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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 526 405
Rank change year-on-year -9 -121 -85
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 195 125 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 0.94% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 123 77 479
10th Percentile £55,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £136,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -14.29%

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 16,249 13,241 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 31.11% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 8,910 25,001
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -3 181 £75,000 +11.11% 78
UK excluding London +16 119 £70,000 +16.67% 52
Work from Home +18 73 £80,000 +39.13% 35
London -15 72 £100,000 +14.29% 44
North of England +16 63 £72,500 +7.41% 17
Yorkshire -12 44 £72,500 +5.45% 4
South East -11 21 £60,000 +11.63% 6
North West +4 16 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Midlands -30 13 - - 5
East Midlands - 13 - - 2
South West -58 12 £85,000 +88.89% 3
Scotland -5 8 £65,000 -49.09% 10
North East -39 3 £47,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 6

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 (1.54%) JBoss
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.03%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.95%) AWS
2 45 (23.08%) GitHub
2 45 (23.08%) Serverless
3 40 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (16.92%) Amazon S3
5 32 (16.41%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (16.41%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (15.90%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (14.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (14.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 26 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (10.26%) Azure
10 17 (8.72%) Firebase
11 14 (7.18%) GCP
12 13 (6.67%) Datadog
12 13 (6.67%) Stripe
12 13 (6.67%) TestFlight
13 9 (4.62%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.62%) Google Workspace
13 9 (4.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.92%) DynamoDB
1 33 (16.92%) NoSQL
2 28 (14.36%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.05%) Redis
4 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.03%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.03%) Looker
4 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.36%) Git
2 18 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.72%) Crashlytics
4 13 (6.67%) XCTest
5 7 (3.59%) Android Studio
5 7 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.08%) Gradle
7 5 (2.56%) GitLab
8 4 (2.05%) fastlane
9 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.54%) Maven
9 3 (1.54%) Selenium
9 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.03%) JUnit
10 2 (1.03%) Mockito
11 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 36 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.72%) Banking
2 17 (8.72%) Finance
2 17 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (7.18%) Games
4 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.05%) Health Technology
5 4 (2.05%) Retail
5 4 (2.05%) Tech for Good
5 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.51%) Advertising
7 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (46.67%) Developer
2 55 (28.21%) Senior
3 34 (17.44%) Java Developer
4 31 (15.90%) Android Engineer
5 30 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.36%) Android Developer
7 26 (13.33%) Senior Developer
8 25 (12.82%) Lead
9 23 (11.79%) Java Engineer
10 19 (9.74%) iOS Developer
11 18 (9.23%) Mobile Engineer
12 16 (8.21%) Senior Android Developer
13 15 (7.69%) AWS Developer
14 14 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
16 9 (4.62%) Applications Developer
16 9 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
17 8 (4.10%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.49%) Node.js
2 34 (17.44%) SwiftUI
3 30 (15.38%) RESTful
4 28 (14.36%) Android Jetpack
4 28 (14.36%) AngularJS
4 28 (14.36%) Jetpack Compose
5 26 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 25 (12.82%) Spring
7 17 (8.72%) Android SDK
8 15 (7.69%) React
9 14 (7.18%) GraphQL
10 13 (6.67%) UIKit
11 9 (4.62%) React Native
12 6 (3.08%) OAuth
12 6 (3.08%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.56%) Kafka
14 4 (2.05%) gRPC
14 4 (2.05%) Jest
14 4 (2.05%) Retrofit
14 4 (2.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.95%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.18%) Mobile Banking
3 13 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.67%) Social Media
4 9 (4.62%) PKI
5 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.54%) Blog
8 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 91 (46.67%) Android
2 39 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.62%) Linux
3 9 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (49.23%) CI/CD
2 67 (34.36%) Android Development
3 62 (31.79%) Agile
4 42 (21.54%) Software Engineering
5 39 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.97%) DevOps
7 34 (17.44%) TDD
8 32 (16.41%) iOS Development
9 30 (15.38%) AI
9 30 (15.38%) SOLID
10 29 (14.87%) Test Automation
11 28 (14.36%) Design Patterns
11 28 (14.36%) DevSecOps
12 27 (13.85%) Clean Code
13 25 (12.82%) Mobile Development
13 25 (12.82%) User Experience
14 23 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (10.77%) Containerisation
16 20 (10.26%) Analytics
16 20 (10.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 112 (57.44%) Java
2 39 (20.00%) Swift
3 31 (15.90%) SQL
4 30 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.72%) Python
7 11 (5.64%) C++
8 10 (5.13%) C#
9 9 (4.62%) Bash
10 7 (3.59%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.54%) Groovy
11 3 (1.54%) Scala
12 2 (1.03%) Elixir
12 2 (1.03%) Erlang
12 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.15%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.62%) Degree
3 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.05%) QA
2 4 (2.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.59%) KVM
2 7 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.26%) Terraform
2 17 (8.72%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.62%) Grafana
5 3 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.18%) Google
2 13 (6.67%) Amplitude
2 13 (6.67%) Braze
3 11 (5.64%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.62%) VMware
5 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) Intel
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle