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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 106 119 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.67% 5.46% 4.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.10% 12.42% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 78 108 125
10th Percentile £26,250 £40,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £38,844 £56,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £77,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% +5.08% +5.36%
75th Percentile £75,938 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,300 £98,250 £95,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

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 876 958 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.04% 43.99% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 689 793 1,117
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £81,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +8.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% - +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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -6 93 £55,000 -31.25% 26
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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 20 (18.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (11.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) Site Server
Applications
1 27 (25.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.94%) Azure
2 36 (33.96%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (25.47%) Entra ID
4 11 (10.38%) OneDrive
5 9 (8.49%) AWS
6 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.60%) GCP
7 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.60%) SaaS
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.77%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub
10 2 (1.89%) IaaS
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.89%) PaaS
11 1 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.94%) Datadog
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.75%) Network Security
2 14 (13.21%) Firewall
3 7 (6.60%) Kerberos
4 6 (5.66%) VPN
5 5 (4.72%) DHCP
5 5 (4.72%) DNS
5 5 (4.72%) VLAN
6 3 (2.83%) BGP
6 3 (2.83%) MPLS
6 3 (2.83%) OSPF
7 2 (1.89%) VoIP
7 2 (1.89%) WAN
7 2 (1.89%) Wireless
8 1 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.94%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.94%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (0.94%) NAS
8 1 (0.94%) Softphone
8 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.60%) Power BI
3 5 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.89%) Tableau
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 3 (2.83%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.89%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) JMeter
4 1 (0.94%) Postman
General
1 45 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 39 (36.79%) Finance
3 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.38%) Legal
5 9 (8.49%) Law
6 5 (4.72%) Banking
7 3 (2.83%) Front Office
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Advertising
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 26 (24.53%) Analyst
2 14 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (10.38%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Security Analyst
4 10 (9.43%) Support Analyst
5 8 (7.55%) 1st Line Support
5 8 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (7.55%) Desktop Support
5 8 (7.55%) PowerShell Engineer
5 8 (7.55%) Senior
6 7 (6.60%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (6.60%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Architect
6 7 (6.60%) IT Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) IT Support
6 7 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) REST
2 7 (6.60%) HTML
2 7 (6.60%) LDAP
2 7 (6.60%) OAuth
2 7 (6.60%) OpenID
2 7 (6.60%) SAML
3 6 (5.66%) CSS
4 2 (1.89%) Web Services
5 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.94%) JSP
5 1 (0.94%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.94%) SOAP
5 1 (0.94%) XML
5 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Onboarding
2 11 (10.38%) Cyber Defence
2 11 (10.38%) Data Centre
2 11 (10.38%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.49%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (6.60%) Driving Licence
5 6 (5.66%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.72%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Derivative
9 2 (1.89%) Equities
9 2 (1.89%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.89%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.94%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 64 (60.38%) Windows
2 33 (31.13%) Linux
3 25 (23.58%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.49%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.83%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.89%) Android
7 2 (1.89%) VMS
8 1 (0.94%) Unix
8 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.91%) ITIL
2 31 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.75%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (18.87%) DevOps
5 19 (17.92%) CI/CD
5 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (14.15%) Infrastructure Automation
7 13 (12.26%) Customer Service
7 13 (12.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (12.26%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (11.32%) Incident Response
8 12 (11.32%) ITSM
8 12 (11.32%) Roadmaps
8 12 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (10.38%) Computer Science
9 11 (10.38%) High Availability
10 10 (9.43%) Change Management
10 10 (9.43%) SIEM
10 10 (9.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.28%) Python
2 30 (28.30%) SQL
3 11 (10.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.43%) Bash
5 6 (5.66%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.72%) Java
6 5 (4.72%) VBA
6 5 (4.72%) VBScript
7 3 (2.83%) Bicep
7 3 (2.83%) C
7 3 (2.83%) C#
7 3 (2.83%) C++
7 3 (2.83%) Go
7 3 (2.83%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.83%) Perl
7 3 (2.83%) Ruby
7 3 (2.83%) Rust
8 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (13.21%) Degree
2 9 (8.49%) CISSP
3 8 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.55%) GIAC
4 5 (4.72%) CCSAM
4 5 (4.72%) CREST Certified
4 5 (4.72%) OSCP
5 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.83%) GPEN
6 3 (2.83%) GXPN
6 3 (2.83%) OSCE
7 2 (1.89%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (1.89%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (1.89%) CISA
7 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.94%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.94%) MCSE
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) NIST
2 9 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.83%) QA
4 3 (2.83%) SLA
5 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 52 (49.06%) Active Directory
2 16 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.89%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.94%) Docker
7 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (25.47%) Terraform
2 20 (18.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (14.15%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.55%) Ansible
5 7 (6.60%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (4.72%) SCCM
7 2 (1.89%) Grafana
7 2 (1.89%) Nessus
8 1 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (66.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.87%) VMware
3 13 (12.26%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.60%) Citrix
5 5 (4.72%) Cisco
5 5 (4.72%) iManage
6 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.89%) Google
6 2 (1.89%) MobileIron
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle
6 2 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) Bomgar
7 1 (0.94%) Commvault
7 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.94%) Juniper
7 1 (0.94%) Meraki
7 1 (0.94%) Okta
7 1 (0.94%) Red Hat