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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 108 64
Rank change year-on-year -23 -44 +24
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 90 154 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.13% 2.45% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 9.08% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73 98 217
10th Percentile £27,250 - £31,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.21% +1.90%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £60,750 £70,000
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 1,153 1,696 1,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.53% 26.95% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 932 926 1,754
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
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 £65,188 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,525
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 17 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 17 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 -21 48 £52,500 +23.53% 22
East Midlands -9 42 £55,000 +15.79% 48
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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 26 (28.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (8.89%) Skype for Business
4 6 (6.67%) Confluence
4 6 (6.67%) IIS
5 4 (4.44%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) 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 58 (64.44%) Azure
2 49 (54.44%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (26.67%) AWS
4 22 (24.44%) Entra ID
5 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (11.11%) GCP
7 9 (10.00%) OneDrive
8 8 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.67%) AWS KMS
10 6 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.56%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) DNS
3 8 (8.89%) Skype
4 6 (6.67%) FTP
4 6 (6.67%) HTTP
4 6 (6.67%) LAN
4 6 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 6 (6.67%) SMTP
4 6 (6.67%) SSH
4 6 (6.67%) VPN
4 6 (6.67%) WAN
5 4 (4.44%) IMAP
5 4 (4.44%) MPLS
5 4 (4.44%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (3.33%) DHCP
6 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.33%) VLAN
7 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 8 (8.89%) DTS
2 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.11%) Git
3 9 (10.00%) JIRA
4 6 (6.67%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.44%) Retail
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.67%) Law
8 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Legal
10 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.11%) Local Government
11 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 15 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Senior
4 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support
6 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) IT Support
7 7 (7.78%) IT Manager
7 7 (7.78%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) IT Operations Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Operations Manager
9 5 (5.56%) Administrator
9 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) React
1 14 (15.56%) REST
2 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 11 (12.22%) JSON
4 10 (11.11%) .NET
4 10 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.56%) LDAP
6 4 (4.44%) Node.js
6 4 (4.44%) YAML
7 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (3.33%) SPFx
8 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.22%) SOAP
9 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.11%) Middleware
9 1 (1.11%) ODBC
9 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.22%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 10 (11.11%) Replication
3 8 (8.89%) CMDB
3 8 (8.89%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
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
Operating Systems
1 33 (36.67%) Windows
2 13 (14.44%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.11%) Linux
4 8 (8.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (7.78%) VMS
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (25.56%) DevOps
3 22 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (24.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 17 (18.89%) Performance Tuning
5 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 15 (16.67%) ITIL
6 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (13.33%) API Integration
7 12 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 11 (12.22%) Change Management
8 11 (12.22%) Client Onboarding
8 11 (12.22%) Customer Service
9 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.00%) Agile
10 9 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 9 (10.00%) Server Management
10 9 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) SQL
2 19 (21.11%) C#
3 16 (17.78%) Python
4 12 (13.33%) Bash
5 6 (6.67%) Bicep
5 6 (6.67%) Groovy
6 2 (2.22%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (2.22%) Java
6 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) Perl
7 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.67%) Degree
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.33%) CISSP
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.11%) CCSP
8 1 (1.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (7.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (4.44%) NIST
5 3 (3.33%) ISO 22301
6 2 (2.22%) GDPR
7 1 (1.11%) NCSC
7 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (13.33%) Docker
4 8 (8.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (5.56%) Firmware
6 4 (4.44%) DFS Replication
6 4 (4.44%) Dovecot
6 4 (4.44%) Postfix
6 4 (4.44%) Squid
6 4 (4.44%) XenApp
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%) Nagios
3 8 (8.89%) ZABBIX
4 7 (7.78%) Grafana
4 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.78%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.44%) Nessus
6 4 (4.44%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.33%) Ansible
8 2 (2.22%) SCCM
9 1 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.89%) VMware
3 13 (14.44%) Citrix
4 11 (12.22%) Google
4 11 (12.22%) SolarWinds
5 10 (11.11%) Cisco
6 8 (8.89%) BMC
6 8 (8.89%) Darktrace
6 8 (8.89%) Proofpoint
6 8 (8.89%) Red Hat
6 8 (8.89%) Tanium
6 8 (8.89%) Trend Micro
7 7 (7.78%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.56%) Meraki
8 5 (5.56%) Veeam
9 4 (4.44%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (4.44%) IBM
9 4 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (4.44%) SonicWALL