Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 150 273 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.66% 16.72% 14.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.31% 20.27% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 114 171 251
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 1,805 1,347 1,952
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 82.49% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 914 691 1,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -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 14 January 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 14 January 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 67 £51,250 -18.00% 19
Slough -19 30 £70,000 +7.69% 79
Bracknell +2 19 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Wokingham +1 7 £50,000 -33.33% 5
Maidenhead - 6 £65,000 -
Windsor -30 2 £70,000 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 46 (30.67%) JavaScript
2 45 (30.00%) SQL
3 43 (28.67%) HTML
4 41 (27.33%) Java
5 38 (25.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (23.33%) CI/CD
7 33 (22.00%) Oracle
7 33 (22.00%) PL/SQL
8 31 (20.67%) C#
9 28 (18.67%) Microservices
10 27 (18.00%) Agile
10 27 (18.00%) AWS
10 27 (18.00%) Azure
11 26 (17.33%) OLTP
12 25 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (16.67%) REST
13 24 (16.00%) JSON
13 24 (16.00%) React
14 22 (14.67%) Kubernetes
14 22 (14.67%) Python
14 22 (14.67%) Serverless
14 22 (14.67%) Spring Boot
15 21 (14.00%) XML
16 20 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
16 20 (13.33%) SDLC
17 19 (12.67%) .NET
17 19 (12.67%) Relational Database
18 18 (12.00%) Configuration Management
18 18 (12.00%) Degree
18 18 (12.00%) Docker

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 (6.00%) WordPress
2 6 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.33%) CMS
3 2 (1.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.00%) AWS
1 27 (18.00%) Azure
2 22 (14.67%) Serverless
3 17 (11.33%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (11.33%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (9.33%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.33%) Amazon S3
5 11 (7.33%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.00%) SaaS
8 8 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (4.67%) GCP
9 7 (4.67%) GitHub
10 5 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.00%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.00%) Zapier
12 2 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.33%) OLTP
2 20 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (12.67%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.33%) RDBMS
5 8 (5.33%) MySQL
6 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.00%) Power BI
7 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.67%) Looker
10 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (11.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.67%) Git
3 12 (8.00%) JUnit
4 11 (7.33%) JMeter
4 11 (7.33%) Mockito
5 5 (3.33%) git-flow
6 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (14.67%) Finance
3 21 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.67%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.00%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.00%) Humanities
7 2 (1.33%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.67%) HTML
2 25 (16.67%) REST
3 24 (16.00%) JSON
3 24 (16.00%) React
4 22 (14.67%) Spring Boot
5 21 (14.00%) XML
6 19 (12.67%) .NET
7 18 (12.00%) Web Services
8 17 (11.33%) Spring
9 11 (7.33%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (7.33%) Apache Camel
9 11 (7.33%) CSS
9 11 (7.33%) Hibernate
9 11 (7.33%) jQuery
9 11 (7.33%) Kafka
9 11 (7.33%) WireMock
10 10 (6.67%) SOAP
11 8 (5.33%) Node.js
12 6 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (4.00%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.67%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.33%) IoT
3 8 (5.33%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.33%) PMI
6 2 (1.33%) Robotics
6 2 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Social Network
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.67%) Android
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
2 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 28 (18.67%) Microservices
4 27 (18.00%) Agile
5 25 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (13.33%) SDLC
7 18 (12.00%) Configuration Management
8 17 (11.33%) DevOps
8 17 (11.33%) TDD
9 14 (9.33%) Clean Code
10 13 (8.67%) Issue Tracking
11 12 (8.00%) Propensity Modelling
11 12 (8.00%) Software Testing
12 11 (7.33%) BDD
12 11 (7.33%) Process Management
12 11 (7.33%) Software Engineering
12 11 (7.33%) Workflow
13 10 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (5.33%) Business Process Analysis
14 8 (5.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 46 (30.67%) JavaScript
2 45 (30.00%) SQL
3 41 (27.33%) Java
4 33 (22.00%) PL/SQL
5 31 (20.67%) C#
6 22 (14.67%) Python
7 12 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.33%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.67%) C++
10 3 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.33%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
12 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (12.00%) Degree
2 11 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (1.33%) PhD
3 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) GDPR
3 2 (1.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.33%) Kibana
3 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (22.00%) Oracle
2 12 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.33%) Dynatrace
3 11 (7.33%) Splunk
4 1 (0.67%) Informatica