Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 179 162 431
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.22% 11.23% 14.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.92% 14.66% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 146 117 363
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 2,006 1,105 2,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 76.63% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 537 2,153
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £29,240
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £36,500
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 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -1 82 £55,750 -8.98% 29
Slough +10 31 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Bracknell -1 20 £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 31 March 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 52 (29.05%) SQL
2 44 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 42 (23.46%) JavaScript
4 36 (20.11%) C#
4 36 (20.11%) Oracle
4 36 (20.11%) PL/SQL
5 35 (19.55%) Azure
5 35 (19.55%) CI/CD
5 35 (19.55%) HTML
6 34 (18.99%) Java
7 29 (16.20%) OLTP
8 27 (15.08%) DevOps
8 27 (15.08%) React
9 26 (14.53%) Degree
10 25 (13.97%) AWS
10 25 (13.97%) Microsoft
10 25 (13.97%) Python
11 24 (13.41%) Power Platform
12 23 (12.85%) Agile
13 21 (11.73%) Microservices
14 19 (10.61%) .NET
14 19 (10.61%) XML
15 18 (10.06%) Software Testing
16 17 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (9.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (9.50%) REST
17 16 (8.94%) Data Governance
18 15 (8.38%) Business Process Analysis
18 15 (8.38%) Cybersecurity

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 (5.03%) WordPress
2 6 (3.35%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.55%) Azure
2 25 (13.97%) AWS
3 24 (13.41%) Power Platform
4 17 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (9.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (8.38%) Serverless
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (5.59%) SaaS
8 6 (3.35%) GCP
9 5 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.23%) GitHub
10 4 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.20%) OLTP
2 14 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.70%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.03%) MySQL
5 7 (3.91%) Power BI
5 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.23%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.56%) Looker
10 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Git
2 10 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.79%) JUnit
4 4 (2.23%) git-flow
4 4 (2.23%) JMeter
4 4 (2.23%) Mockito
5 1 (0.56%) JIRA
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (17.32%) Finance
2 29 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.61%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.59%) Retail
5 6 (3.35%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.23%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.55%) HTML
2 27 (15.08%) React
3 19 (10.61%) .NET
3 19 (10.61%) XML
4 17 (9.50%) REST
5 15 (8.38%) SOAP
5 15 (8.38%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.26%) JSON
7 12 (6.70%) Node.js
8 10 (5.59%) Kafka
8 10 (5.59%) Spring
9 9 (5.03%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.03%) CSS
9 9 (5.03%) Web Services
10 6 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.35%) Mustache
11 5 (2.79%) jQuery
11 5 (2.79%) NumPy
11 5 (2.79%) Pandas
11 5 (2.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.38%) Low-Code
2 13 (7.26%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.91%) IoT
6 5 (2.79%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.79%) NHS
7 4 (2.23%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.68%) Arduino
8 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.68%) PMI
8 3 (1.68%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) Robotics
9 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.56%) Social Network
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.03%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.35%) Android
3 5 (2.79%) Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (19.55%) CI/CD
4 27 (15.08%) DevOps
5 23 (12.85%) Agile
6 21 (11.73%) Microservices
7 18 (10.06%) Software Testing
8 16 (8.94%) Data Governance
9 15 (8.38%) Business Process Analysis
9 15 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (8.38%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (7.82%) SDLC
11 13 (7.26%) Configuration Management
12 12 (6.70%) Software Engineering
13 10 (5.59%) Propensity Modelling
13 10 (5.59%) TDD
14 9 (5.03%) Issue Tracking
15 8 (4.47%) B2B
15 8 (4.47%) Clean Code
16 7 (3.91%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.05%) SQL
2 42 (23.46%) JavaScript
3 36 (20.11%) C#
3 36 (20.11%) PL/SQL
4 34 (18.99%) Java
5 25 (13.97%) Python
6 15 (8.38%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.47%) C++
8 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.68%) C
9 3 (1.68%) Pascal
9 3 (1.68%) PHP
9 3 (1.68%) Ruby
10 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.12%) Swift
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (14.53%) Degree
2 7 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.68%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) PhD
5 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) GDPR
1 5 (2.79%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (7.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (20.11%) Oracle
2 25 (13.97%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.23%) Splunk
4 3 (1.68%) Motorola
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) Informatica
5 1 (0.56%) Salesforce