Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 18 7
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 213 159 435
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.76% 10.79% 15.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.42% 14.12% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 179 107 364
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 2,261 1,126 2,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 76.44% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 543 2,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,750 £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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -2 109 £60,000 -4.00% 18
Slough +9 33 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Bracknell +1 27 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Wokingham +1 13 £50,000 - 1
Maidenhead +1 5 £67,500 +17.39%
Windsor +32 4 £70,000 -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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 58 (27.23%) SQL
2 47 (22.07%) Java
3 45 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 43 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (19.72%) Oracle
5 42 (19.72%) PL/SQL
6 41 (19.25%) JavaScript
7 37 (17.37%) Azure
7 37 (17.37%) CI/CD
8 36 (16.90%) AWS
9 35 (16.43%) React
10 34 (15.96%) C#
11 32 (15.02%) DevOps
12 31 (14.55%) HTML
12 31 (14.55%) OLTP
13 29 (13.62%) Agile
13 29 (13.62%) Python
14 26 (12.21%) Degree
15 25 (11.74%) Microservices
15 25 (11.74%) Microsoft
16 24 (11.27%) Power Platform
17 23 (10.80%) REST
18 22 (10.33%) .NET
18 22 (10.33%) Git
18 22 (10.33%) Security Cleared
19 21 (9.86%) Kubernetes
20 20 (9.39%) SC Cleared
21 19 (8.92%) Node.js
21 19 (8.92%) Serverless
21 19 (8.92%) Spring Boot

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 (4.23%) WordPress
2 7 (3.29%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.94%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.37%) Azure
2 36 (16.90%) AWS
3 24 (11.27%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.92%) Serverless
5 17 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.69%) SaaS
10 8 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.88%) GCP
13 4 (1.88%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.94%) BigCommerce
14 2 (0.94%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.94%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.55%) OLTP
2 16 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.04%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.29%) MySQL
4 7 (3.29%) Power BI
4 7 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.41%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.47%) Looker
9 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.33%) Git
2 16 (7.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.35%) JUnit
4 3 (1.41%) JIRA
4 3 (1.41%) JMeter
4 3 (1.41%) Mockito
5 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.94%) git-flow
5 2 (0.94%) GitLab
5 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (14.55%) Finance
2 29 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.92%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.63%) Retail
5 11 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.82%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.88%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.94%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.43%) React
2 31 (14.55%) HTML
3 23 (10.80%) REST
4 22 (10.33%) .NET
5 19 (8.92%) Node.js
5 19 (8.92%) Spring Boot
6 17 (7.98%) Spring
6 17 (7.98%) XML
7 15 (7.04%) SOAP
8 14 (6.57%) JSON
9 13 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (6.10%) Web Services
10 9 (4.23%) ASP.NET
11 8 (3.76%) Kafka
11 8 (3.76%) NumPy
11 8 (3.76%) Pandas
11 8 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.29%) CSS
12 7 (3.29%) Mustache
12 7 (3.29%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Mobile App
2 16 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.04%) Low-Code
4 9 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.76%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.29%) IoT
7 5 (2.35%) NHS
8 3 (1.41%) Arduino
8 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.41%) PMI
8 3 (1.41%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.94%) Robotics
9 2 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.47%) Social Network
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.16%) Apple iOS
2 8 (3.76%) Android
2 8 (3.76%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 43 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (17.37%) CI/CD
4 32 (15.02%) DevOps
5 29 (13.62%) Agile
6 25 (11.74%) Microservices
7 17 (7.98%) Deployment Automation
7 17 (7.98%) Software Testing
8 16 (7.51%) Data Governance
9 15 (7.04%) Business Process Analysis
9 15 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (6.57%) TDD
11 13 (6.10%) Configuration Management
11 13 (6.10%) SDLC
11 13 (6.10%) Software Engineering
12 12 (5.63%) Scrum
13 11 (5.16%) Clean Code
13 11 (5.16%) Issue Tracking
14 10 (4.69%) Propensity Modelling
15 8 (3.76%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 58 (27.23%) SQL
2 47 (22.07%) Java
3 42 (19.72%) PL/SQL
4 41 (19.25%) JavaScript
5 34 (15.96%) C#
6 29 (13.62%) Python
7 19 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.76%) C++
9 7 (3.29%) Ruby
10 4 (1.88%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.88%) Swift
10 4 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.41%) C
11 3 (1.41%) Pascal
11 3 (1.41%) PHP
11 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.94%) ABAP
12 2 (0.94%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (12.21%) Degree
2 22 (10.33%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (1.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.94%) PhD
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.82%) QA
2 5 (2.35%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (8.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.29%) Ansible
2 7 (3.29%) Kibana
2 7 (3.29%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (19.72%) Oracle
2 25 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.82%) AppDynamics
3 6 (2.82%) IBM
4 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.41%) Motorola
4 3 (1.41%) Splunk
5 2 (0.94%) Databricks
5 2 (0.94%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) Informatica
6 1 (0.47%) Salesforce