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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 183 182
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +90
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 7 23 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.44% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.44% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 35
10th Percentile £60,250 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £71,875 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile - £90,625 £73,750
90th Percentile - £108,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year - -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 763 1,592 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.11% 30.50% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 567 877 1,425
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £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 6 December 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 6 December 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
Gloucestershire +27 4 £95,000 +31.03% 2
Bristol +12 1 £75,000 +66.67% 5
Devon +4 1 £50,000 - 2
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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Android Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) Xcode
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Flutter
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) MobX
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Redux
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Android Development
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) iOS Development
2 1 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Development
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Swift
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes