Backend Developer Jobs in Milton Keynes

Backend Developer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Backend Developer salary in Milton Keynes is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 85 -
Rank change year-on-year +47 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 2 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 0.78% 0.37% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.39% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £58,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £68,125 - -
90th Percentile £69,250 - -
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -9.68% +19.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 246 1,038 786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.72% 95.14% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 138 680 536
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,727
25th Percentile £43,438 £40,000 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £68,625 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,375 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,967 £47,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -6.00% -

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Milton Keynes

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in Milton Keynes.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Milton Keynes

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Backend Developer 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Protractor
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
1 1 (50.00%) Protractor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM