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 15 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 39 53
Rank change year-on-year -49 +14 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 65 141 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.19% 5.86% 5.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.43% 6.17% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 45 105 94
10th Percentile - £60,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +4.48%

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 1,897 2,287 1,879
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 95.05% 92.52%
Number of salaries quoted 783 1,307 1,290
10th Percentile £27,840 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £51,852 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -5.72% -

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -36 30 £70,000 +3.70% 5
Bracknell +3 13 £85,000 +21.43%
Reading -12 9 £57,783 -17.45% 1
Maidenhead -46 6 £60,000 - 1
Windsor - 4 - -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 38 (58.46%) HTML
2 35 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 34 (52.31%) JavaScript
4 32 (49.23%) SQL
5 28 (43.08%) PL/SQL
5 28 (43.08%) Oracle
6 27 (41.54%) OLTP
7 21 (32.31%) Java
7 21 (32.31%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (30.77%) Configuration Management
9 19 (29.23%) JSON
9 19 (29.23%) Issue Tracking
9 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (29.23%) Clean Code
10 16 (24.62%) Agile
10 16 (24.62%) AWS
10 16 (24.62%) Docker
11 15 (23.08%) Azure
11 15 (23.08%) RESTful
11 15 (23.08%) Git
11 15 (23.08%) Containerisation
12 14 (21.54%) CI/CD
12 14 (21.54%) Design Patterns
12 14 (21.54%) UX Design
12 14 (21.54%) Marketing
12 14 (21.54%) Web Development
12 14 (21.54%) QA
12 14 (21.54%) Law
12 14 (21.54%) CSS

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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (24.62%) AWS
2 15 (23.08%) Azure
3 14 (21.54%) GCP
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.54%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.54%) Route 53
4 1 (1.54%) SaaS
4 1 (1.54%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (41.54%) OLTP
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.08%) Metadata
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) JUnit
2 2 (3.08%) Maven
3 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.54%) DbUnit
3 1 (1.54%) jMock
3 1 (1.54%) Mockito
3 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.54%) Law
3 14 (21.54%) Marketing
4 2 (3.08%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (58.46%) HTML
2 19 (29.23%) JSON
3 15 (23.08%) RESTful
4 14 (21.54%) CSS
4 14 (21.54%) Node.js
4 14 (21.54%) React
5 7 (10.77%) SOAP
6 5 (7.69%) XML
7 3 (4.62%) REST
8 2 (3.08%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.08%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.08%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.08%) JPA
8 2 (3.08%) Spring
8 2 (3.08%) Spring Batch
8 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.08%) Spring Integration
8 2 (3.08%) Web Services
9 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.08%) Acoustics
2 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) Android
3 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Configuration Management
2 19 (29.23%) Clean Code
2 19 (29.23%) Issue Tracking
2 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (24.62%) Agile
4 15 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 14 (21.54%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.54%) Customer Engagement
5 14 (21.54%) Design Patterns
5 14 (21.54%) DevOps
5 14 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (21.54%) Test Automation
5 14 (21.54%) User Experience
5 14 (21.54%) UX Design
5 14 (21.54%) Web Development
6 11 (16.92%) Propensity Modelling
7 7 (10.77%) Software Testing
8 2 (3.08%) Computer Science
8 2 (3.08%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (52.31%) JavaScript
2 32 (49.23%) SQL
3 28 (43.08%) PL/SQL
4 21 (32.31%) Java
5 10 (15.38%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) Bash
6 2 (3.08%) C
6 2 (3.08%) C++
6 2 (3.08%) Fortran
6 2 (3.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Oracle
2 2 (3.08%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (1.54%) Atlassian