Senior Developer Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Senior Developer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Buckinghamshire is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 28 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.51% 2.62% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 2.68% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 24
10th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £77,813 £81,875 £84,688
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 1,015 1,044 770
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.90% 97.57% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 489 447 536
10th Percentile £30,450 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £72,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,500 £82,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Buckinghamshire

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 30 October 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 -6 3 £60,000 - 8
Bletchley -1 1 £45,000 -28.00%
Aylesbury - 1 £75,000 -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) React
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
4 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) Jasmine

Senior 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 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Jasmine
2 2 (33.33%) NUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) React
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) Jest
3 2 (33.33%) Playwright
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Online Games
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile First
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Rollbar