SharePoint Contracts

Microsoft SharePoint
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SharePoint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SharePoint over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 102 114
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 1,060 1,433 2,109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 2.40% 2.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.57% 21.77% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 1,020 1,446
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.51%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +4.44% +5.88% +1.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 29 63
10th Percentile £12.25 £16.11 £16.05
25th Percentile £16.19 £17.50 £19.68
Median hourly rate £28.84 £22.63 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.43% -1.61% +9.79%
75th Percentile £46.18 £56.50 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.63 £79.19 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.82 £19.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.92% -9.52% +6.73%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

SharePoint is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SharePoint over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SharePoint in the UK

SharePoint
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +17 883 £475 - 571
UK excluding London +12 532 £470 +4.44% 439
London +22 416 £500 - 177
Work from Home +11 359 £495 - 271
South West +17 130 £495 +4.21% 50
North of England +16 100 £390 -8.77% 114
South East -25 90 £460 -3.16% 100
Midlands +17 83 £375 -15.73% 61
Scotland +21 71 £375 -3.23% 39
North West +15 71 £400 -13.51% 66
West Midlands +45 62 £400 -11.11% 43
East of England -1 32 £506 +3.85% 60
Yorkshire -3 26 £300 -20.66% 37
East Midlands +7 20 £169 -62.08% 18
Wales +8 18 £600 +14.29% 12
Northern Ireland -1 9 £325 -7.14% 16
North East +20 3 £150 -64.07% 11

