Developer Jobs in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer salary in Reading is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 86 207 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 16.63% 12.12% 19.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.24% 12.80% 20.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41 133 216
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,750 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £83,500 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 425 1,617 1,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.21% 94.67% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 241 1,027 798
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Reading.

Salary trend for Developer in Reading

Developer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, 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 Reading region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 56 (65.12%) Agile
2 48 (55.81%) AWS
2 48 (55.81%) Microservices
3 45 (52.33%) TDD
3 45 (52.33%) Java
4 44 (51.16%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (48.84%) Spring
5 42 (48.84%) Docker
5 42 (48.84%) Serverless
6 41 (47.67%) REST
6 41 (47.67%) Jenkins
6 41 (47.67%) Web Services
7 40 (46.51%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
9 38 (44.19%) Spring Boot
9 38 (44.19%) Relational Database
9 38 (44.19%) JUnit
10 36 (41.86%) Scrum
10 36 (41.86%) Public Sector
10 36 (41.86%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (41.86%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (40.70%) BDD
11 35 (40.70%) SC Cleared
11 35 (40.70%) Security Cleared
12 33 (38.37%) Git
12 33 (38.37%) DevOps
12 33 (38.37%) CI/CD
13 32 (37.21%) Apache Camel
13 32 (37.21%) JavaScript
14 30 (34.88%) Kanban

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 13 (15.12%) JBoss
1 13 (15.12%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (5.81%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.49%) Confluence
3 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.81%) AWS
2 42 (48.84%) Serverless
3 36 (41.86%) Amazon ECS
3 36 (41.86%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (26.74%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (23.26%) Azure
6 15 (17.44%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.65%) AWS KMS
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.49%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (51.16%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (44.19%) Relational Database
3 20 (23.26%) RDBMS
4 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.65%) MySQL
7 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.49%) Power BI
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.33%) Metadata
8 2 (2.33%) Redis
9 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (47.67%) Jenkins
2 38 (44.19%) JUnit
3 33 (38.37%) Git
4 23 (26.74%) Mockito
5 18 (20.93%) JMeter
6 5 (5.81%) Maven
6 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.65%) DbUnit
7 4 (4.65%) JIRA
7 4 (4.65%) jMock
7 4 (4.65%) Selenium
8 2 (2.33%) GitLab
8 2 (2.33%) Mocha
9 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.16%) Gradle
9 1 (1.16%) gulp
9 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.16%) Yeoman
General
1 36 (41.86%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.47%) Law
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (48.84%) Spring
2 41 (47.67%) REST
2 41 (47.67%) Web Services
3 38 (44.19%) Spring Boot
4 32 (37.21%) Apache Camel
5 26 (30.23%) HTML
6 23 (26.74%) ActiveMQ
7 22 (25.58%) Hibernate
8 19 (22.09%) jQuery
9 18 (20.93%) SOAP
9 18 (20.93%) WireMock
10 17 (19.77%) RESTful
11 14 (16.28%) .NET
11 14 (16.28%) React
12 13 (15.12%) J2EE
13 12 (13.95%) Node.js
14 8 (9.30%) CSS
14 8 (9.30%) Mustache
15 7 (8.14%) .NET Framework
15 7 (8.14%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (46.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.33%) Acoustics
3 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.12%) Agile
2 48 (55.81%) Microservices
3 45 (52.33%) TDD
4 36 (41.86%) Scrum
5 35 (40.70%) BDD
6 33 (38.37%) CI/CD
6 33 (38.37%) DevOps
7 30 (34.88%) Kanban
8 28 (32.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (20.93%) Process Management
9 18 (20.93%) Workflow
10 16 (18.60%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (17.44%) Architectural Design
11 15 (17.44%) SDLC
12 9 (10.47%) Migration
13 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (6.98%) Data Migration
14 6 (6.98%) Software Engineering
14 6 (6.98%) Unit Testing
15 5 (5.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.33%) Java
2 32 (37.21%) JavaScript
3 27 (31.40%) Python
4 18 (20.93%) Shell Script
5 16 (18.60%) SQL
6 12 (13.95%) C#
7 6 (6.98%) X++
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) C++
8 2 (2.33%) Fortran
8 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.16%) PHP
9 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (40.70%) SC Cleared
1 35 (40.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.81%) Degree
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) PhD
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.12%) SLA
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (48.84%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
2 18 (20.93%) Kibana
3 13 (15.12%) Ansible
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Dynatrace
1 18 (20.93%) Splunk
2 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow