Kotlin Job Trends

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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 460 394
Rank change year-on-year -38 -66 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 202 185 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 1.33% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 129 144 450
10th Percentile £55,000 £30,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £45,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.27% +1.30%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £119,750 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -6.67%

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 13,837 13,908 30,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.99% 33.80% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,654 10,167 24,474
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,530
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +3.31% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -28 182 £75,000 -6.25% 74
UK excluding London -27 109 £70,000 +21.74% 38
London -21 83 £100,000 +17.65% 48
Work from Home -35 66 £72,500 +20.83% 89
North of England -16 53 £72,500 +61.11% 12
Yorkshire -13 36 £72,500 +61.11% 4
South East -26 23 £60,000 +60.00% 13
North West -16 17 £65,000 +26.83% 6
Scotland -29 11 £67,500 - 3
Midlands -29 10 £75,000 +36.36% 1
South West -47 10 £73,750 +1.72% 6
East Midlands - 9 - -
West Midlands -5 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -
Wales - 1 £75,000 - 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 2 (0.99%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.12%) AWS
2 29 (14.36%) Serverless
3 28 (13.86%) GitHub
4 27 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (11.88%) Azure
6 20 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
6 20 (9.90%) Amazon S3
6 20 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (8.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 16 (7.92%) GCP
8 16 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.43%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (6.44%) Firebase
11 10 (4.95%) SaaS
12 9 (4.46%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.46%) Stripe
12 9 (4.46%) TestFlight
13 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
13 8 (3.96%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) AMQP
2 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 24 (11.88%) DynamoDB
3 17 (8.42%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.47%) Redis
5 5 (2.48%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.50%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Git
2 13 (6.44%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.45%) Crashlytics
4 9 (4.46%) XCTest
5 7 (3.47%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.97%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.49%) GitLab
7 3 (1.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.99%) Gradle
8 2 (0.99%) Selenium
8 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.99%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Appium
9 1 (0.50%) fastlane
9 1 (0.50%) JIRA
9 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (16.83%) Finance
2 32 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.41%) Games
4 18 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.42%) Banking
6 10 (4.95%) Retail
7 9 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.98%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Front Office
13 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (41.09%) Developer
2 68 (33.66%) Senior
3 46 (22.77%) Software Engineer
4 27 (13.37%) Android Engineer
5 23 (11.39%) iOS Developer
5 23 (11.39%) Java Developer
6 22 (10.89%) Senior Developer
7 21 (10.40%) Android Developer
7 21 (10.40%) Java Engineer
8 20 (9.90%) Lead
8 20 (9.90%) Senior Java Engineer
9 19 (9.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (6.93%) Development Engineer
11 13 (6.44%) Senior Android Developer
12 12 (5.94%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (5.94%) Software Development Engineer
13 11 (5.45%) Mobile Engineer
14 10 (4.95%) Ruby Engineer
15 8 (3.96%) AWS Developer
15 8 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.33%) SwiftUI
2 31 (15.35%) RESTful
3 27 (13.37%) Node.js
3 27 (13.37%) Spring
4 25 (12.38%) Android Jetpack
4 25 (12.38%) Jetpack Compose
5 23 (11.39%) Spring Boot
6 20 (9.90%) React
7 17 (8.42%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.92%) GraphQL
9 15 (7.43%) Android SDK
10 9 (4.46%) UIKit
11 8 (3.96%) Kafka
11 8 (3.96%) REST
11 8 (3.96%) WebSockets
12 7 (3.47%) React Native
13 6 (2.97%) OAuth
13 6 (2.97%) OAuth2
14 5 (2.48%) Memcached
15 4 (1.98%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 69 (34.16%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.44%) Social Media
3 12 (5.94%) Mobile Banking
4 9 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.96%) Blog
5 8 (3.96%) PKI
6 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.98%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.98%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.98%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.98%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 90 (44.55%) Android
2 41 (20.30%) Apple iOS
3 16 (7.92%) Linux
4 12 (5.94%) Windows
5 4 (1.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.09%) CI/CD
2 68 (33.66%) Android Development
3 60 (29.70%) Agile
4 55 (27.23%) Software Engineering
5 43 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.80%) AI
7 34 (16.83%) SOLID
8 33 (16.34%) iOS Development
8 33 (16.34%) Mentoring
9 32 (15.84%) Design Patterns
10 30 (14.85%) TDD
11 27 (13.37%) Mobile Development
11 27 (13.37%) Test Automation
11 27 (13.37%) User Experience
12 25 (12.38%) Memory Management
13 24 (11.88%) DevOps
13 24 (11.88%) Multithreading
13 24 (11.88%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (10.89%) Microservices
15 21 (10.40%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 123 (60.89%) Java
2 39 (19.31%) Swift
3 24 (11.88%) Python
4 22 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.90%) Scala
5 20 (9.90%) SQL
5 20 (9.90%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.43%) C++
7 13 (6.44%) Ruby
8 10 (4.95%) C#
9 7 (3.47%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (2.48%) Bash
11 4 (1.98%) PHP
12 2 (0.99%) C
12 2 (0.99%) Elixir
12 2 (0.99%) Erlang
12 2 (0.99%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Go
13 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.89%) Degree
3 17 (8.42%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.43%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.94%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.95%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.46%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.98%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.98%) OSCE
10 4 (1.98%) OSCP
11 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) QA
2 5 (2.48%) GDPR
3 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.98%) EU AI Act
3 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (14.85%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) KVM
2 7 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (13.86%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.92%) Terraform
3 9 (4.46%) Grafana
3 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (5.45%) Google
2 9 (4.46%) Amplitude
3 8 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.47%) VMware
5 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.50%) Samsung
5 1 (0.50%) Splunk