Senior Developer Jobs in Kent

Senior Developer
South East > Kent

The median Senior Developer salary in Kent is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 68 79
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 7 39 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.95% 2.62% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 2.82% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7 36 15
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £46,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,125 £82,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 525 1,385 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.23% 92.89% 85.69%
Number of salaries quoted 322 1,031 548
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £26,925
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £59,361 £58,750 £60,825
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 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
Snodland - 3 £39,000 -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 7 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) OOP
3 3 (42.86%) LAMP
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 2 (28.57%) ESLint
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) CakePHP
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Telematics

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (28.57%) npm
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) ESLint
2 2 (28.57%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (28.57%) Sinon.JS
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) webpack
General
1 3 (42.86%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
1 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) LAMP
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (28.57%) CakePHP
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) Laravel
3 2 (28.57%) React
3 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
1 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) OOP
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Twitter