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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 62 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 145 107 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.41% 4.29% 4.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.11% 9.56% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 98 140
10th Percentile £26,250 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £59,063 £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £74,500 £90,000 £84,063
90th Percentile £91,750 £100,000 £88,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.08% +5.36%

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 1,106 1,119 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 25.97% 44.87% 44.47%
Number of salaries quoted 850 898 1,332
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,025 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,313 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £78,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +2.24% +0.97%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,875 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -

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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 May 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 May 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 +15 124 £65,000 -21.21% 32
Southwark - 2 £43,500 -
City of Westminster +27 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 (13.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.45%) IIS
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (16.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Actimize
1 1 (0.69%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) Azure
2 43 (29.66%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (21.38%) Entra ID
4 18 (12.41%) AWS
5 11 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.90%) OneDrive
7 9 (6.21%) GCP
7 9 (6.21%) SaaS
8 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.76%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.76%) PaaS
10 3 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.07%) GitHub
10 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.69%) IaaS
11 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.55%) Network Security
2 14 (9.66%) Firewall
3 10 (6.90%) VPN
4 9 (6.21%) Wireless
5 7 (4.83%) DHCP
5 7 (4.83%) DNS
6 6 (4.14%) WAN
7 5 (3.45%) Kerberos
7 5 (3.45%) LAN
8 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.07%) VLAN
10 2 (1.38%) Broadband
10 2 (1.38%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.69%) BGP
11 1 (0.69%) MPLS
11 1 (0.69%) OSPF
11 1 (0.69%) Softphone
11 1 (0.69%) VoIP
11 1 (0.69%) VSAN
11 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (6.21%) Tableau
4 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.76%) Power BI
6 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.07%) SQLite
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Burp Suite
1 9 (6.21%) Git
1 9 (6.21%) Metasploit
2 6 (4.14%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (4.14%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.76%) JIRA
4 3 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.38%) GitLab
General
1 60 (41.38%) Finance
2 54 (37.24%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Legal
5 9 (6.21%) Law
6 5 (3.45%) Banking
7 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Front Office
7 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Advertising
8 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.69%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (25.52%) Analyst
2 24 (16.55%) Security Analyst
3 20 (13.79%) Senior
4 15 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 15 (10.34%) PowerShell Engineer
5 14 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (9.66%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Security Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) CISSP Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Digital Analyst
7 9 (6.21%) IT Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) IT Support
7 9 (6.21%) Python Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (6.21%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 9 (6.21%) Senior Security Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.83%) HTML
1 7 (4.83%) REST
2 6 (4.14%) .NET
2 6 (4.14%) CSS
2 6 (4.14%) LDAP
2 6 (4.14%) OAuth
2 6 (4.14%) OpenID
2 6 (4.14%) SAML
3 2 (1.38%) SOAP
3 2 (1.38%) Web Services
4 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.69%) JSP
4 1 (0.69%) Kafka
4 1 (0.69%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.93%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (11.72%) Security Operations Centre
3 16 (11.03%) Management Information System
4 14 (9.66%) Onboarding
5 13 (8.97%) Security Posture
6 11 (7.59%) Data Centre
6 11 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (6.21%) Hedge funds
7 9 (6.21%) Mobile App
8 7 (4.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (4.14%) Public Cloud
9 6 (4.14%) Virtual Team
10 5 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (3.45%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.76%) Cloud Native
12 3 (2.07%) Private Cloud
13 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 82 (56.55%) Windows
2 48 (33.10%) Linux
3 27 (18.62%) Windows Server
4 15 (10.34%) Mac OS
5 9 (6.21%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.38%) Android
8 2 (1.38%) Unix
8 2 (1.38%) VMS
8 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.69%) CentOS
9 1 (0.69%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (25.52%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (23.45%) ITIL
4 32 (22.07%) Incident Response
5 22 (15.17%) DevOps
6 20 (13.79%) SIEM
7 19 (13.10%) CI/CD
7 19 (13.10%) Security Operations
8 18 (12.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 17 (11.72%) Application Security
9 17 (11.72%) Mentoring
9 17 (11.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 17 (11.72%) Threat Intelligence
9 17 (11.72%) Use Case
10 16 (11.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 16 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (11.03%) SOAR
11 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.66%) Penetration Testing
12 14 (9.66%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 85 (58.62%) Python
2 40 (27.59%) SQL
3 21 (14.48%) Bash
4 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.14%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.45%) VBA
6 5 (3.45%) VBScript
7 4 (2.76%) Java
7 4 (2.76%) Perl
8 3 (2.07%) C
8 3 (2.07%) C#
8 3 (2.07%) C++
8 3 (2.07%) Go
8 3 (2.07%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.07%) Ruby
8 3 (2.07%) Rust
9 2 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.69%) Bicep
10 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (11.03%) GIAC
2 15 (10.34%) CISSP
3 13 (8.97%) OSCP
4 12 (8.28%) CCSAM
4 12 (8.28%) CREST Certified
4 12 (8.28%) Degree
5 10 (6.90%) CompTIA CySA+
6 9 (6.21%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (6.21%) CHECK Team Member
6 9 (6.21%) CISA
7 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.14%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.76%) GPEN
10 3 (2.07%) GXPN
10 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.07%) OSCE
11 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.38%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.21%) NIST
2 30 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.83%) GDPR
5 4 (2.76%) QA
5 4 (2.76%) SLA
6 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 55 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.38%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.38%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 24 (16.55%) Terraform
2 16 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.21%) Nessus
4 8 (5.52%) Ansible
5 5 (3.45%) SCCM
5 5 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.69%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.69%) Grafana
6 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.69%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 91 (62.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.24%) VMware
3 12 (8.28%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.59%) Google
5 8 (5.52%) Citrix
6 7 (4.83%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.45%) iManage
8 4 (2.76%) Cisco
8 4 (2.76%) Commvault
8 4 (2.76%) MobileIron
9 2 (1.38%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.38%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.38%) Splunk
10 1 (0.69%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.69%) Juniper
10 1 (0.69%) McAfee
10 1 (0.69%) Okta
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle