SharePoint Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft SharePoint
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SharePoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 112 124
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +32
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 68 47 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.27% 2.14% 1.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.91% 25.97% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53 41 81
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,000 - £90,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £46,064 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.54% +2.36% +5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 220 181 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.11% 8.23% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 187 124 343
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,188 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +0.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,628 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.10% -3.94% -2.22%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SharePoint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SharePoint job vacancy trend in Manchester

SharePoint
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in Manchester

SharePoint
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Bolton +21 3 £50,000 +66.67% 1
Stockport - 1 £50,000 -
SharePoint
North West

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 26 (38.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (88.24%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (58.82%) Azure
3 34 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 26 (38.24%) Power Platform
5 20 (29.41%) OneDrive
6 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (19.12%) Power Automate
8 12 (17.65%) SaaS
9 10 (14.71%) PowerApps
10 9 (13.24%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (5.88%) Dropbox
13 3 (4.41%) Serverless
14 2 (2.94%) AWS
14 2 (2.94%) Copilot Studio
14 2 (2.94%) GCP
14 2 (2.94%) iPaaS
14 2 (2.94%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.47%) Firewall
2 15 (22.06%) DHCP
2 15 (22.06%) DNS
3 13 (19.12%) VLAN
4 12 (17.65%) VPN
5 6 (8.82%) WAN
6 5 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (5.88%) Intranet
8 3 (4.41%) LAN
8 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
8 3 (4.41%) VoIP
9 2 (2.94%) LTE
9 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.94%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.94%) WPA
10 1 (1.47%) Network Security
10 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.82%) Power BI
3 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 46 (67.65%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.47%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) IT Support
2 11 (16.18%) Senior
3 10 (14.71%) Analyst
3 10 (14.71%) IT Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Consultant
4 9 (13.24%) IT Support Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) IT Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Lead
7 6 (8.82%) Power Platform Consultant
8 5 (7.35%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) IT Support Specialist
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Support Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Service Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
2 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (2.94%) Middleware
2 2 (2.94%) Web Services
2 2 (2.94%) XML
3 1 (1.47%) ADO
3 1 (1.47%) CSS
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) MACH
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Onboarding
2 8 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.29%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.41%) Social Media
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.94%) Replication
5 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.24%) Windows
2 17 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 11 (16.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (7.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.47%) Linux
7 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (20.59%) User Experience
4 13 (19.12%) Identity Access Management
5 12 (17.65%) Agile
5 12 (17.65%) DevOps
5 12 (17.65%) ITIL
6 11 (16.18%) Incident Response
7 10 (14.71%) AI
7 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (14.71%) Presales
7 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (13.24%) Customer Service
8 9 (13.24%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
9 8 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.76%) Observability
9 8 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (11.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (2.94%) C#
3 2 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Degree
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.41%) CCNA
3 3 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.41%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.41%) MCSA
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.94%) QA
1 2 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 14001
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 31 (45.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.47%) Docker
5 1 (1.47%) Firmware
5 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (11.76%) Terraform
4 5 (7.35%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 4 (5.88%) SCCM
6 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (97.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) New Relic
2 8 (11.76%) Splunk
3 4 (5.88%) Cisco
3 4 (5.88%) VMware
4 3 (4.41%) Apple
4 3 (4.41%) Meraki
4 3 (4.41%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.94%) Netskope
6 1 (1.47%) Dell
6 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) Veeam
6 1 (1.47%) WatchGuard