Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

kotlin

270 live US technical postings name kotlin in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 270 postings naming kotlin that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer64.8%
  2. 2Frontend Engineer22.6%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer4.4%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.6%
  5. 5Backend Engineer1.9%
  6. 6Security Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where kotlin is named
n = 56
10th
$162k
25th
$180k
Median
$203k
75th
$216k
90th
$251k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA17.4%
  3. 3New York, NY15.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.5%
  5. 5Boston, MA2.6%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.6%
  7. 7Washington, DC1.9%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.5%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.