IT Engineer Jobs in Kent

IT Engineer
South East > Kent

The median IT Engineer salary in Kent is £28,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 52 53
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 25 54 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.69% 4.66% 5.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 5.45% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25 35 69
10th Percentile £22,400 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £23,000 £27,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £28,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -18.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £33,250 £29,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £46,750 £34,200 £52,500
South East median annual salary £34,000 £31,500 £34,250
% change year-on-year +7.94% -8.03% +14.17%

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 1,373 990 1,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 85.49% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 552 722
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,050 £26,275
25th Percentile £30,625 £33,500 £33,094
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 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Kent

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in Kent.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Kent

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Kent

IT Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Dartford - 7 £31,500 - 1
Canterbury - 4 £24,000 -
Stansted -4 3 £44,500 +113.43%
Folkestone - 3 £28,000 -
West Malling -9 2 £23,500 - 1
Tonbridge - 2 £25,000 - 1
Rochester +7 1 £21,000 -
Maidstone -15 1 £28,000 -1.75% 1
Sevenoaks - 1 £55,000 -
IT Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, IT Engineer 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 IT Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Azure
3 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (44.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
5 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (28.00%) Windows 10
5 7 (28.00%) AWS
5 7 (28.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (28.00%) Android
6 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (16.00%) Meraki
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (12.00%) SaaS
8 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
8 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
8 3 (12.00%) IT Governance
8 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (12.00%) ITIL
9 2 (8.00%) VPN
9 2 (8.00%) Degree
9 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V

IT Engineer 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 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) Entra ID
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (28.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) VoIP
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Android
2 7 (28.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (28.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.00%) IT Governance
4 3 (12.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (4.00%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Bash
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Meraki
3 1 (4.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) WatchGuard