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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 77 32
Rank change year-on-year -30 -45 +56
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 24 60 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.22% 3.00% 7.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.79% 8.43% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 21 34 102
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £39,380
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,438 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,252 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% +2.74% +1.86%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,563 £61,881
90th Percentile £61,250 £74,625 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £56,525 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.61% +7.67% -4.55%

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 273 712 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.88% 35.65% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 167 396 531
10th Percentile £41,000 £46,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.50% -10.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +38 7 £48,000 -28.89%
Reading 0 5 £57,500 -0.56% 12
Slough - 2 £80,000 - 1
Maidenhead - 2 £45,000 - 2
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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 14 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 2 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 9 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (12.50%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
3 5 (20.83%) Wireless
4 4 (16.67%) DHCP
4 4 (16.67%) VPN
5 3 (12.50%) SMTP
5 3 (12.50%) WAN
6 2 (8.33%) FTP
6 2 (8.33%) HTTP
6 2 (8.33%) LAN
6 2 (8.33%) SSH
6 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Mining
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 3 (12.50%) Metasploit
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Project Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
7 3 (12.50%) Tester
8 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Lead
8 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Replication
3 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Kali Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (12.50%) OWASP
4 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Purple Team
4 3 (12.50%) Red Team
4 3 (12.50%) Security Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 3 (12.50%) Social Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (8.33%) High Availability
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Groovy
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.50%) OSCP
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CREST Certified
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) GPEN
4 1 (4.17%) HND
4 1 (4.17%) MCP
4 1 (4.17%) MCSA
4 1 (4.17%) MCSE
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (16.67%) Docker
5 3 (12.50%) vSphere
6 2 (8.33%) DFS Replication
7 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Nmap
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) SCCM
4 2 (8.33%) SCOM
4 2 (8.33%) SCSM
5 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Trend Micro
3 3 (12.50%) Veeam
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix