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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 111 50
Rank change year-on-year -19 -61 +38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 90 152 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.15% 2.28% 4.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.87% 8.70% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 70 95 213
10th Percentile £33,310 - £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.21% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61,875 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £59,500 £69,500
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 1,143 1,747 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.66% 26.15% 33.41%
Number of salaries quoted 935 957 1,464
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -18 53 £52,500 +31.25% 140
East Midlands -12 37 £54,000 +6.93% 122
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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 27 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 23 (25.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (10.00%) Confluence
3 9 (10.00%) Skype for Business
4 5 (5.56%) IIS
5 4 (4.44%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 61 (67.78%) Azure
2 45 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (33.33%) AWS
4 22 (24.44%) Entra ID
5 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (12.22%) GCP
7 10 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
8 9 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.00%) AWS KMS
8 9 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
10 6 (6.67%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.67%) OneDrive
10 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.78%) Firewall
2 12 (13.33%) DNS
3 9 (10.00%) FTP
3 9 (10.00%) HTTP
3 9 (10.00%) Skype
3 9 (10.00%) SMTP
3 9 (10.00%) SSH
4 6 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 6 (6.67%) WAN
5 4 (4.44%) IMAP
5 4 (4.44%) LAN
5 4 (4.44%) MPLS
5 4 (4.44%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (4.44%) VPN
6 3 (3.33%) DHCP
6 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.22%) VLAN
8 1 (1.11%) Broadband
8 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 9 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.00%) DTS
3 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.22%) Power BI
7 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.33%) Git
3 11 (12.22%) JIRA
4 9 (10.00%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.11%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Retail
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.89%) Law
5 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Support Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) IT Support
8 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Support
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) REST
2 13 (14.44%) React
3 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (12.22%) JSON
5 10 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
6 9 (10.00%) .NET
7 5 (5.56%) LDAP
8 4 (4.44%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.44%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (3.33%) Node.js
9 3 (3.33%) SPFx
9 3 (3.33%) YAML
10 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.22%) SOAP
11 1 (1.11%) Blazor
11 1 (1.11%) ODBC
11 1 (1.11%) SAML
11 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.11%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 9 (10.00%) CMDB
3 9 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (8.89%) Replication
5 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.11%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (33.33%) Windows
2 14 (15.56%) Windows Server
3 12 (13.33%) Linux
4 10 (11.11%) VMS
5 9 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.11%) DevOps
3 24 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (18.89%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.56%) Change Management
7 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (14.44%) ITIL
9 12 (13.33%) API Integration
9 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
9 12 (13.33%) Customer Experience
10 11 (12.22%) Client Onboarding
11 10 (11.11%) Agile
11 10 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 10 (11.11%) Server Management
11 10 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.56%) SQL
2 20 (22.22%) Python
3 18 (20.00%) C#
4 12 (13.33%) Bash
5 9 (10.00%) Groovy
6 7 (7.78%) Bicep
7 5 (5.56%) Java
7 5 (5.56%) Perl
8 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.67%) Degree
5 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.44%) CISSP
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.22%) CCSP
7 2 (2.22%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.11%) NCSC
4 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (15.56%) Docker
4 9 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (5.56%) DFS Replication
5 5 (5.56%) Firmware
6 4 (4.44%) Dovecot
6 4 (4.44%) Postfix
6 4 (4.44%) Squid
6 4 (4.44%) XenApp
7 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (28.89%) Terraform
2 16 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (11.11%) Grafana
4 9 (10.00%) Nagios
4 9 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 9 (10.00%) ZABBIX
5 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.44%) Nessus
7 4 (4.44%) Proxmox
8 3 (3.33%) Ansible
9 2 (2.22%) SCCM
10 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.00%) VMware
3 14 (15.56%) Citrix
4 13 (14.44%) SolarWinds
5 11 (12.22%) Cisco
6 10 (11.11%) Google
6 10 (11.11%) ServiceNow
7 9 (10.00%) BMC
7 9 (10.00%) Darktrace
7 9 (10.00%) Proofpoint
7 9 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 9 (10.00%) Tanium
7 9 (10.00%) Trend Micro
8 6 (6.67%) Meraki
9 5 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (5.56%) Veeam
10 4 (4.44%) CheckPoint
10 4 (4.44%) IBM
10 4 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (4.44%) SonicWALL