JetBrains Kotlin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Kotlin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kotlin over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 344 196
Rank change year-on-year -87 -148 +93
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 569 1,016 3,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.98% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 2.26% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 469 748 1,254
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.33% +15.38% +13.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

Kotlin is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 -86 498 £83,577 +1.00% 125
London -58 313 £90,000 - 82
Work from Home -63 257 £80,000 -5.88% 64
UK excluding London +14 231 £61,250 -18.33% 46
South East +5 56 £45,000 -40.00% 12
North of England +11 43 £57,500 -30.30% 10
Scotland -34 39 £78,750 +12.50% 4
South West -18 35 £65,000 +13.04% 10
East of England +20 31 £85,000 +54.55% 7
North West -11 29 £57,500 -30.30% 3
Yorkshire +58 14 £36,250 -57.35% 4
Midlands +11 13 £62,500 +16.28% 3
Northern Ireland +37 9 £100,000 +11.11%
West Midlands +14 9 £75,000 +46.34% 2
Wales +5 5 £70,000 +154.55%

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 23 (4.04%) Apache
2 19 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.23%) nginx
4 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.35%) IIS
5 2 (0.35%) Liferay
5 2 (0.35%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (2.11%) Simulink
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 292 (51.32%) AWS
2 104 (18.28%) Azure
3 56 (9.84%) GCP
4 37 (6.50%) Google Play
5 23 (4.04%) SaaS
6 16 (2.81%) Firebase
7 11 (1.93%) Serverless
8 9 (1.58%) npm
9 7 (1.23%) Yarn
10 5 (0.88%) AWS IoT
10 5 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.53%) GitHub
11 3 (0.53%) IaaS
12 2 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.35%) CloudFront
12 2 (0.35%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.35%) PaaS
12 2 (0.35%) SonarCloud
13 1 (0.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.23%) AMQP
2 6 (1.05%) Internet
3 5 (0.88%) Wireless
4 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (18.28%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.98%) MySQL
4 20 (3.51%) Redis
5 15 (2.64%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.23%) Apache Hive
10 7 (1.23%) Presto
11 5 (0.88%) Big Data
11 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.35%) Bigtable
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) Flink
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 63 (11.07%) Git
2 45 (7.91%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.39%) JIRA
4 23 (4.04%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.64%) Maven
6 13 (2.28%) Appium
6 13 (2.28%) Vagrant
7 11 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.93%) JUnit
7 11 (1.93%) Selenium
8 9 (1.58%) Xcode
9 7 (1.23%) Mocha
9 7 (1.23%) Subversion
10 6 (1.05%) Crashlytics
10 6 (1.05%) Mockito
11 5 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.88%) GitLab
12 4 (0.70%) fastlane
12 4 (0.70%) Gradle
12 4 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (22.50%) Finance
2 67 (11.78%) Banking
3 49 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (8.08%) Law
4 46 (8.08%) Social Skills
5 39 (6.85%) Investment Banking
6 22 (3.87%) Front Office
7 19 (3.34%) Legal
8 14 (2.46%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.76%) Back Office
9 10 (1.76%) Billing
9 10 (1.76%) Turkish Language
10 9 (1.58%) Marketing
11 7 (1.23%) Aviation
11 7 (1.23%) Electronics
12 6 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 257 (45.17%) Developer
2 214 (37.61%) Software Engineer
3 110 (19.33%) Senior
4 74 (13.01%) Lead
5 61 (10.72%) Java Developer
5 61 (10.72%) Senior Developer
6 58 (10.19%) Android Developer
7 51 (8.96%) Java Engineer
8 40 (7.03%) Android Engineer
8 40 (7.03%) Senior Android Developer
9 35 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
9 35 (6.15%) Software Developer
10 33 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (4.75%) Android Software Engineer
11 27 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
12 26 (4.57%) Mobile Developer
13 25 (4.39%) Full Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 24 (4.22%) Lead Developer
15 23 (4.04%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (13.71%) React
2 66 (11.60%) Android Jetpack
3 56 (9.84%) Kafka
4 49 (8.61%) Spring
5 44 (7.73%) Jetpack Compose
6 38 (6.68%) REST
7 35 (6.15%) Node.js
8 34 (5.98%) Spring Boot
9 32 (5.62%) GraphQL
10 31 (5.45%) RESTful
11 30 (5.27%) Middleware
12 27 (4.75%) Redux
13 26 (4.57%) CSS
14 22 (3.87%) gRPC
14 22 (3.87%) HTML
14 22 (3.87%) React Native
15 18 (3.16%) Android SDK
15 18 (3.16%) Material-UI
16 16 (2.81%) AngularJS
16 16 (2.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.37%) Mobile App
2 36 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (5.27%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.34%) Client/Server
7 18 (3.16%) Fixed Income
8 16 (2.81%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.11%) Animation
12 11 (1.93%) IoT
13 10 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.76%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.23%) Video Editing
16 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
16 6 (1.05%) PropTech
17 5 (0.88%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 161 (28.30%) Android
2 60 (10.54%) Apple iOS
3 42 (7.38%) Linux
4 13 (2.28%) CentOS
4 13 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.28%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (49.03%) Software Engineering
2 262 (46.05%) Agile
3 165 (29.00%) Fintech
4 123 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 83 (14.59%) SDLC
6 76 (13.36%) Microservices
6 76 (13.36%) TDD
7 71 (12.48%) Machine Learning
7 71 (12.48%) Mentoring
8 67 (11.78%) Android Development
9 65 (11.42%) MVVM
10 62 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (10.90%) DevOps
11 61 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (10.54%) Computer Science
13 58 (10.19%) Test Automation
14 54 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence
15 48 (8.44%) Full Stack Development
15 48 (8.44%) User Experience
16 43 (7.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 368 (64.67%) Java
2 101 (17.75%) Python
3 94 (16.52%) JavaScript
4 70 (12.30%) Scala
5 63 (11.07%) SQL
6 62 (10.90%) TypeScript
7 46 (8.08%) Swift
8 44 (7.73%) Go
9 22 (3.87%) C++
10 19 (3.34%) C#
11 14 (2.46%) PHP
12 12 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.41%) Ruby
13 8 (1.41%) Rust
14 6 (1.05%) C
15 5 (0.88%) Dart
16 4 (0.70%) Clojure
16 4 (0.70%) Groovy
16 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 69 (12.13%) Degree
2 39 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.79%) QA
2 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (9.67%) Docker
2 10 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 115 (20.21%) Terraform
2 65 (11.42%) Ansible
3 60 (10.54%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.23%) Grafana
4 7 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
5 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (10.72%) Google
2 31 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.11%) Xilinx
4 11 (1.93%) Databricks
5 6 (1.05%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.88%) Apple
7 4 (0.70%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.35%) OpenText
8 2 (0.35%) Pega
8 2 (0.35%) QNX
8 2 (0.35%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.18%) BEA
9 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.18%) Spotify