Senior Developer Jobs in Kent

Senior Developer
South East > Kent

The median Senior Developer salary in Kent is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 79 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 39 27 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.62% 2.36% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 2.75% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36 15 18
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £39,900
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,125 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £66,875
90th Percentile - - £76,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

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 1,385 982 1,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 85.69% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 548 733
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,925 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £34,250
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 £60,825 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Kent

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Kent

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Kent

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tonbridge - 11 £75,000 - 1
Maidstone +20 9 £40,000 -36.00% 3
Tunbridge Wells -15 4 £57,500 +4.55%
Folkestone +2 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Chatham - 1 £63,500 -
Sittingbourne - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 19 (48.72%) .NET
2 15 (38.46%) C#
3 14 (35.90%) Full Stack Development
4 11 (28.21%) Project Management
5 10 (25.64%) E-Commerce
6 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 9 (23.08%) SQL
6 9 (23.08%) .NET Framework
6 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
7 8 (20.51%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (20.51%) Finance
7 8 (20.51%) CSS
7 8 (20.51%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (17.95%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 7 (17.95%) Microservices
8 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
8 7 (17.95%) HTML
9 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
9 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
9 6 (15.38%) QA
9 6 (15.38%) AWS
10 5 (12.82%) Azure
10 5 (12.82%) Back Office
10 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
11 4 (10.26%) Product Strategy
11 4 (10.26%) MVC
11 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
11 4 (10.26%) MySQL
11 4 (10.26%) ETL
11 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence

Senior 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 2 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) IIS
1 2 (5.13%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) MySQL
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) Tableau
4 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Back Office
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.69%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) .NET
2 9 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 8 (20.51%) CSS
3 8 (20.51%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (17.95%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 7 (17.95%) HTML
5 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.26%) Entity Framework
6 4 (10.26%) React
6 4 (10.26%) Redux
7 1 (2.56%) jQuery
7 1 (2.56%) Kafka
7 1 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) LINQ
7 1 (2.56%) Next.js
7 1 (2.56%) Sass
7 1 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Taxonomies
3 2 (5.13%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Full Stack Development
2 11 (28.21%) Project Management
3 10 (25.64%) E-Commerce
4 7 (17.95%) Microservices
5 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
6 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.26%) ETL
7 4 (10.26%) MVC
7 4 (10.26%) Product Strategy
8 3 (7.69%) Agile
8 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.69%) Data Acquisition
8 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis
8 3 (7.69%) Data Management
8 3 (7.69%) Data Modelling
8 3 (7.69%) Mathematics
8 3 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
8 3 (7.69%) Statistics
8 3 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) C#
2 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) C++
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) VB
4 1 (2.56%) PHP
4 1 (2.56%) R
4 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
1 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 3 (7.69%) MBA
1 3 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow