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 16 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
16 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 37 63
Rank change year-on-year -48 +26 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 58 136 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.06% 6.12% 4.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% 6.39% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 38 106 82
10th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,063 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
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 1,765 2,128 1,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.73% 93.28%
Number of salaries quoted 774 1,152 1,190
10th Percentile £27,860 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.56% -6.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,625 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% -

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 16 October 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 October 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 -31 27 £70,000 +3.70% 7
Bracknell +5 12 £85,000 +21.43% 4
Maidenhead -39 6 £60,000 -
Reading +4 4 £65,000 -8.45% 1
Windsor - 4 - - 1
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 36 (62.07%) HTML
2 30 (51.72%) JavaScript
3 27 (46.55%) SQL
4 25 (43.10%) Oracle
4 25 (43.10%) PL/SQL
5 23 (39.66%) OLTP
6 20 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (31.03%) Agile
7 18 (31.03%) AWS
8 17 (29.31%) Azure
8 17 (29.31%) Configuration Management
8 17 (29.31%) Java
9 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
9 16 (27.59%) CSS
9 16 (27.59%) DevOps
9 16 (27.59%) Docker
9 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (27.59%) GCP
9 16 (27.59%) QA
9 16 (27.59%) React
10 15 (25.86%) Clean Code
10 15 (25.86%) Containerisation
10 15 (25.86%) Git
10 15 (25.86%) Issue Tracking
10 15 (25.86%) JSON
10 15 (25.86%) RESTful
11 14 (24.14%) Customer Engagement
11 14 (24.14%) Design Patterns
11 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes
11 14 (24.14%) 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 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 17 (29.31%) Azure
3 16 (27.59%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (5.17%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.72%) Route 53
6 1 (1.72%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (39.66%) OLTP
2 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
3 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) git-flow
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) JUnit
2 2 (3.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.72%) DbUnit
3 1 (1.72%) jMock
3 1 (1.72%) Mockito
3 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (24.14%) Law
3 14 (24.14%) Marketing
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (62.07%) HTML
2 16 (27.59%) CSS
2 16 (27.59%) React
3 15 (25.86%) JSON
3 15 (25.86%) RESTful
4 14 (24.14%) Node.js
5 8 (13.79%) SOAP
6 6 (10.34%) XML
7 3 (5.17%) .NET
7 3 (5.17%) REST
8 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.45%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.45%) JPA
8 2 (3.45%) Kafka
8 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.45%) Spring Batch
8 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.45%) Spring Integration
8 2 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Android
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (31.03%) Agile
3 17 (29.31%) Configuration Management
4 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.59%) DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (25.86%) Clean Code
5 15 (25.86%) Containerisation
5 15 (25.86%) Issue Tracking
6 14 (24.14%) Customer Engagement
6 14 (24.14%) Design Patterns
6 14 (24.14%) Test Automation
6 14 (24.14%) User Experience
6 14 (24.14%) UX Design
6 14 (24.14%) Web Development
7 10 (17.24%) Propensity Modelling
8 6 (10.34%) Software Testing
9 4 (6.90%) Microservices
10 2 (3.45%) Software Delivery
10 2 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) JavaScript
2 27 (46.55%) SQL
3 25 (43.10%) PL/SQL
4 17 (29.31%) Java
5 12 (20.69%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
17 Senior Developer jobs in Berkshire