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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 61 51
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 142 106 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.75% 4.08% 4.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 9.15% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 97 98 152
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,604 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £64,063 £57,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +12.07% +7.41%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £81,938
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £87,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -12.50% +8.47% +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 1,065 1,158 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 28.11% 44.57% 45.20%
Number of salaries quoted 809 927 1,378
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +17 127 £68,750 -16.67% 30
Southwark +12 2 £43,500 -13.20%
City of Westminster +26 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 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.70%) Site Server
Applications
1 17 (11.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Actimize
1 1 (0.70%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.70%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) Azure
2 37 (26.06%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (16.90%) Entra ID
4 18 (12.68%) AWS
5 17 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.34%) GCP
6 9 (6.34%) SaaS
7 8 (5.63%) PaaS
8 7 (4.93%) Nutanix
8 7 (4.93%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.23%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.11%) GitHub
11 3 (2.11%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.41%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.79%) Network Security
2 14 (9.86%) Firewall
3 9 (6.34%) VPN
3 9 (6.34%) Wireless
4 6 (4.23%) DHCP
4 6 (4.23%) DNS
5 5 (3.52%) LAN
5 5 (3.52%) WAN
6 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.11%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.41%) Broadband
8 2 (1.41%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.41%) VLAN
9 1 (0.70%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.70%) NAS
9 1 (0.70%) NGFW
9 1 (0.70%) Softphone
9 1 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.04%) Tableau
4 5 (3.52%) Power BI
5 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.11%) SQLite
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Burp Suite
1 9 (6.34%) Git
1 9 (6.34%) Metasploit
2 7 (4.93%) Octopus Deploy
2 7 (4.93%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.11%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (40.14%) Finance
2 47 (33.10%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.27%) Legal
5 6 (4.23%) Law
6 5 (3.52%) Banking
7 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Front Office
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (23.24%) Analyst
2 24 (16.90%) Security Analyst
3 19 (13.38%) Senior
4 15 (10.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 15 (10.56%) Security Engineer
5 13 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (9.15%) Support Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) PowerShell Engineer
7 11 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) CISSP Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) IT Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Python Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Digital Analyst
9 9 (6.34%) IT Support
9 9 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (6.34%) Senior Digital Analyst
9 9 (6.34%) Senior Security Analyst
10 8 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.93%) .NET
2 6 (4.23%) REST
3 5 (3.52%) YAML
4 4 (2.82%) LDAP
4 4 (2.82%) OAuth
4 4 (2.82%) OpenID
4 4 (2.82%) SAML
5 3 (2.11%) HTML
6 2 (1.41%) CSS
6 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.41%) SOAP
6 2 (1.41%) Web Services
7 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.70%) JSP
7 1 (0.70%) Kafka
7 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.31%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (11.97%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (11.97%) Security Posture
3 14 (9.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (9.86%) Management Information System
3 14 (9.86%) Onboarding
4 10 (7.04%) Hedge funds
4 10 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 10 (7.04%) Virtual Team
5 9 (6.34%) Data Centre
5 9 (6.34%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.93%) Private Cloud
7 5 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.41%) CMDB
9 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.70%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 72 (50.70%) Windows
2 46 (32.39%) Linux
3 23 (16.20%) Windows Server
4 16 (11.27%) Mac OS
5 5 (3.52%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.41%) Android
7 2 (1.41%) Unix
7 2 (1.41%) VMS
7 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.70%) CentOS
8 1 (0.70%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (27.46%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (25.35%) Incident Response
4 30 (21.13%) ITIL
5 27 (19.01%) DevOps
6 24 (16.90%) CI/CD
7 21 (14.79%) Mentoring
8 20 (14.08%) SIEM
9 19 (13.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 19 (13.38%) Security Operations
10 17 (11.97%) Agile
10 17 (11.97%) Application Security
10 17 (11.97%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 17 (11.97%) Threat Intelligence
10 17 (11.97%) Use Case
11 16 (11.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 16 (11.27%) SOAR
12 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (9.86%) Creative Thinking
13 14 (9.86%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 87 (61.27%) Python
2 39 (27.46%) SQL
3 21 (14.79%) Bash
4 12 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.82%) Java
5 4 (2.82%) Perl
6 3 (2.11%) C
6 3 (2.11%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) C++
6 3 (2.11%) Go
6 3 (2.11%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.11%) Ruby
6 3 (2.11%) Rust
7 2 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) VB
8 1 (0.70%) VBA
8 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.27%) GIAC
2 14 (9.86%) CISSP
2 14 (9.86%) Degree
3 13 (9.15%) OSCP
4 12 (8.45%) CCSAM
4 12 (8.45%) CREST Certified
5 11 (7.75%) CompTIA CySA+
5 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.04%) CISA
7 9 (6.34%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (6.34%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (4.93%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.82%) GPEN
9 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.11%) GXPN
10 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.11%) OSCE
11 2 (1.41%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (31.69%) NIST
2 34 (23.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (9.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.93%) GDPR
5 5 (3.52%) NCSC
6 4 (2.82%) QA
6 4 (2.82%) SLA
7 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (28.87%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.41%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (1.41%) Docker
5 2 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (17.61%) Terraform
2 20 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (11.27%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.34%) Ansible
4 9 (6.34%) Nessus
5 4 (2.82%) SCCM
6 3 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.41%) Grafana
7 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.70%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.70%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (63.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.31%) VMware
3 12 (8.45%) Google
4 8 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.93%) CyberArk
6 6 (4.23%) Commvault
7 5 (3.52%) Cisco
8 4 (2.82%) Citrix
8 4 (2.82%) MobileIron
9 3 (2.11%) EMC
9 3 (2.11%) F5
9 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.11%) Splunk
10 2 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.41%) iManage
10 2 (1.41%) Pure Storage
11 1 (0.70%) Intapp
11 1 (0.70%) Meraki
11 1 (0.70%) Okta
11 1 (0.70%) Red Hat