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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 64 52
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 149 108 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.64% 4.26% 4.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.58% 9.42% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 100 99 144
10th Percentile £26,250 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £61,250 £59,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £75,313 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,375 £100,000 £88,375
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 1,097 1,147 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 26.78% 45.23% 44.88%
Number of salaries quoted 843 912 1,366
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,375 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £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 30 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 30 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 +12 128 £65,000 -21.21% 24
Southwark +15 2 £43,500 -13.20%
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 (12.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (16.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Actimize
1 1 (0.67%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) Azure
2 44 (29.53%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (20.13%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.41%) AWS
5 13 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.71%) OneDrive
7 9 (6.04%) SaaS
8 8 (5.37%) GCP
9 6 (4.03%) Nutanix
9 6 (4.03%) PaaS
10 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.68%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.01%) Google Workspace
13 2 (1.34%) GitHub
14 1 (0.67%) Azure Pipelines
14 1 (0.67%) IaaS
14 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.44%) Network Security
2 14 (9.40%) Firewall
3 9 (6.04%) VPN
3 9 (6.04%) Wireless
4 7 (4.70%) DHCP
4 7 (4.70%) DNS
5 5 (3.36%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.36%) LAN
5 5 (3.36%) WAN
6 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.01%) VLAN
8 2 (1.34%) Broadband
8 2 (1.34%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.67%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.67%) NAS
9 1 (0.67%) NGFW
9 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.67%) VoIP
9 1 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (6.71%) Tableau
3 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (2.68%) Power BI
5 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.01%) SQLite
6 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Burp Suite
1 9 (6.04%) Git
1 9 (6.04%) Metasploit
2 6 (4.03%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (4.03%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.01%) JIRA
General
1 62 (41.61%) Finance
2 53 (35.57%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.75%) Legal
5 9 (6.04%) Law
6 5 (3.36%) Banking
7 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Front Office
7 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Advertising
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (24.83%) Analyst
2 24 (16.11%) Security Analyst
3 19 (12.75%) Senior
4 15 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (10.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 15 (10.07%) PowerShell Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Support Engineer
6 13 (8.72%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) CISSP Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Digital Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) IT Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) IT Support
8 9 (6.04%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Senior Security Analyst
9 8 (5.37%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.70%) HTML
1 7 (4.70%) REST
2 6 (4.03%) .NET
2 6 (4.03%) CSS
2 6 (4.03%) LDAP
2 6 (4.03%) OAuth
2 6 (4.03%) OpenID
2 6 (4.03%) SAML
3 3 (2.01%) YAML
4 2 (1.34%) SOAP
4 2 (1.34%) Web Services
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.67%) JSP
5 1 (0.67%) Kafka
5 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.45%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (11.41%) Management Information System
2 17 (11.41%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (10.07%) Security Posture
4 14 (9.40%) Onboarding
5 13 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
6 10 (6.71%) Hedge funds
7 9 (6.04%) Mobile App
8 8 (5.37%) Public Cloud
9 7 (4.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (4.70%) Virtual Team
10 6 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (3.36%) Driving Licence
11 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
12 4 (2.68%) Cloud Native
13 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
13 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 83 (55.70%) Windows
2 48 (32.21%) Linux
3 28 (18.79%) Windows Server
4 16 (10.74%) Mac OS
5 9 (6.04%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.34%) Android
8 2 (1.34%) VMS
8 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.67%) CentOS
9 1 (0.67%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.67%) Unix
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.54%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (26.85%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (23.49%) Incident Response
4 34 (22.82%) ITIL
5 23 (15.44%) DevOps
6 20 (13.42%) CI/CD
6 20 (13.42%) SIEM
7 19 (12.75%) Application Security
7 19 (12.75%) Mentoring
7 19 (12.75%) Security Operations
8 18 (12.08%) Root Cause Analysis
9 17 (11.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 17 (11.41%) Threat Intelligence
9 17 (11.41%) Use Case
10 16 (10.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 16 (10.74%) SOAR
11 15 (10.07%) Agile
12 14 (9.40%) Information Security
12 14 (9.40%) Migration
12 14 (9.40%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.39%) Python
2 41 (27.52%) SQL
3 20 (13.42%) Bash
4 12 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.03%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.36%) VBA
6 5 (3.36%) VBScript
7 4 (2.68%) Java
7 4 (2.68%) Perl
8 3 (2.01%) C
8 3 (2.01%) C#
8 3 (2.01%) C++
8 3 (2.01%) Go
8 3 (2.01%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.01%) Ruby
8 3 (2.01%) Rust
9 2 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (10.74%) CISSP
1 16 (10.74%) GIAC
2 14 (9.40%) Degree
3 13 (8.72%) OSCP
4 12 (8.05%) CCSAM
4 12 (8.05%) CREST Certified
5 11 (7.38%) CompTIA CySA+
6 10 (6.71%) CISA
6 10 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.04%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (6.04%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.68%) GPEN
10 3 (2.01%) GXPN
10 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.01%) OSCE
11 2 (1.34%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.67%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (28.86%) NIST
2 35 (23.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.70%) GDPR
5 4 (2.68%) QA
5 4 (2.68%) SLA
6 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.01%) NCSC
7 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (36.91%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.71%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.34%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.34%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 23 (15.44%) Terraform
2 16 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.04%) Nessus
4 7 (4.70%) Ansible
5 5 (3.36%) SCCM
5 5 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.67%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.67%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 96 (64.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.45%) VMware
3 12 (8.05%) Google
3 12 (8.05%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.70%) Citrix
4 7 (4.70%) CyberArk
5 6 (4.03%) Commvault
6 5 (3.36%) iManage
7 4 (2.68%) Cisco
7 4 (2.68%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.34%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.34%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.34%) Splunk
9 1 (0.67%) Bomgar
9 1 (0.67%) F5
9 1 (0.67%) McAfee
9 1 (0.67%) Meraki
9 1 (0.67%) Okta
9 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto