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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 341 189
Rank change year-on-year -76 -152 +98
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 617 930 3,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.99% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 2.35% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 474 724 1,174
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £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 £100,000 £106,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +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 34,287 39,579 92,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 42.16% 54.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25,426 26,470 43,664
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -94 544 £80,000 -3.03% 116
London -61 346 £87,500 -2.78% 85
Work from Home -77 265 £80,000 -5.88% 78
UK excluding London -16 249 £60,000 -11.11% 37
South East +23 78 £45,000 -40.00% 8
North of England +6 45 £52,500 -36.36% 6
Scotland -37 43 £75,000 +7.14% 6
South West -39 32 £65,000 +8.33% 3
North West -18 30 £60,000 -27.27% 3
East of England -21 24 £85,000 +54.55% 10
Yorkshire +66 15 £36,250 -56.06% 3
Midlands -8 15 £62,500 +6.38% 1
West Midlands -23 11 £67,500 +8.00% 1
Northern Ireland +27 7 £100,000 +11.11% 2
Wales -1 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 33 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 31 (5.02%) Apache
3 11 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.13%) nginx
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) Liferay
7 2 (0.32%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
Applications
1 20 (3.24%) Simulink
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 321 (52.03%) AWS
2 112 (18.15%) Azure
3 77 (12.48%) GCP
4 37 (6.00%) Google Play
5 23 (3.73%) SaaS
6 16 (2.59%) Firebase
6 16 (2.59%) GitHub
7 12 (1.94%) Serverless
8 9 (1.46%) npm
9 7 (1.13%) Yarn
10 6 (0.97%) AWS IoT
11 4 (0.65%) SonarCloud
12 3 (0.49%) IaaS
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.32%) CloudFront
13 2 (0.32%) PaaS
14 1 (0.16%) Amazon Kinesis
14 1 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.13%) AMQP
2 5 (0.81%) Wireless
3 4 (0.65%) Internet
4 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 27 (4.38%) MySQL
4 18 (2.92%) Redis
5 14 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.78%) Apache Hive
7 11 (1.78%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.78%) Presto
8 8 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.81%) Flink
10 4 (0.65%) Big Data
10 4 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.65%) Bigtable
10 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.32%) DTS
12 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (11.99%) Git
2 47 (7.62%) Android Studio
3 25 (4.05%) Bitbucket
3 25 (4.05%) JIRA
4 21 (3.40%) Vagrant
5 14 (2.27%) GitLab
5 14 (2.27%) Maven
6 13 (2.11%) Appium
6 13 (2.11%) Selenium
7 11 (1.78%) JUnit
8 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.62%) Xcode
9 7 (1.13%) Mocha
9 7 (1.13%) Subversion
10 6 (0.97%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.97%) Gradle
10 6 (0.97%) Mockito
11 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.65%) fastlane
12 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 123 (19.94%) Finance
2 65 (10.53%) Banking
3 56 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (8.59%) Law
5 43 (6.97%) Social Skills
6 36 (5.83%) Investment Banking
7 26 (4.21%) Legal
8 19 (3.08%) Tech for Good
9 13 (2.11%) Electronics
9 13 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.94%) Front Office
10 12 (1.94%) Turkish Language
11 11 (1.78%) Billing
12 10 (1.62%) Back Office
13 9 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
13 9 (1.46%) Marketing
14 8 (1.30%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
16 5 (0.81%) Aviation
17 4 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 256 (41.49%) Software Engineer
2 255 (41.33%) Developer
3 123 (19.94%) Senior
4 85 (13.78%) Lead
5 63 (10.21%) Android Developer
6 61 (9.89%) Senior Developer
7 58 (9.40%) Java Developer
8 50 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 48 (7.78%) Java Engineer
10 42 (6.81%) Android Engineer
10 42 (6.81%) Senior Android Developer
11 37 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (6.00%) Software Developer
12 27 (4.38%) Android Software Engineer
12 27 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
13 25 (4.05%) Lead Developer
13 25 (4.05%) Mobile Developer
14 24 (3.89%) Architect
14 24 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (3.40%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (11.99%) React
2 71 (11.51%) Android Jetpack
3 63 (10.21%) Kafka
4 51 (8.27%) REST
5 49 (7.94%) Middleware
6 45 (7.29%) Spring
7 44 (7.13%) Jetpack Compose
8 36 (5.83%) RESTful
9 35 (5.67%) Spring Boot
10 34 (5.51%) GraphQL
11 30 (4.86%) Node.js
12 29 (4.70%) CSS
13 25 (4.05%) HTML
14 24 (3.89%) React Native
14 24 (3.89%) Web Services
15 22 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
16 20 (3.24%) Android SDK
16 20 (3.24%) http4s
17 19 (3.08%) JSON
18 18 (2.92%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.21%) Mobile App
2 39 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (5.02%) Algorithms
4 25 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (3.40%) Cloud Native
7 19 (3.08%) Client/Server
8 15 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.11%) Animation
10 12 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.78%) IoT
11 11 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.78%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.62%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.13%) Video Editing
15 6 (0.97%) Blog
15 6 (0.97%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 177 (28.69%) Android
2 63 (10.21%) Apple iOS
3 59 (9.56%) Linux
4 21 (3.40%) CentOS
4 21 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (3.40%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (53.32%) Software Engineering
2 296 (47.97%) Agile
3 167 (27.07%) Fintech
4 151 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 96 (15.56%) Microservices
6 86 (13.94%) Machine Learning
6 86 (13.94%) SDLC
7 80 (12.97%) TDD
7 80 (12.97%) Test Automation
8 77 (12.48%) Android Development
9 73 (11.83%) Computer Science
10 71 (11.51%) Mentoring
11 70 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (11.02%) MVVM
13 66 (10.70%) Scrum
14 65 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
15 62 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (9.72%) DevOps
17 53 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
18 51 (8.27%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 425 (68.88%) Java
2 117 (18.96%) Python
3 96 (15.56%) Scala
4 92 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 86 (13.94%) SQL
6 60 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 46 (7.46%) Swift
8 43 (6.97%) Go
9 28 (4.54%) C++
10 18 (2.92%) C#
11 14 (2.27%) PHP
12 12 (1.94%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.46%) Clojure
14 7 (1.13%) C
14 7 (1.13%) Rust
15 4 (0.65%) Bash
15 4 (0.65%) Ruby
16 3 (0.49%) Dart
16 3 (0.49%) Groovy
16 3 (0.49%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 76 (12.32%) Degree
2 50 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 37 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 6 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.05%) QA
2 10 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (8.43%) Docker
2 20 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 149 (24.15%) Terraform
2 79 (12.80%) Ansible
3 57 (9.24%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.30%) Grafana
4 8 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (12.32%) Google
2 45 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.24%) Xilinx
4 16 (2.59%) Databricks
5 6 (0.97%) Amplitude
6 5 (0.81%) Apple
7 4 (0.65%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.32%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.32%) OpenText
8 2 (0.32%) Pega
8 2 (0.32%) QNX
8 2 (0.32%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.16%) BEA
9 1 (0.16%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.16%) Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Spotify