Junior Jobs in Kent

Junior
South East > Kent

The median Junior salary in Kent is £31,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 83 76
Rank change year-on-year +42 -7 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 33 26 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.06% 1.66% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.90% 1.77% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 30 26 7
10th Percentile £25,575 £22,250 £18,500
25th Percentile £26,563 £25,250 £22,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £27,750 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.71% -7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £42,627 £29,313 £38,250
90th Percentile £44,500 £36,250 £45,000
South East median annual salary £33,500 £30,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +11.67% -11.76% +4.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 559 1,466 920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 68.84% 93.73% 85.58%
Number of salaries quoted 331 1,075 505
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Kent

Junior
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Junior in Kent

Junior
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in Kent over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in Kent

Junior
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Kent region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Maidstone +27 10 £30,000 +13.21% 7
Snodland - 9 £31,000 - 3
Rochester -20 8 £40,101 +43.22%
Tunbridge Wells +12 3 £26,000 -5.45%
Sevenoaks +9 1 £42,500 +60.38% 2
Junior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 21 (63.64%) HTML
2 20 (60.61%) CSS
3 19 (57.58%) JavaScript
3 19 (57.58%) PHP
4 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (48.48%) MySQL
6 10 (30.30%) E-Commerce
6 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
7 9 (27.27%) Degree
7 9 (27.27%) Mathematics
7 9 (27.27%) Physics
7 9 (27.27%) CakePHP
7 9 (27.27%) Laravel
8 8 (24.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
8 8 (24.24%) Git
8 8 (24.24%) UML
9 7 (21.21%) OOP
9 7 (21.21%) Web Services
9 7 (21.21%) IBM
9 7 (21.21%) MATLAB
9 7 (21.21%) Simulink
9 7 (21.21%) Project Management
9 7 (21.21%) SysML
9 7 (21.21%) Retail
9 7 (21.21%) MVC
9 7 (21.21%) Electronics
9 7 (21.21%) Aerospace
9 7 (21.21%) LAMP
9 7 (21.21%) PLM

Junior 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Simulink
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.03%) GitHub
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.03%) SaaS
2 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
2 7 (21.21%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.03%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Aerospace
2 7 (21.21%) Electronics
2 7 (21.21%) Retail
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (63.64%) HTML
2 20 (60.61%) CSS
3 9 (27.27%) CakePHP
3 9 (27.27%) Laravel
4 7 (21.21%) LAMP
4 7 (21.21%) RESTful
4 7 (21.21%) Web Services
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.03%) Jest
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) JSP
5 1 (3.03%) Middleware
5 1 (3.03%) Next.js
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
1 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) E-Commerce
3 9 (27.27%) Mathematics
3 9 (27.27%) Physics
4 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
4 8 (24.24%) UML
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.21%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 7 (21.21%) MVC
5 7 (21.21%) OOP
5 7 (21.21%) PLM
5 7 (21.21%) Project Management
5 7 (21.21%) SysML
5 7 (21.21%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Clean Code
7 2 (6.06%) Agile
7 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.06%) Code Quality
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) JavaScript
1 19 (57.58%) PHP
2 7 (21.21%) MATLAB
3 5 (15.15%) C#
4 3 (9.09%) C
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) Python
6 1 (3.03%) Ada
6 1 (3.03%) Rust
6 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 8 (24.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) IBM
2 4 (12.12%) Twitter
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft