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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 160 277 302
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.04% 16.64% 14.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.72% 20.07% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 110 176 241
10th Percentile £41,125 £45,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 1,835 1,380 1,922
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 82.88% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 913 716 1,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 67 £51,250 -18.65% 24
Slough -17 34 £70,000 +7.69% 73
Bracknell +2 18 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Maidenhead - 11 £65,000 -
Wokingham -1 6 £50,000 -33.33% 5
Windsor -31 6 £70,000 - 1
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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 (36.25%) JavaScript
2 56 (35.00%) HTML
3 51 (31.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 47 (29.38%) CI/CD
5 44 (27.50%) SQL
6 41 (25.63%) Agile
6 41 (25.63%) AWS
7 40 (25.00%) Azure
7 40 (25.00%) Java
8 38 (23.75%) React
9 36 (22.50%) Kubernetes
9 36 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (20.00%) Docker
10 32 (20.00%) Oracle
10 32 (20.00%) PL/SQL
11 30 (18.75%) C#
12 29 (18.13%) DevOps
13 28 (17.50%) Microservices
14 27 (16.88%) Git
15 25 (15.63%) CSS
15 25 (15.63%) OLTP
15 25 (15.63%) REST
16 24 (15.00%) JSON
17 22 (13.75%) Node.js
17 22 (13.75%) Serverless
17 22 (13.75%) Spring Boot
18 21 (13.13%) GCP
19 20 (12.50%) .NET
19 20 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
19 20 (12.50%) Python

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 (5.63%) WordPress
2 6 (3.75%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.88%) CMS
4 2 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Camtasia
1 1 (0.63%) Lectora
1 1 (0.63%) Snagit
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.63%) AWS
2 40 (25.00%) Azure
3 22 (13.75%) Serverless
4 21 (13.13%) GCP
5 17 (10.63%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (10.63%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (7.50%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (5.63%) SaaS
9 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.38%) GitHub
11 6 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.88%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.88%) Zapier
14 2 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) OLTP
2 20 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.88%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.88%) RDBMS
5 8 (5.00%) MySQL
6 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.75%) Power BI
7 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.63%) Looker
9 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (16.88%) Git
2 17 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.50%) JUnit
4 11 (6.88%) JMeter
4 11 (6.88%) Mockito
5 5 (3.13%) git-flow
6 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.13%) Finance
4 14 (8.75%) Law
4 14 (8.75%) Marketing
5 12 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Humanities
6 4 (2.50%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.25%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.25%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (35.00%) HTML
2 38 (23.75%) React
3 25 (15.63%) CSS
3 25 (15.63%) REST
4 24 (15.00%) JSON
5 22 (13.75%) Node.js
5 22 (13.75%) Spring Boot
6 20 (12.50%) .NET
6 20 (12.50%) XML
7 19 (11.88%) Web Services
8 18 (11.25%) RESTful
9 17 (10.63%) Spring
10 11 (6.88%) ActiveMQ
10 11 (6.88%) Apache Camel
10 11 (6.88%) Hibernate
10 11 (6.88%) jQuery
10 11 (6.88%) Kafka
10 11 (6.88%) WireMock
11 9 (5.63%) SOAP
12 6 (3.75%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.13%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.00%) IoT
4 6 (3.75%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.25%) NHS
6 2 (1.25%) PMI
6 2 (1.25%) Robotics
6 2 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Social Network
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.63%) Android
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 47 (29.38%) CI/CD
3 41 (25.63%) Agile
4 36 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (18.13%) DevOps
6 28 (17.50%) Microservices
7 20 (12.50%) SDLC
8 18 (11.25%) Configuration Management
8 18 (11.25%) User Experience
8 18 (11.25%) Web Development
9 17 (10.63%) TDD
10 16 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 14 (8.75%) Clean Code
11 14 (8.75%) Customer Engagement
11 14 (8.75%) Design Patterns
11 14 (8.75%) Test Automation
11 14 (8.75%) UX Design
12 13 (8.13%) Issue Tracking
13 11 (6.88%) BDD
13 11 (6.88%) Propensity Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.25%) JavaScript
2 44 (27.50%) SQL
3 40 (25.00%) Java
4 32 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 30 (18.75%) C#
6 20 (12.50%) Python
7 12 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.88%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.38%) C++
10 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.88%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (11.25%) Degree
2 11 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (1.25%) PhD
3 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) GDPR
2 3 (1.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (20.00%) Oracle
2 11 (6.88%) Dynatrace
2 11 (6.88%) Splunk
3 10 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.63%) Informatica