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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 96 90
Rank change year-on-year -56 -6 +8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 86 158 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.94% 2.79% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.68% 10.27% 9.96%
Number of salaries quoted 78 114 244
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £30,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £61,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.73% +9.57% -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 1,287 1,539 2,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.03% 27.13% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 897 2,248
10th Percentile £28,825 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -34 43 £55,000 +8.91% 20
West Midlands -45 42 £47,500 -5.00% 20
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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 33 (38.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (37.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (8.14%) IIS
4 4 (4.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.98%) Azure
2 44 (51.16%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (24.42%) Entra ID
4 15 (17.44%) AWS
5 14 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (11.63%) OneDrive
7 8 (9.30%) GCP
8 7 (8.14%) Power Automate
9 6 (6.98%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.98%) npm
9 6 (6.98%) NuGet
9 6 (6.98%) SonarCloud
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.81%) Datadog
10 5 (5.81%) GitHub
10 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.44%) DNS
2 14 (16.28%) DHCP
3 11 (12.79%) VPN
4 9 (10.47%) Firewall
5 8 (9.30%) TCP/IP
5 8 (9.30%) VLAN
6 7 (8.14%) VoIP
7 6 (6.98%) LAN
7 6 (6.98%) SD-WAN
7 6 (6.98%) WAN
8 5 (5.81%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (4.65%) MPLS
9 4 (4.65%) Skype
10 3 (3.49%) Broadband
11 1 (1.16%) Ethernet
11 1 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.16%) PBX
11 1 (1.16%) SAN
11 1 (1.16%) SSL
11 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.65%) DTS
5 2 (2.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Git
1 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.49%) JIRA
General
1 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.93%) Finance
3 16 (18.60%) Retail
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Legal
5 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Law
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (18.60%) Developer
1 16 (18.60%) Senior
2 11 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Support Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) IT Support
5 7 (8.14%) IT Manager
5 7 (8.14%) IT Operations Manager
5 7 (8.14%) Operations Manager
6 6 (6.98%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 6 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Administrator
7 5 (5.81%) Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) React
2 13 (15.12%) REST
3 11 (12.79%) .NET
4 10 (11.63%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.47%) JSON
6 8 (9.30%) Razor View Engine
7 6 (6.98%) Node.js
7 6 (6.98%) YAML
8 5 (5.81%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.65%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.49%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (3.49%) SOAP
10 3 (3.49%) SPFx
11 2 (2.33%) ASP.NET
11 2 (2.33%) LDAP
11 2 (2.33%) OAuth
11 2 (2.33%) OpenID
11 2 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.30%) Operational Technology
3 7 (8.14%) Replication
4 4 (4.65%) CMDB
4 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.33%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.33%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (46.51%) Windows
2 17 (19.77%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.30%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.14%) Linux
4 7 (8.14%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.49%) Android
6 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (31.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (23.26%) DevOps
4 18 (20.93%) Root Cause Analysis
5 14 (16.28%) ITIL
6 13 (15.12%) Customer Experience
6 13 (15.12%) Task Automation
7 12 (13.95%) CI/CD
8 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (11.63%) Agile
9 10 (11.63%) API Integration
9 10 (11.63%) Business Continuity
9 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (11.63%) Service Delivery
9 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
10 9 (10.47%) Client Onboarding
10 9 (10.47%) Identity Management
10 9 (10.47%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) SQL
2 18 (20.93%) C#
3 17 (19.77%) Bash
4 12 (13.95%) Python
5 6 (6.98%) Bicep
6 2 (2.33%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (10.47%) Degree
3 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (15.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (9.30%) GDPR
4 7 (8.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (6.98%) NIST
6 4 (4.65%) ISO 22301
7 2 (2.33%) NCSC
7 2 (2.33%) SLA
8 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 37 (43.02%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.14%) Docker
4 4 (4.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.65%) XenApp
5 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.16%) Firmware
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) Terraform
2 17 (19.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.14%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (6.98%) Grafana
6 4 (4.65%) Nagios
6 4 (4.65%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.49%) Ansible
8 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (59.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.93%) VMware
3 11 (12.79%) Citrix
4 8 (9.30%) Logitech
4 8 (9.30%) SolarWinds
4 8 (9.30%) Yealink
5 7 (8.14%) Google
6 6 (6.98%) Apple
6 6 (6.98%) Cisco
6 6 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (6.98%) Veeam
7 5 (5.81%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (5.81%) Meraki
8 4 (4.65%) BMC
8 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.65%) IBM
8 4 (4.65%) Proofpoint
8 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.65%) SonicWALL
8 4 (4.65%) Trend Micro