Kotlin Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JetBrains Kotlin
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Kotlin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kotlin over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 353 280
Rank change year-on-year +45 -73 -139
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 90 254 495
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.75% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.84% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 68 243 440
10th Percentile £25,000 £45,000 £51,125
25th Percentile £36,563 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £80,313 £106,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £146,300 £113,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +10.00%

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Kotlin
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kotlin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kotlin trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kotlin
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kotlin.

Kotlin salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kotlin
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kotlin over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Kotlin salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kotlin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.11%) Sketch
1 1 (1.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) GitHub
2 8 (8.89%) AWS
2 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (4.44%) Firebase
3 4 (4.44%) GCP
4 3 (3.33%) SaaS
5 2 (2.22%) Azure
5 2 (2.22%) Serverless
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.11%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.11%) Figma
6 1 (1.11%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) Internet
2 2 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.22%) Big Data
2 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 21 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 19 (21.11%) Git
3 8 (8.89%) Gradle
3 8 (8.89%) Maven
3 8 (8.89%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.44%) JIRA
4 4 (4.44%) JUnit
5 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.33%) fastlane
6 2 (2.22%) Crashlytics
6 2 (2.22%) webpack
7 1 (1.11%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.11%) Appium
7 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.11%) GitLab
7 1 (1.11%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.11%) Xcode
General
1 35 (38.89%) Finance
2 33 (36.67%) Banking
3 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 18 (20.00%) Games
5 17 (18.89%) Legal
6 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Law
8 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Electronics
9 1 (1.11%) French Language
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (45.56%) Developer
2 27 (30.00%) Android Developer
3 18 (20.00%) Graduate
4 17 (18.89%) Lead
5 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) Android Engineer
7 10 (11.11%) Senior
8 9 (10.00%) iOS Developer
8 9 (10.00%) Lead Developer
9 8 (8.89%) iOS Android Developer
10 7 (7.78%) Lead Android Developer
10 7 (7.78%) Lead iOS Developer
10 7 (7.78%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.67%) Mobile Software Engineer
12 5 (5.56%) Mobile Developer
12 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Gen AI Developer
14 3 (3.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) RESTful
2 11 (12.22%) Android Jetpack
2 11 (12.22%) Jetpack Compose
3 9 (10.00%) React
4 8 (8.89%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 7 (7.78%) Flutter
6 5 (5.56%) Android SDK
7 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.33%) JSON
7 3 (3.33%) Node.js
7 3 (3.33%) React Native
7 3 (3.33%) Redux
7 3 (3.33%) REST
8 2 (2.22%) CSS
8 2 (2.22%) HTML
8 2 (2.22%) ReactiveCocoa
8 2 (2.22%) RxSwift
9 1 (1.11%) RxJava
9 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (63.33%) Mobile App
2 18 (20.00%) Mobile Games
3 17 (18.89%) Hackathon
3 17 (18.89%) Learning Management System
4 15 (16.67%) Product Ownership
5 10 (11.11%) Educational Technology
5 10 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (10.00%) Online Banking
6 9 (10.00%) Virtual Team
7 8 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
8 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.11%) EPoS
10 1 (1.11%) IoT
10 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (54.44%) Android
2 27 (30.00%) Apple iOS
3 10 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) DevOps
2 44 (48.89%) Agile
3 42 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 40 (44.44%) Android Development
5 31 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (33.33%) User Experience
7 27 (30.00%) CI/CD
8 26 (28.89%) Computer Science
8 26 (28.89%) Containerisation
9 23 (25.56%) Mobile Development
10 22 (24.44%) Artificial Intelligence
11 19 (21.11%) API Development
11 19 (21.11%) API Integration
11 19 (21.11%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (21.11%) Fintech
12 18 (20.00%) Customer Experience
13 17 (18.89%) Customer Service
13 17 (18.89%) Stress Testing
14 15 (16.67%) Microservices
14 15 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (64.44%) Java
2 32 (35.56%) JavaScript
3 26 (28.89%) Swift
4 22 (24.44%) Python
5 20 (22.22%) Objective-C
6 18 (20.00%) C#
7 8 (8.89%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.56%) Go
9 2 (2.22%) C++
9 2 (2.22%) Ruby
9 2 (2.22%) SQL
10 1 (1.11%) Dart
10 1 (1.11%) PHP
10 1 (1.11%) Rust
10 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (50.00%) Degree
2 23 (25.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 17 (18.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (28.89%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) IEC 62304
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) Google
2 17 (18.89%) IBM
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.89%) New Relic
4 2 (2.22%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.11%) Adobe
5 1 (1.11%) Intel
5 1 (1.11%) Spotify