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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 61 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 103 130 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.83% 4.08% 5.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.74% 9.34% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 76 102 156
10th Percentile £45,625 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,313 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +5.34%

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 877 1,392 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 32.60% 43.73% 48.64%
Number of salaries quoted 701 968 1,414
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +1 87 £70,000 -6.67% 24
Southwark +10 3 £43,500 -13.20%
West End of London +10 1 £57,500 +4.55%
City of Westminster - 1 - - 9
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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 13 (12.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.97%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 63 (61.17%) Azure
2 31 (30.10%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (23.30%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (23.30%) Entra ID
4 13 (12.62%) AWS
5 11 (10.68%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.80%) Nutanix
6 7 (6.80%) PaaS
7 6 (5.83%) GCP
8 5 (4.85%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.91%) dbt
10 3 (2.91%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.91%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.91%) SaaS
10 3 (2.91%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.53%) WAN
2 15 (14.56%) LAN
3 11 (10.68%) Firewall
3 11 (10.68%) TCP/IP
4 10 (9.71%) DHCP
4 10 (9.71%) DNS
5 6 (5.83%) Network Security
5 6 (5.83%) VPN
5 6 (5.83%) Wireless
6 4 (3.88%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.91%) VoIP
8 2 (1.94%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.94%) VSAN
8 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.97%) Broadband
9 1 (0.97%) NAS
9 1 (0.97%) SAN
9 1 (0.97%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.97%) VLAN
9 1 (0.97%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.39%) SQL Server
2 19 (18.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (8.74%) Power BI
4 7 (6.80%) Tableau
5 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.91%) Data Mining
6 3 (2.91%) SQLite
7 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (11.65%) TeamCity
3 7 (6.80%) Git
4 6 (5.83%) Burp Suite
4 6 (5.83%) Metasploit
5 3 (2.91%) JIRA
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.97%) GitLab
7 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (51.46%) Finance
2 27 (26.21%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (18.45%) Legal
5 5 (4.85%) Banking
6 4 (3.88%) International Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.91%) Law
7 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Advertising
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (16.50%) Senior
2 16 (15.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.62%) Analyst
4 12 (11.65%) Security Analyst
4 12 (11.65%) Security Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) CISSP Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) PowerShell Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Windows Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) CyberArk Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Digital Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Digital Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Security Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) .NET
2 5 (4.85%) YAML
3 4 (3.88%) REST
4 1 (0.97%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.97%) CSS
4 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.97%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.97%) HTML
4 1 (0.97%) Kafka
4 1 (0.97%) LDAP
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.97%) OAuth
4 1 (0.97%) OpenID
4 1 (0.97%) SAML
4 1 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (14.56%) Virtual Team
3 14 (13.59%) Hedge funds
4 13 (12.62%) Cyber Defence
4 13 (12.62%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (11.65%) Security Posture
6 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
7 6 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (5.83%) Mobile App
7 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
7 6 (5.83%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
8 5 (4.85%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.91%) Credit Risk
9 3 (2.91%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.91%) PKI
10 2 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (36.89%) Windows
2 20 (19.42%) Linux
3 15 (14.56%) Windows Server
4 11 (10.68%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (3.88%) Unix
7 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.97%) CentOS
9 1 (0.97%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.01%) DevOps
2 30 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (25.24%) CI/CD
4 22 (21.36%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (20.39%) Incident Response
6 19 (18.45%) Agile
7 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (14.56%) AI
9 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.62%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (12.62%) Test Automation
11 12 (11.65%) Software Delivery
12 11 (10.68%) Migration
12 11 (10.68%) SIEM
13 10 (9.71%) Coaching
13 10 (9.71%) Creative Thinking
13 10 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (9.71%) Risk Management
13 10 (9.71%) Task Automation
13 10 (9.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (49.51%) Python
2 33 (32.04%) SQL
3 15 (14.56%) Bash
4 2 (1.94%) C#
4 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.97%) Perl
5 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.77%) CISSP
2 7 (6.80%) CISA
2 7 (6.80%) CompTIA CySA+
2 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (6.80%) Degree
2 7 (6.80%) GIAC
2 7 (6.80%) OSCP
3 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.83%) CCSAM
3 6 (5.83%) CHECK Team Leader
3 6 (5.83%) CHECK Team Member
3 6 (5.83%) CREST Certified
4 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (28.16%) NIST
2 27 (26.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (5.83%) GDPR
5 5 (4.85%) NCSC
6 2 (1.94%) QA
6 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (23.30%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.85%) XenDesktop
5 4 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.91%) Docker
6 3 (2.91%) XenApp
7 2 (1.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.94%) vSphere
8 1 (0.97%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.97%) KVM
Systems Management
1 27 (26.21%) Terraform
2 14 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (10.68%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (9.71%) Ansible
4 10 (9.71%) Kubernetes
5 7 (6.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (5.83%) Nessus
7 5 (4.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.97%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.97%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.97%) Grafana
8 1 (0.97%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.97%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.97%) vRealize
8 1 (0.97%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (52.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.50%) VMware
3 10 (9.71%) Google
4 7 (6.80%) Bloomberg
4 7 (6.80%) Cisco
4 7 (6.80%) Citrix
4 7 (6.80%) CyberArk
4 7 (6.80%) Reuters
5 4 (3.88%) Commvault
6 3 (2.91%) EMC
6 3 (2.91%) F5
6 3 (2.91%) Meraki
6 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.94%) Intapp
7 2 (1.94%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.97%) Dell
8 1 (0.97%) McAfee
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat