Developer Jobs in Reading

Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Developer salary in Reading is £63,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 81 208 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 16.33% 11.95% 19.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.80% 12.61% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 37 134 204
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £35,128
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £73,750 £83,375 £112,500
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 409 1,650 1,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.46% 94.83% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 216 1,037 759
10th Percentile £30,875 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £39,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,375 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +5.84% -10.26% +1.74%

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 23 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 23 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 52 (64.20%) Agile
2 45 (55.56%) Microservices
3 44 (54.32%) TDD
4 43 (53.09%) AWS
5 41 (50.62%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (50.62%) Java
6 40 (49.38%) Docker
7 39 (48.15%) Spring
8 38 (46.91%) Web Services
8 38 (46.91%) Jenkins
9 36 (44.44%) Spring Boot
9 36 (44.44%) Serverless
9 36 (44.44%) REST
10 35 (43.21%) JUnit
11 34 (41.98%) Scrum
11 34 (41.98%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (40.74%) Kubernetes
13 32 (39.51%) DevOps
13 32 (39.51%) Relational Database
13 32 (39.51%) Public Sector
14 31 (38.27%) BDD
14 31 (38.27%) Git
14 31 (38.27%) SC Cleared
14 31 (38.27%) Security Cleared
15 30 (37.04%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (37.04%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (33.33%) CI/CD
16 27 (33.33%) Kanban
17 26 (32.10%) Apache Camel
18 23 (28.40%) Full-Stack Development

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 (16.05%) JBoss
1 13 (16.05%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 5 (6.17%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.09%) AWS
2 36 (44.44%) Serverless
3 30 (37.04%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (37.04%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (23.46%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (19.75%) Azure
5 16 (19.75%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (12.35%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.41%) AWS KMS
9 5 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.94%) Route 53
11 3 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (50.62%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (39.51%) Relational Database
3 14 (17.28%) RDBMS
4 9 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.94%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.70%) MySQL
9 3 (3.70%) Power BI
10 2 (2.47%) Metadata
10 2 (2.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (46.91%) Jenkins
2 35 (43.21%) JUnit
3 31 (38.27%) Git
4 19 (23.46%) Mockito
5 12 (14.81%) JMeter
6 8 (9.88%) Maven
7 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
8 6 (7.41%) DbUnit
8 6 (7.41%) jMock
9 5 (6.17%) JIRA
10 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (3.70%) Selenium
12 2 (2.47%) GitLab
12 2 (2.47%) Mocha
13 1 (1.23%) Gradle
13 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (39.51%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.35%) Law
2 10 (12.35%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Finance
6 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (48.15%) Spring
2 38 (46.91%) Web Services
3 36 (44.44%) REST
3 36 (44.44%) Spring Boot
4 26 (32.10%) Apache Camel
5 21 (25.93%) SOAP
6 20 (24.69%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (23.46%) Hibernate
7 19 (23.46%) RESTful
8 16 (19.75%) HTML
9 13 (16.05%) J2EE
10 12 (14.81%) jQuery
10 12 (14.81%) React
10 12 (14.81%) WireMock
11 11 (13.58%) .NET
11 11 (13.58%) Node.js
12 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
13 8 (9.88%) JPA
14 6 (7.41%) Bootstrap
14 6 (7.41%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 34 (41.98%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Acoustics
3 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (64.20%) Agile
2 45 (55.56%) Microservices
3 44 (54.32%) TDD
4 34 (41.98%) Scrum
5 32 (39.51%) DevOps
6 31 (38.27%) BDD
7 27 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 27 (33.33%) Kanban
8 23 (28.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (14.81%) Process Management
9 12 (14.81%) Workflow
10 10 (12.35%) Architectural Design
10 10 (12.35%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (11.11%) Migration
12 8 (9.88%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.64%) Data Migration
13 7 (8.64%) SDLC
14 6 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (7.41%) Open Source
14 6 (7.41%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 41 (50.62%) Java
2 21 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.46%) Python
4 14 (17.28%) SQL
5 12 (14.81%) Shell Script
6 10 (12.35%) C#
7 7 (8.64%) X++
8 2 (2.47%) Bash
8 2 (2.47%) C
8 2 (2.47%) C++
8 2 (2.47%) Fortran
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (38.27%) SC Cleared
1 31 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) Degree
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.47%) PhD
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (49.38%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 33 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.05%) Ansible
3 12 (14.81%) Kibana
4 2 (2.47%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.81%) Dynatrace
2 12 (14.81%) Splunk
3 4 (4.94%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow