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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 65 53
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 147 104 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.80% 4.01% 4.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.73% 8.92% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 99 95 146
10th Percentile £26,250 £42,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £63,750 £59,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% +7.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £82,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £87,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £79,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -11.39% +7.12% +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 1,071 1,166 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 27.69% 45.00% 45.11%
Number of salaries quoted 812 927 1,382
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,950 £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 £107,500 £120,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%

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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 17 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 17 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 +27 130 £66,500 -19.39% 35
Southwark +13 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 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Site Server
Applications
1 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
1 1 (0.68%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 79 (53.74%) Azure
2 40 (27.21%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (17.69%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.56%) AWS
5 16 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.12%) OneDrive
6 9 (6.12%) SaaS
7 8 (5.44%) GCP
7 8 (5.44%) PaaS
8 7 (4.76%) Nutanix
9 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.72%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.04%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.36%) GitHub
13 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.68%) Azure Pipelines
13 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.97%) Network Security
2 15 (10.20%) Firewall
3 9 (6.12%) VPN
3 9 (6.12%) Wireless
4 7 (4.76%) DHCP
4 7 (4.76%) DNS
5 5 (3.40%) LAN
5 5 (3.40%) WAN
6 4 (2.72%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.04%) VLAN
8 2 (1.36%) Broadband
8 2 (1.36%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.68%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.68%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (0.68%) NAS
9 1 (0.68%) NGFW
9 1 (0.68%) Softphone
9 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.80%) Tableau
4 4 (2.72%) Power BI
5 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.04%) SQLite
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Git
2 9 (6.12%) Burp Suite
2 9 (6.12%) Metasploit
3 7 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 7 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.40%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 60 (40.82%) Finance
2 49 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 25 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.88%) Legal
5 6 (4.08%) Law
6 5 (3.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.36%) Front Office
7 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Analyst
2 24 (16.33%) Security Analyst
3 19 (12.93%) Senior
4 15 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (10.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 15 (10.20%) Security Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) PowerShell Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Support Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) CISSP Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) IT Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Digital Analyst
8 9 (6.12%) IT Support
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Security Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.76%) .NET
2 6 (4.08%) REST
3 5 (3.40%) LDAP
3 5 (3.40%) OAuth
3 5 (3.40%) OpenID
3 5 (3.40%) SAML
3 5 (3.40%) YAML
4 4 (2.72%) HTML
5 3 (2.04%) CSS
6 2 (1.36%) SOAP
6 2 (1.36%) Web Services
7 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.68%) JSP
7 1 (0.68%) Kafka
7 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.69%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (11.56%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (11.56%) Security Posture
3 15 (10.20%) Management Information System
4 14 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 11 (7.48%) Public Cloud
6 10 (6.80%) Data Centre
6 10 (6.80%) Hedge funds
6 10 (6.80%) Virtual Team
7 9 (6.12%) Mobile App
8 8 (5.44%) Private Cloud
9 7 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (2.72%) Cloud Native
11 4 (2.72%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.36%) CMDB
12 2 (1.36%) Derivative
12 2 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 77 (52.38%) Windows
2 47 (31.97%) Linux
3 25 (17.01%) Windows Server
4 16 (10.88%) Mac OS
5 7 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.36%) Android
8 2 (1.36%) VMS
8 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.68%) CentOS
9 1 (0.68%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.68%) Unix
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.97%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (27.21%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (23.81%) Incident Response
4 32 (21.77%) ITIL
5 26 (17.69%) DevOps
6 24 (16.33%) CI/CD
7 21 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 20 (13.61%) SIEM
9 19 (12.93%) Security Operations
10 18 (12.24%) Application Security
10 18 (12.24%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (11.56%) Agile
11 17 (11.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 17 (11.56%) Threat Intelligence
11 17 (11.56%) Use Case
12 16 (10.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 16 (10.88%) SOAR
13 14 (9.52%) Cloud Security
13 14 (9.52%) Customer Service
13 14 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 87 (59.18%) Python
2 39 (26.53%) SQL
3 20 (13.61%) Bash
4 12 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.72%) Java
5 4 (2.72%) Perl
6 3 (2.04%) C
6 3 (2.04%) C#
6 3 (2.04%) C++
6 3 (2.04%) Go
6 3 (2.04%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.04%) Ruby
6 3 (2.04%) Rust
6 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.36%) VBA
7 2 (1.36%) VBScript
8 1 (0.68%) Bicep
8 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (10.88%) GIAC
2 15 (10.20%) CISSP
3 14 (9.52%) Degree
4 13 (8.84%) OSCP
5 12 (8.16%) CCSAM
5 12 (8.16%) CREST Certified
6 11 (7.48%) CompTIA CySA+
6 11 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.80%) CISA
8 9 (6.12%) CHECK Team Leader
8 9 (6.12%) CHECK Team Member
9 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.72%) GPEN
10 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.04%) GXPN
11 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.04%) OSCE
12 2 (1.36%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (30.61%) NIST
2 35 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.76%) GDPR
5 5 (3.40%) NCSC
6 4 (2.72%) QA
6 4 (2.72%) SLA
7 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (32.65%) Active Directory
2 16 (10.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.80%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.36%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.36%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (17.01%) Terraform
2 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (11.56%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.12%) Ansible
4 9 (6.12%) Nessus
5 5 (3.40%) SCCM
6 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.68%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.68%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 95 (64.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.37%) VMware
3 12 (8.16%) Google
4 10 (6.80%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 6 (4.08%) Commvault
7 5 (3.40%) Cisco
7 5 (3.40%) Citrix
8 4 (2.72%) MobileIron
9 3 (2.04%) EMC
9 3 (2.04%) F5
9 3 (2.04%) iManage
9 3 (2.04%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.36%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.36%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.36%) Splunk
11 1 (0.68%) Bomgar
11 1 (0.68%) McAfee
11 1 (0.68%) Red Hat