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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 61 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 -6
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 71 94 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.25% 4.78% 5.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.35% 11.85% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53 85 128
10th Percentile - £43,250 £55,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £104,500 £95,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% -6.00% +4.17%

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 686 793 1,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.76% 40.34% 44.88%
Number of salaries quoted 552 665 1,021
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -10 59 £58,750 -16.07% 47
City of Westminster - 1 - - 4
Lambeth - 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 18 (25.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (18.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.04%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) Azure
2 25 (35.21%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (26.76%) Entra ID
4 12 (16.90%) OneDrive
5 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.45%) AWS
7 6 (8.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (5.63%) GCP
8 4 (5.63%) PaaS
8 4 (5.63%) Serverless
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.82%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.82%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) Network Security
2 11 (15.49%) Firewall
3 5 (7.04%) Kerberos
3 5 (7.04%) VLAN
4 4 (5.63%) DHCP
4 4 (5.63%) DNS
4 4 (5.63%) VPN
5 3 (4.23%) BGP
5 3 (4.23%) MPLS
5 3 (4.23%) OSPF
6 2 (2.82%) VoIP
7 1 (1.41%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.41%) NAS
7 1 (1.41%) SAN
7 1 (1.41%) SSL
7 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.41%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.41%) WAN
7 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.45%) Power BI
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Git
2 2 (2.82%) GitLab
2 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) JMeter
3 1 (1.41%) Postman
General
1 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 26 (36.62%) Finance
3 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Law
4 8 (11.27%) Legal
5 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Front Office
7 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Analyst
2 13 (18.31%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) Support Analyst
4 11 (15.49%) Desktop Support
5 9 (12.68%) Desktop Analyst
5 9 (12.68%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 9 (12.68%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Active Directory Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Architect
8 6 (8.45%) Developer
8 6 (8.45%) PowerShell Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Windows Systems Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) CSS
3 5 (7.04%) HTML
3 5 (7.04%) LDAP
3 5 (7.04%) OAuth
3 5 (7.04%) OpenID
3 5 (7.04%) SAML
4 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Driving Licence
2 9 (12.68%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.86%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.82%) Derivative
5 2 (2.82%) Equities
5 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (54.93%) Windows
2 17 (23.94%) Linux
3 13 (18.31%) Windows 10
3 13 (18.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) ITIL
2 20 (28.17%) DevOps
3 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
5 17 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (22.54%) ITSM
7 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (18.31%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (14.08%) Break/Fix
9 10 (14.08%) Computer Science
9 10 (14.08%) Inventory Management
9 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.08%) Trend Analysis
9 10 (14.08%) Zero Trust
10 9 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (12.68%) High Availability
10 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
11 7 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) SQL
3 7 (9.86%) Bash
4 6 (8.45%) T-SQL
5 5 (7.04%) Bicep
5 5 (7.04%) VBA
5 5 (7.04%) VBScript
6 4 (5.63%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) C
7 2 (2.82%) C#
7 2 (2.82%) C++
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 2 (2.82%) Ruby
7 2 (2.82%) Rust
8 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.04%) CISSP
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CCSAM
6 2 (2.82%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.82%) GPEN
6 2 (2.82%) GXPN
6 2 (2.82%) OSCE
6 2 (2.82%) OSCP
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CCIE
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) GIAC
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.41%) MCSA
7 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) SLA
4 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (54.93%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.82%) vSphere
4 1 (1.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.86%) Ansible
4 5 (7.04%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.23%) SCCM
6 2 (2.82%) Grafana
7 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.41%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (60.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.72%) ServiceNow
3 11 (15.49%) VMware
4 7 (9.86%) Citrix
5 4 (5.63%) iManage
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco
7 2 (2.82%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.82%) Oracle
8 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.41%) Sophos
8 1 (1.41%) Splunk
8 1 (1.41%) Veeam