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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 114 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 -69 +45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 108 170 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.59% 2.12% 5.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.37% 8.43% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 85 107 236
10th Percentile £31,250 - £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.21% +2.55%
75th Percentile £68,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £66,950 £67,500
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 1,153 2,017 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.01% 25.16% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 948 1,126 1,448
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £34,350
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,375
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% -1.16%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,001 £65,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -1 74 £53,750 +19.44% 48
East Midlands +1 34 £52,500 +10.53% 40
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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 29 (26.85%) SharePoint
2 22 (20.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (19.44%) Confluence
4 9 (8.33%) Skype for Business
5 5 (4.63%) nginx
6 4 (3.70%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 69 (63.89%) Azure
2 51 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (37.96%) AWS
4 28 (25.93%) Entra ID
5 22 (20.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (19.44%) Amazon ELB
6 21 (19.44%) Amazon S3
6 21 (19.44%) AWS KMS
6 21 (19.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (14.81%) Amazon Glacier
8 14 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (10.19%) GCP
10 9 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (7.41%) Power Automate
11 8 (7.41%) SaaS
12 7 (6.48%) Power Platform
13 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.63%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.78%) Firewall
2 22 (20.37%) DNS
3 16 (14.81%) FTP
3 16 (14.81%) HTTP
3 16 (14.81%) SMTP
3 16 (14.81%) SSH
4 9 (8.33%) Skype
5 7 (6.48%) DHCP
5 7 (6.48%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.63%) IMAP
6 5 (4.63%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (4.63%) SD-WAN
6 5 (4.63%) WAN
7 4 (3.70%) LAN
7 4 (3.70%) MPLS
8 3 (2.78%) SAN
8 3 (2.78%) VLAN
8 3 (2.78%) VPN
9 2 (1.85%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.33%) DTS
4 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.85%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 23 (21.30%) Git
2 23 (21.30%) JIRA
3 21 (19.44%) Vagrant
4 4 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 36 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.30%) Retail
3 18 (16.67%) Finance
4 17 (15.74%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.26%) Manufacturing
6 9 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (7.41%) Law
8 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.78%) Legal
9 2 (1.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (20.37%) Support Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) Developer
2 21 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support
4 14 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 11 (10.19%) IT Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Senior
7 9 (8.33%) IT Support
7 9 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Technical Support
10 5 (4.63%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) REST
2 12 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 12 (11.11%) React
3 11 (10.19%) .NET
3 11 (10.19%) JSON
4 10 (9.26%) Razor View Engine
5 6 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.63%) LDAP
7 4 (3.70%) Blazor
7 4 (3.70%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (3.70%) SPFx
8 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.85%) Node.js
9 2 (1.85%) YAML
10 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.93%) Middleware
10 1 (0.93%) ODBC
10 1 (0.93%) SOAP
10 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.70%) Onboarding
2 15 (13.89%) Replication
3 10 (9.26%) Operational Technology
4 9 (8.33%) CMDB
4 9 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.78%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 42 (38.89%) Windows
2 24 (22.22%) Linux
3 22 (20.37%) VMS
4 16 (14.81%) Amazon Linux
4 16 (14.81%) Windows Server
5 9 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (4.63%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.63%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.96%) DevOps
2 30 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (23.15%) Cloud Security
4 24 (22.22%) Change Management
5 23 (21.30%) Root Cause Analysis
6 21 (19.44%) Configuration Management
7 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (15.74%) CI/CD
8 17 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (15.74%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (14.81%) Patch Management
10 14 (12.96%) ITIL
10 14 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (12.04%) Agile
12 12 (11.11%) API Integration
12 12 (11.11%) Client Onboarding
12 12 (11.11%) Customer Experience
13 10 (9.26%) Customer Service
13 10 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (9.26%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.48%) SQL
2 31 (28.70%) Python
3 21 (19.44%) Groovy
4 20 (18.52%) C#
5 11 (10.19%) Java
5 11 (10.19%) Perl
6 10 (9.26%) Bash
7 9 (8.33%) Bicep
8 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) Azure Certification
3 11 (10.19%) Degree
3 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (3.70%) CISSP
7 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.85%) CCNA
8 2 (1.85%) CCSP
8 2 (1.85%) CISM
9 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.52%) Docker
3 18 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (12.96%) DFS Replication
5 9 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (5.56%) Hyper-V
7 5 (4.63%) Dovecot
7 5 (4.63%) Firmware
7 5 (4.63%) Postfix
7 5 (4.63%) Squid
8 4 (3.70%) XenApp
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (36.11%) Terraform
2 22 (20.37%) Grafana
3 21 (19.44%) Prometheus
4 20 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (8.33%) Nagios
5 9 (8.33%) ZABBIX
6 8 (7.41%) Ansible
7 6 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
8 5 (4.63%) Nessus
8 5 (4.63%) Proxmox
8 5 (4.63%) SCCM
9 2 (1.85%) Autotask
10 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (54.63%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.37%) ServiceNow
3 20 (18.52%) VMware
4 14 (12.96%) Citrix
5 13 (12.04%) Cisco
6 12 (11.11%) SolarWinds
7 10 (9.26%) Google
8 9 (8.33%) BMC
8 9 (8.33%) Darktrace
8 9 (8.33%) Proofpoint
8 9 (8.33%) Red Hat
8 9 (8.33%) Tanium
8 9 (8.33%) Trend Micro
9 6 (5.56%) Meraki
10 5 (4.63%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (4.63%) Juniper
10 5 (4.63%) Veeam
11 4 (3.70%) CheckPoint
11 4 (3.70%) IBM
11 4 (3.70%) SonicWALL