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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 310 311
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -137
Permanent jobs citing Kotlin 130 259 487
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 2.00% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 88 248 415
10th Percentile £30,000 £48,750 £51,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% -5.88% +14.86%
75th Percentile £105,854 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £136,500 £113,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +17.86%

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 7,380 12,979 23,270
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.50% 44.51% 49.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,774 10,797 17,273
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 19 February 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 2 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.77%) CMS
2 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Simulink
2 1 (0.77%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.85%) AWS
2 18 (13.85%) GitHub
3 12 (9.23%) Azure
4 10 (7.69%) GCP
5 8 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.08%) SaaS
7 3 (2.31%) Firebase
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.54%) PaaS
8 2 (1.54%) Serverless
8 2 (1.54%) Stripe
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.77%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) Internet
2 8 (6.15%) Network Security
3 3 (2.31%) Bluetooth
3 3 (2.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.31%) MySQL
3 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.54%) Big Data
4 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Git
2 22 (16.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.15%) Gradle
3 8 (6.15%) Maven
3 8 (6.15%) SonarQube
4 7 (5.38%) JIRA
5 4 (3.08%) JUnit
6 3 (2.31%) Appium
6 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.31%) GitLab
7 2 (1.54%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.54%) fastlane
7 2 (1.54%) Vagrant
7 2 (1.54%) webpack
8 1 (0.77%) XCTest
General
1 41 (31.54%) Finance
2 35 (26.92%) Banking
3 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.08%) Legal
5 13 (10.00%) Games
6 9 (6.92%) Marketing
7 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.08%) Law
10 3 (2.31%) Electronics
10 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) French Language
11 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.77%) Publishing
11 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (44.62%) Developer
2 37 (28.46%) Android Developer
3 25 (19.23%) Lead
4 21 (16.15%) Senior
4 21 (16.15%) Software Engineer
5 18 (13.85%) Graduate
6 14 (10.77%) Lead Developer
7 10 (7.69%) Android Engineer
7 10 (7.69%) Mobile Developer
8 9 (6.92%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.15%) iOS Android Developer
9 8 (6.15%) iOS Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Lead Android Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Lead iOS Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Mobile Software Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Java Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 4 (3.08%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.15%) RESTful
2 20 (15.38%) Android Jetpack
2 20 (15.38%) Jetpack Compose
3 16 (12.31%) React
4 11 (8.46%) Android SDK
5 8 (6.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 7 (5.38%) Flutter
7 6 (4.62%) React Native
7 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.85%) Redux
9 4 (3.08%) .NET
9 4 (3.08%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.08%) Kafka
9 4 (3.08%) Spring
10 3 (2.31%) Node.js
10 3 (2.31%) REST
10 3 (2.31%) Web Services
11 2 (1.54%) iOS SDK
11 2 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 75 (57.69%) Mobile App
2 19 (14.62%) Product Ownership
3 17 (13.08%) Hackathon
3 17 (13.08%) Learning Management System
4 13 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (10.00%) Mobile Games
5 9 (6.92%) Online Banking
5 9 (6.92%) Virtual Team
6 8 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
9 5 (3.85%) Educational Technology
10 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.77%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.77%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 67 (51.54%) Android
2 31 (23.85%) Apple iOS
3 10 (7.69%) Linux
4 2 (1.54%) CentOS
4 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.46%) Software Engineering
2 60 (46.15%) Agile
3 52 (40.00%) Android Development
4 48 (36.92%) DevOps
5 36 (27.69%) Computer Science
6 32 (24.62%) Mobile Development
6 32 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (23.08%) CI/CD
8 27 (20.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (20.77%) Containerisation
8 27 (20.77%) User Experience
9 25 (19.23%) Fintech
10 24 (18.46%) Microservices
11 22 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (16.15%) API Development
13 19 (14.62%) API Integration
14 18 (13.85%) Customer Experience
15 17 (13.08%) Customer Service
15 17 (13.08%) Product Management
15 17 (13.08%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (61.54%) Java
2 37 (28.46%) JavaScript
3 26 (20.00%) Python
4 22 (16.92%) Swift
5 20 (15.38%) C#
6 17 (13.08%) Objective-C
7 16 (12.31%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.38%) Scala
9 5 (3.85%) Go
9 5 (3.85%) PHP
9 5 (3.85%) SQL
10 4 (3.08%) C++
11 2 (1.54%) Ruby
11 2 (1.54%) Rust
12 1 (0.77%) Clojure
12 1 (0.77%) Dart
Qualifications
1 55 (42.31%) Degree
2 29 (22.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (13.85%) Master's Degree
4 17 (13.08%) PhD
5 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.00%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.31%) IEC 62304
3 3 (2.31%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 16 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.31%) Terraform
3 4 (3.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (18.46%) Google
2 17 (13.08%) IBM
2 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.15%) New Relic
3 8 (6.15%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.31%) Intel
4 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.54%) Xilinx
6 1 (0.77%) Spotify