Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 23 7
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 240 148 426
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 9.32% 9.23% 14.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.96% 11.54% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 201 99 351
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +2.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 2,410 1,282 2,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 79.98% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 585 2,068
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,875 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -10.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% -9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Developer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Reading -2 126 £60,000 -4.76% 8
Slough +17 39 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Bracknell +3 33 £85,000 +9.68% 4
Wokingham +2 13 £50,000 - 2
Windsor +38 5 £70,000 - 2
Maidenhead +17 5 £67,500 +17.39%
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 18 May 2026, Developer 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 Berkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 63 (26.25%) SQL
2 54 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 51 (21.25%) Java
4 49 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.17%) Oracle
6 44 (18.33%) AWS
6 44 (18.33%) JavaScript
6 44 (18.33%) PL/SQL
7 42 (17.50%) React
8 39 (16.25%) Azure
9 37 (15.42%) Agile
9 37 (15.42%) C#
10 36 (15.00%) CI/CD
10 36 (15.00%) OLTP
11 33 (13.75%) DevOps
11 33 (13.75%) HTML
12 32 (13.33%) Degree
13 30 (12.50%) Python
14 29 (12.08%) Microsoft
15 28 (11.67%) .NET
16 27 (11.25%) Node.js
16 27 (11.25%) SC Cleared
16 27 (11.25%) Security Cleared
17 26 (10.83%) Microservices
18 25 (10.42%) REST
19 24 (10.00%) Power Platform
20 23 (9.58%) Git
20 23 (9.58%) Kubernetes
21 22 (9.17%) TypeScript
22 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL

Developer Skill Set
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 9 (3.75%) WordPress
2 8 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) JBoss
4 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (18.33%) AWS
2 39 (16.25%) Azure
3 24 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.50%) Serverless
5 17 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (7.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (4.58%) SaaS
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.92%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.67%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.25%) Azure AI
14 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.83%) BigCommerce
14 2 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.83%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.00%) OLTP
2 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.92%) MySQL
4 7 (2.92%) Power BI
4 7 (2.92%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.42%) Looker
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (9.58%) Git
2 17 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.08%) JUnit
4 3 (1.25%) JIRA
4 3 (1.25%) JMeter
4 3 (1.25%) Mockito
5 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.83%) GitLab
5 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (12.50%) Finance
2 28 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 15 (6.25%) Retail
5 13 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.50%) Digital Health
6 6 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.67%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.42%) Billing
9 1 (0.42%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.50%) React
2 33 (13.75%) HTML
3 28 (11.67%) .NET
4 27 (11.25%) Node.js
5 25 (10.42%) REST
6 21 (8.75%) SOAP
7 20 (8.33%) Spring
7 20 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 19 (7.92%) XML
9 14 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET
11 12 (5.00%) Web Services
12 11 (4.58%) JSON
13 10 (4.17%) Mustache
13 10 (4.17%) RESTful
14 9 (3.75%) .NET Core
14 9 (3.75%) NumPy
14 9 (3.75%) Pandas
14 9 (3.75%) Ruby on Rails
15 8 (3.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.75%) Mobile App
2 15 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 9 (3.75%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.92%) IoT
4 7 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.08%) NHS
6 3 (1.25%) Arduino
6 3 (1.25%) PMI
6 3 (1.25%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.83%) Robotics
7 2 (0.83%) Social Network
8 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.83%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.75%) Android
3 8 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (15.42%) Agile
4 36 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 33 (13.75%) DevOps
6 26 (10.83%) Microservices
7 21 (8.75%) Software Testing
8 19 (7.92%) Scrum
9 17 (7.08%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (6.67%) Data Governance
10 16 (6.67%) TDD
11 15 (6.25%) Business Process Analysis
11 15 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (5.42%) AI
12 13 (5.42%) SDLC
13 10 (4.17%) B2B
13 10 (4.17%) Clean Code
13 10 (4.17%) iOS Development
13 10 (4.17%) OO
14 9 (3.75%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 63 (26.25%) SQL
2 51 (21.25%) Java
3 44 (18.33%) JavaScript
3 44 (18.33%) PL/SQL
4 37 (15.42%) C#
5 30 (12.50%) Python
6 22 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.75%) Ruby
8 7 (2.92%) Swift
9 6 (2.50%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) ABAP
10 5 (2.08%) C++
10 5 (2.08%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.25%) C
12 3 (1.25%) Pascal
12 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.83%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (13.33%) Degree
2 27 (11.25%) SC Cleared
2 27 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.83%) PhD
5 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.08%) GDPR
2 4 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.92%) Ansible
2 7 (2.92%) Kibana
2 7 (2.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (19.17%) Oracle
2 29 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.50%) AppDynamics
3 6 (2.50%) IBM
4 5 (2.08%) SAP
5 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.25%) Motorola
5 3 (1.25%) Splunk
6 2 (0.83%) Databricks
7 1 (0.42%) Informatica
7 1 (0.42%) Salesforce