PowerShell Job Trends in Central London

Windows PowerShell
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London 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 51 68 51
Rank change year-on-year +17 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 100 133 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.03% 4.14% 4.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.00% 9.53% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 77 106 141
10th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +1.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
London median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +3.45% +5.58%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 833 1,395 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 33.56% 43.44% 48.88%
Number of salaries quoted 675 982 1,376
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,875
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £60,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,375 £116,250
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Central London

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Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Central London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Central London

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Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Central London 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
City of London +3 80 £70,000 -4.44% 34
Southwark +10 2 £72,750 +45.16% 1
West End of London +7 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
City of Westminster - 1 - - 9
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 65 (65.00%) Azure
2 36 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (27.00%) Entra ID
4 25 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (12.00%) AWS
6 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 8 (8.00%) PaaS
8 6 (6.00%) GCP
8 6 (6.00%) Nutanix
8 6 (6.00%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.00%) dbt
10 3 (3.00%) GitHub
10 3 (3.00%) Google Workspace
10 3 (3.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.00%) Cohesity
11 2 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.00%) WAN
2 17 (17.00%) LAN
3 14 (14.00%) Firewall
3 14 (14.00%) TCP/IP
4 13 (13.00%) DHCP
4 13 (13.00%) DNS
5 6 (6.00%) Network Security
5 6 (6.00%) VoIP
6 5 (5.00%) VPN
7 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.00%) NAS
8 2 (2.00%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.00%) SAN
8 2 (2.00%) VLAN
8 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.00%) Wireless
9 1 (1.00%) Broadband
9 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.00%) VSAN
9 1 (1.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (19.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (9.00%) Power BI
4 6 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.00%) Tableau
5 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.00%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.00%) SQLite
6 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (12.00%) TeamCity
3 7 (7.00%) Git
4 4 (4.00%) JIRA
5 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.00%) Burp Suite
6 2 (2.00%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.00%) GitLab
7 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (52.00%) Finance
2 27 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.00%) Legal
4 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) International Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Law
8 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.00%) Senior
3 12 (12.00%) Security Engineer
3 12 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Lead
6 9 (9.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) CISSP Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) PowerShell Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Security Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) CyberArk Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) .NET
2 7 (7.00%) YAML
3 4 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (1.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.00%) CSS
4 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.00%) HTML
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) LDAP
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.00%) OAuth
4 1 (1.00%) OpenID
4 1 (1.00%) SAML
4 1 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Hedge funds
1 16 (16.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (15.00%) Virtual Team
3 13 (13.00%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (9.00%) Security Posture
6 7 (7.00%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (7.00%) Public Cloud
7 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (6.00%) Private Cloud
8 5 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
9 4 (4.00%) PKI
9 4 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (3.00%) Credit Risk
10 3 (3.00%) Market Risk
11 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
11 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 2 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (40.00%) Windows
2 20 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (18.00%) Linux
4 10 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (9.00%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.00%) Unix
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.00%) DevOps
2 28 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.00%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (21.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (17.00%) Incident Response
6 16 (16.00%) Agile
7 15 (15.00%) AI
8 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (12.00%) Patch Management
9 12 (12.00%) Software Delivery
10 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.00%) Migration
10 11 (11.00%) Systems Engineering
10 11 (11.00%) Task Automation
11 10 (10.00%) Batch Scripting
11 10 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.00%) Python
2 32 (32.00%) SQL
3 10 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.00%) C#
4 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.00%) Perl
5 1 (1.00%) Ruby
5 1 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
1 7 (7.00%) CISSP
1 7 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (7.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) CISA
2 6 (6.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (5.00%) GIAC
4 4 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.00%) OSCP
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.00%) CCSAM
6 2 (2.00%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (2.00%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (2.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 25 (25.00%) NIST
2 6 (6.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 6 (6.00%) NCSC
3 5 (5.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.00%) QA
4 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.00%) XenDesktop
5 5 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.00%) XenApp
7 3 (3.00%) Docker
7 3 (3.00%) vSphere
8 2 (2.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 28 (28.00%) Terraform
2 15 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (12.00%) Ansible
5 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
6 10 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (6.00%) SCCM
8 2 (2.00%) Autotask
8 2 (2.00%) Grafana
8 2 (2.00%) Nessus
8 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.00%) CSIRT
9 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.00%) vRealize
9 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.00%) VMware
3 10 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 10 (10.00%) Reuters
4 9 (9.00%) Google
5 8 (8.00%) Citrix
6 7 (7.00%) Cisco
7 6 (6.00%) CyberArk
8 4 (4.00%) Commvault
9 3 (3.00%) EMC
9 3 (3.00%) F5
9 3 (3.00%) Meraki
9 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.00%) Intapp
10 2 (2.00%) Pure Storage
10 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.00%) SonicWALL
10 2 (2.00%) Splunk