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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 88 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 -44 +41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 21 36 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.04% 2.22% 5.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.92% 6.38% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 97
10th Percentile - £39,001 £39,380
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,197 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £57,813 £69,844 £59,000
90th Percentile £63,625 £75,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £57,750 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.75% +14.29% -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 265 564 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.18% 34.71% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 191 329 673
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -6.07%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £76,250
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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -1 4 £57,500 +0.77% 10
Bracknell +29 3 £53,750 -20.37%
Maidenhead - 3 £45,000 - 1
Slough - 2 £80,000 - 14
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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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.52%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (52.38%) Entra ID
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) VPN
2 5 (23.81%) Wireless
3 4 (19.05%) DHCP
3 4 (19.05%) DNS
3 4 (19.05%) WAN
4 2 (9.52%) LAN
4 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 10 (47.62%) Project Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
5 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 2 (9.52%) Lead
8 2 (9.52%) Server Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) Senior
9 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
3 6 (28.57%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
5 2 (9.52%) High Availability
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management
5 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
6 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (4.76%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.76%) Proactive Maintenance
6 1 (4.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bicep
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CCNA
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCIE
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) HND
3 1 (4.76%) MCP
3 1 (4.76%) MCSA
3 1 (4.76%) MCSE
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) Hyper-V
3 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (14.29%) vSphere
5 2 (9.52%) Docker
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) SCCM
3 2 (9.52%) SCOM
3 2 (9.52%) SCSM
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) Veeam
4 3 (14.29%) Trend Micro
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) 3PAR
6 1 (4.76%) HP
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds