SharePoint Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft SharePoint
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring SharePoint skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 8 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.30% 0.85% 5.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 72.73% 25.00% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £400 - £338
25th Percentile £403 £525 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +145.70%
75th Percentile £484 £575 -
90th Percentile £500 - £519
North West median daily rate £438 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £28.15 £19.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +48.16% -13.43%

All Application Platform Skills
Merseyside

SharePoint falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 11 8 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.91% 3.39% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 20
10th Percentile £238 £244 £164
25th Percentile £400 £291 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -22.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £533
90th Percentile £525 £541 £601
North West median daily rate £416 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +52.00% +63.16% -71.21%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing SharePoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint in Merseyside

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SharePoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SharePoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +9 8 £425 -22.73% 5
SharePoint
North West

SharePoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (25.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Star Schema
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Local Government
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) RF Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (50.00%) Fintech
1 4 (50.00%) Information Security
1 4 (50.00%) Server Hardening
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Lisp
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Darktrace
2 4 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (25.00%) Capita
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Ekahau
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) Varonis