SharePoint Engineer Contract Job Trends

SharePoint Engineer
UK

The median SharePoint Engineer daily rate in the UK is £355, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 537 593
Rank change year-on-year -38 +56 +193
Contract jobs requiring a SharePoint Engineer 7 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.017% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.018% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £273 £231
25th Percentile £205 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £465 £313
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +48.80% -34.21%
75th Percentile £358 £480 £359
90th Percentile £406 £537 £384
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 £225
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -52.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.02
25th Percentile £38.03 - £46.05
Median hourly rate £41.06 - £46.09
75th Percentile £44.09 - £46.14
90th Percentile - - £46.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 - £46.09

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

SharePoint Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SharePoint Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SharePoint Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SharePoint Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SharePoint Engineer job vacancies in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint Engineer in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SharePoint Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SharePoint Engineer job vacancies in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
England -37 6 £355 -23.66% 2
London -2 5 £355 -30.05% 2
UK excluding London -41 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

SharePoint Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, SharePoint Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SharePoint Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (28.57%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) Google Drive
4 2 (28.57%) Intranet
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Okta
4 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) B2B
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) DTS
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Metadata

SharePoint Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Google Drive
2 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DTS
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) API Management
2 1 (14.29%) B2B
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Data Security
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Okta
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Nintex