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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 98 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 -29 +13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 18 21 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.73% 1.42% 3.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.79% 5.75% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 86
10th Percentile - £36,650 £42,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -18.18% -12.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £75,000 £65,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%

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 376 365 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.35% 24.60% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 275 242 772
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,240 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £94,750
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 23 April 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 23 April 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
Maidenhead +1 3 £42,500 +13.33%
Reading -16 3 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Slough +17 2 £80,000 - 2
Bracknell - 1 £55,000 -
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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 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
4 6 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
6 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) Wireless
3 5 (27.78%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) DNS
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) HTTP
5 2 (11.11%) LAN
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) DHCP
6 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security
6 1 (5.56%) SMTP
6 1 (5.56%) SSL
6 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Project Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) Server Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) Analyst
8 1 (5.56%) Consultant
8 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) FreeBSD
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) OpenBSD
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) FinOps
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management
6 2 (11.11%) SIEM
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Detection
7 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
7 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
7 1 (5.56%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CCIE
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.56%) CREST Certified
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) GCIA
2 1 (5.56%) GCIH
2 1 (5.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
1 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) KVM
3 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) SCOM
4 1 (5.56%) SCSM
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Veeam
4 1 (5.56%) 3PAR
4 1 (5.56%) Carbon Black
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro