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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 62 49
Rank change year-on-year +20 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 138 108 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.85% 4.18% 4.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.22% 9.32% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 96 99 153
10th Percentile £26,250 £44,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £61,875 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +10.34% +7.77%
75th Percentile £80,313 £90,000 £81,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £87,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% +3.57%

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 1,044 1,159 1,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 29.15% 44.82% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 793 930 1,390
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,000 £58,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £120,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 £67,500 -18.18% 30
Southwark +11 2 £43,500 -13.20%
City of Westminster +27 1 - -
West End of London +12 1 £57,500 +4.55% 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 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Site Server
Applications
1 16 (11.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Actimize
1 1 (0.72%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.72%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 76 (55.07%) Azure
2 37 (26.81%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 18 (13.04%) AWS
5 17 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.52%) GCP
6 9 (6.52%) SaaS
7 8 (5.80%) PaaS
8 7 (5.07%) Nutanix
8 7 (5.07%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.90%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.17%) GitHub
12 3 (2.17%) Google Workspace
13 2 (1.45%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
14 1 (0.72%) Cohesity
14 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.49%) Network Security
2 14 (10.14%) Firewall
3 9 (6.52%) VPN
3 9 (6.52%) Wireless
4 6 (4.35%) DHCP
4 6 (4.35%) DNS
4 6 (4.35%) LAN
4 6 (4.35%) WAN
5 5 (3.62%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.45%) Broadband
7 2 (1.45%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.45%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.45%) VLAN
8 1 (0.72%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.72%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (0.72%) NAS
8 1 (0.72%) NGFW
8 1 (0.72%) Softphone
8 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.25%) Tableau
4 5 (3.62%) Power BI
5 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.17%) SQLite
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Burp Suite
1 9 (6.52%) Metasploit
2 8 (5.80%) Octopus Deploy
2 8 (5.80%) TeamCity
3 7 (5.07%) Git
4 3 (2.17%) JIRA
4 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.72%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (40.58%) Finance
2 46 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 25 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Legal
5 5 (3.62%) Banking
5 5 (3.62%) Law
6 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Front Office
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) International Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (23.91%) Analyst
2 24 (17.39%) Security Analyst
3 18 (13.04%) Senior
4 16 (11.59%) Security Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 13 (9.42%) Support Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) PowerShell Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) CISSP Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) IT Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Python Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Digital Analyst
9 9 (6.52%) IT Support
9 9 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (6.52%) Senior Digital Analyst
9 9 (6.52%) Senior Security Analyst
10 8 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.80%) .NET
2 5 (3.62%) REST
3 4 (2.90%) YAML
4 3 (2.17%) LDAP
4 3 (2.17%) OAuth
4 3 (2.17%) OpenID
4 3 (2.17%) SAML
5 2 (1.45%) HTML
5 2 (1.45%) SOAP
5 2 (1.45%) Web Services
6 1 (0.72%) CSS
6 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.72%) JSP
6 1 (0.72%) Kafka
6 1 (0.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.12%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (12.32%) Security Posture
3 16 (11.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (9.42%) Management Information System
5 13 (9.42%) Onboarding
6 11 (7.97%) Virtual Team
7 10 (7.25%) Hedge funds
8 9 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (6.52%) Mobile App
8 9 (6.52%) Public Cloud
9 8 (5.80%) Data Centre
10 7 (5.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (4.35%) Private Cloud
12 5 (3.62%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
14 2 (1.45%) CMDB
14 2 (1.45%) Driving Licence
14 2 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
15 1 (0.72%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 68 (49.28%) Windows
2 42 (30.43%) Linux
3 22 (15.94%) Windows Server
4 16 (11.59%) Mac OS
5 5 (3.62%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.45%) Android
7 2 (1.45%) Unix
7 2 (1.45%) VMS
7 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.72%) CentOS
8 1 (0.72%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (25.36%) Incident Response
4 30 (21.74%) ITIL
5 26 (18.84%) DevOps
6 23 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 21 (15.22%) SIEM
8 20 (14.49%) Mentoring
9 19 (13.77%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (13.04%) Security Operations
11 17 (12.32%) Agile
12 16 (11.59%) Application Security
12 16 (11.59%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 16 (11.59%) Threat Intelligence
12 16 (11.59%) Use Case
13 15 (10.87%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 15 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (10.87%) SOAR
14 14 (10.14%) Information Security
14 14 (10.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.87%) Python
2 39 (28.26%) SQL
3 21 (15.22%) Bash
4 12 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.90%) Java
5 4 (2.90%) Perl
6 3 (2.17%) C
6 3 (2.17%) C#
6 3 (2.17%) C++
6 3 (2.17%) Go
6 3 (2.17%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.17%) Ruby
6 3 (2.17%) Rust
7 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.59%) GIAC
2 13 (9.42%) CISSP
2 13 (9.42%) OSCP
3 12 (8.70%) CCSAM
3 12 (8.70%) CREST Certified
3 12 (8.70%) Degree
4 11 (7.97%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (7.25%) CISA
6 9 (6.52%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (6.52%) CHECK Team Member
6 9 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.62%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.90%) GPEN
8 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.17%) GXPN
9 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.17%) OSCE
10 2 (1.45%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (33.33%) NIST
2 34 (24.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (9.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (5.07%) GDPR
5 5 (3.62%) NCSC
6 4 (2.90%) SLA
7 3 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.17%) QA
8 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.45%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 38 (27.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.25%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.45%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (1.45%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.72%) Docker
7 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (17.39%) Terraform
2 20 (14.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (9.42%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.52%) Nessus
5 8 (5.80%) Ansible
6 4 (2.90%) SCCM
7 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
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
8 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.72%) vRealize
8 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (63.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.84%) VMware
3 12 (8.70%) Google
4 8 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.07%) CyberArk
6 6 (4.35%) Cisco
6 6 (4.35%) Commvault
7 4 (2.90%) MobileIron
8 3 (2.17%) Citrix
8 3 (2.17%) EMC
8 3 (2.17%) F5
8 3 (2.17%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.45%) Meraki
9 2 (1.45%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.45%) Splunk
10 1 (0.72%) Bomgar
10 1 (0.72%) Dell
10 1 (0.72%) McAfee
10 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds