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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 35 55
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 66 133 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.36% 6.56% 4.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.61% 7.23% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 42 106 67
10th Percentile £62,625 £62,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 1,828 1,839 1,700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 90.77% 93.30%
Number of salaries quoted 884 989 1,195
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £62,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +14.68% -5.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -23 26 £70,000 +3.70% 7
Bracknell +6 14 £82,500 +17.86% 4
Maidenhead -38 7 £65,000 - 1
Reading +2 5 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Windsor - 4 - -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, 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 38 (57.58%) HTML
2 30 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 26 (39.39%) Oracle
3 26 (39.39%) PL/SQL
3 26 (39.39%) SQL
4 22 (33.33%) React
5 21 (31.82%) OLTP
6 20 (30.30%) Azure
6 20 (30.30%) Configuration Management
7 19 (28.79%) Agile
7 19 (28.79%) AWS
7 19 (28.79%) CI/CD
7 19 (28.79%) CSS
7 19 (28.79%) DevOps
7 19 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (28.79%) GCP
7 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (28.79%) QA
8 18 (27.27%) Java
9 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
10 15 (22.73%) Clean Code
10 15 (22.73%) Issue Tracking
10 15 (22.73%) JSON
11 14 (21.21%) C#
11 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
11 14 (21.21%) Customer Engagement
11 14 (21.21%) Design Patterns
11 14 (21.21%) Docker
11 14 (21.21%) Git
11 14 (21.21%) Node.js

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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (30.30%) Azure
2 19 (28.79%) AWS
2 19 (28.79%) GCP
3 6 (9.09%) SaaS
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (7.58%) GitHub
4 5 (7.58%) Serverless
5 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.52%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.82%) OLTP
2 5 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.58%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.58%) MySQL
2 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 5 (7.58%) git-flow
General
1 34 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.21%) Law
3 14 (21.21%) Marketing
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (57.58%) HTML
2 22 (33.33%) React
3 19 (28.79%) CSS
4 15 (22.73%) JSON
5 14 (21.21%) Node.js
5 14 (21.21%) RESTful
6 7 (10.61%) .NET
7 5 (7.58%) AWS CDK
7 5 (7.58%) Kafka
7 5 (7.58%) Material-UI
7 5 (7.58%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (7.58%) SOAP
7 5 (7.58%) XML
8 4 (6.06%) REST
9 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (1.52%) OpenAPI
10 1 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.73%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Android
1 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) Configuration Management
2 19 (28.79%) Agile
2 19 (28.79%) CI/CD
2 19 (28.79%) DevOps
2 19 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.73%) Clean Code
3 15 (22.73%) Issue Tracking
4 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
4 14 (21.21%) Customer Engagement
4 14 (21.21%) Design Patterns
4 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
4 14 (21.21%) User Experience
4 14 (21.21%) UX Design
4 14 (21.21%) Web Development
5 12 (18.18%) Propensity Modelling
6 8 (12.12%) Microservices
7 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven
7 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (7.58%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 26 (39.39%) PL/SQL
2 26 (39.39%) SQL
3 18 (27.27%) Java
4 14 (21.21%) C#
5 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (28.79%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (39.39%) Oracle