Senior Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Senior Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Berkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 January 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 63 98 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.14% 6.09% 5.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.43% 7.64% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 50 76 110
10th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £53,625
25th Percentile £65,625 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £112,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +3.70%

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 1,282 2,308
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 79.68% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 950 633 1,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +20.37% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Slough -20 24 £70,000 +3.70% 13
Bracknell +6 11 £80,000 +3.23%
Reading +1 8 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Wokingham - 4 £85,000 - 1
Maidenhead - 3 £70,000 -
Windsor - 2 £70,000 -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 33 (52.38%) SQL
2 32 (50.79%) Oracle
2 32 (50.79%) PL/SQL
3 25 (39.68%) HTML
4 24 (38.10%) OLTP
5 21 (33.33%) Java
6 16 (25.40%) Configuration Management
7 14 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 13 (20.63%) Degree
8 13 (20.63%) Microservices
8 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.63%) Software Testing
9 12 (19.05%) React
10 11 (17.46%) SOAP
10 11 (17.46%) XML
11 10 (15.87%) Issue Tracking
11 10 (15.87%) JSON
12 9 (14.29%) C#
12 9 (14.29%) Propensity Modelling
13 8 (12.70%) .NET
13 8 (12.70%) AWS
13 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
13 8 (12.70%) REST
13 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
14 7 (11.11%) Agile
14 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
14 7 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (11.11%) Azure
14 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
14 7 (11.11%) Kafka

Senior 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 (3.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 7 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 7 (11.11%) Azure
2 7 (11.11%) SaaS
2 7 (11.11%) Serverless
3 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (7.94%) GCP
3 5 (7.94%) GitHub
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.59%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.10%) OLTP
2 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.94%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.94%) MySQL
2 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) git-flow
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
4 4 (6.35%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.68%) HTML
2 12 (19.05%) React
3 11 (17.46%) SOAP
3 11 (17.46%) XML
4 10 (15.87%) JSON
5 8 (12.70%) .NET
5 8 (12.70%) REST
6 7 (11.11%) Kafka
6 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 5 (7.94%) AWS CDK
7 5 (7.94%) CSS
7 5 (7.94%) Material-UI
7 5 (7.94%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.17%) Mustache
8 2 (3.17%) Node.js
8 2 (3.17%) Spring
8 2 (3.17%) Web Services
9 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.52%) IoT
3 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) NHS
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Android
1 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) Configuration Management
2 13 (20.63%) Microservices
2 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.63%) Software Testing
3 10 (15.87%) Issue Tracking
4 9 (14.29%) Propensity Modelling
5 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
5 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.11%) Agile
6 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (7.94%) B2B
8 5 (7.94%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.94%) DevOps
8 5 (7.94%) Event-Driven
8 5 (7.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.94%) Software Delivery
9 4 (6.35%) SDLC
9 4 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) SQL
2 32 (50.79%) PL/SQL
3 21 (33.33%) Java
4 14 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.29%) C#
6 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (50.79%) Oracle