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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 28 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -17 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 97 65 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.36% 7.78% 12.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.84% 8.59% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 81 38 190
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,563 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,375 £73,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 1,419 757 1,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 90.66% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 945 346 1,030
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +2 88 £60,000 - 25
Aylesbury - 3 £60,000 -
Marlow -10 1 £77,500 +40.91%
High Wycombe - 1 £50,000 - 7
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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 40 (41.24%) .NET
2 31 (31.96%) SQL
3 30 (30.93%) C#
4 26 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (25.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (22.68%) REST
7 19 (19.59%) Degree
8 18 (18.56%) Agile
9 17 (17.53%) Security Cleared
10 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
11 15 (15.46%) Salesforce
12 14 (14.43%) Data Integration
12 14 (14.43%) DevOps
13 13 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (13.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (13.40%) JavaScript
13 13 (13.40%) Power BI
13 13 (13.40%) Power Platform
14 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
14 12 (12.37%) Computer Science
14 12 (12.37%) Java
14 12 (12.37%) Middleware
14 12 (12.37%) Software Engineering
15 11 (11.34%) ASP.NET
15 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
15 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
16 10 (10.31%) Analytics
16 10 (10.31%) Budgeting
16 10 (10.31%) Budgeting and Forecasting
16 10 (10.31%) Business Strategy

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 (1.03%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 9 (9.28%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) Power Platform
2 9 (9.28%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 9 (9.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (4.12%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.40%) Power BI
2 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.15%) MySQL
3 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.12%) FileMaker
5 3 (3.09%) Power Query
5 3 (3.09%) Tableau
6 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.03%) Ant
3 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.03%) Gradle
3 1 (1.03%) JUnit
3 1 (1.03%) Maven
3 1 (1.03%) Mockito
3 1 (1.03%) Postman
3 1 (1.03%) Selenium
3 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.53%) Finance
3 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Manufacturing
6 9 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (9.28%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (41.24%) .NET
2 22 (22.68%) REST
3 12 (12.37%) Middleware
4 11 (11.34%) ASP.NET
5 9 (9.28%) .NET Framework
5 9 (9.28%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (9.28%) SAP CO-PA
5 9 (9.28%) SOAP
5 9 (9.28%) Visualforce
6 8 (8.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.15%) Sass
7 5 (5.15%) Vue
8 4 (4.12%) gRPC
8 4 (4.12%) htmx
8 4 (4.12%) Kendo UI
8 4 (4.12%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (4.12%) React
8 4 (4.12%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.06%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (25.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (18.56%) Agile
4 14 (14.43%) Data Integration
4 14 (14.43%) DevOps
5 13 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.37%) Computer Science
6 12 (12.37%) Software Engineering
7 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
8 10 (10.31%) Analytics
8 10 (10.31%) Budgeting
8 10 (10.31%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 10 (10.31%) Business Strategy
8 10 (10.31%) Data Analytics
8 10 (10.31%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (10.31%) ETL
8 10 (10.31%) Technology Strategy
8 10 (10.31%) Visualisation
9 9 (9.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.96%) SQL
2 30 (30.93%) C#
3 13 (13.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 13 (13.40%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.37%) Java
5 9 (9.28%) Apex Code
6 8 (8.25%) Python
7 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.12%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.09%) C
9 3 (3.09%) C++
9 3 (3.09%) COBOL
9 3 (3.09%) PHP
10 1 (1.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Degree
2 17 (17.53%) Security Cleared
3 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (15.46%) Salesforce
2 10 (10.31%) SAP
3 8 (8.25%) MuleSoft
4 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.12%) Telerik
6 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Zend