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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 519 381
Rank change year-on-year -17 -138 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 269 153 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 1.19% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 193 66 283
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £40,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 18,701 12,833 23,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.86% 25.94% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,269 8,249 14,060
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,625
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 1 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 1 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 -25 249 £70,000 -3.45% 486
UK excluding London -3 169 £70,000 +16.67% 200
Work from Home +23 101 £76,250 +8.93% 210
London -72 92 £77,500 -3.13% 330
North of England -14 76 £70,000 +3.70% 80
Yorkshire +1 43 £70,000 -1.75% 31
South West -43 40 £70,000 +55.56% 31
North West -10 28 £70,000 +3.70% 41
South East -54 23 £60,000 - 27
Midlands -33 16 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Scotland - 12 £70,000 - 28
West Midlands -39 11 £55,000 -15.38% 10
North East -63 5 £47,000 -27.69% 8
East Midlands - 5 - - 5
Wales - 2 £66,000 - 7

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 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (24.91%) AWS
2 52 (19.33%) GitHub
3 38 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
4 32 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (11.90%) Serverless
5 31 (11.52%) Azure
6 27 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (9.67%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.67%) Datadog
8 23 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (8.18%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (8.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (8.18%) AWS Step Functions
10 19 (7.06%) GCP
11 13 (4.83%) Firebase
12 10 (3.72%) Google Play
13 7 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.60%) SaaS
13 7 (2.60%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.92%) DynamoDB
2 22 (8.18%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.97%) Redis
7 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.49%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.12%) Big Data
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.74%) Looker
9 2 (0.74%) MySQL
9 2 (0.74%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.74%) SQLite
9 2 (0.74%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (14.87%) Git
2 16 (5.95%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.83%) JUnit
4 10 (3.72%) Crashlytics
5 9 (3.35%) Android Studio
5 9 (3.35%) Appium
5 9 (3.35%) Gradle
6 8 (2.97%) JIRA
7 7 (2.60%) fastlane
7 7 (2.60%) XCTest
8 6 (2.23%) GitLab
8 6 (2.23%) Xcode
9 4 (1.49%) MLflow
9 4 (1.49%) Mockito
9 4 (1.49%) Postman
9 4 (1.49%) Selenium
9 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.74%) git-flow
10 2 (0.74%) XCUITest
General
1 61 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.30%) Public Sector
3 53 (19.70%) Finance
4 29 (10.78%) Banking
5 26 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.95%) Law
7 10 (3.72%) Marketing
8 8 (2.97%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.97%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.60%) Publishing
10 6 (2.23%) Retail
11 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.37%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (54.28%) Developer
2 98 (36.43%) Senior
3 60 (22.30%) Senior Developer
4 58 (21.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (19.70%) Software Engineer
6 31 (11.52%) Java Developer
7 26 (9.67%) Android Engineer
8 25 (9.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (8.55%) Android Developer
9 23 (8.55%) Java Engineer
10 21 (7.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 19 (7.06%) Lead
12 17 (6.32%) Android Software Engineer
13 15 (5.58%) AWS Developer
14 14 (5.20%) Senior Android Developer
14 14 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (4.83%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (3.72%) iOS Developer
16 10 (3.72%) Java Software Engineer
17 9 (3.35%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.01%) Spring
2 33 (12.27%) Spring Boot
3 32 (11.90%) RESTful
4 31 (11.52%) Node.js
5 27 (10.04%) AngularJS
6 24 (8.92%) Android Jetpack
6 24 (8.92%) Jetpack Compose
7 22 (8.18%) REST
8 21 (7.81%) SwiftUI
8 21 (7.81%) Terraform
9 20 (7.43%) React
10 19 (7.06%) Kafka
11 18 (6.69%) React Native
12 12 (4.46%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.72%) Android SDK
14 9 (3.35%) UIKit
15 7 (2.60%) OpenAPI
15 7 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.60%) Retrofit
16 6 (2.23%) Dagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.70%) Mobile App
2 21 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.46%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.09%) Blog
5 9 (3.35%) Mobile Banking
6 8 (2.97%) Clustering
6 8 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.23%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.86%) PKI
8 5 (1.86%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.49%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.12%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.74%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.86%) Android
2 44 (16.36%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.23%) Windows
4 5 (1.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 82 (30.48%) CI/CD
3 75 (27.88%) Software Engineering
4 66 (24.54%) Agile
5 45 (16.73%) Android Development
6 43 (15.99%) DevOps
7 41 (15.24%) Clean Code
8 38 (14.13%) AI
8 38 (14.13%) Test Automation
9 34 (12.64%) Mobile Development
10 32 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (10.04%) Fintech
12 26 (9.67%) Mentoring
12 26 (9.67%) Microservices
13 25 (9.29%) TDD
14 24 (8.92%) iOS Development
14 24 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (8.92%) SDLC
15 23 (8.55%) DevSecOps
15 23 (8.55%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.01%) Java
2 47 (17.47%) TypeScript
3 39 (14.50%) Swift
4 35 (13.01%) SQL
5 20 (7.43%) Python
6 18 (6.69%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.35%) Go
7 9 (3.35%) Scala
8 7 (2.60%) C#
9 5 (1.86%) C++
10 4 (1.49%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.12%) Bash
11 3 (1.12%) PHP
11 3 (1.12%) Rust
12 2 (0.74%) Dart
13 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (6.32%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.83%) Degree
3 10 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.95%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.83%) QA
3 6 (2.23%) WCAG
4 5 (1.86%) GDPR
4 5 (1.86%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (15.99%) Docker
2 4 (1.49%) KVM
2 4 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.35%) Grafana
3 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.49%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (7.06%) Google
2 8 (2.97%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.23%) VMware
5 5 (1.86%) Amplitude
5 5 (1.86%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.86%) Braze
6 4 (1.49%) Apple
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (1.12%) Splunk
8 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.37%) Intel
9 1 (0.37%) Revolut