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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 537 383
Rank change year-on-year -3 -154 -54
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 251 156 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.13% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 163 64 352
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £108,750 £111,250
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 18,548 13,784 25,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.25% 27.62% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,164 9,048 17,496
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,175 £36,250
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 £85,000 £83,750 £80,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 20 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 20 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 -13 238 £75,000 +3.45% 218
UK excluding London +13 155 £70,000 +7.69% 97
London -63 90 £80,000 +6.67% 143
North of England +32 83 £70,000 -9.68% 35
Work from Home +27 82 £80,000 +23.08% 107
Yorkshire +10 51 £75,000 -10.45% 13
North West +5 27 £70,000 -5.08% 20
South East -25 24 £60,000 - 15
South West -58 24 £85,000 +88.89% 16
Midlands -14 16 £55,000 -15.38% 12
East Midlands - 12 - -
Scotland - 6 £70,000 - 10
North East -56 5 £47,000 -27.69% 2
West Midlands -28 4 £55,000 -15.38% 12
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 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 80 (31.87%) AWS
2 63 (25.10%) GitHub
3 49 (19.52%) Serverless
4 46 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
5 41 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (14.34%) Amazon S3
8 33 (13.15%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (11.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (11.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (10.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (10.76%) Azure
11 25 (9.96%) Datadog
12 21 (8.37%) Firebase
13 17 (6.77%) GCP
14 13 (5.18%) TestFlight
15 12 (4.78%) Stripe
16 10 (3.98%) Google Play
17 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.55%) DynamoDB
2 27 (10.76%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (10.76%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.38%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.79%) Redis
6 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.20%) Big Data
7 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.80%) Looker
8 2 (0.80%) MySQL
8 2 (0.80%) SQLite
9 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.40%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.40%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (16.33%) Git
2 20 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.17%) Crashlytics
4 14 (5.58%) XCTest
5 9 (3.59%) Appium
5 9 (3.59%) Gradle
6 7 (2.79%) Android Studio
6 7 (2.79%) fastlane
6 7 (2.79%) GitLab
6 7 (2.79%) JIRA
6 7 (2.79%) JUnit
7 5 (1.99%) Selenium
7 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.99%) Xcode
8 4 (1.59%) MLflow
9 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.20%) Maven
9 3 (1.20%) Mockito
9 3 (1.20%) Postman
10 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.33%) Finance
3 33 (13.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.16%) Banking
5 13 (5.18%) Law
6 12 (4.78%) Games
7 10 (3.98%) Marketing
8 8 (3.19%) Health Technology
8 8 (3.19%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.39%) Publishing
9 6 (2.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (52.19%) Developer
2 70 (27.89%) Senior
3 47 (18.73%) Software Engineer
4 41 (16.33%) Senior Developer
5 38 (15.14%) Java Developer
6 36 (14.34%) Android Developer
7 28 (11.16%) Android Engineer
8 27 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (10.36%) Lead
10 22 (8.76%) Java Engineer
10 22 (8.76%) Senior Android Developer
11 18 (7.17%) AWS Developer
12 17 (6.77%) Android Software Engineer
13 16 (6.37%) iOS Developer
13 16 (6.37%) Mobile Engineer
14 13 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (5.18%) Senior Java Developer
15 12 (4.78%) Mobile Developer
16 11 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
17 10 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.54%) Node.js
2 35 (13.94%) SwiftUI
3 34 (13.55%) RESTful
4 33 (13.15%) Spring
4 33 (13.15%) Spring Boot
5 32 (12.75%) AngularJS
6 27 (10.76%) Android Jetpack
6 27 (10.76%) Jetpack Compose
7 23 (9.16%) GraphQL
8 22 (8.76%) React
9 21 (8.37%) Android SDK
9 21 (8.37%) Terraform
10 19 (7.57%) Kafka
10 19 (7.57%) React Native
11 17 (6.77%) REST
12 16 (6.37%) UIKit
13 8 (3.19%) Retrofit
14 7 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.39%) .NET
15 6 (2.39%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 77 (30.68%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.78%) Social Media
5 10 (3.98%) Mobile Banking
5 10 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.59%) Blog
7 8 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.39%) Clustering
8 6 (2.39%) PKI
9 5 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.99%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Pricing Data
11 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 103 (41.04%) Android
2 56 (22.31%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.79%) Windows
4 6 (2.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (43.82%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.08%) Agile
3 71 (28.29%) Software Engineering
4 66 (26.29%) Android Development
5 49 (19.52%) AI
6 47 (18.73%) Clean Code
7 45 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (17.13%) DevOps
9 41 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (15.94%) Test Automation
11 37 (14.74%) iOS Development
12 36 (14.34%) Mobile Development
13 35 (13.94%) Design Patterns
14 32 (12.75%) SOLID
15 29 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.55%) TDD
16 27 (10.76%) Analytics
16 27 (10.76%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (10.76%) DevSecOps
17 26 (10.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 122 (48.61%) Java
2 53 (21.12%) Swift
3 52 (20.72%) TypeScript
4 42 (16.73%) SQL
5 23 (9.16%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.37%) Python
7 8 (3.19%) C#
7 8 (3.19%) Scala
8 6 (2.39%) C++
8 6 (2.39%) Go
9 5 (1.99%) Bash
9 5 (1.99%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.20%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) Dart
11 2 (0.80%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.38%) Degree
3 9 (3.59%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.58%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.19%) QA
3 7 (2.79%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (18.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.99%) KVM
2 5 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.59%) Grafana
3 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.80%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.77%) Google
2 12 (4.78%) Amplitude
2 12 (4.78%) Braze
3 9 (3.59%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.79%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) Apple
6 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle
8 1 (0.40%) Intel
8 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Revolut