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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 125 348 238
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 6.84% 15.90% 12.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.34% 16.75% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 71 228 194
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +6.72% +5.42%
75th Percentile £74,375 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
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 1,702 2,077 1,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 94.93% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 796 1,104 1,181
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% -0.91%

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 8 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 8 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 52 £52,500 -16.00% 23
Slough -32 28 £70,000 +7.69% 287
Bracknell -3 22 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Maidenhead -37 6 £60,000 - 1
Windsor -36 5 - -
Wokingham -2 3 £28,000 -62.67% 2
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 60 (48.00%) HTML
2 55 (44.00%) AWS
2 55 (44.00%) JavaScript
3 54 (43.20%) Agile
4 48 (38.40%) Java
5 45 (36.00%) Docker
6 40 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 40 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (32.00%) Kubernetes
7 36 (28.80%) Microservices
8 33 (26.40%) JSON
8 33 (26.40%) TDD
8 33 (26.40%) Web Services
9 32 (25.60%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (25.60%) SQL
10 31 (24.80%) Azure
10 31 (24.80%) Spring
10 31 (24.80%) Spring Boot
11 30 (24.00%) Jenkins
12 29 (23.20%) Serverless
13 28 (22.40%) C#
13 28 (22.40%) DevOps
13 28 (22.40%) JUnit
13 28 (22.40%) REST
14 27 (21.60%) BDD
14 27 (21.60%) Git
15 25 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (20.00%) Oracle
15 25 (20.00%) PL/SQL

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 4 (3.20%) JBoss
1 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.40%) CMS
2 3 (2.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Camtasia
1 3 (2.40%) Lectora
1 3 (2.40%) Snagit
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.00%) AWS
2 31 (24.80%) Azure
3 29 (23.20%) Serverless
4 25 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (18.40%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (15.20%) GCP
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.80%) GitHub
9 5 (4.00%) SaaS
10 4 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.20%) AWS KMS
10 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.20%) Route 53
11 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.60%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 21 (16.80%) OLTP
4 19 (15.20%) RDBMS
5 9 (7.20%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.20%) MySQL
9 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 28 (22.40%) JUnit
3 27 (21.60%) Git
4 23 (18.40%) Mockito
5 19 (15.20%) JMeter
6 5 (4.00%) Maven
7 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.20%) DbUnit
7 4 (3.20%) git-flow
7 4 (3.20%) jMock
7 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.40%) JIRA
General
1 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.60%) Public Sector
3 20 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.40%) Law
5 14 (11.20%) Marketing
6 10 (8.00%) Finance
7 4 (3.20%) Humanities
8 2 (1.60%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (48.00%) HTML
2 33 (26.40%) JSON
2 33 (26.40%) Web Services
3 31 (24.80%) Spring
3 31 (24.80%) Spring Boot
4 28 (22.40%) REST
5 24 (19.20%) ActiveMQ
5 24 (19.20%) Hibernate
5 24 (19.20%) React
6 23 (18.40%) Apache Camel
6 23 (18.40%) RESTful
6 23 (18.40%) XML
7 22 (17.60%) CSS
8 19 (15.20%) jQuery
8 19 (15.20%) WireMock
9 18 (14.40%) Node.js
10 16 (12.80%) .NET
11 14 (11.20%) SOAP
12 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
12 7 (5.60%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.80%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.40%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.80%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) IoT
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Android
2 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.20%) Agile
2 40 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (28.80%) Microservices
4 33 (26.40%) TDD
5 28 (22.40%) DevOps
6 27 (21.60%) BDD
7 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.20%) Configuration Management
8 19 (15.20%) Containerisation
8 19 (15.20%) Process Management
8 19 (15.20%) Propensity Modelling
8 19 (15.20%) Workflow
9 18 (14.40%) User Experience
10 17 (13.60%) Clean Code
10 17 (13.60%) SDLC
10 17 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.00%) Issue Tracking
12 14 (11.20%) Customer Engagement
12 14 (11.20%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.00%) JavaScript
2 48 (38.40%) Java
3 32 (25.60%) SQL
4 28 (22.40%) C#
5 25 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 22 (17.60%) Python
7 19 (15.20%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.80%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.40%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.80%) PHP
10 1 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.40%) Degree
2 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.40%) QA
2 7 (5.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.20%) Kibana
3 4 (3.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (20.00%) Oracle
2 19 (15.20%) Dynatrace
2 19 (15.20%) Splunk
3 6 (4.80%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.20%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.60%) Jaspersoft