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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 4 14
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 134 351 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 6.90% 16.79% 12.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.40% 18.27% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 82 227 178
10th Percentile £40,125 £45,000 £46,700
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,000 £50,369
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,000 £85,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,291
% change year-on-year - +6.59% -2.10%

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 1,810 1,921 1,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 91.91% 93.33%
Number of salaries quoted 857 1,033 1,195
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,735
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £53,825
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +11.47% -6.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 0 53 £52,500 -16.00% 30
Slough -25 30 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Bracknell -2 24 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Maidenhead -37 8 £65,000 - 4
Windsor -32 5 - -
Wokingham -3 3 £28,000 -62.67% 3
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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 60 (44.78%) HTML
2 59 (44.03%) JavaScript
3 52 (38.81%) AWS
4 47 (35.07%) Agile
4 47 (35.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (33.58%) CI/CD
6 43 (32.09%) Java
7 41 (30.60%) Kubernetes
8 40 (29.85%) Docker
9 37 (27.61%) Azure
10 34 (25.37%) JSON
11 33 (24.63%) Microservices
11 33 (24.63%) SQL
12 30 (22.39%) C#
13 29 (21.64%) React
13 29 (21.64%) REST
13 29 (21.64%) Serverless
14 28 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
15 27 (20.15%) DevOps
15 27 (20.15%) Spring Boot
16 26 (19.40%) Git
16 26 (19.40%) Oracle
16 26 (19.40%) PL/SQL
16 26 (19.40%) Relational Database
16 26 (19.40%) Web Services
17 25 (18.66%) Spring
18 24 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (17.91%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (17.91%) CSS
18 24 (17.91%) Jenkins

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 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
1 4 (2.99%) WordPress
2 3 (2.24%) CMS
3 2 (1.49%) JBoss
3 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Camtasia
1 3 (2.24%) Lectora
1 3 (2.24%) Snagit
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.81%) AWS
2 37 (27.61%) Azure
3 29 (21.64%) Serverless
4 24 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (17.91%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (16.42%) GCP
6 18 (13.43%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (5.22%) GitHub
9 6 (4.48%) SaaS
10 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.24%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.24%) Zapier
12 2 (1.49%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (19.40%) Relational Database
3 21 (15.67%) OLTP
4 18 (13.43%) RDBMS
5 7 (5.22%) MySQL
5 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.48%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) Looker
9 1 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (19.40%) Git
2 24 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 21 (15.67%) JUnit
4 18 (13.43%) JMeter
4 18 (13.43%) Mockito
5 5 (3.73%) git-flow
General
1 40 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.67%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.69%) Law
5 14 (10.45%) Marketing
6 13 (9.70%) Finance
7 4 (2.99%) Humanities
8 2 (1.49%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (44.78%) HTML
2 34 (25.37%) JSON
3 29 (21.64%) React
3 29 (21.64%) REST
4 27 (20.15%) Spring Boot
5 26 (19.40%) Web Services
6 25 (18.66%) Spring
7 24 (17.91%) CSS
8 22 (16.42%) XML
9 21 (15.67%) Node.js
10 20 (14.93%) Apache Camel
11 18 (13.43%) .NET
11 18 (13.43%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (13.43%) Hibernate
11 18 (13.43%) jQuery
11 18 (13.43%) RESTful
11 18 (13.43%) WireMock
12 10 (7.46%) Kafka
13 6 (4.48%) SOAP
14 5 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.91%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (11.94%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.73%) IoT
4 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.24%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Robotics
7 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Android
1 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.07%) Agile
1 47 (35.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (33.58%) CI/CD
3 33 (24.63%) Microservices
4 27 (20.15%) DevOps
5 24 (17.91%) TDD
6 23 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.67%) Configuration Management
7 21 (15.67%) Propensity Modelling
8 20 (14.93%) BDD
9 19 (14.18%) Clean Code
10 18 (13.43%) Process Management
10 18 (13.43%) SDLC
10 18 (13.43%) User Experience
10 18 (13.43%) Workflow
11 17 (12.69%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.94%) Issue Tracking
12 16 (11.94%) Web Development
13 14 (10.45%) Test Automation
13 14 (10.45%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.03%) JavaScript
2 43 (32.09%) Java
3 33 (24.63%) SQL
4 30 (22.39%) C#
5 26 (19.40%) PL/SQL
6 22 (16.42%) Python
7 18 (13.43%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.99%) C++
10 3 (2.24%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.49%) PHP
12 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.46%) Degree
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.49%) PhD
4 2 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.93%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) SLA
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (29.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (30.60%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.43%) Kibana
3 2 (1.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) Oracle
2 18 (13.43%) Dynatrace
2 18 (13.43%) Splunk
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.75%) Informatica