SharePoint Engineer Contracts

SharePoint Engineer
UK

The median SharePoint Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 689 821
Rank change year-on-year +111 +132 -155
Contract jobs requiring a SharePoint Engineer 22 27 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.046% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.048% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 32
10th Percentile £280 £310 £315
25th Percentile £298 £353 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -13.79% +45.00%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £600
90th Percentile - £579 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £298 £425 £575
% change year-on-year -29.88% -26.09% +130.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £37.63 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £19.78
Median hourly rate £45.59 - £36.34
75th Percentile £46.18 - £55.00
90th Percentile - - £57.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.59 - £38.84
% change year-on-year - - +59.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

SharePoint Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SharePoint Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint Engineer in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SharePoint Engineer.

Daily rate trend for SharePoint Engineer in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint Engineer in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SharePoint Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for SharePoint Engineer in the UK

SharePoint Engineer
Top 10 Contract 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 5 May 2024. 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 +116 20 £431 -4.17% 11
UK excluding London +58 16 £298 -29.88% 11
North of England +43 12 £213 - 5
North West +38 12 £213 - 2
Work from Home +123 6 £450 +12.50% 8
London +110 5 £563 +12.39% 2
West Midlands - 2 £298 - 3
Midlands - 2 £298 - 3
East of England - 1 £413 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

SharePoint Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, SharePoint Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SharePoint Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (68.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) SQL
4 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 8 (36.36%) VMware
4 8 (36.36%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
5 7 (31.82%) Metadata Management
5 7 (31.82%) CSS
5 7 (31.82%) HTML
5 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
5 7 (31.82%) Metadata
6 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (27.27%) ITIL
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (27.27%) Publishing
6 6 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (27.27%) PowerPivot
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (27.27%) Information Architecture
6 6 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (27.27%) Statistics
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Power View
7 4 (18.18%) Degree
7 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
7 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
8 3 (13.64%) Azure
8 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery

SharePoint Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (36.36%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (4.55%) Confluence
5 1 (4.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Intranet
1 1 (4.55%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (31.82%) Metadata
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Power View
3 6 (27.27%) PowerPivot
3 6 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Publishing
2 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
1 7 (31.82%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) SPFx
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Metadata Management
3 6 (27.27%) Information Architecture
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
3 6 (27.27%) Statistics
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 2 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Proactive Management
5 2 (9.09%) Time Management
5 2 (9.09%) Web SSO
6 1 (4.55%) Budget Responsibility
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 8 (36.36%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce