Career
Buxton began his career with Portsmouth where he progressed through the youth ranks at the club He gained first team experience with loan spells at Exeter City and Bournemouth. He joined Stoke City in January 2005 in order to find first team football.
His time at the Britannia Stadium was hampered by injury and he left for Sheffield Wednesday in October 2008.
Portsmouth
He was soon a regular in Graham Rix"s squad. However, following Harry Redknapp"s appointment as manager at the club, and the subsequent influx of new players, Buxton found games harder to come by.
He was loaned out to Exeter City for October 2002, but upon his return to Fratton Park still found the competition too great. In January he was loaned to A.F.C. Bournemouth for the remainder of the season.
He returned to Portsmouth for the 2003-2004 season, but by October he was again not in the first team picture, and so returned to Bournemouth for the season, this time playing 28 games for the Cherries.
lieutenant was a similar story during the 2004-2005 season when Buxton failed to break into the team on a regular basis. Stoke City
After turning down several loan offers he decided to call time on his Portsmouth career and transferred to Football League Championship club Stoke City in January 2005. He scored his first senior goal in Stoke"s 3–1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 2005.
However, he required an operation on his back, which kept him out for the remainder of the 2006-2007 season.
He since recovered and was ready for pre-season training, prior to the start of the 2007-2008 season. Buxton only appeared fleetingly in the 2007-2008 season, however he impressed when called upon putting in a man of the match performance against Queens Park Rangers.
Sheffield Wednesday
On 17 October 2008 Buxton moved to Sheffield Wednesday on an initial one-month loan deal. This was made a full deal on 26/01/09 after Buxton expressed his desire to leave Stoke and move to Wednesday.
He signed a 2 1⁄2-year contract.
On 31 January 2009, Buxton scored his first goal for Wednesday against Birmingham City. He has played in many different positions at Hillsborough. These are Right Back, Left Back, Centre Back, Right Wing and Centre Midfield.
In 2012-2013, Buxton was voted player of the year by the Sheffield Wednesday supporters.
This was following a consistency across over 40 games in a regularly changed Wednesday defensive unit Buxton was released by Wednesday at the end of the 2014-2015 season.
Rotherham United
In June 2015 Buxton signed for Rotherham United on a one-year contract with the option of a further year.