SharePoint
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
1 195 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (6.13%) Confluence
3 48 (4.53%) SharePoint Server
4 20 (1.89%) Skype for Business
5 16 (1.51%) CMS
6 15 (1.42%) SharePoint 2013
7 14 (1.32%) IIS
8 11 (1.04%) Site Server
9 8 (0.75%) SAS
10 7 (0.66%) SharePoint 2010
11 5 (0.47%) Documentum
12 4 (0.38%) Mendix
13 3 (0.28%) Apache
13 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.28%) WordPress
14 2 (0.19%) Drupal
14 2 (0.19%) Jadu
15 1 (0.094%) nginx
15 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 138 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (11.70%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (7.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (1.32%) Photoshop
7 13 (1.23%) Acrobat
8 9 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.19%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.19%) Windchill
12 1 (0.094%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.094%) InVision
12 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.28%) Workfront
5 2 (0.19%) Primavera
5 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 475 (44.81%) Microsoft 365
2 381 (35.94%) Azure
3 212 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 145 (13.68%) OneDrive
5 111 (10.47%) PowerApps
6 103 (9.72%) Power Automate
7 85 (8.02%) Entra ID
8 61 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (4.72%) AWS
10 38 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (3.40%) Azure Stack
12 24 (2.26%) GitHub
13 23 (2.17%) Yammer
14 21 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (1.51%) IaaS
15 16 (1.51%) ShareGate
16 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
17 14 (1.32%) Azure Storage
18 12 (1.13%) Azure Functions
18 12 (1.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.51%) Firewall
2 65 (6.13%) Intranet
3 45 (4.25%) DNS
4 35 (3.30%) BGP
5 31 (2.92%) VPN
6 25 (2.36%) Skype
7 20 (1.89%) DHCP
8 19 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.60%) LAN
10 16 (1.51%) WAN
11 14 (1.32%) SAN
12 11 (1.04%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (0.75%) Wireless
15 7 (0.66%) HTTP
15 7 (0.66%) NAS
16 6 (0.57%) Internet
16 6 (0.57%) VLAN
16 6 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (11.04%) Power BI
2 73 (6.89%) SQL Server
3 35 (3.30%) Metadata
4 30 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.32%) Data Vault
7 11 (1.04%) GIS
8 10 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.85%) QlikView
9 9 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.75%) Pentaho
10 8 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
11 7 (0.66%) EDMS
11 7 (0.66%) PowerPivot
12 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Power View
12 6 (0.57%) Power Query
12 6 (0.57%) Tableau
13 4 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 84 (7.92%) JIRA
2 11 (1.04%) GitLab
3 10 (0.94%) Git
4 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.19%) Selenium
7 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.094%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.094%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.094%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.094%) Snyk
General
1 369 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.36%) Finance
3 155 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 95 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (6.04%) Banking
6 59 (5.57%) Marketing
7 56 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (4.06%) Manufacturing
9 42 (3.96%) Telecoms
10 41 (3.87%) Legal
11 36 (3.40%) Publishing
12 24 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.17%) Electronics
14 22 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.89%) Local Government
16 16 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.13%) Retail
19 11 (1.04%) Aerospace
19 11 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 138 (13.02%) Developer
2 137 (12.92%) Analyst
3 108 (10.19%) Architect
4 70 (6.60%) Administrator
5 64 (6.04%) Senior
5 64 (6.04%) SharePoint Developer
6 63 (5.94%) Project Manager
7 49 (4.62%) Consultant
8 44 (4.15%) IT Support
9 43 (4.06%) Support Engineer
10 37 (3.49%) Business Analyst
11 32 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (3.02%) SharePoint Administrator
11 32 (3.02%) SharePoint Architect
12 29 (2.74%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 29 (2.74%) Microsoft Engineer
13 28 (2.64%) Technical Architect
14 27 (2.55%) Lead
14 27 (2.55%) Power Platform Developer
15 26 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.34%) .NET
2 31 (2.92%) CSS
3 25 (2.36%) HTML
4 21 (1.98%) SPFx
5 20 (1.89%) REST
5 20 (1.89%) SailPoint
6 17 (1.60%) .NET Framework
7 14 (1.32%) XML
8 9 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (0.75%) jQuery
9 8 (0.75%) JSON
9 8 (0.75%) RESTful
9 8 (0.75%) SOAP
10 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.57%) J2EE
12 5 (0.47%) LAMP
13 4 (0.38%) React
13 4 (0.38%) SAML
13 4 (0.38%) Web Services
13 4 (0.38%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.06%) Management Information System
2 35 (3.30%) Private Cloud
3 34 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.08%) PKI
6 21 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 19 (1.79%) Taxonomies
8 17 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.42%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.32%) Reference Data
11 13 (1.23%) iPhone
11 13 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
12 11 (1.04%) NHS
12 11 (1.04%) Video Editing
13 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.85%) iPad
15 8 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 249 (23.49%) Windows
2 87 (8.21%) Windows 10
3 82 (7.74%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (1.70%) Android
6 17 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (1.51%) Linux
8 15 (1.42%) Windows 7
9 14 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.75%) Mac OS X
11 6 (0.57%) VMS
12 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.19%) Unix
15 1 (0.094%) AIX
15 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (17.08%) Migration
2 172 (16.23%) Project Management
3 159 (15.00%) Agile
4 129 (12.17%) Business Intelligence
5 125 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 123 (11.60%) ITIL
7 116 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (8.21%) Change Management
9 78 (7.36%) DevOps
10 70 (6.60%) Service Management
11 66 (6.23%) Data Migration
12 65 (6.13%) Project Delivery
13 60 (5.66%) PRINCE2
14 59 (5.57%) Analytics
15 58 (5.47%) Customer Service
16 54 (5.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 49 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 48 (4.53%) Cybersecurity
19 46 (4.34%) Programme Management
20 43 (4.06%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 151 (14.25%) PowerShell
2 86 (8.11%) SQL
3 52 (4.91%) JavaScript
4 39 (3.68%) C#
5 35 (3.30%) Python
6 11 (1.04%) Korn
6 11 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 8 (0.75%) Java
8 6 (0.57%) C
8 6 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.57%) R
9 3 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.28%) Perl
9 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.19%) Bicep
10 2 (0.19%) PHP
10 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.19%) VB
10 2 (0.19%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 263 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 196 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 134 (12.64%) Degree
4 74 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (2.08%) PMP
7 20 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.60%) MCSE
8 17 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.23%) CCNA
10 13 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.66%) CISM
12 7 (0.66%) CISSP
13 6 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
13 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.57%) MCSA
13 6 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.91%) QA
2 45 (4.25%) PMO
3 35 (3.30%) Government Security Classifications
4 28 (2.64%) Data Quality
5 23 (2.17%) SLA
6 14 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.32%) GDPR
7 11 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.85%) NIST
9 7 (0.66%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.47%) GRC
12 4 (0.38%) GxP
12 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.28%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 209 (19.72%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 5 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.47%) XenApp
6 5 (0.47%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.094%) Docker
10 1 (0.094%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.094%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (4.62%) SCCM
3 37 (3.49%) SCOM
4 24 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.23%) Terraform
6 12 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.75%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.47%) Ansible
8 5 (0.47%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.38%) WSUS
10 3 (0.28%) AppManager
10 3 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.28%) OPNET
10 3 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.19%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 610 (57.55%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.09%) VMware
3 50 (4.72%) SAP
4 49 (4.62%) Oracle
5 39 (3.68%) Atlassian
6 32 (3.02%) Cisco
7 29 (2.74%) Citrix
8 28 (2.64%) Adobe
9 26 (2.45%) NetApp
10 20 (1.89%) Apple
10 20 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.60%) Sparx
12 16 (1.51%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.13%) Google
13 12 (1.13%) Veeam
14 11 (1.04%) ESRI
14 11 (1.04%) Mitel
15 9 (0.85%) Informatica
15 9 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.85%) SolarWinds