Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 158 365 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.04% 15.06% 16.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.65% 15.84% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 93 247 273
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,246 £45,500
25th Percentile £50,848 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,826 2,304 1,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 95.09% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 788 1,305 1,267
10th Percentile £27,800 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +7 83 £55,565 -8.16% 16
Slough -31 32 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Bracknell -4 22 £85,000 +21.43% 5
Maidenhead -46 6 £60,000 - 2
Windsor -53 5 - - 8
Wokingham -3 3 £28,000 -62.67%
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 64 (40.51%) HTML
1 64 (40.51%) Agile
2 63 (39.87%) JavaScript
3 62 (39.24%) Java
3 62 (39.24%) AWS
4 55 (34.81%) Docker
5 48 (30.38%) Kubernetes
6 46 (29.11%) TDD
7 43 (27.22%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (27.22%) Microservices
7 43 (27.22%) CI/CD
8 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
8 42 (26.58%) SQL
8 42 (26.58%) Web Services
9 41 (25.95%) Spring
10 40 (25.32%) Jenkins
10 40 (25.32%) Spring Boot
11 38 (24.05%) REST
11 38 (24.05%) JUnit
12 37 (23.42%) Public Sector
13 36 (22.78%) BDD
14 35 (22.15%) DevOps
14 35 (22.15%) JSON
14 35 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (22.15%) Distributed Systems
15 34 (21.52%) Security Cleared
15 34 (21.52%) Relational Database
16 33 (20.89%) Azure
16 33 (20.89%) Git
17 32 (20.25%) Serverless

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.43%) JBoss
1 7 (4.43%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (1.90%) CMS
2 3 (1.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Camtasia
1 3 (1.90%) Lectora
1 3 (1.90%) Snagit
2 2 (1.27%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.27%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.24%) AWS
2 33 (20.89%) Azure
3 32 (20.25%) Amazon ECS
3 32 (20.25%) Amazon EKS
3 32 (20.25%) Serverless
4 30 (18.99%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (10.13%) GCP
6 13 (8.23%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.80%) AWS KMS
10 5 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.16%) Route 53
11 4 (2.53%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.27%) GitHub
12 2 (1.27%) SaaS
13 1 (0.63%) Azure Cognitive Search
13 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (27.22%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (21.52%) Relational Database
3 26 (16.46%) OLTP
4 25 (15.82%) RDBMS
5 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.80%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.53%) Power BI
9 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.27%) Metadata
11 1 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 38 (24.05%) JUnit
3 33 (20.89%) Git
4 30 (18.99%) Mockito
5 23 (14.56%) JMeter
6 8 (5.06%) Maven
7 7 (4.43%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.80%) DbUnit
8 6 (3.80%) jMock
9 5 (3.16%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.90%) JIRA
General
1 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.42%) Public Sector
3 27 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.92%) Law
5 16 (10.13%) Marketing
6 11 (6.96%) Finance
7 4 (2.53%) Humanities
7 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (40.51%) HTML
2 42 (26.58%) Web Services
3 41 (25.95%) Spring
4 40 (25.32%) Spring Boot
5 38 (24.05%) REST
6 35 (22.15%) JSON
7 31 (19.62%) ActiveMQ
8 30 (18.99%) Apache Camel
8 30 (18.99%) Hibernate
9 28 (17.72%) RESTful
10 23 (14.56%) jQuery
10 23 (14.56%) WireMock
11 22 (13.92%) React
12 20 (12.66%) XML
13 19 (12.03%) Node.js
13 19 (12.03%) SOAP
14 18 (11.39%) CSS
15 17 (10.76%) .NET
16 10 (6.33%) AngularJS
17 8 (5.06%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.15%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (13.29%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (1.90%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.27%) Acoustics
5 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Social Media
5 2 (1.27%) Video Editing
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) IoT
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.51%) Agile
2 46 (29.11%) TDD
3 43 (27.22%) CI/CD
3 43 (27.22%) Microservices
4 36 (22.78%) BDD
5 35 (22.15%) DevOps
5 35 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (15.19%) Scrum
7 23 (14.56%) Process Management
7 23 (14.56%) Workflow
8 22 (13.92%) Containerisation
8 22 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (13.29%) Clean Code
9 21 (13.29%) Configuration Management
9 21 (13.29%) Kanban
10 19 (12.03%) Issue Tracking
10 19 (12.03%) Propensity Modelling
11 18 (11.39%) User Experience
12 17 (10.76%) Test Automation
13 15 (9.49%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (39.87%) JavaScript
2 62 (39.24%) Java
3 42 (26.58%) SQL
4 30 (18.99%) C#
5 28 (17.72%) PL/SQL
5 28 (17.72%) Python
6 23 (14.56%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.16%) X++
8 3 (1.90%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.27%) Bash
9 2 (1.27%) C
9 2 (1.27%) C++
9 2 (1.27%) Fortran
9 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.96%) Degree
4 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.90%) PhD
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) QA
2 10 (6.33%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (34.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (30.38%) Kubernetes
2 23 (14.56%) Kibana
3 7 (4.43%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (17.72%) Oracle
2 23 (14.56%) Dynatrace
2 23 (14.56%) Splunk
3 16 (10.13%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.16%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.27%) Adobe
6 2 (1.27%) Facebook
6 2 (1.27%) Instagram
6 2 (1.27%) YouTube
7 1 (0.63%) PayPal