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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 117 71
Rank change year-on-year +36 -46 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 39 24 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.22% 1.26% 3.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.54% 6.92% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 14 47
10th Percentile £37,500 - £46,215
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,000 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -18.23% -0.48%
75th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,250 £66,000
South East median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +15.00% -9.09%

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 409 347 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.79% 18.15% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 302 189 451
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,770 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £84,688 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £85,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%

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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 18 August 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 18 August 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
Reading -2 18 £52,500 -19.23% 10
Windsor +52 9 £52,500 -
Wokingham - 2 £80,000 -
Slough +33 1 - - 2
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 13 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (17.95%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 21 (53.85%) Entra ID
2 21 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (23.08%) IaaS
4 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.38%) AWS
6 4 (10.26%) Datadog
6 4 (10.26%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.56%) Route 53
8 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (43.59%) Firewall
2 15 (38.46%) DNS
3 14 (35.90%) DHCP
4 7 (17.95%) VPN
5 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 4 (10.26%) SSL
6 4 (10.26%) VLAN
6 4 (10.26%) Wireless
7 2 (5.13%) LAN
7 2 (5.13%) WAN
8 1 (2.56%) DNSSEC
8 1 (2.56%) HTTP
8 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Retail
4 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Analyst
2 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) IT Support
6 7 (17.95%) Support Analyst
7 5 (12.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Applications Support
8 4 (10.26%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) IT Analyst
8 4 (10.26%) IT Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Senior
8 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) .NET
1 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) ITIL
4 10 (25.64%) Incident Response
4 10 (25.64%) Migration
4 10 (25.64%) SIEM
5 9 (23.08%) Business Continuity
5 9 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (23.08%) High Availability
5 9 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (23.08%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 9 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 9 (23.08%) Zero Trust
6 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (20.51%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (20.51%) Process Improvement
6 8 (20.51%) Runbook
7 7 (17.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (20.51%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (23.08%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.26%) CCNA
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.56%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.56%) GCIA
5 1 (2.56%) GCIH
5 1 (2.56%) GIAC
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (10.26%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.56%) Kibana
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Sage
3 4 (10.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Carbon Black
4 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk