Senior Developer Jobs in Berkshire

Senior Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Berkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 40 55
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 53 169 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.29% 5.53% 5.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.17% 5.79% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 48 127 134
10th Percentile £58,750 £57,000 £58,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

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 1,271 2,919 2,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.99% 95.49% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 575 2,064 1,632
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.09% +0.43%
75th Percentile £76,875 £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% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Berkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Slough -19 22 £67,500 - 5
Bracknell +3 15 £77,500 -8.82% 3
Reading -12 12 £62,500 - 9
Maidenhead -27 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 28 (52.83%) HTML
1 28 (52.83%) SQL
2 25 (47.17%) Degree
3 24 (45.28%) Oracle
3 24 (45.28%) PL/SQL
3 24 (45.28%) OLTP
4 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
5 17 (32.08%) SOAP
5 17 (32.08%) Software Testing
6 16 (30.19%) Agile
7 15 (28.30%) C#
7 15 (28.30%) XML
7 15 (28.30%) Computer Science
7 15 (28.30%) Git
7 15 (28.30%) Propensity Modelling
7 15 (28.30%) Docker
7 15 (28.30%) React
7 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (22.64%) TypeScript
9 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
9 11 (20.75%) Java
9 11 (20.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
10 10 (18.87%) Clean Code
11 9 (16.98%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
12 8 (15.09%) .NET
12 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
13 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management

Senior 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 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) AWS
2 4 (7.55%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.77%) Serverless
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.89%) IaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (45.28%) OLTP
2 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
2 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.77%) Metadata
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Selenium
3 5 (9.43%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.77%) JUnit
4 2 (3.77%) Maven
4 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.89%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.89%) Gradle
5 1 (1.89%) jMock
5 1 (1.89%) Mockito
5 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Electronics
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.89%) Marketing
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
4 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (52.83%) HTML
2 17 (32.08%) SOAP
3 15 (28.30%) React
3 15 (28.30%) XML
4 8 (15.09%) .NET
5 7 (13.21%) JSON
6 6 (11.32%) CSS
7 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.43%) CSS3
7 5 (9.43%) HTML5
7 5 (9.43%) Jest
8 3 (5.66%) Spring
9 2 (3.77%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (3.77%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.77%) JPA
9 2 (3.77%) Node.js
9 2 (3.77%) REST
9 2 (3.77%) Spring Batch
9 2 (3.77%) Spring Integration
9 2 (3.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.77%) Acoustics
2 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Software Testing
2 16 (30.19%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) Computer Science
3 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (28.30%) Propensity Modelling
4 11 (20.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (18.87%) Clean Code
6 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management
6 7 (13.21%) Issue Tracking
7 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
8 5 (9.43%) Front End Development
9 3 (5.66%) DevOps
9 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (5.66%) Microservices
10 2 (3.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (3.77%) Mathematics
10 2 (3.77%) Scrum
10 2 (3.77%) TDD
10 2 (3.77%) Unit Testing
10 2 (3.77%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) SQL
2 24 (45.28%) PL/SQL
3 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 15 (28.30%) C#
5 12 (22.64%) TypeScript
6 11 (20.75%) Java
7 6 (11.32%) PHP
8 4 (7.55%) Python
9 2 (3.77%) Bash
9 2 (3.77%) C
9 2 (3.77%) C++
9 2 (3.77%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 25 (47.17%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.77%) PhD
4 1 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (45.28%) Oracle
2 2 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.89%) IBM
3 1 (1.89%) SAP