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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 67 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 -10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 124 119 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.85% 4.10% 4.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.58% 9.38% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 87 103 144
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,173 £44,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £63,750 £58,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,125 £92,500 £81,375
90th Percentile £98,500 £100,000 £87,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £78,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.54% +7.93% +4.40%

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 986 1,268 1,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 30.65% 43.74% 46.31%
Number of salaries quoted 773 940 1,424
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £119,475
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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +5 109 £70,000 -11.11% 29
Southwark +9 2 £43,500 -13.20%
City of Westminster +30 1 - - 39
West End of London - 1 £57,500 - 39
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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 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.81%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Actimize
1 1 (0.81%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 75 (60.48%) Azure
2 35 (28.23%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.77%) Entra ID
4 22 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.10%) AWS
6 8 (6.45%) Nutanix
6 8 (6.45%) PaaS
7 7 (5.65%) GCP
7 7 (5.65%) SaaS
8 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (3.23%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.42%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.61%) Cohesity
12 2 (1.61%) GitHub
12 2 (1.61%) IaaS
12 2 (1.61%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.29%) Firewall
1 14 (11.29%) Network Security
2 11 (8.87%) WAN
3 10 (8.06%) LAN
4 9 (7.26%) VPN
4 9 (7.26%) Wireless
5 7 (5.65%) DHCP
5 7 (5.65%) DNS
6 6 (4.84%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.23%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.61%) Broadband
8 2 (1.61%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.61%) NAS
8 2 (1.61%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.61%) VLAN
8 2 (1.61%) VoIP
8 2 (1.61%) VSAN
8 2 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.81%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (8.06%) Tableau
4 5 (4.03%) Power BI
5 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.42%) SQLite
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (9.68%) TeamCity
3 9 (7.26%) Burp Suite
3 9 (7.26%) Metasploit
4 6 (4.84%) Git
5 3 (2.42%) JIRA
6 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.81%) GitLab
7 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (45.97%) Finance
2 36 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.10%) Legal
5 4 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.42%) Law
7 2 (1.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) International Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (19.35%) Analyst
2 21 (16.94%) Security Analyst
3 19 (15.32%) Senior
4 16 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Security Engineer
6 12 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 10 (8.06%) CISSP Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) PowerShell Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Python Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Support Engineer
8 9 (7.26%) Digital Analyst
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Security Analyst
9 8 (6.45%) IT Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) CyberArk Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) IT Support
10 7 (5.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.48%) .NET
2 5 (4.03%) REST
2 5 (4.03%) YAML
3 3 (2.42%) LDAP
3 3 (2.42%) OAuth
3 3 (2.42%) OpenID
3 3 (2.42%) SAML
4 2 (1.61%) HTML
4 2 (1.61%) SOAP
4 2 (1.61%) Web Services
5 1 (0.81%) CSS
5 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.81%) JSP
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.74%) Cyber Defence
2 19 (15.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (12.10%) Virtual Team
4 14 (11.29%) Security Posture
5 13 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (10.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (9.68%) Hedge funds
7 10 (8.06%) Management Information System
8 9 (7.26%) Mobile App
9 7 (5.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
10 5 (4.03%) Data Centre
10 5 (4.03%) Private Cloud
10 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.61%) CMDB
11 2 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.61%) PKI
11 2 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 53 (42.74%) Windows
2 34 (27.42%) Linux
3 18 (14.52%) Windows Server
4 16 (12.90%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.23%) Unix
6 3 (2.42%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.81%) Android
8 1 (0.81%) CentOS
8 1 (0.81%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (25.81%) Incident Response
3 31 (25.00%) DevOps
4 26 (20.97%) CI/CD
5 18 (14.52%) Agile
5 18 (14.52%) Mentoring
5 18 (14.52%) SIEM
6 16 (12.90%) ITIL
6 16 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (12.10%) AI
7 15 (12.10%) Security Operations
8 14 (11.29%) Coaching
8 14 (11.29%) Creative Thinking
8 14 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (10.48%) Migration
9 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
9 13 (10.48%) Use Case
9 13 (10.48%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (54.84%) Python
2 37 (29.84%) SQL
3 19 (15.32%) Bash
4 6 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.81%) C#
6 1 (0.81%) Java
6 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) CISSP
1 13 (10.48%) GIAC
2 11 (8.87%) CompTIA CySA+
3 10 (8.06%) CISA
3 10 (8.06%) OSCP
4 9 (7.26%) CCSAM
4 9 (7.26%) CHECK Team Leader
4 9 (7.26%) CHECK Team Member
4 9 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.26%) CREST Certified
4 9 (7.26%) Degree
5 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.61%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (33.87%) NIST
2 35 (28.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (5.65%) GDPR
5 5 (4.03%) NCSC
6 3 (2.42%) QA
7 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.61%) SLA
7 2 (1.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (3.23%) XenDesktop
6 3 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.61%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.61%) Docker
7 2 (1.61%) vSphere
7 2 (1.61%) XenApp
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (20.16%) Terraform
2 20 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.06%) Ansible
3 10 (8.06%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.26%) Nessus
5 6 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.23%) SCCM
7 2 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.81%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.81%) Grafana
8 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.81%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.81%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.81%) vRealize
8 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.55%) VMware
3 12 (9.68%) Google
4 8 (6.45%) CyberArk
5 7 (5.65%) Cisco
6 6 (4.84%) Commvault
7 5 (4.03%) Citrix
8 4 (3.23%) Meraki
8 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.42%) EMC
9 3 (2.42%) F5
9 3 (2.42%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.61%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.61%) MobileIron
10 2 (1.61%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.61%) Reuters
10 2 (1.61%) Splunk
11 1 (0.81%) Bomgar
11 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds