12 4 (2.13%) Billing
12 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.06%) Electronics
14 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.06%) Publishing
15 1 (0.53%) Advertising
15 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.53%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 76 (40.43%) Software Engineer
2 59 (31.38%) Developer
3 57 (30.32%) Senior
4 39 (20.74%) Java Engineer
5 36 (19.15%) Lead
6 30 (15.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (10.64%) Lead Software Engineer
7 20 (10.64%) Senior Developer
8 18 (9.57%) Senior Java Engineer
9 17 (9.04%) Android Engineer
10 15 (7.98%) Java Developer
10 15 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (7.45%) Android Developer
12 12 (6.38%) Lead Java Engineer
13 10 (5.32%) Mobile Developer
13 10 (5.32%) Ruby Engineer
14 9 (4.79%) Development Engineer
14 9 (4.79%) Senior Android Engineer
14 9 (4.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 9 (4.79%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.55%) Spring
2 25 (13.30%) React
3 23 (12.23%) Kafka
3 23 (12.23%) RESTful
4 22 (11.70%) Spring Boot
5 17 (9.04%) Android Jetpack
5 17 (9.04%) Jetpack Compose
6 16 (8.51%) REST
7 11 (5.85%) Flutter
8 10 (5.32%) React Native
8 10 (5.32%) Web Services
9 8 (4.26%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.26%) SwiftUI
10 7 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (3.72%) Retrofit
11 6 (3.19%) OkHttp
12 5 (2.66%) Android SDK
12 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 5 (2.66%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.83%) Mobile App
3 21 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.79%) Mobile Banking
5 8 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.72%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.19%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.19%) Derivative
7 6 (3.19%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.66%) Blog
8 5 (2.66%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.66%) Mobile Games
9 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.13%) Insider Threat
9 4 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 65 (34.57%) Android
2 32 (17.02%) Apple iOS
3 12 (6.38%) Linux
4 7 (3.72%) Windows
5 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (54.79%) Software Engineering
2 65 (34.57%) Agile
3 60 (31.91%) CI/CD
4 42 (22.34%) Android Development
4 42 (22.34%) Mentoring
5 41 (21.81%) AI
6 40 (21.28%) Fintech
6 40 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (20.74%) Microservices
8 37 (19.68%) SDLC
9 35 (18.62%) Architectural Patterns
10 30 (15.96%) Mobile Development
11 29 (15.43%) Machine Learning
12 24 (12.77%) Secure Coding
13 23 (12.23%) Test Automation
14 21 (11.17%) Code Quality
14 21 (11.17%) Open Source
15 19 (10.11%) Design Patterns
16 18 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (9.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 127 (67.55%) Java
2 43 (22.87%) Scala
3 25 (13.30%) Swift
4 22 (11.70%) Python
5 16 (8.51%) Go
5 16 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.45%) Ruby
7 13 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.32%) C++
9 8 (4.26%) C#
9 8 (4.26%) SQL
10 7 (3.72%) PHP
11 5 (2.66%) Objective-C
12 4 (2.13%) C
12 4 (2.13%) Groovy
13 2 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 25 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.11%) Degree
3 16 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.13%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.13%) OSCE
8 4 (2.13%) OSCP
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) QA
2 5 (2.66%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.13%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (9.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) KVM
2 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (28.72%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.11%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) Grafana
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (5.32%) Google
2 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.66%) Samsung
4 2 (1.06%) VMware
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk