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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 111 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 -45 -16
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 32 25 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.10% 1.40% 3.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 6.87% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 29 14 69
10th Percentile £37,500 - £47,025
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -17.12% -16.23%
75th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,250 £64,650
South East median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -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 408 364 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.07% 20.34% 29.08%
Number of salaries quoted 302 202 618
10th Percentile £41,775 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £92,875
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -8.33%

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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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -3 15 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Windsor +40 4 £48,750 - 2
Maidenhead +28 2 £42,500 +13.33%
Wokingham - 2 £80,000 - 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 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (40.63%) Entra ID
4 7 (21.88%) AWS
5 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.50%) Datadog
6 4 (12.50%) IaaS
7 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.25%) GCP
9 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
9 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
9 1 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) DNS
3 9 (28.13%) DHCP
4 8 (25.00%) VPN
5 6 (18.75%) Wireless
6 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
6 5 (15.63%) VLAN
7 3 (9.38%) SSL
7 3 (9.38%) WAN
8 2 (6.25%) HTTP
8 2 (6.25%) LAN
9 1 (3.13%) DNSSEC
9 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
9 1 (3.13%) Network Security
9 1 (3.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) IT Support
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Applications Support
5 4 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) IT Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Windows
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) FreeBSD
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) OpenBSD
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (31.25%) ITIL
4 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
4 7 (21.88%) Process Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) SIEM
5 6 (18.75%) CRM
5 6 (18.75%) ERP
5 6 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.63%) Migration
6 5 (15.63%) Runbook
7 4 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (18.75%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (12.50%) CCNA
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) CCIE
5 1 (3.13%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (3.13%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.13%) GCIA
5 1 (3.13%) GCIH
5 1 (3.13%) GIAC
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.25%) NCSC
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) KVM
4 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Sage
3 5 (15.63%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
4 1 (3.13%) Carbon Black
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Veeam