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 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 134 349 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.07% 15.81% 13.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.60% 16.50% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 77 233 209
10th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £45,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

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 1,762 2,115 1,775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 95.79% 93.08%
Number of salaries quoted 775 1,141 1,165
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.56% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +5 64 £55,000 -8.71% 13
Slough -35 28 £70,000 +7.69% 110
Bracknell -4 20 £82,500 +17.86% 4
Maidenhead -38 6 £60,000 -
Windsor -37 5 - - 3
Wokingham -3 3 £28,000 -62.67% 1
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, 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 60 (44.78%) Agile
1 60 (44.78%) HTML
2 58 (43.28%) AWS
3 55 (41.04%) JavaScript
4 51 (38.06%) Java
5 49 (36.57%) Docker
6 42 (31.34%) Kubernetes
7 41 (30.60%) CI/CD
8 40 (29.85%) TDD
9 39 (29.10%) Microservices
10 38 (28.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (26.87%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (26.87%) Web Services
12 35 (26.12%) Spring
12 35 (26.12%) Spring Boot
13 34 (25.37%) Jenkins
13 34 (25.37%) SQL
14 32 (23.88%) Azure
14 32 (23.88%) DevOps
14 32 (23.88%) JUnit
14 32 (23.88%) REST
15 31 (23.13%) JSON
16 30 (22.39%) BDD
16 30 (22.39%) Git
16 30 (22.39%) Serverless
17 29 (21.64%) C#
18 28 (20.90%) Security Cleared
19 27 (20.15%) ActiveMQ
19 27 (20.15%) Amazon ECS
19 27 (20.15%) Amazon EKS

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 5 (3.73%) JBoss
1 5 (3.73%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.24%) CMS
2 3 (2.24%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Camtasia
1 3 (2.24%) Lectora
1 3 (2.24%) Snagit
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.28%) AWS
2 32 (23.88%) Azure
3 30 (22.39%) Serverless
4 27 (20.15%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (20.15%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (19.40%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (13.43%) GCP
7 11 (8.21%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.73%) AWS KMS
10 5 (3.73%) GitHub
10 5 (3.73%) Route 53
11 4 (2.99%) SaaS
12 3 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.87%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (20.15%) Relational Database
3 22 (16.42%) OLTP
4 20 (14.93%) RDBMS
5 9 (6.72%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.24%) MySQL
9 3 (2.24%) Power BI
9 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.88%) JUnit
3 30 (22.39%) Git
4 26 (19.40%) Mockito
5 20 (14.93%) JMeter
6 7 (5.22%) Maven
7 6 (4.48%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.73%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (3.73%) DbUnit
8 5 (3.73%) jMock
9 3 (2.24%) git-flow
9 3 (2.24%) JIRA
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.13%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.93%) Law
4 14 (10.45%) Marketing
5 11 (8.21%) Finance
6 4 (2.99%) Humanities
7 2 (1.49%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (44.78%) HTML
2 36 (26.87%) Web Services
3 35 (26.12%) Spring
3 35 (26.12%) Spring Boot
4 32 (23.88%) REST
5 31 (23.13%) JSON
6 27 (20.15%) ActiveMQ
7 26 (19.40%) Hibernate
8 25 (18.66%) Apache Camel
8 25 (18.66%) RESTful
9 23 (17.16%) React
9 23 (17.16%) XML
10 21 (15.67%) CSS
11 20 (14.93%) jQuery
11 20 (14.93%) WireMock
12 18 (13.43%) Node.js
12 18 (13.43%) SOAP
13 17 (12.69%) .NET
14 9 (6.72%) AngularJS
15 8 (5.97%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.64%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.45%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.24%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Android
2 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (44.78%) Agile
2 41 (30.60%) CI/CD
3 40 (29.85%) TDD
4 39 (29.10%) Microservices
5 38 (28.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (23.88%) DevOps
7 30 (22.39%) BDD
8 23 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.67%) Containerisation
10 20 (14.93%) Process Management
10 20 (14.93%) Workflow
11 18 (13.43%) User Experience
12 17 (12.69%) Configuration Management
12 17 (12.69%) Propensity Modelling
12 17 (12.69%) Scrum
12 17 (12.69%) Test Automation
13 16 (11.94%) Clean Code
13 16 (11.94%) SDLC
14 14 (10.45%) Design Patterns
14 14 (10.45%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.04%) JavaScript
2 51 (38.06%) Java
3 34 (25.37%) SQL
4 29 (21.64%) C#
5 25 (18.66%) PL/SQL
6 23 (17.16%) Python
7 20 (14.93%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.24%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.24%) X++
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Degree
4 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) QA
2 8 (5.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (36.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 42 (31.34%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.93%) Kibana
3 5 (3.73%) Ansible
4 2 (1.49%) Grafana
4 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Oracle
2 20 (14.93%) Dynatrace
2 20 (14.93%) Splunk
3 9 (6.72%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.73%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.24%) Jaspersoft