Defensive Programming Job Trends in Berkshire

Defensive Programming
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Defensive Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Defensive Programming 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.028% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Defensive Programming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,608 1,698 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.89% 89.60% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,759 687 928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £79,576
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Defensive Programming
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Defensive Programming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Defensive Programming job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Defensive Programming
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Defensive Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Defensive Programming

Defensive Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Zeppelin
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) zsh
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google