Developer Jobs in Berkshire

Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Developer salary in Berkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 143 446 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.87% 14.45% 18.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.16% 15.12% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 95 355 461
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £36,713
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 1,281 2,949 2,839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.47% 95.53% 92.48%
Number of salaries quoted 568 2,069 1,603
10th Percentile £29,675 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,673 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Developer in Berkshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 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 22 May 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 +8 81 £63,000 +2.44% 50
Slough -22 31 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Bracknell -5 21 £77,500 +3.33% 24
Maidenhead -29 2 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Windsor -28 1 - - 1
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 70 (48.95%) Agile
2 55 (38.46%) Docker
3 49 (34.27%) Java
3 49 (34.27%) SQL
4 47 (32.87%) Kubernetes
5 46 (32.17%) Microservices
5 46 (32.17%) Git
6 45 (31.47%) AWS
7 44 (30.77%) TDD
8 43 (30.07%) JavaScript
9 41 (28.67%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (27.97%) HTML
11 39 (27.27%) Spring
12 38 (26.57%) Web Services
12 38 (26.57%) Jenkins
13 37 (25.87%) DevOps
13 37 (25.87%) REST
13 37 (25.87%) SOAP
13 37 (25.87%) Serverless
14 36 (25.17%) Spring Boot
15 35 (24.48%) JUnit
16 34 (23.78%) Scrum
16 34 (23.78%) Distributed Systems
17 33 (23.08%) Public Sector
18 32 (22.38%) Relational Database
19 31 (21.68%) BDD
19 31 (21.68%) SC Cleared
19 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
19 31 (21.68%) .NET
19 31 (21.68%) Degree

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (9.79%) JBoss
1 14 (9.79%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (3.50%) Confluence
2 5 (3.50%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (1.40%) Final Cut Pro
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.47%) AWS
2 37 (25.87%) Serverless
3 30 (20.98%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (20.98%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (13.99%) Azure
5 18 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (11.19%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (11.19%) Power Platform
7 12 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.99%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.20%) AWS KMS
9 6 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.80%) Route 53
12 3 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.67%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (22.38%) Relational Database
3 23 (16.08%) OLTP
3 23 (16.08%) SQL Server
4 17 (11.89%) NoSQL
5 15 (10.49%) Power BI
6 13 (9.09%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.10%) MySQL
11 2 (1.40%) Metadata
11 2 (1.40%) Redis
12 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (32.17%) Git
2 38 (26.57%) Jenkins
3 35 (24.48%) JUnit
4 18 (12.59%) Mockito
5 11 (7.69%) JMeter
6 8 (5.59%) Maven
7 7 (4.90%) Selenium
7 7 (4.90%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.20%) DbUnit
8 6 (4.20%) JIRA
8 6 (4.20%) jMock
9 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (2.80%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.40%) GitLab
10 2 (1.40%) Mocha
10 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.70%) Gradle
General
1 33 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 24 (16.78%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.99%) Law
5 7 (4.90%) Finance
6 6 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.80%) Marketing
8 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.97%) HTML
2 39 (27.27%) Spring
3 38 (26.57%) Web Services
4 37 (25.87%) REST
4 37 (25.87%) SOAP
5 36 (25.17%) Spring Boot
6 31 (21.68%) .NET
7 28 (19.58%) React
8 26 (18.18%) Apache Camel
9 20 (13.99%) RESTful
10 19 (13.29%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (12.59%) Hibernate
11 18 (12.59%) XML
12 14 (9.79%) J2EE
13 11 (7.69%) jQuery
13 11 (7.69%) JSON
13 11 (7.69%) Node.js
13 11 (7.69%) WireMock
14 10 (6.99%) AngularJS
14 10 (6.99%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (23.78%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.10%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.40%) Acoustics
5 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.40%) Social Media
5 2 (1.40%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (48.95%) Agile
2 46 (32.17%) Microservices
3 44 (30.77%) TDD
4 37 (25.87%) DevOps
5 34 (23.78%) Scrum
6 31 (21.68%) BDD
7 27 (18.88%) CI/CD
7 27 (18.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (18.88%) Kanban
8 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.99%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.59%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (12.59%) Propensity Modelling
11 16 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (11.19%) Software Testing
12 11 (7.69%) Clean Code
12 11 (7.69%) Process Management
12 11 (7.69%) Workflow
13 9 (6.29%) Architectural Design
13 9 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.27%) Java
1 49 (34.27%) SQL
2 43 (30.07%) JavaScript
3 27 (18.88%) C#
4 23 (16.08%) PL/SQL
5 19 (13.29%) Python
6 15 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.29%) VB.NET
9 7 (4.90%) X++
10 6 (4.20%) PHP
11 2 (1.40%) Bash
11 2 (1.40%) C
11 2 (1.40%) C++
11 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.40%) Fortran
12 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (21.68%) Degree
1 31 (21.68%) SC Cleared
1 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.10%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.10%) PhD
5 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) SLA
2 4 (2.80%) WCAG
3 2 (1.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (38.46%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (32.87%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.79%) Ansible
3 11 (7.69%) Kibana
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
4 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (16.08%) Oracle
2 21 (14.69%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 11 (7.69%) Splunk
4 4 (2.80%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.10%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.40%) Adobe
6 2 (1.40%) Facebook
6 2 (1.40%) Instagram
6 2 (1.40%) YouTube
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) PayPal
7 1 (0.70%) Sage
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.70%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow