Internet Job Trends in Kent

Internet
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Internet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 66 48
Rank change year-on-year +57 -18 +32
Permanent jobs citing Internet 150 11 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 14.25% 1.54% 2.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 63.56% 12.79% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 17
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,250 £29,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -58.57% +100.00%
75th Percentile £34,625 £29,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £41,375 - -
South East median annual salary £31,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -31.11% -14.29% +14.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 236 86 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.41% 12.08% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 59 32 88
10th Percentile £25,375 £30,800 -
25th Percentile £26,750 £36,625 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £41,250 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,050 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Internet job vacancy trend in Kent

Internet
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Internet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Internet

Internet
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Internet in Kent over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Internet in Kent

Internet
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Kent region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Swanley - 9 - -
Dartford - 8 £31,500 - 5
Greenhithe - 7 - -
Swanscombe - 7 - -
Westerham - 6 - -
Rochester - 4 £25,000 -
Sittingbourne - 2 £41,250 - 2
West Malling - 1 £27,500 - 1
Internet
South East

Internet
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:

Cloud Services
1 141 (94.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (1.33%) Azure
3 1 (0.67%) AWS
3 1 (0.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) Wireless
2 2 (1.33%) DHCP
2 2 (1.33%) DNS
2 2 (1.33%) Firewall
2 2 (1.33%) VLAN
2 2 (1.33%) VPN
2 2 (1.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.67%) DMZ
3 1 (0.67%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.67%) IPv4
3 1 (0.67%) LAN
3 1 (0.67%) MPLS
3 1 (0.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.67%) VoIP
3 1 (0.67%) VRRP
3 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 143 (95.33%) Social Skills
2 141 (94.00%) Banking
2 141 (94.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (0.67%) Electronics
3 1 (0.67%) Multimedia
3 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (77.33%) Lecturer
2 4 (2.67%) Telesales Executive
3 2 (1.33%) Developer
4 1 (0.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (0.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 1 (0.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (0.67%) Telecoms Specialist
4 1 (0.67%) Trainee
4 1 (0.67%) Trainee Developer
4 1 (0.67%) Trainee Software Developer
4 1 (0.67%) Voice Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.67%) .NET
1 1 (0.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (0.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (0.67%) Blazor
1 1 (0.67%) CSS
1 1 (0.67%) HTML
1 1 (0.67%) Node.js
1 1 (0.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 141 (94.00%) IoT
2 1 (0.67%) CCTV
2 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (0.67%) FMCG
2 1 (0.67%) PKI
2 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (94.67%) Cybersecurity
2 141 (94.00%) AI
2 141 (94.00%) Machine Learning
2 141 (94.00%) User Experience
2 141 (94.00%) Web Development
3 4 (2.67%) CRM
3 4 (2.67%) Telesales
4 2 (1.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (0.67%) Email Filtering
5 1 (0.67%) Facial Recognition
5 1 (0.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (0.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (0.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (0.67%) Microservices
5 1 (0.67%) Observability
5 1 (0.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (0.67%) Project Management
5 1 (0.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (0.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (0.67%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.67%) C#
2 1 (0.67%) Python
2 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (94.00%) Degree
1 141 (94.00%) Master's Degree
1 141 (94.00%) PhD
1 141 (94.00%) Postgraduate
2 2 (1.33%) CCNP
2 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.67%) CCDA
3 1 (0.67%) CCNA
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.33%) Cisco
3 1 (0.67%) Meraki
3 1 (0.67%) NetApp
3 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (0.67%) Splunk