Hybrid/Remote Kotlin Job Trends

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Kotlin skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 387 312
Rank change year-on-year +34 -75 -58
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 105 34 182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.20% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 0.69% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 77 27 136
10th Percentile £54,800 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -16.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £85,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -6.06%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Kotlin falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,200 4,947 8,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.91% 29.51% 39.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,577 3,265 5,651
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

Kotlin
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kotlin and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kotlin job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kotlin
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin

Kotlin
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Kotlin salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kotlin
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.38%) AWS
2 24 (22.86%) GitHub
3 16 (15.24%) Serverless
4 15 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.57%) Azure
7 8 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (7.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (7.62%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (7.62%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (7.62%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (6.67%) Datadog
9 5 (4.76%) Firebase
9 5 (4.76%) GCP
9 5 (4.76%) Stripe
9 5 (4.76%) TestFlight
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.81%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.86%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JUnit
2 9 (8.57%) Git
3 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) JIRA
4 5 (4.76%) Android Studio
4 5 (4.76%) Crashlytics
4 5 (4.76%) XCTest
5 3 (2.86%) Appium
5 3 (2.86%) Postman
5 3 (2.86%) Selenium
6 2 (1.90%) Gradle
6 2 (1.90%) Mockito
7 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.95%) Xcode
General
1 24 (22.86%) Finance
2 19 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.19%) Banking
4 9 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.62%) Health Technology
5 8 (7.62%) Tech for Good
6 6 (5.71%) Retail
7 5 (4.76%) Law
8 4 (3.81%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 57 (54.29%) Senior
2 47 (44.76%) Developer
3 36 (34.29%) Senior Developer
4 26 (24.76%) Software Engineer
5 20 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (18.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (15.24%) Android Engineer
8 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (12.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (10.48%) Java Developer
10 10 (9.52%) Java Engineer
10 10 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (8.57%) Android Developer
12 8 (7.62%) Android Software Engineer
12 8 (7.62%) Mobile Engineer
13 7 (6.67%) Senior Android Developer
13 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (5.71%) Lead
15 4 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
15 4 (3.81%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.14%) Spring Boot
2 16 (15.24%) Spring
3 13 (12.38%) AngularJS
4 11 (10.48%) React
5 10 (9.52%) Android Jetpack
5 10 (9.52%) Jetpack Compose
6 9 (8.57%) Node.js
7 7 (6.67%) React Native
8 5 (4.76%) .NET
8 5 (4.76%) RESTful
8 5 (4.76%) SwiftUI
8 5 (4.76%) UIKit
9 4 (3.81%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.81%) Entity Framework
9 4 (3.81%) Kafka
9 4 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.81%) REST
9 4 (3.81%) RxJava
9 4 (3.81%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.86%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.62%) Blog
2 8 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.81%) Hackathon
3 4 (3.81%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.86%) Clustering
5 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (31.43%) Android
2 16 (15.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (29.52%) Software Engineering
3 29 (27.62%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 19 (18.10%) Agile
5 19 (18.10%) AI
6 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 13 (12.38%) Clean Code
8 11 (10.48%) Android Development
8 11 (10.48%) DevOps
9 10 (9.52%) Code Quality
9 10 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
10 9 (8.57%) MVVM
10 9 (8.57%) TDD
11 8 (7.62%) Analytics
11 8 (7.62%) Fintech
11 8 (7.62%) Pair Programming
11 8 (7.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.14%) Java
2 24 (22.86%) TypeScript
3 12 (11.43%) SQL
3 12 (11.43%) Swift
4 5 (4.76%) Python
5 4 (3.81%) Go
5 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.81%) Rust
6 3 (2.86%) PHP
6 3 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
1 4 (3.81%) Degree
2 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.81%) QA
System Software
1 16 (15.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Grafana
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (4.76%) Amplitude
1 5 (4.76%) Braze
1 5 (4.76%) Google
2 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.86%) Splunk
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.90%) VMware