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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 348 191
Rank change year-on-year -79 -157 +103
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 582 1,005 3,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.99% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 2.30% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 480 744 1,241
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
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 £105,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +9.62% +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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -82 511 £82,500 -2.94% 131
London -58 322 £90,000 - 93
Work from Home -72 263 £80,000 -5.88% 82
UK excluding London -5 236 £60,000 -15.79% 49
South East +15 65 £45,000 -40.00% 8
North of England +12 42 £57,500 -30.30% 9
Scotland -26 40 £77,500 +10.71% 11
South West -18 34 £65,000 +13.04% 10
East of England +20 29 £85,000 +54.55% 7
North West -14 28 £57,500 -30.30% 2
Yorkshire +69 14 £36,250 -57.35% 4
Midlands -16 13 £62,500 +16.28% 3
West Midlands -2 9 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland +29 8 £100,000 +11.11%
Wales +4 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 24 (4.12%) Apache
2 23 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.20%) nginx
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.34%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
5 2 (0.34%) Liferay
5 2 (0.34%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (2.41%) Simulink
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 300 (51.55%) AWS
2 105 (18.04%) Azure
3 60 (10.31%) GCP
4 37 (6.36%) Google Play
5 23 (3.95%) SaaS
6 16 (2.75%) Firebase
7 11 (1.89%) Serverless
8 9 (1.55%) npm
9 7 (1.20%) Yarn
10 5 (0.86%) AWS IoT
10 5 (0.86%) GitHub
11 4 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.69%) SonarCloud
12 3 (0.52%) 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 (1.20%) AMQP
2 6 (1.03%) Internet
3 5 (0.86%) Wireless
4 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (18.38%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (9.28%) NoSQL
3 32 (5.50%) MySQL
4 20 (3.44%) Redis
5 14 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.06%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.20%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.20%) Presto
10 5 (0.86%) Big Data
10 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.52%) Bigtable
11 3 (0.52%) Flink
12 2 (0.34%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.34%) DB2
12 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (11.17%) Git
2 45 (7.73%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.30%) JIRA
4 24 (4.12%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.58%) Maven
5 15 (2.58%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.23%) Appium
7 12 (2.06%) Selenium
8 11 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.89%) JUnit
9 9 (1.55%) Xcode
10 7 (1.20%) Mocha
10 7 (1.20%) Subversion
11 6 (1.03%) Crashlytics
11 6 (1.03%) Gradle
11 6 (1.03%) Mockito
12 5 (0.86%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.86%) GitLab
13 4 (0.69%) fastlane
13 4 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 130 (22.34%) Finance
2 67 (11.51%) Banking
3 51 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (8.25%) Law
5 44 (7.56%) Social Skills
6 39 (6.70%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.61%) Front Office
7 21 (3.61%) Legal
8 14 (2.41%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.89%) Turkish Language
10 10 (1.72%) Back Office
10 10 (1.72%) Billing
11 9 (1.55%) Marketing
12 7 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.20%) Aviation
12 7 (1.20%) Electronics
13 6 (1.03%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
14 5 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 257 (44.16%) Developer
2 225 (38.66%) Software Engineer
3 110 (18.90%) Senior
4 76 (13.06%) Lead
5 60 (10.31%) Java Developer
5 60 (10.31%) Senior Developer
6 58 (9.97%) Android Developer
7 51 (8.76%) Java Engineer
8 41 (7.04%) Android Engineer
9 40 (6.87%) Senior Android Developer
10 36 (6.19%) Software Developer
11 35 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 35 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.64%) Android Software Engineer
12 27 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (4.47%) Full Stack Engineer
13 26 (4.47%) Mobile Developer
14 24 (4.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 24 (4.12%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.95%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.75%) React
2 66 (11.34%) Android Jetpack
3 60 (10.31%) Kafka
4 49 (8.42%) Spring
5 44 (7.56%) Jetpack Compose
6 38 (6.53%) REST
7 37 (6.36%) Middleware
8 35 (6.01%) Node.js
8 35 (6.01%) Spring Boot
9 31 (5.33%) GraphQL
9 31 (5.33%) RESTful
10 28 (4.81%) CSS
11 26 (4.47%) Redux
12 24 (4.12%) HTML
13 22 (3.78%) React Native
14 20 (3.44%) gRPC
15 18 (3.09%) Android SDK
15 18 (3.09%) JSON
15 18 (3.09%) Material-UI
16 17 (2.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.14%) Mobile App
2 37 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (3.26%) Client/Server
7 18 (3.09%) Fixed Income
8 17 (2.92%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.06%) Animation
12 11 (1.89%) IoT
12 11 (1.89%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.20%) Video Editing
15 6 (1.03%) PropTech
16 5 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 163 (28.01%) Android
2 60 (10.31%) Apple iOS
3 50 (8.59%) Linux
4 15 (2.58%) CentOS
4 15 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (50.17%) Software Engineering
2 271 (46.56%) Agile
3 170 (29.21%) Fintech
4 126 (21.65%) CI/CD
5 86 (14.78%) SDLC
6 79 (13.57%) Microservices
6 79 (13.57%) TDD
7 74 (12.71%) Machine Learning
8 71 (12.20%) Mentoring
9 68 (11.68%) Android Development
10 65 (11.17%) MVVM
11 63 (10.82%) Test Automation
12 62 (10.65%) Computer Science
12 62 (10.65%) DevOps
13 61 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 49 (8.42%) Full Stack Development
16 48 (8.25%) User Experience
17 47 (8.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 384 (65.98%) Java
2 110 (18.90%) Python
3 97 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 72 (12.37%) Scala
5 71 (12.20%) SQL
6 64 (11.00%) TypeScript
7 45 (7.73%) Swift
8 43 (7.39%) Go
9 25 (4.30%) C++
10 19 (3.26%) C#
11 13 (2.23%) PHP
12 12 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.37%) Rust
14 7 (1.20%) C
14 7 (1.20%) Ruby
15 6 (1.03%) Clojure
16 5 (0.86%) Dart
17 4 (0.69%) Bash
17 4 (0.69%) Objective-C
18 3 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 70 (12.03%) Degree
2 40 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (4.30%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.93%) QA
2 10 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 54 (9.28%) Docker
2 10 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 121 (20.79%) Terraform
2 69 (11.86%) Ansible
3 63 (10.82%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.20%) Grafana
4 7 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.34%) Puppet
5 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (10.82%) Google
2 32 (5.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.41%) Xilinx
4 11 (1.89%) Databricks
5 6 (1.03%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.86%) Apple
7 4 (0.69%) 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