Senior Jobs in Kent

Senior
South East > Kent

The median Senior salary in Kent is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 159 114 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 10.76% 9.92% 12.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.58% 11.59% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 123 54 76
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,425 £25,625
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

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 1,373 984 1,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 85.64% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 551 724
10th Percentile £25,025 £27,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,813 £33,500 £33,281
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 £62,813
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Kent

Senior
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Senior in Kent

Senior
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Kent over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Kent

Senior
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 within the Kent region over the 6 months to 27 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 +26 28 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Chatham +23 18 £65,000 +30.00% 7
West Malling - 12 £62,500 - 1
Tonbridge - 11 £75,000 - 2
Tunbridge Wells -8 10 £60,000 +4.35%
Dartford -4 7 £70,000 - 1
Gravesend -2 4 £62,500 -4.82%
Aylesford - 3 £30,000 - 1
Sittingbourne - 3 £60,000 -
Sevenoaks -3 2 £48,750 - 2
Folkestone +3 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Greenhithe +2 1 £65,000 -
Rochester - 1 £45,000 - 2
Senior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 40 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.53%) Microsoft
3 37 (23.27%) Project Management
3 37 (23.27%) Agile
4 36 (22.64%) Azure
5 34 (21.38%) Degree
6 31 (19.50%) SQL
7 29 (18.24%) MATLAB
7 29 (18.24%) Simulink
8 28 (17.61%) Finance
9 27 (16.98%) .NET
10 25 (15.72%) Automotive
10 25 (15.72%) ISO 26262
10 25 (15.72%) Automotive SPICE
11 24 (15.09%) Stateflow
12 23 (14.47%) Mentoring
13 22 (13.84%) Software Engineering
14 21 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (13.21%) C
14 21 (13.21%) Algorithms
14 21 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.21%) J1939
15 19 (11.95%) Coaching
16 18 (11.32%) C#
17 17 (10.69%) Python
17 17 (10.69%) Configuration Management
17 17 (10.69%) Data Acquisition
18 16 (10.06%) ETL
19 15 (9.43%) IBM
19 15 (9.43%) Electronics

Senior 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 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.89%) WordPress
3 2 (1.26%) CMS
3 2 (1.26%) IIS
3 2 (1.26%) SAS
3 2 (1.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (18.24%) Simulink
2 24 (15.09%) Stateflow
3 11 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (4.40%) CANalyzer
5 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (1.89%) InDesign
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.64%) Azure
2 13 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.92%) AWS
4 7 (4.40%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.14%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.89%) Azure App Service
6 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.89%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.26%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.26%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.26%) SaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.63%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.63%) PaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.21%) J1939
2 10 (6.29%) Firewall
3 6 (3.77%) WAN
4 4 (2.52%) 4G
4 4 (2.52%) 5G
4 4 (2.52%) MPLS
4 4 (2.52%) VLAN
4 4 (2.52%) VPN
5 3 (1.89%) NAS
5 3 (1.89%) SAN
5 3 (1.89%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.26%) Broadband
6 2 (1.26%) DNS
6 2 (1.26%) LAN
6 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.26%) Wireless
7 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.14%) Power BI
6 5 (3.14%) Tableau
7 4 (2.52%) MySQL
8 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (9.43%) JIRA
2 14 (8.81%) ClearCase
2 14 (8.81%) Plastic SCM
3 7 (4.40%) ClearQuest
4 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.26%) Selenium
5 2 (1.26%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 40 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.61%) Finance
3 25 (15.72%) Automotive
4 15 (9.43%) Electronics
5 11 (6.92%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.66%) Telecoms
8 8 (5.03%) Retail
9 6 (3.77%) Marketing
10 5 (3.14%) Back Office
11 4 (2.52%) Legal
11 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.26%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.26%) Police
13 2 (1.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.98%) .NET
2 11 (6.92%) ASP.NET
2 11 (6.92%) CSS
3 10 (6.29%) HTML
4 9 (5.66%) .NET Framework
5 8 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.52%) Entity Framework
7 4 (2.52%) jQuery
7 4 (2.52%) React
7 4 (2.52%) Redux
8 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.63%) Kafka
9 1 (0.63%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.63%) LINQ
9 1 (0.63%) Next.js
9 1 (0.63%) RESTful
9 1 (0.63%) Sass
9 1 (0.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.21%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.29%) Embedded Systems
2 10 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.52%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (2.52%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.52%) IoT
6 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.89%) CCTV
7 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.89%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.26%) CMDB
9 1 (0.63%) AS400
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.52%) Windows
1 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.89%) VMS
3 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.27%) Agile
1 37 (23.27%) Project Management
2 23 (14.47%) Mentoring
3 22 (13.84%) Software Engineering
4 21 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (11.95%) Coaching
6 17 (10.69%) Configuration Management
6 17 (10.69%) Data Acquisition
7 16 (10.06%) ETL
8 14 (8.81%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (8.18%) ETL Development
9 13 (8.18%) Software Testing
10 12 (7.55%) Analytics
10 12 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
10 12 (7.55%) Validation
11 11 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (6.92%) Line Management
11 11 (6.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.50%) SQL
2 29 (18.24%) MATLAB
3 21 (13.21%) C
4 18 (11.32%) C#
5 17 (10.69%) Python
6 14 (8.81%) Embedded C
6 14 (8.81%) Perl
7 13 (8.18%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.52%) Java
9 4 (2.52%) VBA
10 3 (1.89%) C++
10 3 (1.89%) VB
10 3 (1.89%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.26%) Bash
11 2 (1.26%) PL/1
11 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) R
12 1 (0.63%) RPG
Qualifications
1 34 (21.38%) Degree
2 12 (7.55%) HND
3 7 (4.40%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.40%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.52%) CCSP
5 4 (2.52%) CESG Certified Professional
5 4 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.52%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (2.52%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.89%) MBA
6 3 (1.89%) PhD
7 2 (1.26%) ACCA
7 2 (1.26%) CIMA
7 2 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.72%) Automotive SPICE
1 25 (15.72%) ISO 26262
2 14 (8.81%) AUTOSAR
2 14 (8.81%) MISRA
3 8 (5.03%) QA
4 7 (4.40%) GDPR
5 4 (2.52%) COSHH
5 4 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.26%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (8.81%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.18%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (6.92%) Functional Safety
2 4 (2.52%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.43%) IBM
3 14 (8.81%) Lauterbach
4 11 (6.92%) VMware
5 9 (5.66%) Cisco
6 7 (4.40%) Facebook
6 7 (4.40%) Instagram
7 5 (3.14%) HP
8 4 (2.52%) Darktrace
8 4 (2.52%) Mitel
8 4 (2.52%) NEC
8 4 (2.52%) Ribbon
8 4 (2.52%) Veeam
9 3 (1.89%) Adobe
9 3 (1.89%) Citrix
9 3 (1.89%) Meraki
9 3 (1.89%) Oracle
10 2 (1.26%) Apple
10 2 (1.26%) Google
10 2 (1.26%) WatchGuard