PowerShell Job Trends in the East Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 77 63
Rank change year-on-year -22 -14 +35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 48 38 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.43% 2.38% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.86% 7.76% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 44 28 109
10th Percentile - £34,750 £34,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £62,875 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,425 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,750 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.85% +12.73% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 542 490 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.19% 30.70% 30.20%
Number of salaries quoted 392 365 931
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Leicestershire -4 16 £60,000 +10.09% 5
Nottinghamshire 0 10 £38,750 -8.82% 7
Northamptonshire +1 9 £60,000 +118.18% 6
Lincolnshire -20 9 £32,500 -31.58% 1
Derbyshire -32 2 £54,000 -6.09% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 25 (52.08%) SharePoint
2 18 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (14.58%) IIS
4 2 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (22.92%) Entra ID
4 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (16.67%) OneDrive
6 7 (14.58%) AWS
6 7 (14.58%) npm
6 7 (14.58%) NuGet
6 7 (14.58%) SonarCloud
7 5 (10.42%) Azure AKS
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (8.33%) GCP
9 3 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (6.25%) IaaS
9 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Storage
10 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) DNS
2 9 (18.75%) DHCP
2 9 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 8 (16.67%) VLAN
3 8 (16.67%) VoIP
3 8 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) Broadband
4 2 (4.17%) Skype
5 1 (2.08%) Firewall
5 1 (2.08%) SSL
5 1 (2.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) DTS
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Legal
3 5 (10.42%) Law
4 4 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Senior
2 9 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 8 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) IT Manager
4 7 (14.58%) IT Operations Manager
4 7 (14.58%) IT Support
4 7 (14.58%) Operations Manager
5 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) SharePoint Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.25%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) .NET
1 7 (14.58%) Node.js
1 7 (14.58%) React
1 7 (14.58%) YAML
2 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (6.25%) SPFx
5 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.17%) LDAP
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth
5 2 (4.17%) OpenID
5 2 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) SAML
5 2 (4.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Replication
2 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.17%) CMDB
5 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.17%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (52.08%) Windows
2 9 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 8 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 7 (14.58%) Linux
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) DevOps
2 12 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 11 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 8 (16.67%) Application Packaging
6 8 (16.67%) CRM
6 8 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 8 (16.67%) ITSM
6 8 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 7 (14.58%) Business Continuity
7 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
7 7 (14.58%) Microservices
7 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.50%) Agile
9 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.42%) Migration
9 5 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Bash
2 9 (18.75%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) C#
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) Bicep
5 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (18.75%) GDPR
4 7 (14.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (8.33%) ISO 22301
6 3 (6.25%) SLA
7 2 (4.17%) NCSC
7 2 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (47.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) Docker
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Terraform
2 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.25%) Grafana
5 2 (4.17%) Ansible
5 2 (4.17%) Nagios
5 2 (4.17%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Apple
2 8 (16.67%) Logitech
2 8 (16.67%) Yealink
3 7 (14.58%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (12.50%) VMware
5 3 (6.25%) Cisco
5 3 (6.25%) Meraki
5 3 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.17%) BMC
6 2 (4.17%) Citrix
6 2 (4.17%) Darktrace
6 2 (4.17%) Google
6 2 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (4.17%) Proofpoint
6 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.17%) Tanium
6 2 (4.17%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.08%) NEC
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce