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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 61 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 68 92 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.20% 4.69% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.24% 11.65% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 51 84 126
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £55,625
25th Percentile £42,625 £55,938 £62,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £104,625 £95,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.06% -5.67% +4.17%

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 664 790 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.50% 40.29% 44.90%
Number of salaries quoted 538 664 1,016
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,875 £112,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% +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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -18 56 £63,750 -8.93% 47
City of Westminster - 1 - - 4
Lambeth - 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.35%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (61.76%) Azure
2 25 (36.76%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (29.41%) Entra ID
4 11 (16.18%) OneDrive
5 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (10.29%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (7.35%) AWS
9 4 (5.88%) PaaS
9 4 (5.88%) Serverless
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (4.41%) GCP
10 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.94%) GitHub
11 2 (2.94%) IaaS
11 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.94%) Nutanix
11 2 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Firewall
2 10 (14.71%) Network Security
3 5 (7.35%) Kerberos
3 5 (7.35%) VLAN
4 4 (5.88%) DHCP
4 4 (5.88%) DNS
4 4 (5.88%) VPN
5 3 (4.41%) BGP
5 3 (4.41%) MPLS
5 3 (4.41%) OSPF
6 2 (2.94%) VoIP
7 1 (1.47%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.47%) NAS
7 1 (1.47%) SAN
7 1 (1.47%) SSL
7 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.47%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.47%) WAN
7 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.82%) Power BI
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) GitLab
2 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.47%) InstallShield
3 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) JMeter
3 1 (1.47%) MSI
3 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 28 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (35.29%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Law
5 7 (10.29%) Legal
6 5 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Front Office
8 2 (2.94%) Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Analyst
2 13 (19.12%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Desktop Support
3 11 (16.18%) Support Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Desktop Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Active Directory Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Architect
7 6 (8.82%) Developer
7 6 (8.82%) PowerShell Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Windows Systems Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.24%) Terraform
2 6 (8.82%) REST
3 5 (7.35%) CSS
3 5 (7.35%) HTML
3 5 (7.35%) LDAP
3 5 (7.35%) OAuth
3 5 (7.35%) OpenID
3 5 (7.35%) SAML
4 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.47%) JSON
4 1 (1.47%) XML
4 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Driving Licence
1 9 (13.24%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.29%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Derivative
5 2 (2.94%) Equities
5 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (54.41%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Linux
3 13 (19.12%) Windows Server
4 12 (17.65%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.41%) DevOps
2 19 (27.94%) ITIL
3 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (20.59%) ITSM
7 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (19.12%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (16.18%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (14.71%) Computer Science
9 10 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.71%) Zero Trust
10 9 (13.24%) Break/Fix
10 9 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (13.24%) Inventory Management
10 9 (13.24%) Trend Analysis
11 8 (11.76%) High Availability
11 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
12 7 (10.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Python
2 18 (26.47%) SQL
3 6 (8.82%) Bash
3 6 (8.82%) T-SQL
4 5 (7.35%) Bicep
4 5 (7.35%) VBA
4 5 (7.35%) VBScript
5 3 (4.41%) Java
6 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) C
7 1 (1.47%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) C++
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) Ruby
7 1 (1.47%) Rust
7 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Degree
2 7 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.35%) CISSP
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CCIE
6 1 (1.47%) CCNP
6 1 (1.47%) CCSAM
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) GPEN
6 1 (1.47%) GXPN
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.47%) MCSA
6 1 (1.47%) OSCE
6 1 (1.47%) OSCP
6 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) QA
3 2 (2.94%) SLA
4 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.47%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (55.88%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.94%) vSphere
4 1 (1.47%) Docker
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (10.29%) Ansible
3 5 (7.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.41%) SCCM
5 2 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
6 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (61.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 11 (16.18%) VMware
4 7 (10.29%) Citrix
5 4 (5.88%) iManage
6 3 (4.41%) Cisco
7 2 (2.94%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle
8 1 (1.47%) Adobe
8 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.47%) Sophos
8 1 (1.47%) Splunk
8 1 (1.47%) Veeam