Backend Developer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Backend Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Backend Developer salary in Buckinghamshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 125 112
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 3 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.35% 0.20% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.22% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £45,500 - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £66,250 - £78,750
90th Percentile £68,500 - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 749 1,815 1,233
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.12% 92.55% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 350 1,114 731
10th Percentile £26,200 £26,650 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,938 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £63,438 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Buckinghamshire

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Buckinghamshire

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in Buckinghamshire

Backend Developer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +47 2 £65,000 -7.14%
Bletchley - 1 £45,000 -
Backend Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Protractor
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Biomedicine
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Biotechnology
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Python

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
1 1 (33.33%) Protractor
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) LIMS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Biomedicine
2 1 (33.33%) Biotechnology
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM