Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Senior Software Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 3 19 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.34% 0.97% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 1.05% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,750 £50,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £58,750 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -14.86% +25.45%
75th Percentile £68,250 £65,938 £77,500
90th Percentile - £75,250 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.98% -5.36% +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 785 1,811 1,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.10% 92.54% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 349 1,109 728
10th Percentile £26,150 £26,900 £28,954
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Buckinghamshire.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Senior Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 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 +50 3 £65,500 -1.13% 5
Senior Software Engineer
South East

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Evolutionary Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) IoT
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case

Senior Software Engineer 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Android Development
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) iOS Development
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft