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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 68 48
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 100 135 152
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.24% 4.14% 4.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.36% 9.45% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 78 108 144
10th Percentile £44,325 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £59,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,813 £80,000
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% +5.82%

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 809 1,428 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.27% 43.83% 49.07%
Number of salaries quoted 654 1,017 1,389
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,250 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,000 £117,500
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 1 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 1 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 +4 79 £70,000 -6.67% 61
Southwark +11 2 £72,750 +45.16% 1
West End of London +4 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
City of Westminster - 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 17 (17.00%) 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 38 (38.00%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (28.00%) Entra ID
4 23 (23.00%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (14.00%) AWS
6 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 9 (9.00%) PaaS
8 7 (7.00%) GCP
8 7 (7.00%) Power Automate
9 6 (6.00%) Nutanix
10 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.00%) GitHub
10 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.00%) SaaS
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.00%) dbt
11 3 (3.00%) Google Workspace
11 3 (3.00%) Serverless
11 3 (3.00%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) WAN
2 19 (19.00%) LAN
3 15 (15.00%) Firewall
3 15 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 14 (14.00%) DHCP
4 14 (14.00%) DNS
5 7 (7.00%) Network Security
5 7 (7.00%) 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
9 1 (1.00%) Broadband
9 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.00%) VSAN
9 1 (1.00%) WebEx
9 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (17.00%) 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 11 (11.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 10 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 7 (7.00%) Git
4 5 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.00%) GitLab
6 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.00%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.00%) Metasploit
General
1 52 (52.00%) Finance
2 27 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.00%) Legal
4 17 (17.00%) 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%) 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 17 (17.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.00%) Senior
3 13 (13.00%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Windows Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Lead
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
9 5 (5.00%) Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) CyberArk Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Architect
10 4 (4.00%) IT Support
10 4 (4.00%) Security Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) .NET
2 8 (8.00%) 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 17 (17.00%) Hedge funds
2 14 (14.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (13.00%) Virtual Team
4 11 (11.00%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (11.00%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (8.00%) Security Posture
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%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
9 4 (4.00%) PKI
10 3 (3.00%) Credit Risk
10 3 (3.00%) Market Risk
10 3 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
11 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 2 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (41.00%) Windows
2 22 (22.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (17.00%) Linux
4 11 (11.00%) 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 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (21.00%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (16.00%) Agile
6 16 (16.00%) Incident Response
7 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.00%) AI
8 13 (13.00%) Patch Management
8 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
9 12 (12.00%) Task Automation
10 11 (11.00%) Batch Scripting
10 11 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.00%) Migration
11 10 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.00%) Python
2 30 (30.00%) SQL
3 10 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.00%) C#
4 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.00%) Ruby
4 2 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.00%) Perl
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 4 (4.00%) GIAC
3 4 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (2.00%) OSCP
4 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.00%) CCNP
5 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) GPEN
5 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (24.00%) NIST
3 6 (6.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) NCSC
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 29 (29.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (7.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.00%) XenDesktop
6 5 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.00%) Docker
7 4 (4.00%) XenApp
8 3 (3.00%) vSphere
9 2 (2.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
10 1 (1.00%) KVM
10 1 (1.00%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 27 (27.00%) Terraform
2 16 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (13.00%) Ansible
5 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
6 11 (11.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (6.00%) SCCM
8 3 (3.00%) Autotask
8 3 (3.00%) Grafana
9 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.00%) CSIRT
10 1 (1.00%) Nessus
10 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.00%) vRealize
10 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (57.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.00%) VMware
3 11 (11.00%) Bloomberg
3 11 (11.00%) Reuters
4 9 (9.00%) Citrix
4 9 (9.00%) Google
5 7 (7.00%) Cisco
6 6 (6.00%) CyberArk
7 4 (4.00%) Commvault
8 3 (3.00%) EMC
8 3 (3.00%) F5
8 3 (3.00%) Meraki
8 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.00%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.00%) Splunk
9 2 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (2.00%) Intapp
9 2 (2.00%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow