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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 100 94
Rank change year-on-year -53 -6 +10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 90 139 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.90% 2.67% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.66% 9.87% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 82 114 258
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,563 £37,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +0.01% -4.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,125 £70,375
England median annual salary £57,750 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.85% +12.73% -8.33%

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 1,351 1,408 2,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.56% 27.00% 28.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 955 2,472
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,250
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%

PowerShell
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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -22 48 £55,000 +12.24% 20
West Midlands -51 41 £48,500 -3.00% 21
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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 35 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (36.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.89%) IIS
4 2 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 56 (62.22%) Azure
2 47 (52.22%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.33%) AWS
4 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.22%) OneDrive
6 7 (7.78%) Azure AKS
6 7 (7.78%) npm
6 7 (7.78%) NuGet
6 7 (7.78%) SonarCloud
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.67%) GCP
8 5 (5.56%) IaaS
8 5 (5.56%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.44%) GitHub
9 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.56%) DNS
2 19 (21.11%) DHCP
3 14 (15.56%) VPN
4 10 (11.11%) Firewall
4 10 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 10 (11.11%) VLAN
4 10 (11.11%) VoIP
5 6 (6.67%) LAN
5 6 (6.67%) SD-WAN
5 6 (6.67%) WAN
6 5 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (4.44%) Broadband
7 4 (4.44%) MPLS
8 2 (2.22%) Ethernet
8 2 (2.22%) Network Security
8 2 (2.22%) PBX
8 2 (2.22%) Skype
8 2 (2.22%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.11%) NAS
9 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) DTS
4 2 (2.22%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
1 6 (6.67%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Finance
3 8 (8.89%) Legal
3 8 (8.89%) Retail
4 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Law
5 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Senior
2 15 (16.67%) IT Support
3 11 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (8.89%) Developer
6 8 (8.89%) IT Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) IT Manager
7 7 (7.78%) IT Operations Manager
7 7 (7.78%) Operations Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Analyst
8 6 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) React
2 9 (10.00%) .NET
3 7 (7.78%) Node.js
3 7 (7.78%) YAML
4 6 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 6 (6.67%) REST
5 4 (4.44%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.33%) JSON
6 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (3.33%) Razor View Engine
6 3 (3.33%) SPFx
7 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (2.22%) LDAP
7 2 (2.22%) OAuth
7 2 (2.22%) OpenID
7 2 (2.22%) SAML
7 2 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.78%) Replication
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.22%) CMDB
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.22%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.22%) PKI
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (51.11%) Windows
2 17 (18.89%) Windows Server
3 11 (12.22%) Windows 10
4 10 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 8 (8.89%) Linux
6 4 (4.44%) Android
6 4 (4.44%) Apple iOS
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.00%) DevOps
4 16 (17.78%) ITIL
5 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 15 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (13.33%) ITSM
8 11 (12.22%) Business Continuity
8 11 (12.22%) Identity Management
9 10 (11.11%) Agile
9 10 (11.11%) Application Packaging
9 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 10 (11.11%) Service Delivery
10 9 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 9 (10.00%) Migration
10 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) Bash
2 15 (16.67%) SQL
3 12 (13.33%) Python
4 11 (12.22%) C#
5 8 (8.89%) Bicep
6 2 (2.22%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (17.78%) Degree
3 8 (8.89%) Azure Certification
3 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.22%) CISSP
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (11.11%) GDPR
4 7 (7.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (6.67%) NIST
6 5 (5.56%) SLA
7 4 (4.44%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.22%) NCSC
9 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 40 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.89%) Docker
4 6 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.44%) XenApp
6 2 (2.22%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (23.33%) Terraform
2 19 (21.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
4 10 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (6.67%) Grafana
6 4 (4.44%) Ansible
7 2 (2.22%) Nagios
7 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.22%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.78%) VMware
3 10 (11.11%) Logitech
3 10 (11.11%) Yealink
4 9 (10.00%) Citrix
5 8 (8.89%) Apple
5 8 (8.89%) Cisco
5 8 (8.89%) Meraki
6 7 (7.78%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (6.67%) Veeam
8 5 (5.56%) Google
8 5 (5.56%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.44%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.44%) IBM
9 4 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (4.44%) SonicWALL
10 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
10 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
11 2 (2.22%) BMC
11 2 (2.22%) Red Hat