Senior Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Senior
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Senior salary in Buckinghamshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 109 110 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 8.18% 11.39% 9.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.99% 12.30% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 65 57 70
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,500 £42,798
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,250 £81,625
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 1,212 894 1,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.55% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 773 389 646
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £64,219
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Buckinghamshire

Senior
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 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 13 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 +4 69 £63,000 -16.00% 34
Aylesbury +5 8 £75,000 +150.00%
Marlow -7 6 - - 1
High Wycombe -1 5 £70,000 +16.67% 36
Buckingham +5 4 £80,000 +146.15%
Newport Pagnell -4 4 £68,750 -
Gerrards Cross - 3 - -
Bletchley -11 2 - -
Amersham - 1 £32,500 -
Senior
South East

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 25 (22.94%) Azure
2 24 (22.02%) Degree
3 22 (20.18%) .NET
4 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
5 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
6 16 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (13.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (12.84%) C#
8 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.93%) SQL Server
10 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.01%) SQL
11 11 (10.09%) SaaS
12 10 (9.17%) Agile
12 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
13 9 (8.26%) Commercial Awareness
13 9 (8.26%) Git
13 9 (8.26%) JIRA
13 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
13 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
14 8 (7.34%) AI
14 8 (7.34%) Analytics
14 8 (7.34%) GDPR
14 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
14 8 (7.34%) Roadmaps
15 7 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
16 6 (5.50%) AWS
16 6 (5.50%) Data Quality
16 6 (5.50%) GTM Strategy
16 6 (5.50%) Project Delivery

Senior 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 4 (3.67%) CMS
1 4 (3.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) WinCC
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.92%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.94%) Azure
2 11 (10.09%) SaaS
3 6 (5.50%) AWS
4 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.75%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.83%) dbt
7 2 (1.83%) Fivetran
7 2 (1.83%) GCP
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.92%) Intacct
8 1 (0.92%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) Firewall
2 3 (2.75%) SMS
3 2 (1.83%) Modbus
4 1 (0.92%) BGP
4 1 (0.92%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.92%) DNS
4 1 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.92%) ICMP
4 1 (0.92%) IPsec
4 1 (0.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.92%) NGFW
4 1 (0.92%) OSPF
4 1 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.92%) SAN
4 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.50%) Tableau
3 5 (4.59%) Metadata
3 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.59%) Power BI
4 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.75%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Git
1 9 (8.26%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.83%) Selenium
3 2 (1.83%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.34%) Law
5 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.50%) Marketing
6 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Finance
7 5 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Local Government
7 5 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.92%) Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.18%) .NET
2 5 (4.59%) .NET Framework
2 5 (4.59%) REST
3 3 (2.75%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.83%) Playwright
4 2 (1.83%) React
5 1 (0.92%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.92%) Blazor
5 1 (0.92%) Next.js
5 1 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.67%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.83%) N-Tier
4 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.83%) SCADA
4 2 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Windows
2 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.92%) Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
2 16 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (13.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (9.17%) Agile
6 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
7 9 (8.26%) Commercial Awareness
8 8 (7.34%) AI
8 8 (7.34%) Analytics
8 8 (7.34%) Roadmaps
9 7 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (5.50%) GTM Strategy
10 6 (5.50%) Project Delivery
10 6 (5.50%) Risk Management
11 5 (4.59%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (4.59%) CAD
11 5 (4.59%) Data Modelling
11 5 (4.59%) ETL
11 5 (4.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.84%) C#
2 12 (11.01%) SQL
3 6 (5.50%) Python
4 5 (4.59%) Java
5 2 (1.83%) C
6 1 (0.92%) Bash
6 1 (0.92%) Korn
6 1 (0.92%) R
6 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Degree
2 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.75%) HNC
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.92%) CGEIT
5 1 (0.92%) CISSP
5 1 (0.92%) CRISC
5 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.92%) MCSE
5 1 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) GDPR
2 6 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.59%) QA
4 4 (3.67%) Def Stans
5 3 (2.75%) PMO
6 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.83%) NIST
7 1 (0.92%) GRC
7 1 (0.92%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.92%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
1 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Nessus
2 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (3.67%) Tenable
3 3 (2.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (2.75%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Cisco
4 1 (0.92%) Dell
4 1 (0.92%) F5
4 1 (0.92%) Google
4 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.92%) Rockwell
4 1 (0.92%) Sage
4 1 (0.92%) SAP
4 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.92%) Siemens
4 1 (0.92%) Splunk