Senior Developer Jobs 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 13 July 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 59 163 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.26% 5.05% 5.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.64% 5.29% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 46 128 117
10th Percentile £62,250 £58,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £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 1,623 3,081 2,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.77% 95.53% 93.43%
Number of salaries quoted 725 2,020 1,504
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -28 28 £67,500 - 5
Bracknell +2 12 £85,000 +6.25% 5
Reading -6 11 £59,783 -8.03% 7
Maidenhead -32 4 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Windsor - 2 - - 1
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 34 (57.63%) HTML
2 31 (52.54%) SQL
3 27 (45.76%) Oracle
3 27 (45.76%) JavaScript
3 27 (45.76%) PL/SQL
3 27 (45.76%) OLTP
4 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
5 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (30.51%) Java
6 17 (28.81%) Degree
6 17 (28.81%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (28.81%) Clean Code
7 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (25.42%) Issue Tracking
8 15 (25.42%) JSON
8 15 (25.42%) Configuration Management
9 14 (23.73%) Agile
9 14 (23.73%) Docker
10 13 (22.03%) Git
11 12 (20.34%) AWS
11 12 (20.34%) Propensity Modelling
11 12 (20.34%) React
11 12 (20.34%) Software Testing
11 12 (20.34%) SOAP
12 11 (18.64%) C#
13 10 (16.95%) XML
13 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
13 10 (16.95%) DevOps
13 10 (16.95%) Node.js
13 10 (16.95%) Azure

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 (1.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) AWS
2 10 (16.95%) Azure
3 8 (13.56%) GCP
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.69%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.69%) IaaS
4 1 (1.69%) Route 53
4 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (45.76%) OLTP
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.39%) Metadata
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) JUnit
2 2 (3.39%) Maven
2 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.69%) DbUnit
3 1 (1.69%) Gradle
3 1 (1.69%) jMock
3 1 (1.69%) Mockito
3 1 (1.69%) Selenium
3 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Law
3 8 (13.56%) Marketing
4 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (57.63%) HTML
2 15 (25.42%) JSON
3 12 (20.34%) React
3 12 (20.34%) SOAP
4 10 (16.95%) Node.js
4 10 (16.95%) XML
5 9 (15.25%) CSS
5 9 (15.25%) RESTful
6 4 (6.78%) .NET
6 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.08%) Spring
8 2 (3.39%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.39%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.39%) JPA
8 2 (3.39%) REST
8 2 (3.39%) Spring Batch
8 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.39%) Spring Integration
8 2 (3.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.39%) Acoustics
2 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (28.81%) Clean Code
3 15 (25.42%) Configuration Management
3 15 (25.42%) Issue Tracking
4 14 (23.73%) Agile
5 12 (20.34%) Propensity Modelling
5 12 (20.34%) Software Testing
6 10 (16.95%) DevOps
6 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.25%) Design Patterns
7 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.56%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (13.56%) User Experience
8 8 (13.56%) UX Design
8 8 (13.56%) Web Development
9 6 (10.17%) Computer Science
9 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
10 2 (3.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) SQL
2 27 (45.76%) JavaScript
2 27 (45.76%) PL/SQL
3 18 (30.51%) Java
4 11 (18.64%) C#
5 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
6 2 (3.39%) C
6 2 (3.39%) C++
6 2 (3.39%) Fortran
6 2 (3.39%) Python
7 1 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.39%) PhD
3 1 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) QA
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (45.76%) Oracle
2 2 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Atlassian