PowerShell Job Trends in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 62 121
Rank change year-on-year -70 +59 -24
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 56 123 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.74% 4.05% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.86% 15.57% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 50 104 124
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,313 £37,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £53,688 £48,150
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +11.50% -8.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £73,750 £80,875
England median annual salary £59,000 £58,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.55% +5.64% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 956 790 2,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.56% 26.04% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 715 608 1,715
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,625 £77,500
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 West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Staffordshire -2 16 £53,688 +33.97% 3
Birmingham -43 16 £52,500 -4.55% 8
Warwickshire -17 10 £32,500 - 2
Herefordshire -20 4 £60,000 +50.00%
Coventry -22 4 £39,500 -41.48%
Shropshire -18 2 £43,750 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £62,000 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (26.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) Azure
1 30 (53.57%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
3 8 (14.29%) AWS
4 4 (7.14%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 4 (7.14%) PaaS
4 4 (7.14%) SaaS
5 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.57%) Pulumi
6 2 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.79%) DNS
2 12 (21.43%) Firewall
3 11 (19.64%) DHCP
4 8 (14.29%) VPN
5 7 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (8.93%) LAN
7 4 (7.14%) WAN
8 3 (5.36%) Network Security
8 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
8 3 (5.36%) VLAN
8 3 (5.36%) Wireless
9 2 (3.57%) Broadband
9 2 (3.57%) Ethernet
9 2 (3.57%) PBX
9 2 (3.57%) Unified Communications
9 2 (3.57%) VoIP
10 1 (1.79%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.79%) NAS
10 1 (1.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Retail
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.57%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) IT Support
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Senior
7 6 (10.71%) Lead
8 5 (8.93%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (8.93%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Support Analyst
9 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 3 (5.36%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Onboarding
2 8 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.36%) iSeries
5 3 (5.36%) Private Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.57%) Clustering
6 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Replication
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.79%) BYOD
7 1 (1.79%) CMDB
7 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.79%) PKI
7 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (58.93%) Windows
2 20 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.43%) Android
3 12 (21.43%) Apple iOS
4 4 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (28.57%) ITIL
3 12 (21.43%) Runbook
4 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
5 9 (16.07%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 7 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 6 (10.71%) Change Management
8 6 (10.71%) DevOps
8 6 (10.71%) Incident Management
8 6 (10.71%) Information Security
8 6 (10.71%) ITSM
8 6 (10.71%) Problem Management
8 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) Bash
3 9 (16.07%) Bicep
4 6 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (3.57%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.79%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.36%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) NIST
3 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 21 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.86%) Hyper-V
2 10 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.36%) BitLocker
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (25.00%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Ansible
4 4 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (5.36%) Grafana
5 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.36%) SCCM
6 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (23.21%) VMware
3 6 (10.71%) Citrix
4 4 (7.14%) Meraki
5 3 (5.36%) Apple
5 3 (5.36%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco
6 2 (3.57%) Databricks
6 2 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.57%) Google
6 2 (3.57%) Isilon
6 2 (3.57%) Kaseya
6 2 (3.57%) Logitech
6 2 (3.57%) PagerDuty
6 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.57%) Veeam
6 2 (3.57%) Yealink
7 1 (1.79%) Samsung