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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -26 +9 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 131 357 220
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 6.82% 16.35% 11.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.31% 17.56% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 78 236 176
10th Percentile £38,875 £45,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,500 £50,056
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 £75,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

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 1,793 2,033 1,742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 93.09% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,097 1,207
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,735
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.61% -6.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -11.82% +4.66% -4.45%

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 22 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 22 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 +1 51 £51,250 -18.00% 33
Slough -28 30 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Bracknell -2 24 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Maidenhead -39 7 £62,500 - 3
Windsor -32 5 - -
Wokingham -2 3 £28,000 -62.67% 4
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 62 (47.33%) HTML
2 57 (43.51%) JavaScript
3 53 (40.46%) AWS
4 49 (37.40%) Agile
5 44 (33.59%) CI/CD
5 44 (33.59%) Java
6 43 (32.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (31.30%) Docker
8 39 (29.77%) Kubernetes
9 35 (26.72%) Azure
10 34 (25.95%) JSON
10 34 (25.95%) SQL
11 32 (24.43%) Microservices
12 29 (22.14%) C#
12 29 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (22.14%) Serverless
13 28 (21.37%) Web Services
14 27 (20.61%) DevOps
14 27 (20.61%) Oracle
14 27 (20.61%) PL/SQL
15 26 (19.85%) Git
15 26 (19.85%) React
15 26 (19.85%) Relational Database
15 26 (19.85%) REST
15 26 (19.85%) Spring
15 26 (19.85%) Spring Boot
16 25 (19.08%) Jenkins
16 25 (19.08%) TDD
17 24 (18.32%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (18.32%) Amazon EKS

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 3 (2.29%) CMS
1 3 (2.29%) JBoss
1 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Camtasia
1 3 (2.29%) Lectora
1 3 (2.29%) Snagit
Cloud Services
1 53 (40.46%) AWS
2 35 (26.72%) Azure
3 29 (22.14%) Serverless
4 24 (18.32%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (18.32%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (16.79%) GCP
6 20 (15.27%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub
9 6 (4.58%) SaaS
10 5 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.53%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.53%) Zapier
14 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (19.85%) Relational Database
3 22 (16.79%) OLTP
4 19 (14.50%) RDBMS
5 7 (5.34%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.34%) MySQL
5 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.29%) Power BI
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.76%) Looker
9 1 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Git
2 25 (19.08%) Jenkins
3 23 (17.56%) JUnit
4 20 (15.27%) Mockito
5 19 (14.50%) JMeter
6 5 (3.82%) git-flow
7 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.76%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.76%) JIRA
7 1 (0.76%) jMock
7 1 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Public Sector
3 20 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.98%) Law
5 14 (10.69%) Marketing
6 12 (9.16%) Finance
7 4 (3.05%) Humanities
8 2 (1.53%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (47.33%) HTML
2 34 (25.95%) JSON
3 28 (21.37%) Web Services
4 26 (19.85%) React
4 26 (19.85%) REST
4 26 (19.85%) Spring
4 26 (19.85%) Spring Boot
5 24 (18.32%) CSS
6 23 (17.56%) XML
7 22 (16.79%) Apache Camel
8 20 (15.27%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (15.27%) Hibernate
8 20 (15.27%) RESTful
9 19 (14.50%) jQuery
9 19 (14.50%) Node.js
9 19 (14.50%) WireMock
10 17 (12.98%) .NET
11 9 (6.87%) SOAP
12 8 (6.11%) Kafka
13 5 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (12.21%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.29%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.53%) IoT
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Android
1 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.40%) Agile
2 44 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 43 (32.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (24.43%) Microservices
5 27 (20.61%) DevOps
6 25 (19.08%) TDD
7 24 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.56%) BDD
9 21 (16.03%) Configuration Management
9 21 (16.03%) Propensity Modelling
10 19 (14.50%) Clean Code
10 19 (14.50%) Process Management
10 19 (14.50%) Workflow
11 18 (13.74%) User Experience
12 17 (12.98%) Containerisation
12 17 (12.98%) SDLC
13 16 (12.21%) Issue Tracking
14 15 (11.45%) Test Automation
14 15 (11.45%) Web Development
15 14 (10.69%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.51%) JavaScript
2 44 (33.59%) Java
3 34 (25.95%) SQL
4 29 (22.14%) C#
5 27 (20.61%) PL/SQL
6 23 (17.56%) Python
7 19 (14.50%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.11%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.05%) C++
10 3 (2.29%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.63%) Degree
3 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.27%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) SLA
3 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (31.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (29.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.50%) Kibana
3 3 (2.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (20.61%) Oracle
2 19 (14.50%) Dynatrace
2 19 (14.50%) Splunk
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.76%) Informatica