This might be regional specific but I'm seeing Java roles are mostly dealing with legacy 10-15yr projects, so a lot of maintenance type work, kicking tyres, kee

This might be regional specific but I'm seeing Java roles are mostly dealing with legacy 10-15yr projects, so a lot of maintenance type work, kicking tyres, keeping things running, bolting on new features to codebases no one want's to touch. Could be. But what are the numbers? There are 3,027 results for 'java developer' on Indeed, and 196 for 'kotlin developer'. (Obviously you have to take those particular numbers with a grain of salt - e.g. job listings that match Java frequently say something like, "Knows a language like Java or C++" whereas a job listings that match Kotlin are probably? looking specifically for a Kotlin dev.)