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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 159 222
Rank change year-on-year -47 +63 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 37 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.36% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.35% 1.10% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 37 4 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £50,000 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £68,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £73,750
% change year-on-year -5.08% - -13.24%

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 1,577 724 1,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.20% 20.50% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 493 1,164
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,738 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,750 £82,821
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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
Bristol -29 20 £70,000 +55.56% 7
Gloucestershire - 17 £85,000 - 9
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 (5.41%) Amazon S3
1 2 (5.41%) GitHub
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Big Data
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (8.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Gradle
2 2 (5.41%) JUnit
2 2 (5.41%) Mockito
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Software Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) Senior
3 13 (35.14%) Android Engineer
3 13 (35.14%) Android Software Engineer
3 13 (35.14%) Developer
4 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Lead
8 2 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Principal Software Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Kafka
1 3 (8.11%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) gRPC
2 2 (5.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 1 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (2.70%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.70%) Spring
3 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.41%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (45.95%) Software Engineering
3 6 (16.22%) Agile
4 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.51%) Clean Code
4 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps
4 5 (13.51%) Zero Trust
5 4 (10.81%) Microservices
5 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.11%) Android Development
6 3 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (8.11%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (8.11%) MVVM
6 3 (8.11%) Open Source
6 3 (8.11%) Software Delivery
6 3 (8.11%) TDD
6 3 (8.11%) User Stories
7 2 (5.41%) Design Patterns
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Java
2 3 (8.11%) Scala
3 1 (2.70%) Go
3 1 (2.70%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.41%) VMware