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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 339 192
Rank change year-on-year -86 -147 +99
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 591 999 3,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 1.01% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 2.33% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 480 743 1,217
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,500 £111,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 18 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 18 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 -87 519 £82,500 -2.94% 189
London -54 326 £90,000 - 142
Work from Home -69 263 £80,000 -5.88% 107
UK excluding London -17 241 £60,000 -14.29% 90
South East +12 68 £45,000 -40.00% 40
North of England +23 42 £57,500 -30.30% 12
Scotland -29 41 £76,250 +8.93% 11
South West -24 34 £65,000 +13.04% 7
East of England +4 29 £85,000 +54.55% 14
North West -9 28 £57,500 -30.30% 3
Yorkshire +68 14 £36,250 -57.35% 6
Midlands -8 14 £62,500 +13.64% 5
West Midlands +12 10 £67,500 +14.89% 4
Northern Ireland +28 8 £100,000 +11.11%
Wales 0 5 £70,000 +154.55% 1

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 27 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 26 (4.40%) Apache
3 9 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.18%) nginx
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.34%) CMS
6 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) Liferay
6 2 (0.34%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (2.71%) Simulink
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 306 (51.78%) AWS
2 112 (18.95%) Azure
3 66 (11.17%) GCP
4 37 (6.26%) Google Play
5 23 (3.89%) SaaS
6 16 (2.71%) Firebase
7 11 (1.86%) Serverless
8 9 (1.52%) npm
9 7 (1.18%) GitHub
9 7 (1.18%) Yarn
10 5 (0.85%) AWS IoT
11 4 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.68%) SonarCloud
12 3 (0.51%) IaaS
13 2 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.34%) CloudFront
13 2 (0.34%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.34%) PaaS
14 1 (0.17%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.18%) AMQP
2 6 (1.02%) Internet
3 5 (0.85%) Wireless
4 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (18.10%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (9.98%) NoSQL
3 31 (5.25%) MySQL
4 20 (3.38%) Redis
5 13 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.52%) Apache Hive
8 9 (1.52%) Presto
9 8 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.68%) Big Data
11 3 (0.51%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.51%) Bigtable
11 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.51%) Flink
12 2 (0.34%) DTS
12 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (11.34%) Git
2 45 (7.61%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.23%) JIRA
4 24 (4.06%) Bitbucket
5 17 (2.88%) Vagrant
6 15 (2.54%) Maven
7 13 (2.20%) Appium
7 13 (2.20%) Selenium
8 11 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.86%) JUnit
9 9 (1.52%) Xcode
10 7 (1.18%) GitLab
10 7 (1.18%) Mocha
10 7 (1.18%) Subversion
11 6 (1.02%) Crashlytics
11 6 (1.02%) Gradle
11 6 (1.02%) Mockito
12 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.68%) fastlane
13 4 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 130 (22.00%) Finance
2 67 (11.34%) Banking
3 52 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (8.29%) Law
5 44 (7.45%) Social Skills
6 39 (6.60%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.72%) Legal
8 19 (3.21%) Front Office
9 14 (2.37%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.03%) Turkish Language
11 11 (1.86%) Back Office
11 11 (1.86%) Billing
12 9 (1.52%) Electronics
12 9 (1.52%) Marketing
13 8 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (1.02%) Aviation
14 6 (1.02%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.85%) Mandarin Language
15 5 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 255 (43.15%) Developer
2 234 (39.59%) Software Engineer
3 113 (19.12%) Senior
4 79 (13.37%) Lead
5 60 (10.15%) Senior Developer
6 59 (9.98%) Java Developer
7 58 (9.81%) Android Developer
8 51 (8.63%) Java Engineer
9 41 (6.94%) Android Engineer
10 40 (6.77%) Senior Android Developer
11 38 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 37 (6.26%) Software Developer
13 36 (6.09%) Java Software Engineer
14 27 (4.57%) Android Software Engineer
15 26 (4.40%) Mobile Developer
16 25 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
17 24 (4.06%) Full Stack Engineer
17 24 (4.06%) Lead Developer
18 22 (3.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 22 (3.72%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.37%) React
2 66 (11.17%) Android Jetpack
3 61 (10.32%) Kafka
4 50 (8.46%) Spring
5 44 (7.45%) Jetpack Compose
6 41 (6.94%) Middleware
7 40 (6.77%) REST
8 37 (6.26%) Spring Boot
9 33 (5.58%) Node.js
10 31 (5.25%) GraphQL
10 31 (5.25%) RESTful
11 28 (4.74%) CSS
12 24 (4.06%) HTML
12 24 (4.06%) Redux
13 23 (3.89%) React Native
14 20 (3.38%) gRPC
15 18 (3.05%) .NET
15 18 (3.05%) Android SDK
15 18 (3.05%) JSON
16 16 (2.71%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.98%) Mobile App
2 39 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (3.21%) Client/Server
7 18 (3.05%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.71%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.03%) Animation
10 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.86%) IoT
12 10 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.52%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.18%) Video Editing
15 6 (1.02%) PropTech
16 5 (0.85%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 167 (28.26%) Android
2 62 (10.49%) Apple iOS
3 53 (8.97%) Linux
4 17 (2.88%) CentOS
4 17 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.88%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (51.61%) Software Engineering
2 279 (47.21%) Agile
3 169 (28.60%) Fintech
4 134 (22.67%) CI/CD
5 86 (14.55%) Microservices
6 85 (14.38%) SDLC
7 78 (13.20%) Machine Learning
7 78 (13.20%) TDD
8 71 (12.01%) Mentoring
9 68 (11.51%) Android Development
10 67 (11.34%) Test Automation
11 66 (11.17%) Computer Science
12 65 (11.00%) MVVM
13 64 (10.83%) DevOps
14 62 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
15 61 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
17 55 (9.31%) Scrum
18 50 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
19 47 (7.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 396 (67.01%) Java
2 112 (18.95%) Python
3 98 (16.58%) JavaScript
4 77 (13.03%) Scala
4 77 (13.03%) SQL
5 62 (10.49%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.78%) Swift
7 44 (7.45%) Go
8 27 (4.57%) C++
9 20 (3.38%) C#
10 14 (2.37%) PHP
11 13 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.35%) Rust
13 7 (1.18%) C
13 7 (1.18%) Clojure
14 6 (1.02%) Ruby
15 5 (0.85%) Dart
16 4 (0.68%) Bash
16 4 (0.68%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 73 (12.35%) Degree
2 44 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (4.91%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.48%) QA
2 11 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (9.14%) Docker
2 14 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 128 (21.66%) Terraform
2 71 (12.01%) Ansible
3 63 (10.66%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.35%) Grafana
4 8 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.34%) Puppet
5 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (11.51%) Google
2 38 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.71%) Xilinx
4 13 (2.20%) Databricks
5 6 (1.02%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.85%) Apple
7 4 (0.68%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.34%) OpenText
8 2 (0.34%) Pega
8 2 (0.34%) QNX
8 2 (0.34%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) BEA
9 1 (0.17%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.17%) Spotify