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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 243 133 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 16.05% 12.03% 17.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.20% 14.03% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 231 84 146
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,375 £65,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

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 1,413 948 1,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 85.71% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 518 739
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,350 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +2.22% +9.42%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £70,795 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 37 £42,500 -8.11% 1
Tonbridge 0 26 £45,000 +5.88%
Canterbury - 26 £60,000 - 2
Maidstone +12 17 £47,500 -24.00% 5
Dartford -1 13 £52,500 - 2
Folkestone +8 11 £55,000 -8.33%
Sevenoaks +2 11 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Broadstairs - 11 £47,500 -
West Malling -5 5 £65,000 +36.84%
Chatham - 4 £49,250 - 3
Sittingbourne +10 2 £60,000 +118.18%
Gravesend -14 2 £75,000 +42.86%
Ramsgate - 2 £62,500 -
Margate - 1 £60,000 - 3
Swanley - 1 £52,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 188 (77.37%) .NET
2 160 (65.84%) C#
3 125 (51.44%) Azure
4 109 (44.86%) JavaScript
5 106 (43.62%) Agile
6 105 (43.21%) Microservices
7 104 (42.80%) SQL Server
8 100 (41.15%) Full Stack Development
9 92 (37.86%) AngularJS
10 80 (32.92%) ASP.NET
11 76 (31.28%) MVC
11 76 (31.28%) ASP.NET Web API
12 70 (28.81%) HTML
13 59 (24.28%) .NET Framework
14 57 (23.46%) Microsoft
15 55 (22.63%) CSS
15 55 (22.63%) React
16 54 (22.22%) Social Skills
17 53 (21.81%) SQL
18 51 (20.99%) Entity Framework
18 51 (20.99%) .NET Core
19 50 (20.58%) TypeScript
20 43 (17.70%) AWS
21 42 (17.28%) TDD
22 41 (16.87%) ASP.NET MVC
22 41 (16.87%) Vue
22 41 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
23 36 (14.81%) HTML5
23 36 (14.81%) RESTful
24 35 (14.40%) 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 (2.88%) CMS
2 5 (2.06%) IIS
3 4 (1.65%) Apache
3 4 (1.65%) ColdFusion
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.65%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.23%) Drupal
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.65%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 125 (51.44%) Azure
2 43 (17.70%) AWS
3 17 (7.00%) Serverless
4 15 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (5.76%) Azure Functions
5 14 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.53%) PaaS
7 10 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.12%) IaaS
8 9 (3.70%) SaaS
9 7 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.65%) GitHub
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.23%) Azure App Service
11 3 (1.23%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.82%) npm
12 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.82%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.17%) Internet
2 7 (2.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (42.80%) SQL Server
2 35 (14.40%) MongoDB
3 32 (13.17%) MySQL
4 23 (9.47%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (6.17%) Redis
6 15 (6.17%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (4.12%) Power BI
8 7 (2.88%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.06%) MySQL Workbench
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.23%) Tableau
12 2 (0.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (11.11%) Git
2 16 (6.58%) Octopus Deploy
3 15 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.23%) Babel
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) JIRA
4 3 (1.23%) webpack
5 2 (0.82%) gulp
5 2 (0.82%) NUnit
5 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.82%) Vite
5 2 (0.82%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 54 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.29%) Finance
3 12 (4.94%) Retail
4 10 (4.12%) Marketing
5 8 (3.29%) Games
6 7 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.47%) Back Office
8 5 (2.06%) Advertising
9 4 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) French Language
11 2 (0.82%) German Language
11 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.82%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.41%) Front Office
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (77.37%) .NET
2 92 (37.86%) AngularJS
3 80 (32.92%) ASP.NET
4 76 (31.28%) ASP.NET Web API
5 70 (28.81%) HTML
6 59 (24.28%) .NET Framework
7 55 (22.63%) CSS
7 55 (22.63%) React
8 51 (20.99%) .NET Core
8 51 (20.99%) Entity Framework
9 41 (16.87%) ASP.NET MVC
9 41 (16.87%) Vue
10 36 (14.81%) HTML5
10 36 (14.81%) RESTful
11 25 (10.29%) LINQ
12 22 (9.05%) Node.js
12 22 (9.05%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (6.58%) CSS3
13 16 (6.58%) REST
14 15 (6.17%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (4.94%) Social Media
3 11 (4.53%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.06%) BBC
9 3 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.23%) NHS
9 3 (1.23%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.82%) CMDB
10 2 (0.82%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.41%) Blog
11 1 (0.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.65%) Linux
1 4 (1.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (43.62%) Agile
2 105 (43.21%) Microservices
3 100 (41.15%) Full Stack Development
4 76 (31.28%) MVC
5 42 (17.28%) TDD
6 41 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (14.40%) CI/CD
8 27 (11.11%) Scrum
9 26 (10.70%) DevOps
10 25 (10.29%) BDD
11 23 (9.47%) Kanban
12 22 (9.05%) Design Patterns
13 21 (8.64%) Computer Science
13 21 (8.64%) Multithreading
14 20 (8.23%) Clean Code
14 20 (8.23%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 20 (8.23%) Web Development
15 18 (7.41%) Unit Testing
16 16 (6.58%) E-Commerce
16 16 (6.58%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (65.84%) C#
2 109 (44.86%) JavaScript
3 53 (21.81%) SQL
4 50 (20.58%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.12%) PHP
6 8 (3.29%) C++
6 8 (3.29%) Java
7 4 (1.65%) CFML
8 3 (1.23%) Python
8 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.23%) VB
9 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (9.05%) Degree
2 18 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.58%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.88%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.23%) MBA
5 3 (1.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.76%) GDPR
2 10 (4.12%) HIPAA
3 7 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.47%) QA
5 3 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.82%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (9.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (9.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.35%) Google
3 9 (3.70%) Facebook
4 5 (2.06%) Apple
4 5 (2.06%) Sony
4 5 (2.06%) Yahoo!
5 4 (1.65%) Adobe
5 4 (1.65%) F5
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle
6 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow