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 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 197 159 436
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.62% 11.06% 15.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.31% 14.56% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 160 110 366
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,188 £83,438
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 2,116 1,092 2,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 75.99% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 535 2,156
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 7 April 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 7 April 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 98 £60,000 -4.00% 29
Slough +6 31 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Bracknell 0 22 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Wokingham +1 13 £50,000 - 5
Maidenhead -3 5 £67,500 +17.39%
Windsor +26 4 £70,000 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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 56 (28.43%) SQL
2 47 (23.86%) Java
3 44 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.83%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.30%) CI/CD
5 40 (20.30%) Oracle
5 40 (20.30%) PL/SQL
6 39 (19.80%) Azure
7 36 (18.27%) C#
7 36 (18.27%) HTML
8 34 (17.26%) AWS
9 33 (16.75%) DevOps
10 32 (16.24%) React
11 30 (15.23%) Agile
11 30 (15.23%) Python
12 29 (14.72%) OLTP
13 28 (14.21%) Microservices
14 27 (13.71%) Degree
15 25 (12.69%) Microsoft
16 24 (12.18%) Power Platform
16 24 (12.18%) REST
17 22 (11.17%) Kubernetes
17 22 (11.17%) Serverless
18 21 (10.66%) Git
19 20 (10.15%) Spring Boot
19 20 (10.15%) XML
20 19 (9.64%) .NET
20 19 (9.64%) Docker
21 18 (9.14%) Security Cleared

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 (4.57%) WordPress
2 6 (3.05%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.02%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.80%) Azure
2 34 (17.26%) AWS
3 24 (12.18%) Power Platform
4 22 (11.17%) Serverless
5 17 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (8.12%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (6.60%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (5.08%) SaaS
9 9 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.05%) GCP
12 4 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.03%) GitHub
12 4 (2.03%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.02%) BigCommerce
13 2 (1.02%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.72%) OLTP
2 16 (8.12%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.57%) MySQL
5 7 (3.55%) Power BI
5 7 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.54%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.03%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.51%) Looker
10 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.66%) Git
2 17 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.05%) JUnit
4 5 (2.54%) JMeter
4 5 (2.54%) Mockito
5 4 (2.03%) git-flow
6 3 (1.52%) JIRA
7 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.02%) GitLab
7 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (15.74%) Finance
2 29 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Social Skills
4 13 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.08%) Retail
6 6 (3.05%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.02%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.27%) HTML
2 32 (16.24%) React
3 24 (12.18%) REST
4 20 (10.15%) Spring Boot
4 20 (10.15%) XML
5 19 (9.64%) .NET
6 17 (8.63%) Spring
7 16 (8.12%) JSON
8 15 (7.61%) SOAP
9 14 (7.11%) Web Services
10 13 (6.60%) Node.js
11 12 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.08%) Kafka
12 10 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (4.57%) ASP.NET
13 9 (4.57%) CSS
14 7 (3.55%) NumPy
14 7 (3.55%) Pandas
15 6 (3.05%) Mustache
15 6 (3.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.61%) Low-Code
3 14 (7.11%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.55%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.55%) IoT
6 5 (2.54%) NHS
7 4 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.52%) Arduino
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) PMI
8 3 (1.52%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.02%) Robotics
9 2 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Social Network
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Apple iOS
2 8 (4.06%) Linux
3 7 (3.55%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
1 44 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (20.30%) CI/CD
3 33 (16.75%) DevOps
4 30 (15.23%) Agile
5 28 (14.21%) Microservices
6 18 (9.14%) Software Testing
7 17 (8.63%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (8.12%) Data Governance
9 15 (7.61%) Business Process Analysis
9 15 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (7.61%) SDLC
9 15 (7.61%) TDD
10 13 (6.60%) Configuration Management
10 13 (6.60%) Software Engineering
11 11 (5.58%) Issue Tracking
11 11 (5.58%) Scrum
12 10 (5.08%) Clean Code
12 10 (5.08%) Propensity Modelling
13 9 (4.57%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 56 (28.43%) SQL
2 47 (23.86%) Java
3 43 (21.83%) JavaScript
4 40 (20.30%) PL/SQL
5 36 (18.27%) C#
6 30 (15.23%) Python
7 16 (8.12%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.06%) C++
9 5 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.03%) Ruby
10 4 (2.03%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.52%) C
11 3 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.52%) Pascal
11 3 (1.52%) PHP
12 2 (1.02%) Groovy
12 2 (1.02%) Swift
13 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (13.71%) Degree
2 18 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.02%) PhD
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) QA
2 5 (2.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (9.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.57%) Kibana
3 7 (3.55%) Terraform
4 6 (3.05%) Ansible
5 2 (1.02%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (20.30%) Oracle
2 25 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.05%) AppDynamics
3 6 (3.05%) IBM
4 5 (2.54%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.54%) Splunk
5 3 (1.52%) Motorola
6 2 (1.02%) Databricks
7 1 (0.51%) Informatica
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce