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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 138 103 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.18% 4.48% 4.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.11% 10.02% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 95 95 146
10th Percentile £26,250 £51,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £57,500 £61,250
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £91,875
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 1,053 1,028 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 24.23% 44.73% 44.48%
Number of salaries quoted 812 824 1,303
10th Percentile £51,300 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £126,250 £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 29 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 29 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 +10 118 £65,000 -16.13% 11
Southwark - 2 £43,500 -
City of Westminster +20 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 (13.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.62%) IIS
4 2 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Actimize
1 1 (0.72%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 69 (50.00%) Azure
2 42 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (23.19%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.87%) AWS
5 10 (7.25%) OneDrive
6 9 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.80%) GCP
8 7 (5.07%) SaaS
9 4 (2.90%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.17%) GitHub
10 3 (2.17%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.45%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.45%) IaaS
11 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.45%) PaaS
12 1 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.72%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.12%) Network Security
2 16 (11.59%) Firewall
3 10 (7.25%) VPN
4 9 (6.52%) Wireless
5 7 (5.07%) DHCP
5 7 (5.07%) DNS
6 6 (4.35%) Kerberos
6 6 (4.35%) WAN
7 5 (3.62%) LAN
8 4 (2.90%) VLAN
9 3 (2.17%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.45%) BGP
10 2 (1.45%) Broadband
10 2 (1.45%) MPLS
10 2 (1.45%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.45%) OSPF
11 1 (0.72%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.72%) NAS
11 1 (0.72%) Softphone
11 1 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.80%) Tableau
3 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.45%) Power BI
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Burp Suite
1 9 (6.52%) Metasploit
2 6 (4.35%) Git
2 6 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (4.35%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.17%) JIRA
3 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.45%) GitLab
General
1 59 (42.75%) Finance
2 54 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.32%) Legal
5 9 (6.52%) Law
6 6 (4.35%) Banking
7 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Front Office
7 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (25.36%) Analyst
2 22 (15.94%) Security Analyst
3 18 (13.04%) Senior
4 15 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) PowerShell Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 13 (9.42%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Digital Analyst
7 9 (6.52%) IT Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) IT Support
7 9 (6.52%) Security Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (6.52%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 9 (6.52%) Senior Security Analyst
8 8 (5.80%) Architect
8 8 (5.80%) CISSP Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.80%) REST
2 7 (5.07%) HTML
2 7 (5.07%) LDAP
2 7 (5.07%) OAuth
2 7 (5.07%) OpenID
2 7 (5.07%) SAML
3 6 (4.35%) .NET
3 6 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (1.45%) SOAP
4 2 (1.45%) Web Services
5 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.72%) JSP
5 1 (0.72%) Kafka
5 1 (0.72%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.72%) XML
5 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.39%) Cyber Defence
2 15 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.87%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (9.42%) Onboarding
3 13 (9.42%) Security Posture
4 11 (7.97%) Data Centre
5 10 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (6.52%) Mobile App
7 8 (5.80%) Hedge funds
8 6 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 6 (4.35%) Virtual Team
9 5 (3.62%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (3.62%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
11 3 (2.17%) Private Cloud
12 2 (1.45%) CMDB
12 2 (1.45%) Derivative
12 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 79 (57.25%) Windows
2 46 (33.33%) Linux
3 28 (20.29%) Windows Server
4 13 (9.42%) Mac OS
5 9 (6.52%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.45%) Android
8 2 (1.45%) Unix
8 2 (1.45%) VMS
8 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.72%) CentOS
9 1 (0.72%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (25.36%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (24.64%) ITIL
4 28 (20.29%) Incident Response
5 21 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 20 (14.49%) DevOps
7 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 18 (13.04%) SIEM
8 17 (12.32%) Application Security
8 17 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (12.32%) Security Operations
9 16 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (11.59%) Threat Intelligence
10 15 (10.87%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 15 (10.87%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 15 (10.87%) Use Case
11 14 (10.14%) Customer Service
11 14 (10.14%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (10.14%) Roadmaps
11 14 (10.14%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 74 (53.62%) Python
2 38 (27.54%) SQL
3 20 (14.49%) Bash
4 11 (7.97%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.07%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.62%) VBA
6 5 (3.62%) VBScript
7 4 (2.90%) Java
7 4 (2.90%) Perl
8 3 (2.17%) C
8 3 (2.17%) C#
8 3 (2.17%) C++
8 3 (2.17%) Go
8 3 (2.17%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.17%) Ruby
8 3 (2.17%) Rust
9 2 (1.45%) Bicep
9 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (10.87%) CISSP
2 14 (10.14%) GIAC
3 13 (9.42%) OSCP
4 12 (8.70%) CCSAM
4 12 (8.70%) CREST Certified
4 12 (8.70%) Degree
5 9 (6.52%) CHECK Team Leader
5 9 (6.52%) CHECK Team Member
5 9 (6.52%) CompTIA CySA+
6 8 (5.80%) CISA
6 8 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.90%) GPEN
9 3 (2.17%) GXPN
9 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.17%) OSCE
10 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.45%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.72%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.19%) NIST
2 25 (18.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.97%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.62%) GDPR
5 4 (2.90%) SLA
6 3 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.17%) QA
7 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.72%) NCSC
8 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (40.58%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.25%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.45%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.45%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.72%) Docker
6 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (18.84%) Terraform
2 23 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (11.59%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.52%) Nessus
5 7 (5.07%) Ansible
6 6 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.62%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.72%) Grafana
8 1 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.72%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 87 (63.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.39%) VMware
3 12 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.52%) Google
5 8 (5.80%) Citrix
6 5 (3.62%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.62%) iManage
7 4 (2.90%) Cisco
7 4 (2.90%) MobileIron
8 3 (2.17%) Commvault
9 2 (1.45%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.45%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.45%) Splunk
10 1 (0.72%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.72%) Juniper
10 1 (0.72%) McAfee
10 1 (0.72%) Meraki
10 1 (0.72%) Okta
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle