The first table below looks at the demand for PowerShell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows PowerShell
Rank 177 191 170
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -21
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 37 28 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.719% 0.455% 0.375%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.702% 0.930% 0.742%
Number of salaries quoted 32 26 12
Average salary £60,000 £50,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +53.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,150 £30,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2174 3012 2560
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 42.23% 48.96% 50.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1915 2662 2260
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PowerShell
South East

PowerShell
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Berkshire PowerShell Jobs Demand Trend

PowerShell
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire PowerShell Salary Trend

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PowerShell across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Berkshire PowerShell Salary Histogram

PowerShell
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +15 21 £60,000 +20.00%
Bracknell -27 5 £27,500 -8.33%
Maidenhead +14 1 £50,000 -4.76%
PowerShell
South East

PowerShell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing PowerShell also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PowerShell.

1 68 (80.00%) Windows
2 42 (49.41%) Microsoft
3 39 (45.88%) VMware
3 39 (45.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (43.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 33 (38.82%) ITIL
6 32 (37.65%) Active Directory
6 32 (37.65%) Retail
7 31 (36.47%) Perl
7 31 (36.47%) IIS
8 30 (35.29%) Security Cleared
9 28 (32.94%) HP
10 27 (31.76%) Telecoms
10 27 (31.76%) Finance
10 27 (31.76%) Fujitsu
11 25 (29.41%) Degree
11 25 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
11 25 (29.41%) SharePoint
12 24 (28.24%) SAN
13 23 (27.06%) XML
13 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
14 20 (23.53%) F5
14 20 (23.53%) MS Excel
14 20 (23.53%) Cisco
14 20 (23.53%) Red Hat
14 20 (23.53%) Change Management
15 18 (21.18%) Project Management
15 18 (21.18%) Java
16 17 (20.00%) HTML
16 17 (20.00%) SAS

