Developer Jobs in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 174 397 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.63% 12.66% 18.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.60% 13.25% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 110 304 387
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,713
25th Percentile £49,063 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £111,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 1,642 2,996 2,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 95.54% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 729 1,947 1,491
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 July 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 17 July 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 +10 89 £57,500 -4.17% 31
Slough -21 40 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Bracknell -2 23 £80,000 +14.29% 13
Maidenhead -27 7 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Windsor -32 6 - - 5
Wokingham +5 3 £28,000 -52.34% 4
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 72 (41.38%) Agile
2 63 (36.21%) AWS
3 60 (34.48%) HTML
4 59 (33.91%) Java
4 59 (33.91%) JavaScript
5 58 (33.33%) Docker
6 54 (31.03%) SQL
7 50 (28.74%) Kubernetes
8 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
9 46 (26.44%) DevOps
9 46 (26.44%) TDD
10 45 (25.86%) Microservices
11 43 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
11 43 (24.71%) CI/CD
12 41 (23.56%) Spring
12 41 (23.56%) Web Services
13 40 (22.99%) Spring Boot
13 40 (22.99%) Jenkins
14 39 (22.41%) Git
15 38 (21.84%) REST
15 38 (21.84%) JUnit
16 37 (21.26%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (20.11%) Distributed Systems
17 35 (20.11%) Public Sector
17 35 (20.11%) Azure
18 34 (19.54%) BDD
18 34 (19.54%) Relational Database
18 34 (19.54%) Serverless
18 34 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
19 32 (18.39%) Amazon EKS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.75%) JBoss
1 10 (5.75%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (2.30%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (1.15%) CMS
4 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Camtasia
1 3 (1.72%) Lectora
1 3 (1.72%) Snagit
2 2 (1.15%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (1.15%) Final Cut Pro
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.57%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 63 (36.21%) AWS
2 35 (20.11%) Azure
3 34 (19.54%) Serverless
4 32 (18.39%) Amazon ECS
4 32 (18.39%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (14.37%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (10.92%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (9.77%) Power Platform
8 16 (9.20%) GCP
9 14 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (5.75%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.45%) AWS KMS
13 5 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.87%) Route 53
14 2 (1.15%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.15%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.15%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (19.54%) Relational Database
3 27 (15.52%) OLTP
4 20 (11.49%) RDBMS
5 16 (9.20%) Power BI
6 14 (8.05%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.30%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.15%) Metadata
12 1 (0.57%) MySQL
12 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (22.99%) Jenkins
2 39 (22.41%) Git
3 38 (21.84%) JUnit
4 25 (14.37%) Mockito
5 18 (10.34%) JMeter
6 8 (4.60%) Maven
7 7 (4.02%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.45%) DbUnit
8 6 (3.45%) jMock
9 5 (2.87%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.30%) JIRA
11 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.11%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.52%) Law
5 17 (9.77%) Marketing
6 9 (5.17%) Finance
7 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Humanities
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (34.48%) HTML
2 41 (23.56%) Spring
2 41 (23.56%) Web Services
3 40 (22.99%) Spring Boot
4 38 (21.84%) REST
5 31 (17.82%) RESTful
6 29 (16.67%) .NET
7 28 (16.09%) Apache Camel
7 28 (16.09%) React
7 28 (16.09%) SOAP
8 27 (15.52%) JSON
9 26 (14.94%) ActiveMQ
10 25 (14.37%) Hibernate
11 24 (13.79%) Node.js
12 20 (11.49%) XML
13 19 (10.92%) CSS
14 18 (10.34%) jQuery
14 18 (10.34%) WireMock
15 12 (6.90%) AngularJS
16 10 (5.75%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.11%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.72%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.15%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.15%) Social Media
6 2 (1.15%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (41.38%) Agile
2 46 (26.44%) DevOps
2 46 (26.44%) TDD
3 45 (25.86%) Microservices
4 43 (24.71%) CI/CD
5 37 (21.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (19.54%) BDD
6 34 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.67%) Scrum
8 24 (13.79%) Kanban
9 22 (12.64%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.49%) Clean Code
10 20 (11.49%) Propensity Modelling
11 18 (10.34%) Process Management
11 18 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.34%) Workflow
12 17 (9.77%) User Experience
13 16 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (9.20%) Configuration Management
13 16 (9.20%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.91%) Java
1 59 (33.91%) JavaScript
2 54 (31.03%) SQL
3 31 (17.82%) C#
4 27 (15.52%) PL/SQL
5 22 (12.64%) Python
6 18 (10.34%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.75%) VB.NET
8 7 (4.02%) X++
9 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.72%) PHP
11 2 (1.15%) Bash
11 2 (1.15%) C
11 2 (1.15%) C++
11 2 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.15%) Fortran
12 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Degree
4 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.72%) PhD
7 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.05%) QA
2 11 (6.32%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 50 (28.74%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.34%) Kibana
3 10 (5.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.15%) Grafana
4 2 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (15.52%) Oracle
2 23 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.34%) Dynatrace
3 18 (10.34%) Splunk
4 5 (2.87%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.15%) Adobe
6 2 (1.15%) Facebook
6 2 (1.15%) Instagram
6 2 (1.15%) YouTube
7 1 (0.57%) PayPal
7 1 (0.57%) Sage
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow