PowerShell Job Trends in the Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 124 42
Rank change year-on-year +27 -82 +41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 130 170 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.23% 1.91% 5.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.36% 8.00% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 102 91 236
10th Percentile £31,250 - £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,144 2,124 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.61% 23.87% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,155 1,498
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 November 2025. 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
West Midlands +22 99 £57,500 +31.43% 48
East Midlands +7 31 £39,750 -16.32% 30
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 36 (27.69%) Confluence
2 29 (22.31%) SharePoint
3 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (6.92%) Skype for Business
5 8 (6.15%) nginx
6 2 (1.54%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 74 (56.92%) Azure
2 62 (47.69%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (43.08%) AWS
4 37 (28.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 37 (28.46%) Amazon EC2
5 36 (27.69%) Amazon ELB
5 36 (27.69%) Amazon S3
5 36 (27.69%) AWS KMS
5 36 (27.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 31 (23.85%) Entra ID
7 28 (21.54%) Amazon Glacier
8 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (7.69%) GCP
10 9 (6.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (6.92%) SaaS
11 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.15%) Route 53
12 7 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (5.38%) Power Automate
12 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (37.69%) Firewall
2 32 (24.62%) DNS
3 23 (17.69%) FTP
3 23 (17.69%) HTTP
3 23 (17.69%) SMTP
3 23 (17.69%) SSH
4 10 (7.69%) DHCP
4 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.92%) Skype
6 8 (6.15%) IMAP
6 8 (6.15%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (6.15%) SAN
7 6 (4.62%) LAN
7 6 (4.62%) WAN
8 5 (3.85%) iSCSI
8 5 (3.85%) VLAN
9 4 (3.08%) MPLS
9 4 (3.08%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.31%) VPN
11 1 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.46%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.46%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.92%) DTS
3 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.54%) Power BI
6 1 (0.77%) MySQL
6 1 (0.77%) Power Query
6 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (31.54%) Jenkins
2 39 (30.00%) JIRA
3 36 (27.69%) Git
3 36 (27.69%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.77%) GitLab
General
1 39 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 24 (18.46%) Retail
4 19 (14.62%) Finance
5 13 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.92%) Law
6 9 (6.92%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.85%) Billing
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.31%) Legal
10 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (26.92%) Support Engineer
2 28 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (16.92%) Infrastructure Support
4 22 (16.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Developer
6 18 (13.85%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (12.31%) IT Engineer
8 12 (9.23%) IT Support
8 12 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (8.46%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (6.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) Senior
12 7 (5.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.38%) ICT Support
12 7 (5.38%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.77%) REST
2 12 (9.23%) AngularJS
3 11 (8.46%) JSON
4 10 (7.69%) .NET
4 10 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
4 10 (7.69%) React
5 8 (6.15%) LDAP
6 6 (4.62%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.85%) Blazor
7 5 (3.85%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.31%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.31%) SPFx
9 1 (0.77%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.77%) Middleware
9 1 (0.77%) SOAP
9 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.15%) Onboarding
2 25 (19.23%) Replication
3 10 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 9 (6.92%) CMDB
4 9 (6.92%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (5.38%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (46.15%) Windows
2 39 (30.00%) Linux
3 37 (28.46%) VMS
4 24 (18.46%) Windows Server
5 23 (17.69%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (6.92%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (6.15%) Ubuntu
8 6 (4.62%) Windows 10
8 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) DevOps
2 38 (29.23%) Cloud Security
3 37 (28.46%) Change Management
4 36 (27.69%) Configuration Management
5 28 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (17.69%) Patch Management
7 23 (17.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (14.62%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (13.85%) CI/CD
11 15 (11.54%) ITIL
12 14 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (10.00%) Agile
13 13 (10.00%) Customer Experience
14 12 (9.23%) API Integration
14 12 (9.23%) Client Onboarding
14 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Management
14 12 (9.23%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.92%) Python
2 36 (27.69%) Groovy
2 36 (27.69%) SQL
3 19 (14.62%) C#
4 15 (11.54%) Java
4 15 (11.54%) Perl
5 10 (7.69%) Bicep
6 7 (5.38%) Bash
7 3 (2.31%) VB
8 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.54%) Degree
4 14 (10.77%) Azure Certification
5 12 (9.23%) AWS Certification
5 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.92%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.85%) CCNA
8 4 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.08%) CISSP
9 2 (1.54%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.54%) CCSP
9 2 (1.54%) CISM
10 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.31%) NIST
3 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (55.38%) Active Directory
2 25 (19.23%) DFS Replication
2 25 (19.23%) Docker
3 23 (17.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 9 (6.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (6.15%) Dovecot
6 8 (6.15%) Postfix
6 8 (6.15%) Squid
7 6 (4.62%) XenApp
8 5 (3.85%) Firmware
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (38.46%) Terraform
2 37 (28.46%) Grafana
3 36 (27.69%) Prometheus
4 26 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (10.77%) Ansible
6 9 (6.92%) Nagios
6 9 (6.92%) SCCM
6 9 (6.92%) ZABBIX
7 8 (6.15%) Nessus
7 8 (6.15%) Proxmox
8 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.85%) Autotask
10 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.77%) VxRail
Vendors
1 66 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.46%) ServiceNow
3 26 (20.00%) VMware
4 19 (14.62%) Cisco
5 16 (12.31%) Citrix
6 14 (10.77%) Juniper
7 12 (9.23%) SolarWinds
8 11 (8.46%) Google
9 9 (6.92%) BMC
9 9 (6.92%) Darktrace
9 9 (6.92%) Proofpoint
9 9 (6.92%) Red Hat
9 9 (6.92%) Tanium
9 9 (6.92%) Trend Micro
10 8 (6.15%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (6.15%) Meraki
11 7 (5.38%) HP
11 7 (5.38%) SonicWALL
12 6 (4.62%) CheckPoint
12 6 (4.62%) Veeam