Senior Job Trends in Kent

Senior
South East > Kent

The median Senior salary in Kent is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 68 84 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 6.48% 11.80% 9.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.18% 13.50% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 33 37 50
10th Percentile £40,500 £34,400 £49,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,800 £81,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -1.54%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 947 622 580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 87.36% 89.37%
Number of salaries quoted 530 239 478
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,500 £23,108
25th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £58,438
90th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Senior job vacancy trend in Kent

Senior
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Kent.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Kent

Senior
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Kent over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 2026. 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
Rochester +5 10 £53,500 -2.73% 2
Maidstone 0 8 £60,000 +33.33% 14
Sandwich - 8 £55,000 - 1
West Malling - 6 £65,000 - 1
Tunbridge Wells +1 4 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Chatham -3 3 £75,000 +7.14%
Sevenoaks - 2 £52,500 -
Sittingbourne 0 1 £52,500 +5.00%
Tonbridge - 1 £52,500 -
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Kent region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 17 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (23.53%) Degree
4 14 (20.59%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (17.65%) Agile
5 12 (17.65%) Coaching
5 12 (17.65%) Siemens
5 12 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
6 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
6 11 (16.18%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (13.24%) A+ Certification
8 9 (13.24%) AWS
8 9 (13.24%) AWS Certification
8 9 (13.24%) Business Continuity
8 9 (13.24%) Digital Transformation Strategy
8 9 (13.24%) Information Assurance
8 9 (13.24%) ITIL
8 9 (13.24%) ITSM
8 9 (13.24%) Mathematics
8 9 (13.24%) MATLAB
8 9 (13.24%) MCSE
8 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (13.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 9 (13.24%) Physics
8 9 (13.24%) Remote Desktop
8 9 (13.24%) Requirements Management
8 9 (13.24%) ServiceNow
8 9 (13.24%) Simulink

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.47%) Confluence
1 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (13.24%) Simulink
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (13.24%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) Azure
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (5.88%) Figma
4 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.41%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.47%) OCI
6 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Metadata
2 4 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Finance
3 10 (14.71%) Electronics
3 10 (14.71%) Military
4 9 (13.24%) French Language
4 9 (13.24%) Swedish Language
5 6 (8.82%) Avionics
5 6 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.41%) Retail
8 2 (2.94%) Advertising
8 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
9 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) Laravel
2 1 (1.47%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.88%) Life Science
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.47%) FMCG
5 1 (1.47%) Linked Data
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Android
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.65%) Agile
1 12 (17.65%) Coaching
1 12 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
2 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
3 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (13.24%) Business Continuity
4 9 (13.24%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 9 (13.24%) Information Assurance
4 9 (13.24%) ITIL
4 9 (13.24%) ITSM
4 9 (13.24%) Mathematics
4 9 (13.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 9 (13.24%) Physics
4 9 (13.24%) Requirements Management
4 9 (13.24%) SysML
5 7 (10.29%) Change Management
5 7 (10.29%) Validation
6 6 (8.82%) Data Governance
7 5 (7.35%) Information Security
7 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) MATLAB
2 5 (7.35%) PHP
3 1 (1.47%) C
3 1 (1.47%) C#
3 1 (1.47%) C++
3 1 (1.47%) SQL
3 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (23.53%) Degree
3 9 (13.24%) A+ Certification
3 9 (13.24%) AWS Certification
3 9 (13.24%) MCSE
3 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.82%) HNC
5 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) ACCA
6 1 (1.47%) CISA
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) GMP
3 1 (1.47%) GRC
3 1 (1.47%) IFRS
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) Siemens
3 9 (13.24%) ServiceNow
3 9 (13.24%) VMware
4 4 (5.88%) Adobe
4 4 (5.88%) Tenable
5 2 (2.94%) BT
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat