Senior Software Developer Jobs in Kent

Senior Software Developer
South East > Kent

The median Senior Software Developer salary in Kent is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 97 115
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 11 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.75% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.40% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £62,500 - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

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 1,372 994 1,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 85.54% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 553 722
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,750 £26,275
25th Percentile £30,625 £33,500 £33,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +5.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £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%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Kent

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in Kent.

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in Kent

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in Kent over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in Kent

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 24 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
Maidstone - 9 £40,000 - 1
Sittingbourne - 1 £60,000 -
Folkestone - 1 £70,000 -
Senior Software Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) Back Office
4 4 (36.36%) MVC
4 4 (36.36%) MySQL
4 4 (36.36%) Product Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Entity Framework
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (9.09%) Change Control
6 1 (9.09%) Sass
6 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Next.js
6 1 (9.09%) Retail
6 1 (9.09%) Logistics
6 1 (9.09%) jQuery
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) PHP
6 1 (9.09%) CRM
6 1 (9.09%) B2C

Senior Software 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 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Back Office
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) Entity Framework
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) jQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) Sass
4 1 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (36.36%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Product Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) B2C
3 1 (9.09%) Change Control
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) CRM
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft