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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 531 392
Rank change year-on-year -10 -139 -54
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 252 158 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.16% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 171 65 331
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -12.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -20.00%

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 18,547 13,660 24,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 27.26% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,191 8,941 16,585
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -11 235 £72,000 -0.69% 266
UK excluding London -9 157 £70,000 +7.69% 89
London -62 88 £80,000 +4.92% 203
Work from Home +9 85 £80,000 +23.08% 107
North of England -16 72 £70,000 -5.08% 26
Yorkshire -5 43 £75,000 -3.23% 12
South West -50 31 £77,500 +72.22% 25
North West +7 24 £70,000 - 12
South East -24 23 £60,000 - 15
Midlands -18 20 £55,000 -15.38% 10
East Midlands - 11 - - 5
West Midlands -22 9 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Scotland - 9 £70,000 - 11
North East -57 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
Wales - 2 £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 6 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.95%) AWS
2 61 (24.21%) GitHub
3 45 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
3 45 (17.86%) Serverless
4 38 (15.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (13.49%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (13.10%) Amazon S3
7 29 (11.51%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 28 (11.11%) Azure
9 26 (10.32%) AWS Step Functions
10 25 (9.92%) Datadog
11 20 (7.94%) Firebase
12 18 (7.14%) GCP
13 12 (4.76%) TestFlight
14 11 (4.37%) Google Play
14 11 (4.37%) Stripe
15 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.30%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.32%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.92%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.38%) Redis
7 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.19%) Big Data
8 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.79%) Looker
9 2 (0.79%) MySQL
9 2 (0.79%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.79%) SQLite
9 2 (0.79%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (16.67%) Git
2 19 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.75%) Crashlytics
4 13 (5.16%) XCTest
5 10 (3.97%) Gradle
6 9 (3.57%) Appium
6 9 (3.57%) JUnit
7 8 (3.17%) Android Studio
8 7 (2.78%) fastlane
8 7 (2.78%) JIRA
9 6 (2.38%) GitLab
10 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.98%) Xcode
11 4 (1.59%) MLflow
11 4 (1.59%) Mockito
11 4 (1.59%) Selenium
12 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.19%) Maven
12 3 (1.19%) Postman
13 2 (0.79%) git-flow
General
1 65 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.25%) Finance
3 45 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 29 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (8.73%) Banking
6 13 (5.16%) Law
7 10 (3.97%) Marketing
8 8 (3.17%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.17%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.78%) Publishing
10 6 (2.38%) Games
11 4 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.59%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (53.17%) Developer
2 78 (30.95%) Senior
3 47 (18.65%) Senior Developer
3 47 (18.65%) Software Engineer
4 34 (13.49%) Java Developer
5 32 (12.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (12.30%) Android Developer
7 26 (10.32%) Android Engineer
8 24 (9.52%) Lead
9 21 (8.33%) Java Engineer
10 19 (7.54%) Senior Android Developer
11 17 (6.75%) Android Software Engineer
12 15 (5.95%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.95%) Mobile Engineer
13 13 (5.16%) iOS Developer
14 12 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
15 11 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (3.97%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (3.97%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.29%) Node.js
2 35 (13.89%) Spring
3 34 (13.49%) RESTful
3 34 (13.49%) Spring Boot
4 31 (12.30%) AngularJS
5 30 (11.90%) SwiftUI
6 25 (9.92%) Android Jetpack
6 25 (9.92%) Jetpack Compose
7 20 (7.94%) REST
8 19 (7.54%) Kafka
8 19 (7.54%) React
8 19 (7.54%) React Native
8 19 (7.54%) Terraform
9 18 (7.14%) GraphQL
10 16 (6.35%) Android SDK
11 15 (5.95%) UIKit
12 8 (3.17%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.78%) Mobile App
2 18 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.97%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.57%) Blog
5 9 (3.57%) Mobile Banking
6 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.38%) Clustering
7 6 (2.38%) PKI
7 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.38%) Social Media
8 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.59%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.19%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 94 (37.30%) Android
2 52 (20.63%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.78%) Windows
4 6 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (39.68%) CI/CD
2 73 (28.97%) Agile
3 68 (26.98%) Software Engineering
4 58 (23.02%) Android Development
5 56 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (18.65%) Clean Code
7 43 (17.06%) DevOps
8 42 (16.67%) AI
9 41 (16.27%) Test Automation
10 36 (14.29%) Mobile Development
11 33 (13.10%) iOS Development
11 33 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (11.51%) TDD
14 27 (10.71%) Design Patterns
14 27 (10.71%) DevSecOps
15 26 (10.32%) Analytics
15 26 (10.32%) Mentoring
16 25 (9.92%) SDLC
16 25 (9.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 115 (45.63%) Java
2 49 (19.44%) Swift
2 49 (19.44%) TypeScript
3 40 (15.87%) SQL
4 21 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.35%) Python
6 9 (3.57%) Scala
7 7 (2.78%) C#
8 6 (2.38%) C++
9 5 (1.98%) Go
9 5 (1.98%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (1.59%) Bash
11 3 (1.19%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) Dart
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.76%) Degree
3 8 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.97%) QA
3 7 (2.78%) WCAG
4 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) KVM
2 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.97%) Grafana
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 18 (7.14%) Google
2 11 (4.37%) Amplitude
2 11 (4.37%) Braze
3 9 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.78%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) Apple
6 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle
6 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut