Developer Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Developer salary in Buckinghamshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 28 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -19 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 92 79 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.42% 8.31% 12.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.01% 9.05% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 42 178
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,575 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,125 £73,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,312 873 1,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 91.80% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 867 352 921
10th Percentile £30,650 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +17.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,921 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +13.84% -9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Developer in Buckinghamshire

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 Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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 +1 83 £60,000 - 23
Aylesbury - 3 £60,000 -
Marlow -10 1 £77,500 +40.91% 1
High Wycombe - 1 £50,000 - 6
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, Developer 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 35 (38.04%) .NET
2 28 (30.43%) SQL
3 27 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (28.26%) C#
5 25 (27.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (22.83%) REST
7 20 (21.74%) Degree
8 17 (18.48%) Agile
8 17 (18.48%) Security Cleared
9 16 (17.39%) SC Cleared
10 14 (15.22%) Data Integration
10 14 (15.22%) Salesforce
11 13 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
11 13 (14.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (14.13%) DevOps
11 13 (14.13%) Java
11 13 (14.13%) Power BI
11 13 (14.13%) Power Platform
12 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
12 11 (11.96%) Decision-Making
12 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
12 11 (11.96%) Middleware
12 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
13 10 (10.87%) Analytics
13 10 (10.87%) Budgeting
13 10 (10.87%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 10 (10.87%) Business Strategy
13 10 (10.87%) Data Analytics

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (1.09%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 9 (9.78%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.13%) Power Platform
2 9 (9.78%) Azure
3 8 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 8 (8.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.17%) AWS
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
6 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) Power BI
2 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.35%) FileMaker
4 4 (4.35%) MySQL
5 3 (3.26%) Power Query
5 3 (3.26%) Tableau
6 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.17%) Selenium
3 2 (2.17%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.09%) Ant
4 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.09%) Gradle
4 1 (1.09%) JUnit
4 1 (1.09%) Maven
4 1 (1.09%) Mockito
4 1 (1.09%) Postman
4 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.87%) Manufacturing
6 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (9.78%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) .NET
2 21 (22.83%) REST
3 11 (11.96%) Middleware
4 9 (9.78%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.78%) ASP.NET
4 9 (9.78%) SAP CO-PA
5 8 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 8 (8.70%) SOAP
5 8 (8.70%) Visualforce
6 7 (7.61%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.43%) Sass
8 4 (4.35%) CSS
8 4 (4.35%) gRPC
8 4 (4.35%) htmx
8 4 (4.35%) JSON
8 4 (4.35%) Kendo UI
8 4 (4.35%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (4.35%) SignalR
8 4 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (27.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (18.48%) Agile
4 14 (15.22%) Data Integration
5 13 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
5 13 (14.13%) DevOps
6 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
6 11 (11.96%) Decision-Making
6 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 10 (10.87%) Analytics
7 10 (10.87%) Budgeting
7 10 (10.87%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 10 (10.87%) Business Strategy
7 10 (10.87%) Data Analytics
7 10 (10.87%) Data Visualisation
7 10 (10.87%) ETL
7 10 (10.87%) Visualisation
8 9 (9.78%) Community of Practice
8 9 (9.78%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.43%) SQL
2 26 (28.26%) C#
3 13 (14.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (14.13%) Java
4 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.70%) Apex Code
6 7 (7.61%) Python
7 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.35%) C++
8 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.26%) C
9 3 (3.26%) COBOL
9 3 (3.26%) PHP
10 1 (1.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) Degree
2 17 (18.48%) Security Cleared
3 16 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.17%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Salesforce
2 10 (10.87%) SAP
3 7 (7.61%) MuleSoft
4 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.35%) Telerik
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.09%) Zend