AI Job Trends in Kent

AI
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 58 85
Rank change year-on-year +41 +27 -7
Permanent jobs citing AI 105 8 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 7.05% 1.08% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.37% 1.46% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 48 4 13
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,525 £48,250
25th Percentile £30,563 £36,938 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £41,000 £106,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -61.32% -
75th Percentile £73,125 £41,500 £175,000
90th Percentile £118,750 - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,013 549 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 67.99% 74.29% 79.22%
Number of salaries quoted 678 345 883
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% -16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

AI job vacancy trend in Kent

AI
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Kent over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Kent

AI
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Kent region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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 - 24 £60,000 -
Canterbury - 23 £75,000 -
Chatham - 23 - -
Folkestone - 12 £29,000 -
Tonbridge - 3 £60,000 - 1
Whitstable - 3 £42,500 -
Westerham - 2 - -
Maidstone - 1 - - 9
Sevenoaks - 1 £67,500 - 2
Sheerness - 1 £75,000 -
Snodland - 1 - -
Edenbridge - 1 - -
West Malling - 1 £32,500 - 2
AI
South East

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 32 (30.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 78 (74.29%) Azure
2 57 (54.29%) Azure AI
3 46 (43.81%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.57%) Azure Machine Learning
5 9 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (8.57%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.71%) GitHub
7 5 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.81%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.81%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.86%) Figma
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.95%) AWS
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.95%) dbt
11 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) Broadband
2 4 (3.81%) DHCP
2 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 4 (3.81%) Firewall
3 3 (2.86%) VLAN
3 3 (2.86%) VPN
4 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (43.81%) Power BI
2 32 (30.48%) Tableau
3 22 (20.95%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.90%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Git
2 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.95%) NUnit
General
1 62 (59.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Finance
3 8 (7.62%) Marketing
4 5 (4.76%) Games
5 4 (3.81%) Advertising
6 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Military
7 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (32.38%) Analyst
1 34 (32.38%) Data Analyst
2 32 (30.48%) Junior
2 32 (30.48%) Junior Analyst
2 32 (30.48%) Junior Data Analyst
3 18 (17.14%) Developer
4 16 (15.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Data Manager
7 9 (8.57%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (8.57%) Finance Manager
8 5 (4.76%) Senior
9 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer
10 3 (2.86%) Architect
10 3 (2.86%) Digital Architect
10 3 (2.86%) Lead
11 2 (1.90%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 2 (1.90%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 2 (1.90%) Data Engineer
11 2 (1.90%) Data Science Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.14%) .NET
1 18 (17.14%) CSS
1 18 (17.14%) HTML
2 12 (11.43%) Ajax
2 12 (11.43%) CSS3
2 12 (11.43%) HTML5
2 12 (11.43%) jQuery
2 12 (11.43%) LESS
2 12 (11.43%) Sass
3 5 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.76%) Blazor
4 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (3.81%) ML.NET
5 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.90%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.90%) LangChain
5 2 (1.90%) Ray
5 2 (1.90%) vLLM
5 2 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.76%) Social Media
2 3 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Windows
2 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (43.81%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 19 (18.10%) Agile
4 17 (16.19%) User Experience
5 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 15 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.38%) DevOps
8 13 (12.38%) MVC
9 12 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 12 (11.43%) Data Cleansing
9 12 (11.43%) Data Governance
9 12 (11.43%) Data Visualisation
9 12 (11.43%) Mobile First
9 12 (11.43%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (11.43%) Visualisation
10 11 (10.48%) CI/CD
11 10 (9.52%) Data Engineering
12 9 (8.57%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (57.14%) Python
2 49 (46.67%) SQL
3 18 (17.14%) C#
4 14 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.90%) Bash
6 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.95%) Bicep
6 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.95%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 44 (41.90%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.81%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.95%) QA
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (6.67%) Docker
3 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.81%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Databricks
3 5 (4.76%) Adobe
4 4 (3.81%) Facebook
5 3 (2.86%) WatchGuard
6 1 (0.95%) HP
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.95%) Sage
6 1 (0.95%) Salesforce