PowerShell Jobs in the West Midlands

Windows PowerShell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 121 108
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 -14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 105 153 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.55% 1.97% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.78% 7.85% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 88 129 135
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,125 £35,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £57,688 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 891 1,949 2,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.68% 25.08% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 562 1,672 1,190
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £77,500
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the West Midlands

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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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Birmingham +31 36 £50,000 -10.31% 20
Staffordshire +17 20 £35,000 -12.50% 18
Warwickshire 0 19 £32,500 -35.00% 9
Solihull +27 17 £55,000 +103.70% 10
Herefordshire +11 5 £40,000 +23.08% 2
Coventry -11 5 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Shropshire +6 1 - - 4
PowerShell
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (12.38%) Confluence
3 7 (6.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.90%) nginx
4 2 (1.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (20.95%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.24%) Azure
2 42 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (27.62%) AWS
4 18 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (15.24%) Entra ID
6 13 (12.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (12.38%) Amazon ELB
6 13 (12.38%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.38%) AWS KMS
6 13 (12.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (11.43%) Google Workspace
8 11 (10.48%) Amazon Glacier
9 9 (8.57%) Power Automate
9 9 (8.57%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.67%) IaaS
10 7 (6.67%) PaaS
11 6 (5.71%) Route 53
12 5 (4.76%) OneDrive
13 4 (3.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (55.24%) Firewall
2 26 (24.76%) TCP/IP
3 24 (22.86%) DHCP
4 23 (21.90%) DNS
5 22 (20.95%) WAN
6 16 (15.24%) LAN
6 16 (15.24%) VLAN
7 12 (11.43%) BGP
7 12 (11.43%) OSPF
7 12 (11.43%) WLAN
8 10 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (7.62%) VPN
10 7 (6.67%) FTP
10 7 (6.67%) HTTP
10 7 (6.67%) SD-WAN
10 7 (6.67%) SMTP
10 7 (6.67%) SSH
11 4 (3.81%) HTTPS
12 3 (2.86%) SAN
13 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.48%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.62%) Power BI
4 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.90%) MySQL
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.95%) DB2
6 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) Git
2 14 (13.33%) JIRA
3 13 (12.38%) Vagrant
4 12 (11.43%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.90%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.43%) Automotive
3 12 (11.43%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Retail
4 8 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.67%) Legal
6 6 (5.71%) Advertising
7 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.81%) Law
8 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Police
9 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.95%) Electronics
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (18.10%) Support Engineer
3 14 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 13 (12.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) 3rd Line Support
4 13 (12.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) IT Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Lead
5 12 (11.43%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) ICT Officer
6 10 (9.52%) ICT Support
6 10 (9.52%) ICT Support Officer
6 10 (9.52%) Support Officer
7 8 (7.62%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.86%) .NET
1 3 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.90%) JSON
2 2 (1.90%) LDAP
2 2 (1.90%) XML
3 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.95%) Blazor
3 1 (0.95%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.81%) Management Information System
2 17 (16.19%) Onboarding
3 12 (11.43%) Smartphone
4 10 (9.52%) Private Cloud
5 9 (8.57%) Replication
6 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) NHS
8 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.95%) Clustering
9 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) NB-IoT
9 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (63.81%) Windows
2 38 (36.19%) Windows Server
3 31 (29.52%) Linux
4 29 (27.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (25.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (14.29%) Ubuntu
7 13 (12.38%) VMS
7 13 (12.38%) Windows 10
8 12 (11.43%) Mac OS X
9 8 (7.62%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.76%) DevOps
1 26 (24.76%) ITIL
2 23 (21.90%) Infrastructure Management
3 22 (20.95%) Change Management
3 22 (20.95%) Mentoring
4 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.24%) Cloud Security
8 15 (14.29%) Data Security
8 15 (14.29%) Network Design
8 15 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (13.33%) Information Security
9 14 (13.33%) Security Operations
10 13 (12.38%) Configuration Management
11 12 (11.43%) Business Case
11 12 (11.43%) Computer Science
11 12 (11.43%) SIEM
11 12 (11.43%) Systems Engineering
12 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.29%) Python
2 24 (22.86%) SQL
3 14 (13.33%) Bash
4 13 (12.38%) C#
5 12 (11.43%) Groovy
6 6 (5.71%) Java
6 6 (5.71%) Perl
7 3 (2.86%) Bicep
8 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.90%) R
8 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (25.71%) Degree
1 27 (25.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 22 (20.95%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.14%) Azure Certification
5 14 (13.33%) AWS Certification
6 12 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (11.43%) HNC
6 12 (11.43%) HND
6 12 (11.43%) MCSE
7 7 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.90%) CASP
9 2 (1.90%) CISM
9 2 (1.90%) CISSP
9 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.95%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.95%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.48%) COBIT
3 4 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.90%) QA
4 2 (1.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.95%) GRC
5 1 (0.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 32 (30.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (14.29%) XenApp
4 14 (13.33%) Hyper-V
5 11 (10.48%) Docker
6 9 (8.57%) DFS Replication
7 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.90%) Dovecot
8 2 (1.90%) Postfix
8 2 (1.90%) Squid
9 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (24.76%) Terraform
2 21 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (12.38%) Grafana
3 13 (12.38%) Prometheus
4 7 (6.67%) Ansible
5 3 (2.86%) Nessus
5 3 (2.86%) SCCM
6 2 (1.90%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.90%) SCOM
6 2 (1.90%) SCOrch
6 2 (1.90%) SCSM
6 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.95%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.95%) Puppet
7 1 (0.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 37 (35.24%) VMware
3 28 (26.67%) Cisco
4 19 (18.10%) Citrix
5 17 (16.19%) Meraki
6 15 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 15 (14.29%) Dell
6 15 (14.29%) SonicWALL
7 13 (12.38%) Google
7 13 (12.38%) ServiceNow
8 12 (11.43%) Apple
8 12 (11.43%) Fortinet
8 12 (11.43%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (4.76%) Juniper
10 4 (3.81%) Oracle
11 3 (2.86%) Isilon
12 2 (1.90%) Databricks
12 2 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
13 1 (0.95%) Netskope
13 1 (0.95%) Splunk