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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 100 141 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.43% 4.36% 5.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.71% 9.91% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 113 152
10th Percentile £41,650 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £59,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% +6.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £100,000 £85,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +3.68%

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 787 1,423 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.90% 44.01% 49.26%
Number of salaries quoted 645 1,026 1,439
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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
City of London +4 82 £70,000 -6.67% 20
Southwark +12 2 £72,750 +45.16% 1
West End of London +6 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
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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 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 66 (66.00%) Azure
2 41 (41.00%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (29.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (21.00%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (13.00%) AWS
6 12 (12.00%) Power Platform
7 10 (10.00%) Power Automate
8 9 (9.00%) PaaS
9 7 (7.00%) GCP
10 6 (6.00%) Nutanix
11 5 (5.00%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (4.00%) GitHub
12 4 (4.00%) SaaS
13 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (3.00%) dbt
13 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
13 3 (3.00%) Serverless
13 3 (3.00%) Snowflake
14 2 (2.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) WAN
2 19 (19.00%) LAN
3 17 (17.00%) Firewall
4 15 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 14 (14.00%) DHCP
5 14 (14.00%) DNS
6 10 (10.00%) Network Security
6 10 (10.00%) VoIP
7 5 (5.00%) VPN
8 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.00%) NAS
9 2 (2.00%) NetScaler
9 2 (2.00%) SAN
9 2 (2.00%) VLAN
9 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.00%) VSAN
10 1 (1.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (10.00%) Power BI
4 6 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.00%) Tableau
6 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.00%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.00%) SQLite
7 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 8 (8.00%) TeamCity
3 7 (7.00%) Git
4 6 (6.00%) JIRA
5 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.00%) GitLab
6 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
General
1 49 (49.00%) Finance
2 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Legal
4 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) International Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
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%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 15 (15.00%) Senior
2 14 (14.00%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Windows Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Lead
7 7 (7.00%) Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) IT Support
9 5 (5.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (4.00%) Architect
10 4 (4.00%) CISSP Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) CyberArk Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) PowerShell Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) .NET
2 8 (8.00%) YAML
3 3 (3.00%) 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%) HTML
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Hedge funds
2 12 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (11.00%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (11.00%) Virtual Team
4 9 (9.00%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (7.00%) Public Cloud
6 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (6.00%) Private Cloud
6 6 (6.00%) Security Posture
7 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
7 5 (5.00%) PKI
8 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (3.00%) Credit Risk
9 3 (3.00%) Market Risk
9 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 44 (44.00%) Windows
2 23 (23.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (17.00%) Linux
4 11 (11.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (7.00%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.00%) Unix
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.00%) DevOps
2 26 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.00%) Agile
6 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.00%) Incident Response
7 13 (13.00%) Patch Management
7 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
8 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
8 12 (12.00%) Task Automation
9 11 (11.00%) AI
9 11 (11.00%) Batch Scripting
9 11 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (11.00%) DevSecOps
9 11 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (11.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) Python
2 26 (26.00%) SQL
3 9 (9.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.00%) C#
4 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.00%) Ruby
4 2 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.00%) Perl
5 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) CISSP
4 4 (4.00%) CISA
4 4 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 4 (4.00%) GIAC
4 4 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.00%) CISM
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) GPEN
6 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 21 (21.00%) NIST
2 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 5 (5.00%) NCSC
4 4 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.00%) GRC
System Software
1 29 (29.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (9.00%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.00%) XenDesktop
6 5 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.00%) XenApp
7 4 (4.00%) Docker
7 4 (4.00%) vSphere
8 2 (2.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.00%) KVM
9 1 (1.00%) Terminal Server
9 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) Terraform
2 17 (17.00%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (14.00%) Ansible
5 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
6 11 (11.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (9.00%) SCCM
8 5 (5.00%) Autotask
9 3 (3.00%) Grafana
10 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.00%) CSIRT
11 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.00%) vRealize
11 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (58.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (22.00%) VMware
3 11 (11.00%) Bloomberg
3 11 (11.00%) Citrix
3 11 (11.00%) Reuters
4 7 (7.00%) Cisco
4 7 (7.00%) Google
5 5 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.00%) SonicWALL
6 4 (4.00%) Commvault
7 3 (3.00%) EMC
7 3 (3.00%) F5
7 3 (3.00%) Meraki
7 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.00%) Splunk
8 2 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.00%) Intapp
8 2 (2.00%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow