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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 84 133
Rank change year-on-year -37 +49 -57
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 156 186 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.08% 3.20% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.10% 13.83% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 117 127 120
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £64,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £73,750 £69,550
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -1.67%

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 1,926 1,345 2,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.31% 23.16% 22.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,022 1,763
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,300 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,733 £61,206
% change year-on-year +3.61% +2.49% -5.84%

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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 16 August 2026.

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 16 August 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
East Midlands -5 82 £42,500 +21.43% 18
West Midlands -60 74 £55,000 - 28
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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 28 (17.95%) SharePoint
2 27 (17.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (7.69%) IIS
4 4 (2.56%) Apache
4 4 (2.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 100 (64.10%) Azure
2 77 (49.36%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (26.92%) Entra ID
4 18 (11.54%) AWS
4 18 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (9.62%) IaaS
6 14 (8.97%) Mimecast
7 13 (8.33%) SaaS
8 11 (7.05%) Azure AKS
9 10 (6.41%) GCP
10 9 (5.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (5.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.13%) Azure Storage
11 8 (5.13%) OneDrive
11 8 (5.13%) PaaS
12 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.49%) SonarCloud
13 6 (3.85%) Power Platform
14 5 (3.21%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 48 (30.77%) DNS
1 48 (30.77%) Firewall
2 27 (17.31%) VPN
3 24 (15.38%) DHCP
4 20 (12.82%) WAN
5 18 (11.54%) LAN
6 12 (7.69%) VLAN
7 9 (5.77%) Wireless
8 8 (5.13%) TCP/IP
9 6 (3.85%) Network Security
9 6 (3.85%) VoIP
10 4 (2.56%) MQTT
11 3 (1.92%) NAS
11 3 (1.92%) SAN
11 3 (1.92%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.28%) HTTP
12 2 (1.28%) SSH
12 2 (1.28%) SSL
13 1 (0.64%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.49%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.56%) Power BI
5 2 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.28%) KNIME
5 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.28%) Power Query
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (9.62%) JIRA
2 10 (6.41%) Git
3 2 (1.28%) Ant
3 2 (1.28%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (1.28%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.28%) Maven
3 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
General
1 49 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.74%) Law
3 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.41%) Legal
6 8 (5.13%) Retail
7 7 (4.49%) Finance
8 6 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.21%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Advertising
12 1 (0.64%) Automotive
12 1 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (25.64%) IT Engineer
2 30 (19.23%) IT Support
3 28 (17.95%) Senior
4 27 (17.31%) Support Engineer
5 21 (13.46%) 2nd Line Support
6 17 (10.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (8.97%) Field Engineer
8 14 (8.97%) Field Service Engineer
9 13 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (7.05%) Analyst
11 10 (6.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 9 (5.77%) Lead
13 8 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (5.13%) Senior Support Engineer
14 7 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.49%) Systems Engineer
15 6 (3.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 6 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.77%) .NET
2 7 (4.49%) YAML
3 6 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (3.21%) Node.js
4 5 (3.21%) React
5 4 (2.56%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.56%) REST
6 3 (1.92%) Kafka
6 3 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.28%) Middleware
8 1 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.64%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.64%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.46%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.49%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.85%) Replication
6 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.56%) CCTV
7 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.56%) IoT
7 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.92%) Clustering
8 3 (1.92%) CMDB
8 3 (1.92%) iSeries
8 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.92%) PKI
9 2 (1.28%) Tandem
9 2 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 99 (63.46%) Windows
2 46 (29.49%) Windows Server
3 32 (20.51%) Linux
4 26 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 25 (16.03%) Android
5 25 (16.03%) Apple iOS
6 9 (5.77%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.21%) Ubuntu
8 4 (2.56%) VMS
9 2 (1.28%) Solaris
9 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.64%) Debian
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (23.72%) ITIL
3 30 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 23 (14.74%) CI/CD
7 23 (14.74%) DevOps
7 23 (14.74%) Task Automation
8 22 (14.10%) Service Management
9 19 (12.18%) AI
9 19 (12.18%) High Availability
9 19 (12.18%) ITSM
9 19 (12.18%) Roadmaps
9 19 (12.18%) Runbook
10 18 (11.54%) Customer Service
10 18 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (10.90%) Containerisation
12 16 (10.26%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.51%) Python
2 23 (14.74%) Bash
2 23 (14.74%) SQL
3 12 (7.69%) Bicep
4 9 (5.77%) C#
5 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.64%) PHP
7 1 (0.64%) Ruby
7 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (17.31%) Degree
2 23 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 20 (12.82%) Azure Certification
3 20 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.49%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.21%) CCNA
7 5 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.28%) CISSP
8 2 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.64%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.64%) CCNP
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.64%) MCSE
9 1 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (9.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (8.33%) SLA
4 6 (3.85%) GDPR
5 5 (3.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.28%) QA
7 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (33.97%) Active Directory
2 22 (14.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (12.82%) Hyper-V
4 16 (10.26%) Docker
5 3 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.28%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (1.28%) Firmware
6 2 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (20.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (17.95%) Terraform
3 27 (17.31%) Kubernetes
4 12 (7.69%) Ansible
5 10 (6.41%) SCCM
6 7 (4.49%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (3.21%) Grafana
8 2 (1.28%) Nessus
8 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.28%) Puppet
9 1 (0.64%) Argo
9 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 96 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.03%) Cisco
3 24 (15.38%) VMware
4 19 (12.18%) Meraki
5 17 (10.90%) Logitech
6 14 (8.97%) Sophos
6 14 (8.97%) TOWER Software
7 12 (7.69%) ServiceNow
8 10 (6.41%) Citrix
9 9 (5.77%) Apple
10 8 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (3.85%) Veeam
12 5 (3.21%) Fortinet
12 5 (3.21%) Splunk
13 4 (2.56%) SonicWALL
14 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.92%) Sage
14 3 (1.92%) SolarWinds
14 3 (1.92%) Yealink
15 2 (1.28%) Databricks