Software Engineer Jobs in Kent

Software Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Software Engineer salary in Kent is £51,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 90 43
Rank change year-on-year +38 -47 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 57 11 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.61% 1.06% 6.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.83% 1.24% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 24 9 15
10th Percentile - £28,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -38.24% +88.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 -
90th Percentile - £58,750 -
South East median annual salary £53,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +13.64% +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 1,488 885 1,356
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 85.10% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,092 503 731
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £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 £60,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £69,875 £69,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Kent

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Kent

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Kent

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 1 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
Rochester +9 10 £37,000 +23.33% 3
Sandwich - 7 £27,500 -
Sittingbourne - 5 £55,000 -
Dartford -13 1 £100,000 +90.48%
Swanley - 1 £45,000 -
Tonbridge - 1 £47,500 -
Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (91.23%) Software Engineering
2 37 (64.91%) C
3 28 (49.12%) Electronics
4 25 (43.86%) MATLAB
4 25 (43.86%) Degree
5 24 (42.11%) Automotive
6 23 (40.35%) Agile
7 21 (36.84%) Configuration Management
7 21 (36.84%) Simulink
7 21 (36.84%) Stateflow
7 21 (36.84%) IBM
7 21 (36.84%) Embedded C
7 21 (36.84%) ClearCase
7 21 (36.84%) Lauterbach
7 21 (36.84%) Plastic SCM
7 21 (36.84%) MISRA
8 19 (33.33%) Python
8 19 (33.33%) Software Testing
9 18 (31.58%) Algorithms
10 14 (24.56%) Data Acquisition
10 14 (24.56%) ISO 26262
10 14 (24.56%) AUTOSAR
10 14 (24.56%) J1939
10 14 (24.56%) Automotive SPICE
10 14 (24.56%) Verification and Validation
10 14 (24.56%) JIRA
10 14 (24.56%) Validation
10 14 (24.56%) ClearQuest
10 14 (24.56%) Perl
11 12 (21.05%) C#

Software Engineer 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:

Applications
1 21 (36.84%) Simulink
1 21 (36.84%) Stateflow
2 7 (12.28%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.75%) AWS
1 1 (1.75%) Azure
1 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.56%) J1939
2 5 (8.77%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) ClearCase
1 21 (36.84%) Plastic SCM
2 14 (24.56%) ClearQuest
2 14 (24.56%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) GDB
4 1 (1.75%) NUnit
4 1 (1.75%) Subversion
4 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (49.12%) Electronics
2 24 (42.11%) Automotive
3 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
4 5 (8.77%) Military
5 4 (7.02%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Advertising
6 1 (1.75%) Finance
6 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 1 (1.75%) Akka
2 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.75%) CSS
2 1 (1.75%) CSS3
2 1 (1.75%) HTML
2 1 (1.75%) HTML5
2 1 (1.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) MFC
2 1 (1.75%) Qt
2 1 (1.75%) React
2 1 (1.75%) Spring
2 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.75%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.58%) Algorithms
2 10 (17.54%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (91.23%) Software Engineering
2 23 (40.35%) Agile
3 21 (36.84%) Configuration Management
4 19 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 14 (24.56%) Data Acquisition
5 14 (24.56%) Validation
5 14 (24.56%) Verification and Validation
6 9 (15.79%) Mathematics
6 9 (15.79%) Physics
6 9 (15.79%) Software Architecture
7 6 (10.53%) Project Management
8 5 (8.77%) Battery Management
8 5 (8.77%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (8.77%) Quality Management
8 5 (8.77%) Requirements Management
8 5 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (5.26%) Embedded Software Development
10 2 (3.51%) DevOps
10 2 (3.51%) Microservices
11 1 (1.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (64.91%) C
2 25 (43.86%) MATLAB
3 21 (36.84%) Embedded C
4 19 (33.33%) Python
5 14 (24.56%) Perl
6 12 (21.05%) C#
7 8 (14.04%) C++
8 5 (8.77%) Ada
9 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.51%) SQL
9 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.75%) Java
10 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (43.86%) Degree
2 11 (19.30%) HND
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (36.84%) MISRA
2 14 (24.56%) Automotive SPICE
2 14 (24.56%) AUTOSAR
2 14 (24.56%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) IBM
1 21 (36.84%) Lauterbach
2 4 (7.02%) Facebook
2 4 (7.02%) Instagram
3 3 (5.26%) QinetiQ
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft