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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 35 7
Rank change year-on-year +21 -28 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 242 159 362
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.06% 8.06% 14.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.56% 8.66% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 189 94 246
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,241
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,261 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 3,201 1,835 2,296
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 93.05% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,125 789 1,300
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -14.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -8 107 £75,000 +34.98% 40
Slough +26 42 £70,000 - 25
Bracknell +2 41 £85,000 - 9
Wokingham -4 10 £70,000 +150.00% 1
Windsor +47 7 £50,000 -
Maidenhead +36 6 £85,000 +41.67%
Thatcham - 1 - -
Hungerford - 1 - -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 54 (22.31%) SQL
2 53 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 45 (18.60%) AWS
4 44 (18.18%) Agile
4 44 (18.18%) Java
5 43 (17.77%) AI
6 42 (17.36%) C#
7 41 (16.94%) React
8 40 (16.53%) .NET
9 37 (15.29%) Azure
10 32 (13.22%) JavaScript
11 29 (11.98%) Node.js
12 26 (10.74%) Oracle
12 26 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (10.33%) Microservices
13 25 (10.33%) Microsoft
13 25 (10.33%) SC Cleared
13 25 (10.33%) Security Cleared
14 24 (9.92%) CI/CD
14 24 (9.92%) PL/SQL
14 24 (9.92%) TypeScript
15 22 (9.09%) REST
16 21 (8.68%) Scrum
17 20 (8.26%) ASP.NET
17 20 (8.26%) DevOps
17 20 (8.26%) Git
17 20 (8.26%) Python
18 19 (7.85%) Docker
18 19 (7.85%) HTML
19 18 (7.44%) Kubernetes

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 8 (3.31%) CMS
2 7 (2.89%) Jadu
3 3 (1.24%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.60%) AWS
2 37 (15.29%) Azure
3 15 (6.20%) Serverless
4 14 (5.79%) GitHub
4 14 (5.79%) SaaS
5 13 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (4.96%) Azure AI
7 11 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.72%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.48%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (0.83%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (0.83%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) Internet
2 1 (0.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.44%) OLTP
2 17 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.31%) Power BI
7 7 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.24%) MySQL
10 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.41%) Power Query
11 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (8.26%) Git
2 15 (6.20%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.07%) JIRA
3 5 (2.07%) JUnit
4 4 (1.65%) GitLab
4 4 (1.65%) JMeter
4 4 (1.65%) Mockito
4 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.24%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (9.09%) Finance
2 14 (5.79%) Public Sector
2 14 (5.79%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.55%) Retail
4 9 (3.72%) Digital Health
4 9 (3.72%) Health Technology
5 8 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.07%) Electronics
8 4 (1.65%) Automotive
8 4 (1.65%) Law
9 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.94%) React
2 40 (16.53%) .NET
3 29 (11.98%) Node.js
4 22 (9.09%) REST
5 20 (8.26%) ASP.NET
6 19 (7.85%) HTML
7 17 (7.02%) .NET Core
7 17 (7.02%) Spring
8 16 (6.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (5.79%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.96%) Blazor
10 12 (4.96%) Ruby on Rails
11 11 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.13%) RESTful
12 10 (4.13%) SOAP
12 10 (4.13%) XML
13 9 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.72%) ML.NET
13 9 (3.72%) Web Services
14 8 (3.31%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 11 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.89%) NHS
4 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.65%) Social Network
6 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.24%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.24%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.41%) Animation
8 1 (0.41%) Arduino
8 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.41%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.20%) Apple iOS
2 10 (4.13%) Android
3 6 (2.48%) Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Windows
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 44 (18.18%) Agile
3 43 (17.77%) AI
4 26 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (10.33%) Microservices
6 24 (9.92%) CI/CD
7 21 (8.68%) Scrum
8 20 (8.26%) DevOps
9 16 (6.61%) Clean Code
10 14 (5.79%) iOS Development
10 14 (5.79%) SDLC
11 13 (5.37%) OO
12 12 (4.96%) Machine Learning
12 12 (4.96%) TDD
13 11 (4.55%) Data Modelling
14 10 (4.13%) Code Quality
15 9 (3.72%) Android Development
15 9 (3.72%) BDD
15 9 (3.72%) Workflow
16 8 (3.31%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.31%) SQL
2 44 (18.18%) Java
3 42 (17.36%) C#
4 32 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.92%) PL/SQL
5 24 (9.92%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.26%) Python
7 12 (4.96%) Ruby
8 10 (4.13%) Swift
9 8 (3.31%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.48%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.07%) ABAP
11 5 (2.07%) PHP
11 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.65%) Groovy
12 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.24%) SOQL
14 2 (0.83%) Bash
14 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.41%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 25 (10.33%) SC Cleared
1 25 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.79%) Degree
3 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.07%) QA
2 2 (0.83%) GDPR
2 2 (0.83%) HL7
3 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (7.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.31%) Kibana
3 7 (2.89%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (10.74%) Oracle
2 25 (10.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.79%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.72%) Sage
5 6 (2.48%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.48%) IBM
6 5 (2.07%) SAP
7 4 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.65%) Splunk
8 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) Databricks
9 1 (0.41%) Motorola