Software Developer Jobs in Reading

Software Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Software Developer salary in Reading is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 80 97
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 31 57 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.81% 3.51% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 3.74% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26 49 26
10th Percentile - £29,250 £21,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,875 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £74,688 £62,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,000 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.59% +9.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,618 1,523 1,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 93.67% 97.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 812 1,030
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,863
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Reading

Software Developer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in Reading

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 17 (54.84%) Azure
2 15 (48.39%) QA
3 14 (45.16%) DevOps
4 12 (38.71%) Web Services
4 12 (38.71%) .NET
4 12 (38.71%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
6 10 (32.26%) Test Automation
7 9 (29.03%) C#
7 9 (29.03%) .NET Core
7 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
8 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
9 7 (22.58%) SDET
9 7 (22.58%) DBS Check
9 7 (22.58%) Progressive Web App
9 7 (22.58%) Police
9 7 (22.58%) CSS
9 7 (22.58%) CRM
9 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
9 7 (22.58%) E-business
9 7 (22.58%) Back Office
9 7 (22.58%) Retail
10 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
10 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
11 5 (16.13%) Zephyr
11 5 (16.13%) GitHub
11 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
11 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (16.13%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (16.13%) Test Management

Software 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 1 (3.23%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Azure
2 12 (38.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.13%) GitHub
4 4 (12.90%) ChatGPT
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Bugzilla
1 5 (16.13%) Cypress.io
1 5 (16.13%) Git
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
1 5 (16.13%) Zephyr
2 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.23%) JUnit
2 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
2 1 (3.23%) TestNG
2 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Back Office
2 7 (22.58%) Police
2 7 (22.58%) Retail
3 3 (9.68%) Health Technology
3 3 (9.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) .NET
1 12 (38.71%) Web Services
2 9 (29.03%) .NET Core
3 7 (22.58%) CSS
4 5 (16.13%) Playwright
5 4 (12.90%) SpaCy
6 3 (9.68%) Blazor
7 2 (6.45%) Laravel
7 2 (6.45%) React
8 1 (3.23%) Apache Commons
8 1 (3.23%) Guava
8 1 (3.23%) Java Concurrency
8 1 (3.23%) REST
8 1 (3.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Client/Server
1 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
3 10 (32.26%) Test Automation
4 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) CRM
5 7 (22.58%) E-business
5 7 (22.58%) Progressive Web App
5 7 (22.58%) SDET
5 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
6 5 (16.13%) Test Management
7 4 (12.90%) Agile
7 4 (12.90%) LLM
7 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.90%) Natural Language Processing
7 4 (12.90%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (9.68%) Bioinformatics
8 3 (9.68%) Code Quality
8 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
8 3 (9.68%) Data Science
8 3 (9.68%) Informatics
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) C#
2 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
2 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Go
4 2 (6.45%) PHP
5 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) DBS Check
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) HP
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft