Backend Developer Jobs in Kent

Backend Developer
South East > Kent

The median Backend Developer salary in Kent is £63,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 100 115
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 14 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.94% 0.087% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.10% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 1
10th Percentile £37,500 - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -17.39% +53.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% +7.69%

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 1,384 985 1,248
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 85.73% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 549 736
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,950 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,899 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Kent

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Kent

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in Kent over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in Kent

Backend 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 Backend Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 3 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 - 4 £47,500 -
Ramsgate - 2 £62,500 -
Tonbridge - 1 £35,000 -
Backend Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Backend 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 Backend Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (78.57%) AWS
3 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
3 9 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (64.29%) MySQL
3 9 (64.29%) DevOps
3 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (64.29%) Clean Code
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (57.14%) GDPR
5 7 (50.00%) Master's Degree
5 7 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (50.00%) Cloud Native
5 7 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 7 (50.00%) gRPC
5 7 (50.00%) Serverless
5 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (50.00%) Azure Functions
5 7 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (50.00%) Data Privacy
5 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
5 7 (50.00%) IaaS
5 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
5 7 (50.00%) Microservices
5 7 (50.00%) Algorithms
5 7 (50.00%) API Development

Backend 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 5 (35.71%) CMS
2 4 (28.57%) Umbraco
3 2 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 7 (50.00%) IaaS
3 7 (50.00%) PaaS
3 7 (50.00%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Firebase
4 2 (14.29%) Google Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) MySQL
2 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (7.14%) Vite
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 7 (50.00%) gRPC
2 7 (50.00%) RESTful
2 7 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 7 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
1 9 (64.29%) Clean Code
1 9 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (64.29%) Data Protection
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) API Development
2 7 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 7 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 7 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 7 (50.00%) Microservices
2 7 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 2 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
1 7 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) GDPR
2 7 (50.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google