Senior Job Trends in Rochester

Senior
Kent > Rochester

The median Senior salary in Rochester is £53,500 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 5 10 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 10 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Rochester 16.67% 18.33% -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% 18.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile £47,400 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -
75th Percentile £55,250 £73,000 -
90th Percentile £55,850 £73,400 -
Kent median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Rochester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Rochester. 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 Rochester with a recognized job title 60 60 11
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 40 43 7
10th Percentile - £34,400 £26,800
25th Percentile £24,000 £45,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +78.46% -61.76%
75th Percentile £56,688 £72,500 £38,250
90th Percentile £76,310 £75,000 £39,000
Kent median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Rochester

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Rochester

Senior
Salary Trend in Rochester

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Rochester.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Rochester

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

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 Rochester region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (60.00%) HNC
2 6 (60.00%) Validation
3 5 (50.00%) Siemens
4 4 (40.00%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Coaching
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance
5 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
5 2 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Physics
5 2 (20.00%) Requirements Management
5 2 (20.00%) Simulink
5 2 (20.00%) SysML
6 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (10.00%) Confluence
6 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (10.00%) ERP
6 1 (10.00%) JIRA
6 1 (10.00%) Linux
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) OCI
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11i

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Rochester 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Avionics
2 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Military
4 2 (20.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Validation
2 4 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Physics
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (20.00%) SysML
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) PLM
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Statistics
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (60.00%) HNC
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Siemens
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat