Kotlin Job Trends in the South West

JetBrains Kotlin
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 150 259
Rank change year-on-year -52 +109 -55
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 14 12 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.18% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.42% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 23
10th Percentile £52,125 - -
25th Percentile £73,750 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -28.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £50,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% -3.03%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,282 843 2,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.16% 28.93% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 867 562 2,341
10th Percentile £34,300 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,725 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Kotlin job vacancy trend in the South West

Kotlin
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kotlin in the South West over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Kotlin in the South West

Kotlin
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kotlin within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Gloucestershire - 13 £85,000 - 6
Kotlin
England

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Gradle
1 2 (14.29%) JUnit
1 2 (14.29%) Mockito
2 1 (7.14%) Android Studio
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Xcode
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Software Engineer
2 10 (71.43%) Android Engineer
2 10 (71.43%) Android Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) gRPC
2 2 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) MobX
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) React Native
3 1 (7.14%) Redux
3 1 (7.14%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 2 (14.29%) Smartphone
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
4 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
5 2 (14.29%) Android Development
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Mobile Development
5 2 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (14.29%) MVVM
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Elixir
2 2 (14.29%) Erlang
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) Swift
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian