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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 127 46
Rank change year-on-year +32 -81 +39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 151 166 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.73% 1.87% 5.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.83% 7.70% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 107 87 233
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £42,125 £33,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,625 £62,500
90th Percentile - £69,700 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.94% +5.00% -

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 1,177 2,156 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.27% 24.28% 35.55%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,183 1,517
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 30 October 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 30 October 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 +33 109 £56,250 +25.00% 35
East Midlands +6 42 £38,500 -18.95% 13
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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 41 (27.15%) Confluence
2 27 (17.88%) SharePoint
3 24 (15.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (5.96%) Skype for Business
5 8 (5.30%) nginx
6 2 (1.32%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 82 (54.30%) Azure
2 67 (44.37%) AWS
3 66 (43.71%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (27.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 42 (27.81%) Amazon EC2
5 41 (27.15%) Amazon ELB
5 41 (27.15%) Amazon S3
5 41 (27.15%) AWS KMS
5 41 (27.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 33 (21.85%) Amazon Glacier
6 33 (21.85%) Entra ID
7 16 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.61%) SaaS
9 11 (7.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (6.62%) GCP
10 10 (6.62%) Power Platform
11 9 (5.96%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.30%) Power Automate
12 8 (5.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 60 (39.74%) Firewall
2 39 (25.83%) DNS
3 25 (16.56%) FTP
3 25 (16.56%) HTTP
3 25 (16.56%) SMTP
3 25 (16.56%) SSH
4 17 (11.26%) VPN
5 14 (9.27%) DHCP
6 12 (7.95%) TCP/IP
6 12 (7.95%) WAN
7 9 (5.96%) SAN
7 9 (5.96%) Skype
8 8 (5.30%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (5.30%) IMAP
8 8 (5.30%) LAN
8 8 (5.30%) OpenLDAP
9 7 (4.64%) SD-WAN
10 5 (3.31%) iSCSI
10 5 (3.31%) VLAN
11 3 (1.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.81%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (7.28%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.96%) DTS
3 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.97%) Power BI
6 5 (3.31%) MySQL
7 4 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) Power Query
8 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (29.80%) Git
1 45 (29.80%) Jenkins
2 44 (29.14%) JIRA
3 41 (27.15%) Vagrant
4 10 (6.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
General
1 41 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.53%) Public Sector
3 24 (15.89%) Retail
4 18 (11.92%) Finance
5 17 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.93%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.96%) Law
8 9 (5.96%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.31%) Billing
10 3 (1.99%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (25.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 38 (25.17%) Support Engineer
2 28 (18.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (15.23%) Infrastructure Support
3 23 (15.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 21 (13.91%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (12.58%) Developer
6 16 (10.60%) IT Engineer
7 14 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) IT Support
9 11 (7.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (6.62%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (6.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.62%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) ICT Officer
11 9 (5.96%) ICT Support
11 9 (5.96%) ICT Support Officer
11 9 (5.96%) Support Officer
12 8 (5.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.27%) REST
2 12 (7.95%) AngularJS
3 11 (7.28%) JSON
4 10 (6.62%) .NET
4 10 (6.62%) Razor View Engine
4 10 (6.62%) React
5 8 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (5.30%) LDAP
6 6 (3.97%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.31%) Blazor
7 5 (3.31%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.99%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.66%) Middleware
9 1 (0.66%) SOAP
9 1 (0.66%) SPFx
9 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.84%) Onboarding
2 29 (19.21%) Replication
3 10 (6.62%) Operational Technology
4 9 (5.96%) CMDB
4 9 (5.96%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (5.30%) Cyberattack
6 7 (4.64%) Driving Licence
6 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.97%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.65%) NHS
10 3 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 77 (50.99%) Windows
2 53 (35.10%) Linux
3 42 (27.81%) VMS
4 27 (17.88%) Windows Server
5 26 (17.22%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (6.62%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (5.96%) Ubuntu
8 8 (5.30%) Android
9 7 (4.64%) Windows 10
9 7 (4.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (4.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.66%) CentOS
11 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.66%) Rocky
11 1 (0.66%) Unix
11 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (45.70%) DevOps
2 43 (28.48%) Cloud Security
3 41 (27.15%) Change Management
3 41 (27.15%) Configuration Management
4 38 (25.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (20.53%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (16.56%) Patch Management
8 23 (15.23%) Root Cause Analysis
9 22 (14.57%) CI/CD
10 20 (13.25%) Task Automation
11 19 (12.58%) Agile
11 19 (12.58%) ITIL
11 19 (12.58%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure Management
12 14 (9.27%) Mentoring
12 14 (9.27%) Migration
13 13 (8.61%) Customer Experience
14 12 (7.95%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.06%) Python
2 40 (26.49%) Groovy
2 40 (26.49%) SQL
3 19 (12.58%) C#
4 18 (11.92%) Java
4 18 (11.92%) Perl
5 15 (9.93%) Bash
6 14 (9.27%) Bicep
7 3 (1.99%) VB
8 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.81%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.25%) Azure Certification
4 17 (11.26%) Degree
5 14 (9.27%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (5.96%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.31%) CCNA
9 4 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.65%) CISSP
9 4 (2.65%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.32%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.32%) CCSP
10 2 (1.32%) CISM
11 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.99%) NIST
2 3 (1.99%) SLA
3 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 79 (52.32%) Active Directory
2 37 (24.50%) Docker
3 29 (19.21%) DFS Replication
4 27 (17.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (15.23%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (5.30%) Dovecot
7 8 (5.30%) Postfix
7 8 (5.30%) Squid
7 8 (5.30%) VMware NSX
7 8 (5.30%) vSphere
8 7 (4.64%) XenApp
9 5 (3.31%) Firmware
9 5 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (42.38%) Terraform
2 42 (27.81%) Grafana
3 41 (27.15%) Prometheus
4 29 (19.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (16.56%) Ansible
6 10 (6.62%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.96%) Nagios
7 9 (5.96%) SCCM
7 9 (5.96%) ZABBIX
8 8 (5.30%) Nessus
8 8 (5.30%) Proxmox
9 5 (3.31%) Autotask
10 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 66 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 42 (27.81%) ServiceNow
3 30 (19.87%) VMware
4 28 (18.54%) Cisco
5 24 (15.89%) Juniper
6 17 (11.26%) Citrix
7 14 (9.27%) Meraki
8 12 (7.95%) Google
8 12 (7.95%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.96%) BMC
9 9 (5.96%) Darktrace
9 9 (5.96%) Proofpoint
9 9 (5.96%) Red Hat
9 9 (5.96%) Tanium
9 9 (5.96%) Trend Micro
10 8 (5.30%) 3PAR
10 8 (5.30%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (5.30%) SonicWALL
10 8 (5.30%) Splunk
11 7 (4.64%) CheckPoint