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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 91 157 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.86% 4.86% 5.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.59% 10.94% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 79 122 170
10th Percentile £51,050 £55,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £73,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +4.64% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,625 £91,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £96,125 £85,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 723 1,435 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 38.64% 44.40% 49.92%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,004 1,522
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -3.85% +0.65%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £118,250
London median annual salary £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%

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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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 -3 73 £71,250 -5.00% 208
West End of London +9 2 £57,000 +3.64% 5
Southwark +10 1 £102,000 +103.53%
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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 21 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 55 (60.44%) Azure
2 43 (47.25%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (35.16%) Entra ID
4 17 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.09%) Power Automate
5 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.89%) PaaS
7 8 (8.79%) AWS
8 5 (5.49%) Nutanix
8 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.40%) GCP
10 3 (3.30%) dbt
10 3 (3.30%) GitHub
10 3 (3.30%) IaaS
10 3 (3.30%) Serverless
10 3 (3.30%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.08%) WAN
2 20 (21.98%) Firewall
2 20 (21.98%) LAN
3 15 (16.48%) TCP/IP
4 14 (15.38%) DHCP
4 14 (15.38%) DNS
5 10 (10.99%) Network Security
5 10 (10.99%) VoIP
6 5 (5.49%) VLAN
7 4 (4.40%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.40%) VPN
8 3 (3.30%) Wireless
9 2 (2.20%) NAS
9 2 (2.20%) SAN
9 2 (2.20%) SSL
9 2 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.10%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.10%) VSAN
10 1 (1.10%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (7.69%) Power BI
4 3 (3.30%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (6.59%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) TeamCity
3 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (3.30%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) GitLab
5 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
General
1 44 (48.35%) Finance
2 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.68%) Legal
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.30%) International Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (16.48%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) Senior
5 10 (10.99%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Security Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Lead
8 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.49%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.49%) Administrator
9 5 (5.49%) Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) IT Support
10 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Junior
10 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
11 3 (3.30%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) .NET
2 8 (8.79%) YAML
3 3 (3.30%) REST
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.10%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.10%) CSS
5 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.10%) HTML
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Hedge funds
2 13 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (10.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (9.89%) Virtual Team
5 8 (8.79%) Public Cloud
6 7 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (7.69%) Private Cloud
7 6 (6.59%) Security Posture
8 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
8 5 (5.49%) PKI
8 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
9 3 (3.30%) Credit Risk
9 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
9 3 (3.30%) Market Risk
10 1 (1.10%) Clustering
10 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (47.25%) Windows
2 28 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 13 (14.29%) Linux
3 13 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (6.59%) Unix
5 3 (3.30%) VMS
6 2 (2.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) DevOps
2 28 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (26.37%) CI/CD
4 19 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (18.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (18.68%) Patch Management
6 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (16.48%) Task Automation
8 14 (15.38%) Agile
8 14 (15.38%) ITIL
8 14 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
8 14 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.29%) Batch Scripting
9 13 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (13.19%) DevSecOps
10 12 (13.19%) Mentoring
10 12 (13.19%) Vulnerability Management
11 10 (10.99%) Service Delivery
12 9 (9.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.77%) Python
2 23 (25.27%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) Bash
4 2 (2.20%) C#
4 2 (2.20%) Ruby
4 2 (2.20%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) PHP
5 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.20%) CCNP
6 2 (2.20%) MCSA
7 1 (1.10%) CCIE
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) CISA
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (17.58%) NIST
3 8 (8.79%) GDPR
4 5 (5.49%) NCSC
5 4 (4.40%) GRC
6 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 34 (37.36%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.59%) XenDesktop
6 5 (5.49%) vSphere
6 5 (5.49%) XenApp
7 4 (4.40%) Docker
8 3 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
10 1 (1.10%) KVM
10 1 (1.10%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 24 (26.37%) Terraform
2 21 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (18.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (17.58%) Ansible
5 14 (15.38%) Kubernetes
6 13 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (10.99%) SCCM
8 5 (5.49%) Autotask
9 3 (3.30%) Grafana
9 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.20%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.10%) Argo
11 1 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.98%) VMware
3 13 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 13 (14.29%) Reuters
4 10 (10.99%) Cisco
5 9 (9.89%) Citrix
6 5 (5.49%) Meraki
6 5 (5.49%) Salesforce
6 5 (5.49%) SonicWALL
7 4 (4.40%) Google
8 3 (3.30%) Commvault
8 3 (3.30%) EMC
8 3 (3.30%) F5
8 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.30%) Splunk
9 2 (2.20%) Intapp
9 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.10%) Dell
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle
10 1 (1.10%) Veeam