PowerShell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing PowerShell also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PowerShell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (27.06%) XML
2 17 (20.00%) HTML
3 16 (18.82%) .NET
4 14 (16.47%) .NET Framework
5 11 (12.94%) Web Services
6 9 (10.59%) WebSphere
7 8 (9.412%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.059%) WCF
9 3 (3.529%) WSH
9 3 (3.529%) Middleware
10 1 (1.176%) Ajax
10 1 (1.176%) SAML
10 1 (1.176%) LINQ
10 1 (1.176%) OAuth
Application Platforms
1 31 (36.47%) IIS
2 25 (29.41%) SharePoint
3 17 (20.00%) SAS
4 16 (18.82%) SharePoint Server
5 14 (16.47%) MS Exchange
6 12 (14.12%) Exchange Server 2003
7 11 (12.94%) Apache
8 9 (10.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (10.59%) Lotus Notes
8 9 (10.59%) Exchange Server 2007
8 9 (10.59%) IBM Connections
9 6 (7.059%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (7.059%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 20 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 6 (7.059%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (9.412%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 24 (28.24%) SAN
2 17 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 17 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 17 (20.00%) FWSM
3 14 (16.47%) DNS
3 14 (16.47%) DHCP
4 12 (14.12%) Wireshark
5 11 (12.94%) LDAP
5 11 (12.94%) tcpdump
5 11 (12.94%) snoop
6 10 (11.76%) Kerberos
7 9 (10.59%) VLAN
7 9 (10.59%) OSPF
7 9 (10.59%) BGP
7 9 (10.59%) VRRP
8 7 (8.235%) FTP
9 6 (7.059%) X.400
9 6 (7.059%) X.500
9 6 (7.059%) Firewall
10 4 (4.706%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.706%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 9 (10.59%) Subversion
2 9 (10.59%) Git (software)
3 8 (9.412%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 6 (7.059%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.176%) MSTest
5 1 (1.176%) MSBuild
General
1 32 (37.65%) Retail
2 27 (31.76%) Telecoms
2 27 (31.76%) Finance
3 6 (7.059%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (14.12%) Systems Administrator
1 12 (14.12%) Administrator
2 11 (12.94%) Integration Engineer
3 8 (9.412%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 8 (9.412%) Developer
4 7 (8.235%) Architect
4 7 (8.235%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.235%) SharePoint Developer
5 6 (7.059%) Virtualisation Architect
5 6 (7.059%) Designer
5 6 (7.059%) Customer Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.059%) Applications Support
5 6 (7.059%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.059%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.059%) Team Leader
6 5 (5.882%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (4.706%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.706%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.706%) Support Technician
7 4 (4.706%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Firmware
2 12 (14.12%) Enterprise Storage
3 9 (10.59%) Clustering
4 4 (4.706%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.706%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.353%) Replication
5 2 (2.353%) Open Source
6 1 (1.176%) PKI
6 1 (1.176%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 68 (80.00%) Windows
2 37 (43.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 25 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (18.82%) Linux
5 13 (15.29%) Windows XP
6 11 (12.94%) Solaris
6 11 (12.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (9.412%) Windows 2000
8 6 (7.059%) UNIX
9 2 (2.353%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.176%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.176%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) ITIL
2 20 (23.53%) Change Management
3 18 (21.18%) Project Management
4 17 (20.00%) Web Development
5 14 (16.47%) Migration
6 13 (15.29%) Configuration Management
7 12 (14.12%) Time Management
8 11 (12.94%) Problem Management
8 11 (12.94%) Service Delivery
9 8 (9.412%) Network Design
9 8 (9.412%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (9.412%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (8.235%) Workflow
11 6 (7.059%) Network Architecture
12 5 (5.882%) Change Control
13 4 (4.706%) PRINCE2
13 4 (4.706%) OO
14 1 (1.176%) Identity Management
14 1 (1.176%) Information Architecture
14 1 (1.176%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.47%) Perl
2 18 (21.18%) Java
3 16 (18.82%) SQL
4 9 (10.59%) VBScript
4 9 (10.59%) VB
4 9 (10.59%) Python
4 9 (10.59%) Ruby
5 8 (9.412%) C#
6 5 (5.882%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.529%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.353%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.176%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 25 (29.41%) Degree
3 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
4 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (18.82%) DV Cleared
6 12 (14.12%) MCSE
7 9 (10.59%) RHCE
8 7 (8.235%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (5.882%) MCITP
9 5 (5.882%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (5.882%) MCSA
10 4 (4.706%) CCNA
10 4 (4.706%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (4.706%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (1.176%) MCP
System Software
1 39 (45.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (37.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (8.235%) vSphere
5 6 (7.059%) VMware ESX
6 4 (4.706%) Xen
6 4 (4.706%) ISA Server
7 1 (1.176%) Terminal Server
7 1 (1.176%) Shibboleth
7 1 (1.176%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.176%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Nagios
2 9 (10.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 9 (10.59%) WSUS
2 9 (10.59%) Cacti
2 9 (10.59%) Puppet
3 8 (9.412%) McAfee ePO
3 8 (9.412%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 8 (9.412%) Backup Exec
4 6 (7.059%) SCCM
4 6 (7.059%) SCOM
5 5 (5.882%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.706%) MIMEsweeper
6 4 (4.706%) Netcool
7 2 (2.353%) BladeLogic
7 2 (2.353%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 1 (1.176%) MIIS
Vendors
1 42 (49.41%) Microsoft
2 39 (45.88%) VMware
3 28 (32.94%) HP
4 27 (31.76%) Fujitsu
5 20 (23.53%) Red Hat
5 20 (23.53%) F5
5 20 (23.53%) Cisco
6 17 (20.00%) Nortel
6 17 (20.00%) Juniper
7 14 (16.47%) Sun
8 11 (12.94%) Egenera
8 11 (12.94%) Foundry
9 9 (10.59%) IBM
9 9 (10.59%) Lotus
10 8 (9.412%) Veritas
10 8 (9.412%) TIBCO
10 8 (9.412%) McAfee
11 7 (8.235%) Oracle
12 6 (7.059%) EMC
13 5 (5.882%) CA
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The Windows Engineer must understand the environment sufficiently to be able to analyse the impact of required upgrades and changes and to support reporting requests from the business...
ComputAppoint
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
UK (Slough)
Industry analyst Gartner has placed eGain in the leaders' quadrant for the last 5 years and we are expanding our team in EMEA to capitalise on our position...
eGain
Salary: : £30,000-£40,000 + excellent benefits (inc: Bonus, stock options, bupa, pension)
Posted: 20 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Working with vendors like Dell, Microsoft, VMware and Cisco for troubleshooting and support issues... Windows servers with its associated services like WWW, Active Directories and Domains, Group policies,...
eGain Communications
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop and web (preferably ASP.Net) applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Key skills are Active Directory Authentication troubleshooting, AD replication, LDAP tools... Essentially, you will already be a very strong Microsoft Windows Server Engineer with the following skills Windows...
Nationwide People Ltd
Salary: £60000 - 64000 Per Annum + 10-20% bonus + bens
Posted: 14 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Technical: The primary development language is C#... Good experience with .Net 3.5. C++ competence with Win32 applications will be a bonus. ASP.Net experience with AJAX will...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + YES
Posted: 8 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
HP, BMC, Nagios). Ideally working experience and knowledge of UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting (sh, bash, PowerShell, WSH & VBScript) along with a working experience and...
Salary: £2250 - £3000 per week
Posted: 30 April 2013