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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 143 348 229
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.27% 17.18% 12.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.82% 18.92% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 90 224 181
10th Percentile £41,125 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
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 £80,500 £82,125 £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 1,828 1,839 1,700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 90.77% 93.30%
Number of salaries quoted 884 989 1,195
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £62,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +14.68% -5.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £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 5 December 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 5 December 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 55 £51,250 -18.00% 32
Slough -25 30 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Bracknell -1 26 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Maidenhead -36 9 £65,000 - 5
Windsor -31 5 - -
Wokingham -1 4 £28,000 -62.67% 2
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 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 61 (42.66%) HTML
2 60 (41.96%) JavaScript
3 49 (34.27%) AWS
4 48 (33.57%) CI/CD
4 48 (33.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (32.17%) Agile
6 43 (30.07%) Java
7 40 (27.97%) Kubernetes
8 38 (26.57%) Docker
9 36 (25.17%) Azure
10 34 (23.78%) SQL
11 33 (23.08%) JSON
11 33 (23.08%) Microservices
12 32 (22.38%) C#
13 31 (21.68%) React
14 29 (20.28%) REST
15 28 (19.58%) Serverless
16 27 (18.88%) Git
16 27 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (18.18%) Oracle
17 26 (18.18%) PL/SQL
17 26 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (18.18%) Spring Boot
18 25 (17.48%) CSS
18 25 (17.48%) DevOps
18 25 (17.48%) Relational Database
18 25 (17.48%) Web Services
19 23 (16.08%) Amazon ECS
19 23 (16.08%) Amazon EKS
19 23 (16.08%) 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 6 (4.20%) WordPress
2 4 (2.80%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Camtasia
1 3 (2.10%) Lectora
1 3 (2.10%) Snagit
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.27%) AWS
2 36 (25.17%) Azure
3 28 (19.58%) Serverless
4 23 (16.08%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (16.08%) Amazon EKS
5 21 (14.69%) GCP
6 18 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (4.90%) GitHub
8 7 (4.90%) SaaS
9 5 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.10%) Zapier
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.48%) Relational Database
3 21 (14.69%) OLTP
4 18 (12.59%) RDBMS
5 8 (5.59%) MySQL
6 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.20%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.10%) Power BI
9 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.70%) Looker
10 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (18.88%) Git
2 23 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 20 (13.99%) JUnit
4 18 (12.59%) JMeter
4 18 (12.59%) Mockito
5 5 (3.50%) git-flow
6 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.79%) Finance
4 14 (9.79%) Law
4 14 (9.79%) Marketing
5 4 (2.80%) Humanities
6 3 (2.10%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.40%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.40%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (42.66%) HTML
2 33 (23.08%) JSON
3 31 (21.68%) React
4 29 (20.28%) REST
5 26 (18.18%) Spring Boot
6 25 (17.48%) CSS
6 25 (17.48%) Web Services
7 23 (16.08%) Spring
7 23 (16.08%) XML
8 20 (13.99%) Node.js
9 19 (13.29%) Apache Camel
10 18 (12.59%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (12.59%) Hibernate
10 18 (12.59%) jQuery
10 18 (12.59%) RESTful
10 18 (12.59%) WireMock
11 17 (11.89%) .NET
12 9 (6.29%) Kafka
13 6 (4.20%) SOAP
14 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.08%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.49%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.20%) IoT
4 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.10%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.70%) NHS
7 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Android
1 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
1 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.57%) CI/CD
1 48 (33.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 46 (32.17%) Agile
3 33 (23.08%) Microservices
4 27 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.48%) DevOps
6 23 (16.08%) TDD
7 21 (14.69%) Propensity Modelling
8 20 (13.99%) Configuration Management
9 19 (13.29%) BDD
10 18 (12.59%) Clean Code
10 18 (12.59%) Process Management
10 18 (12.59%) SDLC
10 18 (12.59%) User Experience
10 18 (12.59%) Workflow
11 17 (11.89%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.19%) Web Development
13 15 (10.49%) Issue Tracking
14 14 (9.79%) Test Automation
14 14 (9.79%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.96%) JavaScript
2 43 (30.07%) Java
3 34 (23.78%) SQL
4 32 (22.38%) C#
5 26 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 23 (16.08%) Python
7 18 (12.59%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.99%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.50%) C++
10 3 (2.10%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.70%) R
12 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.39%) Degree
3 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.40%) PhD
4 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.99%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) SLA
3 3 (2.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (26.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (27.97%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.59%) Kibana
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (18.18%) Oracle
2 18 (12.59%) Dynatrace
2 18 (12.59%) Splunk
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.70%) Informatica