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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 115 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 -55 +27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 90 148 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.15% 2.31% 4.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.86% 8.62% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 72 92 211
10th Percentile £33,810 - £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £44,250
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 £62,550
90th Percentile £73,750 £59,875 £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 1,145 1,716 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.60% 26.73% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 936 927 1,567
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,500
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,300
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 9 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 9 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 -24 50 £52,500 +23.53% 23
East Midlands -6 40 £54,500 +7.92% 35
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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 30 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 25 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (10.00%) Skype for Business
4 7 (7.78%) Confluence
5 5 (5.56%) IIS
6 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 60 (66.67%) Azure
2 47 (52.22%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (31.11%) AWS
4 21 (23.33%) Entra ID
5 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (12.22%) GCP
7 9 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (8.89%) OneDrive
9 7 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (7.78%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.78%) AWS KMS
9 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
9 7 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (6.67%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.56%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) DNS
3 9 (10.00%) Skype
4 7 (7.78%) FTP
4 7 (7.78%) HTTP
4 7 (7.78%) SMTP
4 7 (7.78%) SSH
5 6 (6.67%) SD-WAN
5 6 (6.67%) WAN
6 5 (5.56%) LAN
7 4 (4.44%) IMAP
7 4 (4.44%) MPLS
7 4 (4.44%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (4.44%) VPN
8 2 (2.22%) DHCP
8 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.22%) VLAN
9 1 (1.11%) Broadband
9 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 9 (10.00%) DTS
3 7 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.22%) Power BI
7 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.11%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) JIRA
3 7 (7.78%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Retail
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.89%) Law
5 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 16 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (14.44%) Senior
6 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) IT Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) IT Support
9 6 (6.67%) IT Manager
9 6 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) IT Operations Manager
10 5 (5.56%) Operations Manager
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Support
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) REST
2 13 (14.44%) React
3 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (12.22%) JSON
5 10 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
6 9 (10.00%) .NET
7 5 (5.56%) LDAP
8 4 (4.44%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.44%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (3.33%) Node.js
9 3 (3.33%) SPFx
9 3 (3.33%) YAML
10 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.22%) SOAP
11 1 (1.11%) Blazor
11 1 (1.11%) ODBC
11 1 (1.11%) SAML
11 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.22%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 9 (10.00%) CMDB
3 9 (10.00%) Replication
3 9 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
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%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.44%) Windows
2 14 (15.56%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.11%) Linux
4 9 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (8.89%) VMS
6 7 (7.78%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.33%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (27.78%) DevOps
3 24 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 21 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (18.89%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (15.56%) ITIL
8 12 (13.33%) API Integration
8 12 (13.33%) Change Management
8 12 (13.33%) Customer Experience
9 11 (12.22%) Client Onboarding
9 11 (12.22%) Customer Service
10 10 (11.11%) Agile
10 10 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 10 (11.11%) Server Management
11 9 (10.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) SQL
2 18 (20.00%) C#
2 18 (20.00%) Python
3 12 (13.33%) Bash
4 7 (7.78%) Bicep
4 7 (7.78%) Groovy
5 3 (3.33%) Java
5 3 (3.33%) Perl
6 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
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
5 5 (5.56%) Degree
6 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CISSP
8 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.11%) CCSP
9 1 (1.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
4 2 (2.22%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.11%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) NCSC
5 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (13.33%) Docker
4 9 (10.00%) 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 24 (26.67%) Terraform
2 16 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (10.00%) Nagios
3 9 (10.00%) ZABBIX
4 8 (8.89%) Grafana
5 7 (7.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 6 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.44%) Nessus
7 4 (4.44%) Proxmox
8 3 (3.33%) Ansible
9 2 (2.22%) SCCM
10 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.00%) VMware
3 14 (15.56%) Citrix
4 13 (14.44%) SolarWinds
5 11 (12.22%) Google
6 10 (11.11%) Cisco
7 9 (10.00%) BMC
7 9 (10.00%) Darktrace
7 9 (10.00%) Proofpoint
7 9 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 9 (10.00%) Tanium
7 9 (10.00%) Trend Micro
8 8 (8.89%) ServiceNow
9 5 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (5.56%) Meraki
9 5 (5.56%) Veeam
10 4 (4.44%) CheckPoint
10 4 (4.44%) IBM
10 4 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (4.44%) SonicWALL