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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 25 7
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 200 172 362
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 6.65% 9.63% 13.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.01% 10.40% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 164 110 276
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,563 £49,063 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -2.50%

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 2,853 1,654 2,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 92.56% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,861 749 1,683
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 28 July 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 28 July 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 98 £63,750 +14.73% 10
Bracknell -1 37 £85,000 +3.03% 2
Slough +21 36 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Windsor +42 8 £50,000 - 2
Maidenhead +22 4 £85,000 +47.83% 2
Wokingham -9 4 £52,500 +87.50% 6
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 63 (31.50%) SQL
2 48 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 46 (23.00%) AWS
4 44 (22.00%) Agile
5 42 (21.00%) Azure
6 39 (19.50%) React
7 37 (18.50%) C#
8 35 (17.50%) Oracle
9 34 (17.00%) .NET
10 33 (16.50%) Java
10 33 (16.50%) PL/SQL
11 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.50%) JavaScript
12 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
13 27 (13.50%) OLTP
13 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
13 27 (13.50%) Security Cleared
14 26 (13.00%) AI
14 26 (13.00%) DevOps
14 26 (13.00%) Node.js
15 24 (12.00%) Microservices
15 24 (12.00%) Python
15 24 (12.00%) TypeScript
16 23 (11.50%) CI/CD
17 22 (11.00%) HTML
18 20 (10.00%) .NET Core
18 20 (10.00%) ASP.NET
18 20 (10.00%) Degree
19 19 (9.50%) Docker
19 19 (9.50%) Git

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 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.00%) CMS
1 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.50%) Apache
2 1 (0.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.50%) Jadu
2 1 (0.50%) JBoss
2 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.50%) SAS
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.00%) AWS
2 42 (21.00%) Azure
3 14 (7.00%) Serverless
4 13 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (5.50%) GitHub
7 10 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 10 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.00%) SaaS
9 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.00%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.00%) Apigee
11 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.50%) OLTP
2 17 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.50%) Power BI
7 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.00%) MySQL
9 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.50%) Power Query
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Git
2 13 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.00%) GitLab
3 4 (2.00%) JIRA
3 4 (2.00%) JUnit
3 4 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.50%) JMeter
4 3 (1.50%) Mockito
5 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.00%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (12.00%) Finance
2 13 (6.50%) Retail
3 12 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.50%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Digital Health
6 8 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.00%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.00%) Law
9 3 (1.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.50%) React
2 34 (17.00%) .NET
3 26 (13.00%) Node.js
4 22 (11.00%) HTML
5 20 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 20 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 18 (9.00%) REST
7 16 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 15 (7.50%) Blazor
8 15 (7.50%) SOAP
9 14 (7.00%) Spring
10 13 (6.50%) XML
11 11 (5.50%) .NET Framework
11 11 (5.50%) Spring Boot
12 10 (5.00%) RESTful
13 9 (4.50%) ML.NET
13 9 (4.50%) Ruby on Rails
14 8 (4.00%) CSS
14 8 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (4.00%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.50%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.00%) Social Network
6 3 (1.50%) Arduino
6 3 (1.50%) NHS
6 3 (1.50%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.00%) Apple iOS
2 9 (4.50%) Android
3 7 (3.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 44 (22.00%) Agile
3 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (13.00%) AI
4 26 (13.00%) DevOps
5 24 (12.00%) Microservices
6 23 (11.50%) CI/CD
7 19 (9.50%) Scrum
8 15 (7.50%) Clean Code
9 12 (6.00%) OO
9 12 (6.00%) Software Testing
10 11 (5.50%) Data Modelling
10 11 (5.50%) Machine Learning
11 10 (5.00%) iOS Development
11 10 (5.00%) TDD
12 9 (4.50%) Analytics
12 9 (4.50%) Decision-Making
12 9 (4.50%) Workflow
13 8 (4.00%) BDD
13 8 (4.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.50%) SQL
2 37 (18.50%) C#
3 33 (16.50%) Java
3 33 (16.50%) PL/SQL
4 29 (14.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.00%) Python
5 24 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.00%) Swift
7 9 (4.50%) Ruby
8 6 (3.00%) Apex Code
8 6 (3.00%) PHP
9 5 (2.50%) ABAP
9 5 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.50%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.00%) Groovy
11 3 (1.50%) C
11 3 (1.50%) Pascal
11 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) Bash
12 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
1 27 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.00%) GDPR
1 4 (2.00%) QA
2 2 (1.00%) HL7
System Software
1 19 (9.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Ansible
2 7 (3.50%) Kibana
3 6 (3.00%) Terraform
4 2 (1.00%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (17.50%) Oracle
2 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.00%) AppDynamics
4 6 (3.00%) IBM
5 5 (2.50%) SAP
6 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.50%) Motorola
6 3 (1.50%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) Sage