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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 95 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 -28 +23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 15 20 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.59% 1.32% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.81% 5.68% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 83
10th Percentile - - £42,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £73,500 £60,400
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £51,925
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.74% -5.59%

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 394 352 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.54% 23.16% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 289 233 759
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,240 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -9 4 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Slough +16 2 £80,000 -
Maidenhead +3 2 £42,500 +13.33% 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
4 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (20.00%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
6 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) Wireless
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (13.33%) HTTP
5 2 (13.33%) LAN
5 2 (13.33%) VLAN
6 1 (6.67%) DHCP
6 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
6 1 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (6.67%) SMTP
6 1 (6.67%) SSL
6 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Project Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) FreeBSD
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.67%) OpenBSD
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) FinOps
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) SIEM
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection
6 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.67%) Use Case
6 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CCIE
1 1 (6.67%) CCNA
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) GCIA
1 1 (6.67%) GCIH
1 1 (6.67%) GIAC
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Hyper-V
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) KVM
3 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) 3PAR
3 1 (6.67%) Carbon Black
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam