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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 95 128
Rank change year-on-year -47 +33 -15
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 121 168 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 3.30% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.04% 13.11% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 109 124 206
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,300 £62,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 1,718 1,281 3,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.16% 25.19% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 945 2,592
10th Percentile £31,850 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £74,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -21 71 £55,000 +42.86% 22
West Midlands -80 49 £48,000 -4.00% 11
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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 (28.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (27.27%) SharePoint
3 11 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 78 (64.46%) Azure
2 60 (49.59%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (21.49%) Entra ID
4 18 (14.88%) AWS
4 18 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.74%) Azure AKS
6 11 (9.09%) npm
6 11 (9.09%) NuGet
6 11 (9.09%) SonarCloud
7 9 (7.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (7.44%) GCP
7 9 (7.44%) IaaS
7 9 (7.44%) OneDrive
8 8 (6.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (5.79%) Azure Storage
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.13%) Mimecast
11 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 38 (31.40%) DNS
2 24 (19.83%) Firewall
3 22 (18.18%) DHCP
4 21 (17.36%) VPN
5 11 (9.09%) VLAN
6 10 (8.26%) VoIP
7 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
7 8 (6.61%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (5.79%) LAN
8 7 (5.79%) WAN
9 4 (3.31%) Broadband
9 4 (3.31%) MQTT
10 2 (1.65%) Ethernet
10 2 (1.65%) Network Security
10 2 (1.65%) PBX
10 2 (1.65%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.65%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.83%) SAN
11 1 (0.83%) SSL
11 1 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.65%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Git
1 9 (7.44%) JIRA
2 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Law
3 10 (8.26%) Legal
4 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.96%) Finance
6 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (21.49%) Senior
2 24 (19.83%) IT Support
3 21 (17.36%) Support Engineer
4 20 (16.53%) IT Engineer
5 19 (15.70%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (13.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (12.40%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (9.92%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (9.09%) Analyst
11 9 (7.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (7.44%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (7.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 8 (6.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) 3rd Line Support
13 7 (5.79%) IT Manager
13 7 (5.79%) IT Operations Manager
13 7 (5.79%) Operations Manager
14 6 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.92%) .NET
2 11 (9.09%) Node.js
2 11 (9.09%) React
2 11 (9.09%) YAML
3 8 (6.61%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.13%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.65%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.65%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.65%) Kafka
5 2 (1.65%) LDAP
5 2 (1.65%) OAuth
5 2 (1.65%) OpenID
5 2 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.65%) REST
5 2 (1.65%) SAML
5 2 (1.65%) SOAP
6 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.83%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.61%) Replication
3 6 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.31%) IoT
5 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.48%) iSeries
6 2 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.65%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) PKI
6 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (57.85%) Windows
2 22 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 18 (14.88%) Linux
4 17 (14.05%) Windows 10
5 16 (13.22%) Android
5 16 (13.22%) Apple iOS
6 12 (9.92%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.31%) VMS
8 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (19.83%) ITIL
4 23 (19.01%) DevOps
5 22 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 18 (14.88%) Task Automation
7 16 (13.22%) Roadmaps
7 16 (13.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (12.40%) Containerisation
8 15 (12.40%) ITSM
8 15 (12.40%) Service Delivery
9 14 (11.57%) Agile
10 13 (10.74%) High Availability
10 13 (10.74%) Test Automation
11 12 (9.92%) Application Packaging
11 12 (9.92%) Identity Management
11 12 (9.92%) Runbook
12 11 (9.09%) DevSecOps
12 11 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.14%) Bash
2 24 (19.83%) Python
3 19 (15.70%) SQL
4 12 (9.92%) Bicep
4 12 (9.92%) C#
5 2 (1.65%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Degree
2 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (13.22%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.74%) SC Cleared
5 11 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (13.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.26%) GDPR
4 7 (5.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (4.96%) SLA
6 4 (3.31%) ISO 22301
7 3 (2.48%) NIST
8 2 (1.65%) NCSC
8 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 44 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.92%) Docker
3 11 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 10 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.65%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (24.79%) Terraform
2 25 (20.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 12 (9.92%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (5.79%) Ansible
5 7 (5.79%) Grafana
6 3 (2.48%) SCCM
7 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (56.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.05%) VMware
3 15 (12.40%) Logitech
4 11 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (8.26%) Apple
5 10 (8.26%) Yealink
6 9 (7.44%) Meraki
7 7 (5.79%) Cisco
8 6 (4.96%) Citrix
9 5 (4.13%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.13%) Sophos
9 5 (4.13%) TOWER Software
10 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.48%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.48%) Veeam
12 2 (1.65%) Dell
12 2 (1.65%) Google
12 2 (1.65%) Isilon
12 2 (1.65%) Kaseya
12 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty