Developer Jobs 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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 140 444 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.76% 14.06% 18.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.85% 14.72% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 92 356 454
10th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £37,725
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,813 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £90,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 1,290 3,017 2,834
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 80.68% 95.54% 92.52%
Number of salaries quoted 562 2,110 1,613
10th Percentile £29,525 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,671 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,673 £52,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -11.02% +2.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,475 £82,500 £93,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 +8 82 £63,000 +2.44% 190
Slough -23 33 £65,000 -3.70% 551
Bracknell -10 15 £77,500 +3.33% 19
Maidenhead -27 2 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Windsor -27 1 - - 5
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 65 (46.43%) Agile
2 51 (36.43%) Java
3 50 (35.71%) SQL
3 50 (35.71%) Docker
4 46 (32.86%) Microservices
5 45 (32.14%) AWS
6 44 (31.43%) TDD
7 41 (29.29%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (29.29%) HTML
7 41 (29.29%) Kubernetes
8 39 (27.86%) Git
8 39 (27.86%) JavaScript
8 39 (27.86%) Spring
9 38 (27.14%) Web Services
9 38 (27.14%) Jenkins
10 37 (26.43%) Spring Boot
10 37 (26.43%) SOAP
10 37 (26.43%) Serverless
11 36 (25.71%) DevOps
11 36 (25.71%) REST
12 35 (25.00%) JUnit
13 34 (24.29%) Scrum
14 33 (23.57%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (23.57%) Public Sector
15 32 (22.86%) SC Cleared
15 32 (22.86%) Security Cleared
15 32 (22.86%) Relational Database
16 31 (22.14%) BDD
17 30 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (21.43%) Amazon ECS

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 13 (9.29%) JBoss
1 13 (9.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (4.29%) Confluence
3 5 (3.57%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (1.43%) Final Cut Pro
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.71%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.14%) AWS
2 37 (26.43%) Serverless
3 30 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (14.29%) Azure
5 19 (13.57%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (11.43%) Power Platform
7 12 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (7.86%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.29%) AWS KMS
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.57%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.57%) Route 53
11 3 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (29.29%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (22.86%) Relational Database
3 25 (17.86%) OLTP
4 19 (13.57%) SQL Server
5 15 (10.71%) Power BI
6 14 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 13 (9.29%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.57%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.14%) MySQL
12 2 (1.43%) Metadata
12 2 (1.43%) Redis
13 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (27.86%) Git
2 38 (27.14%) Jenkins
3 35 (25.00%) JUnit
4 19 (13.57%) Mockito
5 12 (8.57%) JMeter
6 8 (5.71%) Maven
7 7 (5.00%) JIRA
7 7 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.29%) DbUnit
8 6 (4.29%) jMock
9 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.57%) Selenium
10 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.43%) GitLab
10 2 (1.43%) Mocha
10 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.71%) Gradle
General
1 33 (23.57%) Public Sector
2 25 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Law
5 7 (5.00%) Finance
6 6 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Marketing
8 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.29%) HTML
2 39 (27.86%) Spring
3 38 (27.14%) Web Services
4 37 (26.43%) SOAP
4 37 (26.43%) Spring Boot
5 36 (25.71%) REST
6 27 (19.29%) .NET
7 25 (17.86%) Apache Camel
8 22 (15.71%) React
9 20 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (13.57%) Hibernate
10 19 (13.57%) RESTful
10 19 (13.57%) XML
11 13 (9.29%) J2EE
12 12 (8.57%) jQuery
12 12 (8.57%) JSON
12 12 (8.57%) WireMock
13 11 (7.86%) AngularJS
13 11 (7.86%) Node.js
14 8 (5.71%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.57%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.43%) Acoustics
4 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.43%) Social Media
4 2 (1.43%) Video Editing
5 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (46.43%) Agile
2 46 (32.86%) Microservices
3 44 (31.43%) TDD
4 36 (25.71%) DevOps
5 34 (24.29%) Scrum
6 31 (22.14%) BDD
7 28 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 27 (19.29%) Kanban
9 25 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (12.14%) Software Testing
11 16 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (10.00%) Computer Science
13 12 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (8.57%) Clean Code
13 12 (8.57%) Process Management
13 12 (8.57%) Propensity Modelling
13 12 (8.57%) Workflow
14 10 (7.14%) Architectural Design
14 10 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.43%) Java
2 50 (35.71%) SQL
3 39 (27.86%) JavaScript
4 25 (17.86%) PL/SQL
5 21 (15.00%) C#
6 20 (14.29%) Python
7 12 (8.57%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.43%) VB.NET
9 7 (5.00%) X++
10 4 (2.86%) PHP
11 2 (1.43%) Bash
11 2 (1.43%) C
11 2 (1.43%) C++
11 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.43%) Fortran
12 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (22.86%) SC Cleared
1 32 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.57%) Degree
3 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.14%) PhD
6 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) SLA
2 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (35.71%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 41 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.29%) Ansible
3 12 (8.57%) Kibana
4 2 (1.43%) Grafana
4 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (17.86%) Oracle
2 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.57%) Dynatrace
3 12 (8.57%) Splunk
4 5 (3.57%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.43%) Adobe
6 2 (1.43%) Facebook
6 2 (1.43%) Instagram
6 2 (1.43%) YouTube
7 1 (0.71%) IBM
7 1 (0.71%) PayPal
7 1 (0.71%) Sage
7 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) SAP
7 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow