Kotlin Job Trends in the Midlands

JetBrains Kotlin
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 240 253
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 +61
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 2 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.023% 0.050% 0.096%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.19% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £47,750
25th Percentile - £42,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -33.33% +3.85%
75th Percentile - £47,500 £81,250
90th Percentile - - £81,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,194 1,612 2,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.92% 27.00% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 952 897 2,249
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Kotlin
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
West Midlands +14 1 £75,000 +66.67% 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Firebase
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Stripe
1 1 (50.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (50.00%) XCTest
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (50.00%) Cross-Platform Development
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Push Notifications
1 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (50.00%) Server-Driven UI
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Storyboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Amplitude