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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 523 378
Rank change year-on-year -35 -145 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 256 153 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 1.16% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 181 62 321
10th Percentile £55,000 £41,375 £40,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -12.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £111,750 £105,000
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 18,697 13,140 24,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 26.45% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13,324 8,484 15,406
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 11 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 11 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 -33 237 £70,000 -5.08% 321
UK excluding London -1 158 £70,000 +7.69% 111
Work from Home +22 92 £80,000 +23.08% 163
London -67 90 £77,500 -1.59% 237
North of England +12 70 £70,000 - 31
Yorkshire -17 38 £75,000 +5.26% 12
South West -51 34 £70,000 +55.56% 20
North West -3 27 £70,000 - 17
South East -37 22 £60,000 - 28
Midlands -31 19 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Scotland - 11 £70,000 - 12
West Midlands -24 10 £55,000 -15.38% 2
East Midlands - 9 - - 6
North East -53 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
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 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.30%) AWS
2 59 (23.05%) GitHub
3 43 (16.80%) GitHub Actions
4 42 (16.41%) Serverless
5 37 (14.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (12.89%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 28 (10.94%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (10.94%) Azure
9 27 (10.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (10.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 26 (10.16%) Datadog
11 25 (9.77%) AWS Step Functions
12 18 (7.03%) Firebase
13 17 (6.64%) GCP
14 11 (4.30%) Google Play
15 10 (3.91%) TestFlight
16 9 (3.52%) Stripe
17 8 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.72%) DynamoDB
2 24 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.98%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.73%) Redis
7 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.17%) 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 42 (16.41%) Git
2 19 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.86%) Crashlytics
4 11 (4.30%) JUnit
4 11 (4.30%) XCTest
5 10 (3.91%) Gradle
6 9 (3.52%) Android Studio
6 9 (3.52%) Appium
7 7 (2.73%) fastlane
7 7 (2.73%) GitLab
7 7 (2.73%) JIRA
8 5 (1.95%) Xcode
9 4 (1.56%) MLflow
9 4 (1.56%) Mockito
9 4 (1.56%) Selenium
9 4 (1.56%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.17%) Maven
10 3 (1.17%) Postman
11 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.70%) Public Sector
3 49 (19.14%) Finance
4 26 (10.16%) Banking
4 26 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (5.86%) Law
6 10 (3.91%) Marketing
7 8 (3.13%) Health Technology
7 8 (3.13%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.73%) Publishing
9 4 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (52.73%) Developer
2 83 (32.42%) Senior
3 49 (19.14%) Senior Developer
4 48 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 40 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 28 (10.94%) Android Developer
8 25 (9.77%) Android Engineer
9 24 (9.38%) Lead
10 23 (8.98%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 19 (7.42%) Senior Android Developer
13 17 (6.64%) Android Software Engineer
14 15 (5.86%) AWS Developer
15 13 (5.08%) Mobile Engineer
16 12 (4.69%) iOS Developer
16 12 (4.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 11 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
17 11 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
18 10 (3.91%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.06%) Node.js
1 36 (14.06%) Spring
2 35 (13.67%) Spring Boot
3 34 (13.28%) RESTful
4 30 (11.72%) AngularJS
5 27 (10.55%) SwiftUI
6 25 (9.77%) Android Jetpack
6 25 (9.77%) Jetpack Compose
7 20 (7.81%) React
7 20 (7.81%) REST
7 20 (7.81%) Terraform
8 19 (7.42%) Kafka
8 19 (7.42%) React Native
9 13 (5.08%) UIKit
10 12 (4.69%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.91%) Android SDK
12 8 (3.13%) Retrofit
13 7 (2.73%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.34%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.61%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.30%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.91%) Blog
6 8 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (2.73%) Clustering
7 7 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.34%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.95%) PKI
10 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.56%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.17%) Pricing Data
12 2 (0.78%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 89 (34.77%) Android
2 51 (19.92%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.34%) Windows
4 5 (1.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.16%) CI/CD
2 69 (26.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 68 (26.56%) Software Engineering
4 67 (26.17%) Agile
5 52 (20.31%) Android Development
6 46 (17.97%) Clean Code
7 43 (16.80%) DevOps
8 40 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 37 (14.45%) AI
10 36 (14.06%) Mobile Development
11 32 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (11.72%) iOS Development
13 29 (11.33%) TDD
14 28 (10.94%) Mentoring
15 27 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
16 25 (9.77%) DevSecOps
16 25 (9.77%) Fintech
16 25 (9.77%) Microservices
16 25 (9.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.97%) Java
2 49 (19.14%) TypeScript
3 47 (18.36%) Swift
4 39 (15.23%) SQL
5 21 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.25%) Python
7 9 (3.52%) Scala
8 7 (2.73%) C#
9 6 (2.34%) Go
10 5 (1.95%) C++
11 4 (1.56%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.17%) PHP
13 2 (0.78%) Dart
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.03%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.08%) Degree
3 9 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.73%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.95%) 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 16 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.30%) QA
3 7 (2.73%) WCAG
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (17.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) KVM
2 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.52%) Grafana
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.56%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (6.64%) Google
2 9 (3.52%) Amplitude
2 9 (3.52%) Braze
2 9 (3.52%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.34%) VMware
5 4 (1.56%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.56%) Apple
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) 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