Software Engineering Jobs in Kent

Software Engineering
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 46 37
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 -13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 42 63 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.86% 4.23% 6.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 5.14% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 27 27 33
10th Percentile £34,900 £34,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,912 £35,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -33.33% +22.73%
75th Percentile £71,875 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 - £81,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 1,225 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 87.73% 82.33% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 310 899 544
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,800
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% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Kent

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Kent

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Kent over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Kent

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Rochester -15 24 £60,000 +62.16% 7
Maidstone - 5 £70,000 - 8
Chatham - 4 £90,000 -
Margate - 1 £62,500 - 2
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 1 (2.38%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Simulink
2 1 (2.38%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) GCP
3 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Subversion
3 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.38%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (2.38%) LabVIEW
General
1 17 (40.48%) Electronics
2 7 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 5 (11.90%) Military
4 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Retail Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Avionics
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 13 (30.95%) Senior
2 13 (30.95%) Senior Software Engineer
3 12 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Software Assurance Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) Lead
6 5 (11.90%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Graduate
9 2 (4.76%) Graduate Embedded Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Junior
9 2 (4.76%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Node.js
2 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
3 4 (9.52%) .NET
3 4 (9.52%) Kafka
4 3 (7.14%) HTML
4 3 (7.14%) Pandas
5 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.76%) CSS
5 2 (4.76%) React
5 2 (4.76%) RESTful
6 1 (2.38%) JSON
6 1 (2.38%) JSP
6 1 (2.38%) Middleware
6 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.38%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.38%) FPGA
3 1 (2.38%) Verilog
3 1 (2.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (2.38%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.38%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Mathematics
1 15 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (28.57%) Physics
3 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 9 (21.43%) Software Architecture
3 9 (21.43%) Software Assurance
3 9 (21.43%) Validation
3 9 (21.43%) Verification and Validation
4 6 (14.29%) Agile
5 5 (11.90%) Analytics
5 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
5 5 (11.90%) OO
5 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (9.52%) Data Engineering
6 4 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (9.52%) Information Assurance
6 4 (9.52%) UML
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) C
2 14 (33.33%) C++
3 13 (30.95%) C#
4 12 (28.57%) Java
5 10 (23.81%) MATLAB
6 6 (14.29%) Rust
7 4 (9.52%) Go
8 3 (7.14%) Ada
8 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 3 (7.14%) SQL
8 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.38%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.38%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (33.33%) Degree
3 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 6 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Databricks
1 4 (9.52%) Siemens
2 1 (2.38%) Google