Kotlin Job Trends in Edinburgh

JetBrains Kotlin
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.088% - 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% - 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £58,687
25th Percentile £61,250 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £98,474
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 - £70,288
% change year-on-year - - +0.41%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 138 220 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.15% 28.39% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 96 109 305
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% -2.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,695 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kotlin relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Kotlin job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Kotlin
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Android SDK
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google