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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 84 36
Rank change year-on-year -24 -48 +52
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 19 45 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.95% 2.65% 6.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.74% 7.41% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18 27 92
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,258 £39,567
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% +7.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £58,438 £69,063 £59,000
90th Percentile £68,375 £75,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £59,125 £52,750
% change year-on-year -1.90% +12.09% -4.09%

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 282 607 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.07% 35.71% 39.17%
Number of salaries quoted 179 358 551
10th Percentile £40,012 £45,000 £38,130
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,125 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.27% +15.47% -6.72%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 2026. 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 +31 4 £52,500 -22.22%
Reading -4 3 £57,500 -2.75% 3
Slough - 2 £80,000 - 13
Maidenhead - 2 £45,000 - 1
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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 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.53%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (52.63%) Entra ID
4 5 (26.32%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) VPN
3 3 (15.79%) DHCP
3 3 (15.79%) DNS
3 3 (15.79%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) Wireless
4 2 (10.53%) LAN
4 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Project Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (31.58%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Support Engineer
5 5 (26.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (15.79%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 2 (10.53%) Lead
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Ethical Hacker
9 1 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
9 1 (5.26%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Service Management
6 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.26%) Ethical Hacking
6 1 (5.26%) OWASP
6 1 (5.26%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (5.26%) Proactive Maintenance
6 1 (5.26%) Purple Team
6 1 (5.26%) Red Team
6 1 (5.26%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Bash
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CREST Certified
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) GPEN
3 1 (5.26%) HND
3 1 (5.26%) MCP
3 1 (5.26%) MCSA
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) SCCM
3 2 (10.53%) SCOM
3 2 (10.53%) SCSM
4 1 (5.26%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Trend Micro
3 3 (15.79%) Veeam
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco