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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 125 113 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.77% 5.00% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.48% 11.08% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 88 103 147
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £57,500 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +5.36%
75th Percentile £75,313 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,250 £92,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 1,002 1,020 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.24% 45.17% 44.50%
Number of salaries quoted 782 834 1,250
10th Percentile £51,300 £52,500 £47,150
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +8.61% -2.58%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £129,250 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 1 July 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 1 July 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 0 109 £65,000 -13.33% 34
Southwark - 1 £43,500 - 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 20 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.00%) IIS
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Site Server
Applications
1 24 (19.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.00%) Azure
2 39 (31.20%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.60%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.80%) AWS
5 10 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.60%) GCP
7 7 (5.60%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.60%) SaaS
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.20%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.40%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.60%) GitHub
11 2 (1.60%) IaaS
11 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.60%) PaaS
12 1 (0.80%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.00%) Network Security
2 14 (11.20%) Firewall
3 8 (6.40%) Wireless
4 7 (5.60%) VPN
5 6 (4.80%) DHCP
5 6 (4.80%) DNS
5 6 (4.80%) Kerberos
6 5 (4.00%) VLAN
7 4 (3.20%) WAN
8 3 (2.40%) BGP
8 3 (2.40%) LAN
8 3 (2.40%) MPLS
8 3 (2.40%) OSPF
9 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.60%) VoIP
10 1 (0.80%) Broadband
10 1 (0.80%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.80%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.80%) NAS
10 1 (0.80%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.80%) Power BI
3 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (4.00%) Tableau
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Burp Suite
1 8 (6.40%) Metasploit
2 6 (4.80%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.60%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 51 (40.80%) Finance
2 50 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Legal
5 9 (7.20%) Law
6 5 (4.00%) Banking
7 3 (2.40%) Front Office
7 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Advertising
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (27.20%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Security Analyst
3 16 (12.80%) Senior
4 14 (11.20%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 12 (9.60%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) PowerShell Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) 1st Line Support
7 8 (6.40%) Digital Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) IT Support
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Security Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Support Analyst
8 7 (5.60%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (5.60%) Architect
8 7 (5.60%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) HTML
1 7 (5.60%) REST
2 6 (4.80%) CSS
2 6 (4.80%) LDAP
2 6 (4.80%) OAuth
2 6 (4.80%) OpenID
2 6 (4.80%) SAML
3 2 (1.60%) .NET
3 2 (1.60%) Web Services
4 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.80%) JSP
4 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.80%) SOAP
4 1 (0.80%) XML
4 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.80%) Cyber Defence
2 14 (11.20%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (10.40%) Management Information System
4 12 (9.60%) Onboarding
5 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
5 11 (8.80%) Security Posture
6 8 (6.40%) Mobile App
7 6 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.80%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.00%) Driving Licence
8 5 (4.00%) Hedge funds
9 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.40%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.60%) Derivative
11 2 (1.60%) Equities
11 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (58.40%) Windows
2 42 (33.60%) Linux
3 28 (22.40%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.40%) Mac OS
4 8 (6.40%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.60%) Android
7 2 (1.60%) Unix
7 2 (1.60%) VMS
7 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.80%) CentOS
8 1 (0.80%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (28.80%) ITIL
3 29 (23.20%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (17.60%) Incident Response
5 20 (16.00%) DevOps
6 19 (15.20%) CI/CD
7 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (12.80%) Application Security
8 16 (12.80%) Mentoring
8 16 (12.80%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (11.20%) Customer Service
9 14 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (11.20%) Security Operations
9 14 (11.20%) SIEM
10 13 (10.40%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 13 (10.40%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 13 (10.40%) Security Monitoring
10 13 (10.40%) SOAR
10 13 (10.40%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 64 (51.20%) Python
2 34 (27.20%) SQL
3 16 (12.80%) Bash
4 11 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.80%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.00%) VBA
6 5 (4.00%) VBScript
7 4 (3.20%) Java
8 3 (2.40%) Bicep
8 3 (2.40%) C
8 3 (2.40%) C#
8 3 (2.40%) C++
8 3 (2.40%) Go
8 3 (2.40%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.40%) Perl
8 3 (2.40%) Ruby
8 3 (2.40%) Rust
9 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) Degree
1 12 (9.60%) GIAC
2 11 (8.80%) CCSAM
2 11 (8.80%) CISSP
2 11 (8.80%) CREST Certified
2 11 (8.80%) OSCP
3 8 (6.40%) CHECK Team Leader
3 8 (6.40%) CHECK Team Member
4 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.80%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (4.00%) CISA
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.40%) GPEN
8 3 (2.40%) GXPN
8 3 (2.40%) OSCE
9 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.80%) CCIE
10 1 (0.80%) CCNP
10 1 (0.80%) MCSE
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.20%) NIST
2 16 (12.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (4.00%) SLA
5 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.60%) QA
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 52 (41.60%) Active Directory
2 16 (12.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.60%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.80%) Docker
7 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (21.60%) Terraform
2 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.40%) Nessus
5 7 (5.60%) Ansible
6 6 (4.80%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.00%) SCCM
8 2 (1.60%) Grafana
9 1 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.80%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 78 (62.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.60%) VMware
3 11 (8.80%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.60%) Citrix
5 5 (4.00%) Cisco
5 5 (4.00%) Google
5 5 (4.00%) iManage
6 4 (3.20%) MobileIron
7 3 (2.40%) Commvault
8 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.60%) Splunk
9 1 (0.80%) Bomgar
9 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.80%) Juniper
9 1 (0.80%) McAfee
9 1 (0.80%) Meraki
9 1 (0.80%) Okta
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle