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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -24 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 94 82 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.71% 8.57% 12.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.34% 9.30% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 81 43 158
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,250 £73,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% +2.83% -

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 1,280 882 1,338
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.16% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 824 375 827
10th Percentile £30,825 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,625 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +8 84 £60,000 - 21
Aylesbury - 4 £60,000 -
High Wycombe - 1 £50,000 - 13
Marlow - 1 £77,500 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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 36 (38.30%) .NET
2 29 (30.85%) C#
2 29 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (30.85%) SQL
3 24 (25.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (22.34%) REST
5 20 (21.28%) Degree
6 18 (19.15%) Agile
7 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
7 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
8 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
9 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (14.89%) Java
9 14 (14.89%) Power BI
9 14 (14.89%) Power Platform
10 13 (13.83%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
10 13 (13.83%) Data Integration
10 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
10 13 (13.83%) Salesforce
11 12 (12.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (12.77%) DevOps
12 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET
12 11 (11.70%) Azure
12 11 (11.70%) ETL
12 11 (11.70%) Git
12 11 (11.70%) Middleware
12 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.64%) Community of Practice
13 10 (10.64%) Decision-Making

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 (1.06%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 8 (8.51%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.70%) Azure
3 7 (7.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 7 (7.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.13%) AWS
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.06%) GitHub
6 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.89%) Power BI
3 8 (8.51%) MySQL
4 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.26%) FileMaker
6 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.19%) Power Query
6 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.19%) Tableau
7 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git
2 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.19%) Selenium
3 3 (3.19%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.06%) Ant
4 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.06%) Gradle
4 1 (1.06%) JUnit
4 1 (1.06%) Maven
4 1 (1.06%) Mockito
4 1 (1.06%) Postman
4 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.02%) Finance
3 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (10.64%) Law
6 9 (9.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (38.30%) .NET
2 21 (22.34%) REST
3 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.70%) Middleware
4 9 (9.57%) .NET Framework
5 8 (8.51%) SAP CO-PA
5 8 (8.51%) SOAP
6 7 (7.45%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (7.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (7.45%) Visualforce
7 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.32%) React
7 5 (5.32%) Sass
7 5 (5.32%) Vue
8 4 (4.26%) gRPC
8 4 (4.26%) JSON
8 4 (4.26%) Kendo UI
8 4 (4.26%) SignalR
8 4 (4.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (3.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.06%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (25.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (19.15%) Agile
4 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (13.83%) CI/CD
5 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
5 13 (13.83%) Data Integration
6 12 (12.77%) DevOps
7 11 (11.70%) ETL
7 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.64%) Community of Practice
8 10 (10.64%) Decision-Making
8 10 (10.64%) Technology Strategy
9 9 (9.57%) Analytics
9 9 (9.57%) Budgeting
9 9 (9.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 9 (9.57%) Business Strategy
9 9 (9.57%) Data Analytics
9 9 (9.57%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (9.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.85%) C#
1 29 (30.85%) SQL
2 14 (14.89%) Java
3 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (9.57%) Python
6 7 (7.45%) Apex Code
7 6 (6.38%) T-SQL
8 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.26%) C++
10 3 (3.19%) C
10 3 (3.19%) COBOL
10 3 (3.19%) PHP
11 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (21.28%) Degree
2 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
2 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.19%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) Salesforce
2 9 (9.57%) SAP
3 7 (7.45%) MuleSoft
4 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.26%) Telerik
6 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) Zend