Software Developer Jobs in Kent

Software Developer
South East > Kent

The median Software Developer salary in Kent is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 66 71
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 26 34 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.73% 3.05% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 3.56% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 26 9 20
10th Percentile £28,750 - £27,450
25th Percentile £29,688 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £47,813
90th Percentile £60,625 £57,750 £78,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% +5.00%

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 1,397 954 1,260
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 85.56% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 525 732
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +1.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Kent

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in Kent

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Kent over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Kent

Software Developer
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 Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +10 9 £40,000 - 1
Canterbury - 7 £32,500 - 1
Tonbridge -14 3 £40,000 -5.88%
Tunbridge Wells -6 2 £40,000 -27.27%
Sittingbourne - 2 £60,000 -
Dartford -11 1 £52,500 -
Folkestone - 1 £70,000 -
Software Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 23 (88.46%) C#
2 20 (76.92%) .NET
3 12 (46.15%) CSS
4 11 (42.31%) SQL
4 11 (42.31%) HTML
4 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
5 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 7 (26.92%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (26.92%) MVC
6 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
6 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET
7 5 (19.23%) OOP
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) SDLC
8 4 (15.38%) Entity Framework
8 4 (15.38%) Product Strategy
8 4 (15.38%) Back Office
8 4 (15.38%) MySQL
8 4 (15.38%) Web Development
9 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
9 3 (11.54%) Umbraco
9 3 (11.54%) Azure
9 3 (11.54%) SaaS
9 3 (11.54%) CMS
9 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (11.54%) Microservices
9 3 (11.54%) Blazor
9 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
9 3 (11.54%) Razor View Engine

Software Developer 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 3 (11.54%) CMS
1 3 (11.54%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (11.54%) SaaS
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
3 4 (15.38%) Back Office
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (76.92%) .NET
2 12 (46.15%) CSS
3 11 (42.31%) HTML
4 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET
5 4 (15.38%) Entity Framework
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
6 3 (11.54%) Blazor
6 3 (11.54%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.69%) jQuery
7 2 (7.69%) Sass
7 2 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (3.85%) Next.js
8 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Full Stack Development
1 7 (26.92%) MVC
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps
2 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
2 5 (19.23%) OOP
2 5 (19.23%) SDLC
3 4 (15.38%) Product Strategy
3 4 (15.38%) Web Development
4 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
4 3 (11.54%) Microservices
4 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.69%) User Experience
6 1 (3.85%) B2C
6 1 (3.85%) Change Control
6 1 (3.85%) CRM
6 1 (3.85%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 23 (88.46%) C#
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft