PowerShell Job Trends in Berkshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 74 27
Rank change year-on-year -33 -47 +62
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 25 68 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.35% 3.10% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.29% 9.35% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 115
10th Percentile £44,250 £41,263 £39,380
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,252 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% +2.28% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,625 £64,563 £74,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £58,000 £56,252 £54,500
% change year-on-year +3.11% +3.21% -0.91%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 269 727 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.57% 33.12% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 153 375 548
10th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £36,175
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,594 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +17.97% -8.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £74,344
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,250 £90,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Berkshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Berkshire

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Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
Bracknell +43 10 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Reading -7 7 £57,500 +0.83% 13
Maidenhead - 2 £45,000 - 5
PowerShell
South East

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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 14 (56.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 2 (8.00%) IIS
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (8.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) DNS
2 7 (28.00%) DHCP
2 7 (28.00%) Firewall
3 6 (24.00%) SMTP
4 4 (16.00%) VPN
5 3 (12.00%) Wireless
6 2 (8.00%) FTP
6 2 (8.00%) HTTP
6 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (8.00%) SSH
6 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) Metasploit
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (8.00%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Project Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) IT Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Penetration Tester
6 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Tester
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (8.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
1 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (28.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) CMDB
4 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.00%) NHS
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) Kali Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (12.00%) OWASP
4 3 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Purple Team
4 3 (12.00%) Red Team
4 3 (12.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (12.00%) Social Engineering
5 2 (8.00%) Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Change Management
5 2 (8.00%) High Availability
5 2 (8.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Groovy
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) OSCP
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) GPEN
5 1 (4.00%) HND
5 1 (4.00%) MCP
5 1 (4.00%) MCSA
5 1 (4.00%) MCSE
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.00%) Docker
4 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.00%) vSphere
5 2 (8.00%) DFS Replication
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) WSUS
3 3 (12.00%) Nmap
4 2 (8.00%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) SCCM
4 2 (8.00%) SCOM
4 2 (8.00%) SCSM
5 1 (4.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Citrix
4 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (12.00%) Trend Micro
4 3 (12.00%) Veeam
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 1 (4.00%) Databricks
6 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
6 1 (4.00%) Meraki
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle