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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 76 34
Rank change year-on-year -50 -42 +59
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 19 71 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.97% 2.93% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.03% 10.03% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9 39 111
10th Percentile £45,800 £41,263 £39,380
25th Percentile £46,000 £47,025 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,252 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.48% +5.16%
75th Percentile - £59,875 £74,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,125 £80,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -

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 315 708 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.04% 29.22% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 170 412 646
10th Percentile £41,000 £39,500 £37,414
25th Percentile £42,953 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 September 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 18 September 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 +37 9 £48,000 -28.89%
Reading -11 5 £71,250 +28.38% 16
Slough -45 1 - - 9
Windsor - 1 - - 3
Maidenhead - 1 - - 4
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) SaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) DNS
2 8 (42.11%) SMTP
3 7 (36.84%) DHCP
4 5 (26.32%) Firewall
5 3 (15.79%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) Wireless
6 2 (10.53%) FTP
6 2 (10.53%) HTTP
6 2 (10.53%) SSH
7 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Burp Suite
1 3 (15.79%) Git
1 3 (15.79%) Metasploit
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (10.53%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Penetration Tester
2 3 (15.79%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Ethical Hacker
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Kali Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (10.53%) VMS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Analytics
3 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Digital Strategy
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Observability
5 3 (15.79%) OWASP
5 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Product Management
5 3 (15.79%) Purple Team
5 3 (15.79%) Red Team
5 3 (15.79%) Runbook
5 3 (15.79%) Social Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Groovy
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Perl
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) OSCP
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.26%) GPEN
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Docker
4 2 (10.53%) DFS Replication
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
1 6 (31.58%) WSUS
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) Nmap
3 3 (15.79%) Puppet
4 2 (10.53%) Grafana
4 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Citrix
2 6 (31.58%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) HubSpot
4 1 (5.26%) Meraki
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle