Senior Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Senior Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Berkshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 66 37
Rank change year-on-year +28 -29 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 90 57 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.54% 3.78% 5.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.79% 4.90% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 84 53 132
10th Percentile £63,750 £59,100 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £84,063 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,250 £112,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,374 1,164 2,741
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 77.14% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,484 565 2,120
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 2 May 2026.

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 2 May 2026. 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 +18 33 £70,000 +3.70% 4
Bracknell +2 24 £85,000 +9.68% 4
Reading +4 20 £75,000 +19.05% 2
Wokingham - 4 £85,000 -
Windsor - 3 £70,000 -
Maidenhead +3 2 £70,000 -
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2026, 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 39 (43.33%) SQL
2 38 (42.22%) Oracle
2 38 (42.22%) PL/SQL
3 33 (36.67%) OLTP
4 25 (27.78%) HTML
5 23 (25.56%) Java
6 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (20.00%) Degree
7 18 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 15 (16.67%) React
8 15 (16.67%) SOAP
8 15 (16.67%) XML
9 14 (15.56%) AWS
10 13 (14.44%) JavaScript
11 11 (12.22%) Configuration Management
12 10 (11.11%) .NET
12 10 (11.11%) Microservices
13 9 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
13 9 (10.00%) JSON
14 8 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (8.89%) Node.js
14 8 (8.89%) Propensity Modelling
14 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
15 7 (7.78%) Agile
15 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
15 7 (7.78%) REST
15 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
15 7 (7.78%) Security Cleared
15 7 (7.78%) Spring Boot
15 7 (7.78%) TypeScript

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) AWS
2 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (4.44%) Serverless
3 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.22%) Azure
4 2 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.11%) GCP
5 1 (1.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (36.67%) OLTP
2 2 (2.22%) MySQL
2 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) git-flow
3 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.56%) Finance
4 4 (4.44%) Health Technology
5 3 (3.33%) Digital Health
5 3 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) HTML
2 15 (16.67%) React
2 15 (16.67%) SOAP
2 15 (16.67%) XML
3 10 (11.11%) .NET
4 9 (10.00%) JSON
5 8 (8.89%) Node.js
6 7 (7.78%) REST
6 7 (7.78%) Spring Boot
7 6 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (3.33%) Kafka
8 3 (3.33%) SAPUI5
9 2 (2.22%) CSS
9 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.22%) Mustache
9 2 (2.22%) Spring
9 2 (2.22%) Web Services
10 1 (1.11%) Material-UI
10 1 (1.11%) Next.js
10 1 (1.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.56%) IoT
4 3 (3.33%) NHS
4 3 (3.33%) PMI
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Android
1 5 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 11 (12.22%) Configuration Management
4 10 (11.11%) Microservices
5 9 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
6 8 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (8.89%) Propensity Modelling
6 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
7 7 (7.78%) Agile
8 6 (6.67%) Clean Code
9 5 (5.56%) Android Development
9 5 (5.56%) iOS Development
9 5 (5.56%) SDLC
10 4 (4.44%) CI/CD
10 4 (4.44%) Mentoring
11 3 (3.33%) Change Management
11 3 (3.33%) Mathematics
11 3 (3.33%) Migration
11 3 (3.33%) Scrum
11 3 (3.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.33%) SQL
2 38 (42.22%) PL/SQL
3 23 (25.56%) Java
4 13 (14.44%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.67%) Ruby
7 5 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 5 (5.56%) Swift
8 3 (3.33%) ABAP
8 3 (3.33%) C#
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (42.22%) Oracle
2 3 (3.33%) SAP