Software Engineer Jobs in Kent

Software Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Software Engineer salary in Kent is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 91 48
Rank change year-on-year +40 -43 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 51 11 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.45% 0.96% 5.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.71% 1.12% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 18
10th Percentile £32,800 £37,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £48,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% +61.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £85,000
90th Percentile - £56,875 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +15.00%

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 1,373 979 1,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 85.58% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 547 727
10th Percentile £25,025 £26,900 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,813 £33,500 £34,250
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 £61,075 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Kent

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Kent

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Kent

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 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
Rochester +12 7 £37,000 +23.33% 5
Sandwich - 7 £27,500 - 1
Sittingbourne - 5 £55,000 -
Dartford -10 1 £100,000 +90.48%
Swanley - 1 £45,000 -
Tonbridge - 1 £47,500 -
Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (90.20%) Software Engineering
2 35 (68.63%) C
3 26 (50.98%) Electronics
4 24 (47.06%) MATLAB
5 23 (45.10%) Agile
6 22 (43.14%) Degree
7 21 (41.18%) Simulink
7 21 (41.18%) Stateflow
7 21 (41.18%) IBM
7 21 (41.18%) Embedded C
7 21 (41.18%) Configuration Management
7 21 (41.18%) Automotive
7 21 (41.18%) ClearCase
7 21 (41.18%) Lauterbach
7 21 (41.18%) Plastic SCM
7 21 (41.18%) MISRA
8 19 (37.25%) Software Testing
9 18 (35.29%) Algorithms
10 17 (33.33%) Python
11 14 (27.45%) Data Acquisition
11 14 (27.45%) ISO 26262
11 14 (27.45%) AUTOSAR
11 14 (27.45%) J1939
11 14 (27.45%) Automotive SPICE
11 14 (27.45%) JIRA
11 14 (27.45%) Perl
11 14 (27.45%) ClearQuest
12 12 (23.53%) Validation
12 12 (23.53%) Verification and Validation
13 11 (21.57%) HND

Software Engineer 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:

Applications
1 21 (41.18%) Simulink
1 21 (41.18%) Stateflow
2 7 (13.73%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.96%) AWS
1 1 (1.96%) Azure
1 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (27.45%) J1939
2 5 (9.80%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (41.18%) ClearCase
1 21 (41.18%) Plastic SCM
2 14 (27.45%) ClearQuest
2 14 (27.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) GDB
3 1 (1.96%) Git
3 1 (1.96%) NUnit
3 1 (1.96%) Subversion
3 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (50.98%) Electronics
2 21 (41.18%) Automotive
3 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.84%) Military
4 4 (7.84%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) Akka
2 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.96%) CSS
2 1 (1.96%) CSS3
2 1 (1.96%) HTML
2 1 (1.96%) HTML5
2 1 (1.96%) Kafka
2 1 (1.96%) Spring
2 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 10 (19.61%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (90.20%) Software Engineering
2 23 (45.10%) Agile
3 21 (41.18%) Configuration Management
4 19 (37.25%) Software Testing
5 14 (27.45%) Data Acquisition
6 12 (23.53%) Validation
6 12 (23.53%) Verification and Validation
7 7 (13.73%) Mathematics
7 7 (13.73%) Physics
7 7 (13.73%) Software Architecture
8 6 (11.76%) Project Management
9 5 (9.80%) Battery Management
9 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (9.80%) Quality Management
9 5 (9.80%) Requirements Management
9 5 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (5.88%) Embedded Software Development
11 2 (3.92%) DevOps
11 2 (3.92%) Microservices
12 1 (1.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (68.63%) C
2 24 (47.06%) MATLAB
3 21 (41.18%) Embedded C
4 17 (33.33%) Python
5 14 (27.45%) Perl
6 10 (19.61%) C#
7 5 (9.80%) C++
8 4 (7.84%) Ada
9 2 (3.92%) SQL
10 1 (1.96%) Java
10 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (43.14%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) HND
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (41.18%) MISRA
2 14 (27.45%) Automotive SPICE
2 14 (27.45%) AUTOSAR
2 14 (27.45%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) IBM
1 21 (41.18%) Lauterbach
2 4 (7.84%) Facebook
2 4 (7.84%) Instagram
3 3 (5.88%) QinetiQ
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
200 Software Engineer jobs in the South East