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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 137 67
Rank change year-on-year +57 -70 +17
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 192 168 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.42% 1.66% 4.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.46% 7.10% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 132 88 193
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,400 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,242 2,365 1,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.15% 23.43% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,419 1,569
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +40 123 £54,344 +20.76% 46
East Midlands +45 69 £35,000 -30.00% 37
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (21.35%) Confluence
3 39 (20.31%) SharePoint
4 10 (5.21%) Skype for Business
5 8 (4.17%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (48.44%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (47.40%) Azure
3 70 (36.46%) AWS
4 44 (22.92%) Amazon EC2
5 42 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 41 (21.35%) Amazon ELB
6 41 (21.35%) Amazon S3
6 41 (21.35%) AWS KMS
6 41 (21.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 40 (20.83%) Entra ID
8 33 (17.19%) Amazon Glacier
9 15 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (7.29%) OneDrive
11 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
11 13 (6.77%) SaaS
12 12 (6.25%) Power Automate
13 11 (5.73%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (5.21%) Route 53
15 9 (4.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 70 (36.46%) Firewall
2 46 (23.96%) DNS
3 35 (18.23%) VPN
4 33 (17.19%) TCP/IP
5 27 (14.06%) DHCP
6 25 (13.02%) FTP
6 25 (13.02%) HTTP
6 25 (13.02%) SMTP
6 25 (13.02%) SSH
7 13 (6.77%) WAN
8 11 (5.73%) SAN
9 10 (5.21%) Skype
10 8 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (4.17%) IMAP
10 8 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
11 7 (3.65%) LAN
11 7 (3.65%) Network Security
11 7 (3.65%) VLAN
12 6 (3.13%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.60%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.88%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.77%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.69%) Power BI
4 8 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.17%) DTS
4 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.60%) MySQL
6 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) DB2
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Power Query
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (23.44%) Git
2 44 (22.92%) Jenkins
3 43 (22.40%) JIRA
4 41 (21.35%) Vagrant
5 15 (7.81%) Cucumber
5 15 (7.81%) Robot Framework
6 10 (5.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 66 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Retail
5 15 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (7.81%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.25%) Law
7 10 (5.21%) Finance
8 8 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.65%) Legal
10 5 (2.60%) Billing
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (20.31%) Support Engineer
3 27 (14.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.06%) IT Support
4 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Support
4 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 20 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (8.85%) IT Engineer
7 16 (8.33%) Developer
8 15 (7.81%) ICT Officer
8 15 (7.81%) ICT Support
8 15 (7.81%) ICT Support Officer
8 15 (7.81%) Support Officer
8 15 (7.81%) Test Automation Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) Test Engineer
9 14 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) IT Support Specialist
10 11 (5.73%) Senior
10 11 (5.73%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.73%) REST
2 9 (4.69%) .NET
2 9 (4.69%) AngularJS
3 8 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.17%) JSON
3 8 (4.17%) LDAP
4 7 (3.65%) Razor View Engine
4 7 (3.65%) React
5 5 (2.60%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.60%) Blazor
5 5 (2.60%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.04%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.04%) Middleware
7 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.52%) SOAP
7 1 (0.52%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.71%) Onboarding
2 29 (15.10%) Replication
3 16 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.17%) CMDB
4 8 (4.17%) Cyberattack
4 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.65%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.65%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.08%) NHS
8 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 116 (60.42%) Windows
2 70 (36.46%) Linux
3 42 (21.88%) VMS
4 38 (19.79%) Windows Server
5 26 (13.54%) Amazon Linux
6 11 (5.73%) Ubuntu
7 10 (5.21%) Windows 10
8 9 (4.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (4.17%) Android
9 8 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (3.13%) Apple iOS
10 6 (3.13%) Windows 7
10 6 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.60%) Mac OS
11 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (1.04%) CentOS
12 2 (1.04%) Rocky
12 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (43.23%) DevOps
2 54 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (24.48%) Change Management
4 43 (22.40%) Cloud Security
5 42 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (21.35%) Configuration Management
7 31 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 25 (13.02%) Patch Management
10 24 (12.50%) Task Automation
11 22 (11.46%) CI/CD
11 22 (11.46%) Customer Service
11 22 (11.46%) ITIL
12 21 (10.94%) Migration
13 19 (9.90%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.38%) Coaching
15 17 (8.85%) Infrastructure Management
15 17 (8.85%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (8.85%) Roadmaps
15 17 (8.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (40.63%) Python
2 40 (20.83%) Groovy
3 38 (19.79%) SQL
4 30 (15.63%) Bash
5 18 (9.38%) Java
5 18 (9.38%) Perl
6 16 (8.33%) C#
7 15 (7.81%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.77%) Bicep
9 3 (1.56%) VB
10 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 53 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 47 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 43 (22.40%) Degree
4 27 (14.06%) Azure Certification
5 19 (9.90%) AWS Certification
6 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.60%) CCNA
9 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.08%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.04%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.04%) CCSP
10 2 (1.04%) CISM
10 2 (1.04%) CISSP
10 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.81%) QA
2 8 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.17%) SLA
3 7 (3.65%) GDPR
4 6 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.52%) COBIT
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (52.08%) Active Directory
2 40 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 38 (19.79%) Docker
4 37 (19.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (15.10%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.17%) Dovecot
6 8 (4.17%) Postfix
6 8 (4.17%) Squid
6 8 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 8 (4.17%) vSphere
7 7 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (3.13%) XenApp
9 5 (2.60%) Firmware
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (33.33%) Terraform
2 42 (21.88%) Grafana
3 41 (21.35%) Prometheus
4 40 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (14.06%) Ansible
6 11 (5.73%) SCCM
7 10 (5.21%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (4.17%) Nagios
8 8 (4.17%) Nessus
8 8 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 8 (4.17%) ZABBIX
9 6 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.60%) Autotask
11 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
11 2 (1.04%) SCOM
11 2 (1.04%) SCOrch
11 2 (1.04%) SCSM
12 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 91 (47.40%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.88%) ServiceNow
3 41 (21.35%) VMware
4 27 (14.06%) Cisco
5 24 (12.50%) Juniper
6 18 (9.38%) Citrix
6 18 (9.38%) Meraki
7 12 (6.25%) Google
8 10 (5.21%) SolarWinds
9 9 (4.69%) Splunk
10 8 (4.17%) 3PAR
10 8 (4.17%) BMC
10 8 (4.17%) Darktrace
10 8 (4.17%) HP
10 8 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (4.17%) Proofpoint
10 8 (4.17%) Red Hat
10 8 (4.17%) Tanium
10 8 (4.17%) Trend Micro
11 7 (3.65%) Veeam