Backend Developer Jobs in Kent

Backend Developer
South East > Kent

The median Backend Developer salary in Kent is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 11 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.69% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £37,500 - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -

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 1,496 886 1,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 85.11% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 504 723
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,625 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,200 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Kent

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Kent

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in Kent over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in Kent

Backend 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 Backend Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Ramsgate - 2 £62,500 -
Tonbridge - 1 £35,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £40,000 -
Backend Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Backend 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 Backend Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (81.82%) MySQL
2 9 (81.82%) Data Protection
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Clean Code
3 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
3 8 (72.73%) GDPR
4 7 (63.64%) Master's Degree
4 7 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (63.64%) Serverless
4 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (63.64%) Azure Functions
4 7 (63.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (63.64%) Design Patterns
4 7 (63.64%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
4 7 (63.64%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (63.64%) gRPC
4 7 (63.64%) Data Privacy
4 7 (63.64%) API Development
4 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (63.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (63.64%) DynamoDB
4 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
4 7 (63.64%) Microservices

Backend 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 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Functions
2 7 (63.64%) IaaS
2 7 (63.64%) PaaS
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Firebase
3 2 (18.18%) Google Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) MySQL
2 7 (63.64%) DynamoDB
2 7 (63.64%) NoSQL
2 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Vite
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) gRPC
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
2 7 (63.64%) Web Services
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (18.18%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) CSS
5 1 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Algorithms
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Clean Code
1 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (81.82%) Data Protection
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) API Development
2 7 (63.64%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Deployment
2 7 (63.64%) Data Privacy
2 7 (63.64%) Design Patterns
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
2 7 (63.64%) Performance Optimisation
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Software Architecture
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
3 2 (18.18%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
1 7 (63.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) GDPR
2 7 (63.64%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google