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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 200 188
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +85
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 7 16 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.26% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 0.93% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 40
10th Percentile - - £39,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £51,875 £105,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £110,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.28% +4.47%

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 736 1,724 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.47% 27.90% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 524 963 1,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £37,313 £41,250 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,625 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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
Bristol +26 3 £45,000 -47.83% 2
Dorset +7 2 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Devon - 2 £50,000 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Firebase
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Crashlytics
3 1 (14.29%) fastlane
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Publishing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Android Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (57.14%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (57.14%) OkHttp
1 4 (57.14%) Retrofit
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Flutter
2 1 (14.29%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Android Development
1 6 (85.71%) Mobile Development
2 5 (71.43%) MVVM
3 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
3 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
4 2 (28.57%) iOS Development
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) UX Design
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (14.29%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Swift
2 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Samsung
2 1 (14.29%) Google