Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

kotlin

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 564 postings naming kotlin that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer69.5%
  2. 2Frontend Engineer16%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer3.9%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.3%
  5. 5Security Engineer2.3%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.1%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.6%
  8. 8AI Engineer1.4%

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 = 399
10th
$150k
25th
$176k
Median
$199k
75th
$225k
90th
$256k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote20.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA14.7%
  3. 3New York, NY14.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA6.7%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.5%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.8%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.