Developer Jobs in Kent

Developer
South East > Kent

The median Developer salary in Kent is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 261 124 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 16.43% 11.91% 17.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.45% 14.00% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 242 78 144
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £29,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year - +34.15% -8.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £49,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £66,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Kent with a recognized job title 1,496 886 1,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 85.11% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 504 723
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,625 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,200 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Kent

Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Kent.

Salary trend for Developer in Kent

Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Kent over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Kent

Developer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tunbridge Wells +3 36 £42,500 -8.11% 1
Canterbury - 28 £65,000 - 2
Tonbridge 0 26 £45,000 +5.88%
Maidstone +14 19 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Dartford -5 13 £52,500 - 1
Sevenoaks +1 12 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Folkestone +7 11 £55,000 -8.33%
Broadstairs - 11 £47,500 -
Margate - 6 £60,000 - 5
Chatham - 5 £49,250 - 2
West Malling -6 4 £65,000 +36.84%
Gravesend -14 2 £75,000 +42.86%
Ramsgate - 2 £62,500 -
Sittingbourne +9 1 £60,000 +118.18% 3
Swanley - 1 £52,500 -
Rochester - 1 - - 4
Faversham - 1 - -
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Kent region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 199 (76.25%) .NET
2 167 (63.98%) C#
3 127 (48.66%) Azure
4 112 (42.91%) JavaScript
5 110 (42.15%) Agile
6 108 (41.38%) SQL Server
6 108 (41.38%) Microservices
7 107 (41.00%) Full Stack Development
8 94 (36.02%) AngularJS
9 85 (32.57%) ASP.NET
10 79 (30.27%) ASP.NET Web API
11 77 (29.50%) MVC
12 76 (29.12%) HTML
13 61 (23.37%) CSS
14 58 (22.22%) .NET Framework
14 58 (22.22%) React
15 55 (21.07%) Microsoft
16 54 (20.69%) Social Skills
17 52 (19.92%) SQL
18 51 (19.54%) TypeScript
18 51 (19.54%) Entity Framework
18 51 (19.54%) .NET Core
19 45 (17.24%) AWS
20 44 (16.86%) Vue
21 43 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
21 43 (16.48%) TDD
22 41 (15.71%) ASP.NET MVC
23 38 (14.56%) RESTful
24 36 (13.79%) HTML5
24 36 (13.79%) MongoDB

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 7 (2.68%) CMS
2 5 (1.92%) IIS
3 4 (1.53%) Apache
3 4 (1.53%) ColdFusion
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.15%) Drupal
4 3 (1.15%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.15%) WordPress
5 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 127 (48.66%) Azure
2 45 (17.24%) AWS
3 17 (6.51%) Serverless
4 14 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.36%) Azure Functions
4 14 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.83%) IaaS
5 10 (3.83%) PaaS
6 8 (3.07%) SaaS
7 7 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.53%) GitHub
8 4 (1.53%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.15%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (1.15%) Azure App Service
10 2 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.77%) Firebase
10 2 (0.77%) npm
10 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.75%) Internet
2 7 (2.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (41.38%) SQL Server
2 36 (13.79%) MongoDB
3 34 (13.03%) MySQL
4 24 (9.20%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (6.13%) Redis
7 15 (5.75%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.83%) Power BI
9 7 (2.68%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.92%) MySQL Workbench
10 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.15%) Power Query
11 3 (1.15%) Tableau
12 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (12.26%) Git
2 17 (6.51%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.15%) Babel
4 3 (1.15%) GitLab
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
4 3 (1.15%) webpack
5 2 (0.77%) gulp
5 2 (0.77%) NUnit
5 2 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.77%) Vite
5 2 (0.77%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 54 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.96%) Finance
3 14 (5.36%) Marketing
4 12 (4.60%) Retail
5 8 (3.07%) Games
6 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.30%) Back Office
8 5 (1.92%) Advertising
9 4 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) French Language
11 2 (0.77%) German Language
11 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.77%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (76.25%) .NET
2 94 (36.02%) AngularJS
3 85 (32.57%) ASP.NET
4 79 (30.27%) ASP.NET Web API
5 76 (29.12%) HTML
6 61 (23.37%) CSS
7 58 (22.22%) .NET Framework
7 58 (22.22%) React
8 51 (19.54%) .NET Core
8 51 (19.54%) Entity Framework
9 44 (16.86%) Vue
10 41 (15.71%) ASP.NET MVC
11 38 (14.56%) RESTful
12 36 (13.79%) HTML5
13 25 (9.58%) LINQ
14 23 (8.81%) Node.js
14 23 (8.81%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (6.13%) CSS3
15 16 (6.13%) MSMQ
15 16 (6.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.20%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (4.60%) Social Media
3 11 (4.21%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.92%) BBC
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.15%) NHS
9 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.77%) CMDB
10 2 (0.77%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.38%) Blog
11 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.92%) Linux
2 4 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (42.15%) Agile
2 108 (41.38%) Microservices
3 107 (41.00%) Full Stack Development
4 77 (29.50%) MVC
5 43 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (16.48%) TDD
6 35 (13.41%) CI/CD
7 27 (10.34%) Scrum
7 27 (10.34%) Web Development
8 25 (9.58%) BDD
9 24 (9.20%) DevOps
10 23 (8.81%) Design Patterns
10 23 (8.81%) Kanban
11 22 (8.43%) Computer Science
12 21 (8.05%) Clean Code
12 21 (8.05%) Multithreading
13 20 (7.66%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 19 (7.28%) E-Commerce
14 19 (7.28%) Unit Testing
15 17 (6.51%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (63.98%) C#
2 112 (42.91%) JavaScript
3 52 (19.92%) SQL
4 51 (19.54%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.75%) PHP
6 8 (3.07%) C++
6 8 (3.07%) Java
7 4 (1.53%) CFML
7 4 (1.53%) Python
7 4 (1.53%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.15%) VB
9 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (8.81%) Degree
2 19 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.13%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.68%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.15%) MBA
5 3 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.36%) GDPR
2 10 (3.83%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.30%) QA
5 3 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.77%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (9.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) cPanel
2 1 (0.38%) Plesk
Vendors
1 55 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.13%) Google
3 9 (3.45%) Facebook
4 5 (1.92%) Adobe
4 5 (1.92%) Apple
4 5 (1.92%) Sony
4 5 (1.92%) Yahoo!
5 4 (1.53%) F5
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle
6 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow