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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 80 129
Rank change year-on-year -54 +49 -63
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 160 192 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.02% 3.42% 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.08% 15.43% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 105 132 87
10th Percentile £25,200 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £48,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.46% -7.05%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,400 £73,750 £69,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 1,979 1,244 2,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.66% 22.18% 23.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 954 1,412
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,398 £37,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -71 81 £55,000 +1.21% 50
East Midlands -21 79 £42,500 +21.43% 44
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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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 27 (16.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (8.75%) IIS
4 8 (5.00%) Apache
4 8 (5.00%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.88%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 94 (58.75%) Azure
2 85 (53.13%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 22 (13.75%) AWS
5 18 (11.25%) Mimecast
6 17 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.63%) SaaS
7 12 (7.50%) IaaS
7 12 (7.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 12 (7.50%) Power Automate
8 11 (6.88%) OneDrive
9 10 (6.25%) GCP
10 9 (5.63%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (4.38%) PaaS
12 6 (3.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.75%) Azure Storage
12 6 (3.75%) Power Platform
13 5 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 63 (39.38%) Firewall
2 47 (29.38%) DNS
3 30 (18.75%) VPN
4 27 (16.88%) WAN
5 23 (14.38%) LAN
6 22 (13.75%) DHCP
7 11 (6.88%) VLAN
7 11 (6.88%) Wireless
8 7 (4.38%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.13%) Network Security
9 5 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.50%) MQTT
10 4 (2.50%) VoIP
11 3 (1.88%) NX-OS
11 3 (1.88%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.25%) HTTP
12 2 (1.25%) NAS
12 2 (1.25%) SAN
12 2 (1.25%) SSH
12 2 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.25%) KNIME
4 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.25%) Power Query
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) JIRA
2 8 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (1.88%) GitLab
4 2 (1.25%) Ant
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.25%) Maven
4 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.25%) Law
3 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.88%) Retail
7 7 (4.38%) Finance
7 7 (4.38%) Legal
8 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Back Office
11 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (25.63%) IT Engineer
2 27 (16.88%) Senior
3 26 (16.25%) Support Engineer
4 22 (13.75%) IT Support
5 21 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Field Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Field Service Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
9 11 (6.88%) Lead
10 10 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (5.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (5.63%) Analyst
11 9 (5.63%) Senior Support Engineer
12 8 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (5.00%) Technical Support
13 7 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.38%) Technical Engineer
14 6 (3.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.88%) Terraform
2 6 (3.75%) .NET
3 4 (2.50%) .NET Framework
3 4 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 4 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (2.50%) REST
3 4 (2.50%) YAML
4 3 (1.88%) Kafka
4 3 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.25%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.25%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.25%) Middleware
5 2 (1.25%) Node.js
5 2 (1.25%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.25%) React
6 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.38%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.75%) Replication
6 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.50%) CCTV
7 4 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.50%) IoT
7 4 (2.50%) PKI
7 4 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.88%) Clustering
8 3 (1.88%) iSeries
8 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 104 (65.00%) Windows
2 52 (32.50%) Windows Server
3 38 (23.75%) Linux
4 28 (17.50%) Windows 10
5 26 (16.25%) Android
5 26 (16.25%) Apple iOS
6 9 (5.63%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.50%) VMS
8 3 (1.88%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.25%) Solaris
9 2 (1.25%) Unix
10 1 (0.63%) Debian
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (26.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (24.38%) ITIL
4 30 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (16.25%) DevOps
8 24 (15.00%) Customer Service
8 24 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (14.38%) AI
10 21 (13.13%) CI/CD
10 21 (13.13%) Proactive Monitoring
11 20 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (11.25%) Service Catalogue
12 18 (11.25%) Task Automation
13 17 (10.63%) High Availability
13 17 (10.63%) Load Balancing
13 17 (10.63%) Roadmaps
13 17 (10.63%) Runbook
13 17 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.63%) Python
2 30 (18.75%) SQL
3 18 (11.25%) Bash
4 8 (5.00%) Bicep
5 6 (3.75%) C#
6 4 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.25%) VBScript
9 1 (0.63%) PHP
9 1 (0.63%) Ruby
9 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 18 (11.25%) Degree
2 18 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.38%) CCNA
6 7 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.38%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.88%) MCSE
9 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.25%) CISSP
9 2 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.63%) CCNP
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) SLA
2 15 (9.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.88%) GDPR
5 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.25%) QA
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.88%) Hyper-V
4 13 (8.13%) Docker
5 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.88%) vSphere
8 2 (1.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.25%) Firmware
9 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (21.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.25%) Ansible
4 9 (5.63%) SCCM
5 4 (2.50%) Grafana
6 3 (1.88%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.25%) Nessus
7 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.25%) Puppet
7 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) Argo
8 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 109 (68.13%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.38%) VMware
3 23 (14.38%) Cisco
4 18 (11.25%) Logitech
4 18 (11.25%) Sophos
4 18 (11.25%) TOWER Software
5 17 (10.63%) Meraki
6 13 (8.13%) Citrix
7 11 (6.88%) ServiceNow
8 8 (5.00%) Apple
8 8 (5.00%) SonicWALL
9 7 (4.38%) Sage
10 6 (3.75%) Veeam
11 5 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (3.13%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.13%) Splunk
12 4 (2.50%) SAP
12 4 (2.50%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.25%) Acronis
13 2 (1.25%) Dell