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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 98 74
Rank change year-on-year -48 -24 +10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 90 161 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.11% 2.60% 3.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.83% 9.54% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 76 106 241
10th Percentile £28,750 - £31,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £61,875 £71,250
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 1,149 1,688 2,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.14% 27.28% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 923 912 2,076
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £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 27 January 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 27 January 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
West Midlands -31 46 £51,500 +3.00% 29
East Midlands -15 43 £55,000 +8.91% 49
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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 32 (35.56%) SharePoint
2 27 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (7.78%) IIS
4 6 (6.67%) Skype for Business
5 5 (5.56%) Confluence
6 3 (3.33%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 56 (62.22%) Azure
2 47 (52.22%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (24.44%) AWS
4 21 (23.33%) Entra ID
5 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (11.11%) OneDrive
7 9 (10.00%) GCP
8 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
9 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (5.56%) AWS KMS
10 5 (5.56%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.56%) npm
10 5 (5.56%) NuGet
10 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.56%) SonarCloud
10 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) Firewall
2 12 (13.33%) DNS
3 7 (7.78%) VPN
4 6 (6.67%) DHCP
4 6 (6.67%) LAN
4 6 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 6 (6.67%) Skype
4 6 (6.67%) WAN
5 5 (5.56%) FTP
5 5 (5.56%) HTTP
5 5 (5.56%) SMTP
5 5 (5.56%) SSH
6 4 (4.44%) MPLS
6 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.44%) VLAN
6 4 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.33%) IMAP
7 3 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (2.22%) VoIP
9 1 (1.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) DTS
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Git
3 8 (8.89%) JIRA
4 5 (5.56%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Retail
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.67%) Law
7 3 (3.33%) Legal
7 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 15 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (16.67%) Senior
3 14 (15.56%) Support Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) IT Support
7 8 (8.89%) IT Manager
7 8 (8.89%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) IT Operations Manager
8 7 (7.78%) Operations Manager
9 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Administrator
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Support
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) React
2 14 (15.56%) REST
3 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (12.22%) .NET
4 11 (12.22%) JSON
5 10 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.56%) Node.js
6 5 (5.56%) YAML
7 4 (4.44%) LDAP
8 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (3.33%) SPFx
9 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.22%) SOAP
10 1 (1.11%) ODBC
10 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 10 (11.11%) Replication
3 6 (6.67%) CMDB
3 6 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.11%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.89%) Windows
2 14 (15.56%) Windows Server
3 11 (12.22%) Linux
4 6 (6.67%) VMS
4 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (25.56%) DevOps
4 21 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 16 (17.78%) ITIL
5 16 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.33%) API Integration
7 12 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 11 (12.22%) Client Onboarding
8 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
9 10 (11.11%) Agile
9 10 (11.11%) Business Continuity
9 10 (11.11%) Change Management
9 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (11.11%) Task Automation
10 9 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (10.00%) Migration
10 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.56%) SQL
2 20 (22.22%) C#
3 15 (16.67%) Python
4 13 (14.44%) Bash
5 6 (6.67%) Bicep
6 5 (5.56%) Groovy
7 2 (2.22%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (2.22%) Java
7 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.22%) Perl
8 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.56%) Degree
6 3 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.33%) CISSP
7 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.11%) CCSP
7 1 (1.11%) CISM
7 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (4.44%) ISO 22301
4 4 (4.44%) NIST
5 3 (3.33%) GDPR
6 1 (1.11%) NCSC
6 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (5.56%) Firmware
5 4 (4.44%) XenApp
6 3 (3.33%) DFS Replication
6 3 (3.33%) Dovecot
6 3 (3.33%) Postfix
6 3 (3.33%) Squid
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 23 (25.56%) Terraform
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.78%) Grafana
5 6 (6.67%) Nagios
5 6 (6.67%) ZABBIX
6 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.33%) Ansible
7 3 (3.33%) Nessus
7 3 (3.33%) Proxmox
8 2 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.11%) SCCM
9 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (58.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.89%) VMware
3 12 (13.33%) Citrix
4 11 (12.22%) Cisco
5 9 (10.00%) Google
5 9 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 6 (6.67%) BMC
6 6 (6.67%) Darktrace
6 6 (6.67%) Meraki
6 6 (6.67%) Proofpoint
6 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 6 (6.67%) Tanium
6 6 (6.67%) Trend Micro
7 5 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (5.56%) Veeam
8 4 (4.44%) IBM
8 4 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (4.44%) Logitech
8 4 (4.44%) Yealink