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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 44 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 43 62 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.14% 4.10% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 5.04% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 26 29
10th Percentile £34,900 £34,000 -
25th Percentile £42,912 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,875 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 - £76,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%

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 693 1,229 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.80% 81.23% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 322 893 506
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,600
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 20 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 20 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% 9
Maidstone - 5 £70,000 - 2
Chatham - 4 £90,000 -
Tunbridge Wells +14 1 - - 1
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 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Simulink
2 1 (2.33%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.98%) Redis
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (6.98%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Subversion
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.33%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.33%) Maven
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (39.53%) Electronics
2 7 (16.28%) Aerospace
3 5 (11.63%) Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Military
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.30%) Retail Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Avionics
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Software Engineer
2 13 (30.23%) Senior
2 13 (30.23%) Senior Software Engineer
3 12 (27.91%) Principal Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) Software Assurance Engineer
5 8 (18.60%) Lead
6 5 (11.63%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Graduate
9 2 (4.65%) Graduate Embedded Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Junior
9 2 (4.65%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Node.js
2 5 (11.63%) GraphQL
2 5 (11.63%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
3 4 (9.30%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) Pandas
4 3 (6.98%) React
5 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.65%) RESTful
6 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.33%) JPA
6 1 (2.33%) JSON
6 1 (2.33%) JSP
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware
6 1 (2.33%) Redux
6 1 (2.33%) Spring
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.33%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) FPGA
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Verilog
3 1 (2.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.33%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Mathematics
1 15 (34.88%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (27.91%) Physics
3 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
3 9 (20.93%) Software Architecture
3 9 (20.93%) Software Assurance
3 9 (20.93%) Validation
3 9 (20.93%) Verification and Validation
4 7 (16.28%) Agile
5 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.63%) Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.63%) OO
6 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.30%) Information Assurance
7 4 (9.30%) OOP
7 4 (9.30%) Statistics
7 4 (9.30%) UML
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) C
2 14 (32.56%) C++
3 13 (30.23%) C#
3 13 (30.23%) Java
4 10 (23.26%) MATLAB
5 6 (13.95%) Rust
6 4 (9.30%) Go
6 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.30%) SQL
7 3 (6.98%) Ada
7 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.33%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.33%) Embedded C++
8 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (32.56%) Degree
3 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (6.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Terraform
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Databricks
1 4 (9.30%) Siemens
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Solace