JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Kotlin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kotlin over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 407 352
Rank change year-on-year -141 -55 -152
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 175 626 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.61% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 1.92% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 86 446 668
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £94,694 £100,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +31.82% -16.03% +0.77%

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 16,841 32,541 34,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.02% 31.46% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,780 23,810 25,299
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kotlin.

Salary trend for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the UK

Kotlin
Top 13 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 13 July 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 -125 157 £70,000 -12.50% 144
London -91 106 £75,000 -11.76% 76
UK excluding London -35 60 £72,500 +31.82% 89
Work from Home -100 53 £62,500 -21.88% 100
South East +1 20 £60,000 +33.33% 23
North of England -12 14 £77,500 +37.78% 28
South West +85 12 £45,000 -28.00% 5
Scotland +57 12 £127,680 +70.24% 4
North West -34 7 £73,750 +22.92% 19
Yorkshire +32 6 £90,000 +148.28% 7
Midlands +76 2 £65,000 +4.00% 11
West Midlands +53 2 £65,000 +10.64% 8
North East - 1 - - 2

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.86%) Confluence
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.57%) Simulink
1 1 (0.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 59 (33.71%) AWS
2 31 (17.71%) GitHub
3 27 (15.43%) GCP
4 20 (11.43%) Azure
5 8 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.43%) Firebase
7 5 (2.86%) Datadog
8 4 (2.29%) Bitrise
8 4 (2.29%) Serverless
9 3 (1.71%) Figma
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.57%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.57%) Google Play
11 1 (0.57%) SaaS
11 1 (0.57%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.14%) Internet
2 7 (4.00%) SSL
3 4 (2.29%) HTTP
3 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.14%) Broadband
4 2 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.86%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.29%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.57%) Big Data
5 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.29%) Flink
6 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.57%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 24 (13.71%) Git
2 16 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.57%) Android Studio
3 8 (4.57%) CircleCI
3 8 (4.57%) Maven
4 7 (4.00%) JIRA
5 6 (3.43%) git-flow
5 6 (3.43%) JUnit
6 4 (2.29%) GitLab
7 3 (1.71%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.14%) fastlane
8 2 (1.14%) Gradle
8 2 (1.14%) Postman
8 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.14%) UI Automator
9 1 (0.57%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 81 (46.29%) Finance
2 58 (33.14%) Law
3 56 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (26.29%) Banking
5 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
6 16 (9.14%) Legal
7 15 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (8.57%) Marketing
8 13 (7.43%) Games
9 4 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.29%) Retail
10 3 (1.71%) Electronics
10 3 (1.71%) Publishing
11 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
12 1 (0.57%) Aviation
12 1 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.57%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (36.57%) Software Engineer
2 58 (33.14%) Lead
3 54 (30.86%) Developer
4 44 (25.14%) Senior
5 35 (20.00%) Java Engineer
6 33 (18.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 29 (16.57%) Lead Software Engineer
8 26 (14.86%) Android Developer
9 19 (10.86%) Android Engineer
9 19 (10.86%) Senior Developer
10 17 (9.71%) Lead Java Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Mobile Developer
11 9 (5.14%) Mobile Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Development Manager
13 6 (3.43%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.43%) Senior Java Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.57%) RESTful
2 28 (16.00%) Android Jetpack
3 25 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
4 24 (13.71%) Kafka
5 23 (13.14%) Spring
6 15 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.29%) React
8 10 (5.71%) GraphQL
8 10 (5.71%) React Native
8 10 (5.71%) REST
8 10 (5.71%) SwiftUI
8 10 (5.71%) Web Services
9 9 (5.14%) OAuth
9 9 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.57%) Retrofit
10 8 (4.57%) UIKit
11 7 (4.00%) Node.js
12 6 (3.43%) Android SDK
12 6 (3.43%) Dagger
12 6 (3.43%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 52 (29.71%) Cloud Native
2 38 (21.71%) Mobile App
3 21 (12.00%) Virtual Team
4 19 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (9.14%) Product Ownership
6 13 (7.43%) Mobile Banking
7 12 (6.86%) Mobile Games
8 10 (5.71%) Educational Technology
9 9 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (5.14%) Management Information System
9 9 (5.14%) Online Banking
10 8 (4.57%) Derivative
10 8 (4.57%) Equity Derivative
10 8 (4.57%) Public Cloud
11 6 (3.43%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.86%) Data Structures
12 5 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 82 (46.86%) Android
2 47 (26.86%) Apple iOS
3 19 (10.86%) Linux
4 3 (1.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (53.14%) Software Engineering
2 66 (37.71%) Agile
3 63 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 59 (33.71%) Android Development
5 56 (32.00%) Microservices
5 56 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (26.86%) Fintech
7 42 (24.00%) SDLC
8 34 (19.43%) Architectural Patterns
8 34 (19.43%) User Experience
9 30 (17.14%) Mobile Development
10 29 (16.57%) DevOps
11 27 (15.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 26 (14.86%) Test Automation
13 25 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 24 (13.71%) Open Source
15 22 (12.57%) iOS Development
16 20 (11.43%) Domain Models
16 20 (11.43%) Secure Coding
17 17 (9.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (71.43%) Java
2 39 (22.29%) Swift
3 24 (13.71%) JavaScript
3 24 (13.71%) Objective-C
4 21 (12.00%) Python
5 20 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 19 (10.86%) C++
7 18 (10.29%) Scala
8 15 (8.57%) Go
9 12 (6.86%) C
10 8 (4.57%) SQL
11 6 (3.43%) Groovy
12 4 (2.29%) C#
12 4 (2.29%) PHP
13 3 (1.71%) Rust
14 1 (0.57%) Dart
14 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (8.00%) Degree
2 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (16.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (33.14%) Kubernetes
2 33 (18.86%) Terraform
3 4 (2.29%) Grafana
3 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 15 (8.57%) Google
2 9 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.29%) Samsung
4 3 (1.71%) Alibaba
5 2 (1.14%) New Relic
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe
6 1 (0.57%) QNX
6 1 (0.57%) Spotify