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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 512 386
Rank change year-on-year -40 -126 -41
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 276 154 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.49% 1.21% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 196 67 280
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,100 £40,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £82,813 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -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 18,549 12,744 22,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 25.72% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,095 8,148 13,719
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
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 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -26 256 £70,000 -3.45% 504
UK excluding London -8 177 £70,000 +16.67% 171
Work from Home +34 105 £75,000 - 193
London -86 91 £77,500 -3.13% 361
North of England -1 80 £70,000 +3.70% 79
Yorkshire +4 45 £70,000 -1.75% 34
South West -39 43 £70,000 +55.56% 21
North West -8 30 £70,000 +3.70% 36
South East -36 24 £60,000 - 23
Midlands -42 16 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Scotland - 12 £70,000 - 23
West Midlands -26 11 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East -62 5 £47,000 -27.69% 9
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 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 6 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 68 (24.64%) AWS
2 56 (20.29%) GitHub
3 39 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
4 33 (11.96%) Azure
4 33 (11.96%) Serverless
5 32 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (10.51%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.78%) Datadog
9 24 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 18 (6.52%) GCP
12 13 (4.71%) Firebase
13 10 (3.62%) Google Play
14 8 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.54%) SaaS
15 7 (2.54%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.06%) DynamoDB
2 23 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 19 (6.88%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.62%) Redis
7 5 (1.81%) Big Data
8 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.45%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.72%) Looker
9 2 (0.72%) MySQL
9 2 (0.72%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.72%) SQLite
9 2 (0.72%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (14.86%) Git
2 16 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.07%) JUnit
4 10 (3.62%) Android Studio
4 10 (3.62%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.26%) Appium
5 9 (3.26%) Gradle
6 8 (2.90%) GitLab
6 8 (2.90%) JIRA
7 7 (2.54%) fastlane
7 7 (2.54%) XCTest
8 6 (2.17%) Xcode
9 4 (1.45%) MLflow
9 4 (1.45%) Mockito
9 4 (1.45%) Postman
9 4 (1.45%) Selenium
9 4 (1.45%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.72%) git-flow
10 2 (0.72%) XCUITest
General
1 63 (22.83%) Public Sector
2 62 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 53 (19.20%) Finance
4 30 (10.87%) Banking
5 27 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.80%) Law
7 10 (3.62%) Marketing
8 8 (2.90%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.90%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.54%) Publishing
10 6 (2.17%) Retail
11 5 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.36%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (53.99%) Developer
2 102 (36.96%) Senior
3 63 (22.83%) Full-Stack Developer
3 63 (22.83%) Senior Developer
4 58 (21.01%) Software Engineer
5 31 (11.23%) Java Developer
6 30 (10.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (9.78%) Android Engineer
8 23 (8.33%) Java Engineer
9 22 (7.97%) Android Developer
10 21 (7.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 21 (7.61%) Lead
11 17 (6.16%) Android Software Engineer
12 16 (5.80%) AWS Developer
13 15 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (4.71%) Senior Android Developer
14 13 (4.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (3.62%) iOS Developer
15 10 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.96%) Node.js
1 33 (11.96%) Spring
2 32 (11.59%) RESTful
3 31 (11.23%) Spring Boot
4 28 (10.14%) AngularJS
5 24 (8.70%) Android Jetpack
5 24 (8.70%) Jetpack Compose
6 22 (7.97%) REST
7 21 (7.61%) SwiftUI
8 20 (7.25%) Kafka
9 19 (6.88%) React
9 19 (6.88%) Terraform
10 16 (5.80%) React Native
11 12 (4.35%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.62%) Android SDK
13 9 (3.26%) UIKit
14 7 (2.54%) OpenAPI
14 7 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.54%) Retrofit
15 6 (2.17%) Dagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.48%) Mobile App
2 20 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 11 (3.99%) Blog
4 11 (3.99%) Mobile Banking
5 8 (2.90%) Clustering
5 8 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.45%) PKI
9 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.09%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.72%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (30.43%) Android
2 43 (15.58%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.81%) Windows
4 4 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (30.07%) CI/CD
3 76 (27.54%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.91%) Agile
5 44 (15.94%) Android Development
5 44 (15.94%) DevOps
6 43 (15.58%) Clean Code
7 42 (15.22%) Test Automation
8 40 (14.49%) AI
9 33 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (11.59%) Mobile Development
11 28 (10.14%) TDD
12 27 (9.78%) Mentoring
12 27 (9.78%) Microservices
13 26 (9.42%) DevSecOps
13 26 (9.42%) Fintech
14 25 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.06%) SDLC
15 24 (8.70%) iOS Development
16 23 (8.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 116 (42.03%) Java
2 49 (17.75%) TypeScript
3 38 (13.77%) Swift
4 36 (13.04%) SQL
5 21 (7.61%) Python
6 16 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.99%) Go
7 11 (3.99%) Scala
8 6 (2.17%) C#
9 5 (1.81%) Rust
10 4 (1.45%) C++
10 4 (1.45%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.09%) PHP
12 2 (0.72%) Bash
12 2 (0.72%) Dart
Qualifications
1 18 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.07%) Degree
3 11 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.81%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.80%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.07%) QA
3 6 (2.17%) WCAG
4 5 (1.81%) GDPR
4 5 (1.81%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (15.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.45%) KVM
2 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.26%) Grafana
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.45%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (7.25%) Google
2 8 (2.90%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.54%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.17%) VMware
5 5 (1.81%) Amplitude
5 5 (1.81%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.81%) Braze
6 4 (1.45%) Apple
6 4 (1.45%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.09%) Splunk
8 2 (0.72%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) Revolut