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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 123 125
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 +14
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 82 43 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.30% 1.77% 1.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 29.39% 23.63% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 75 40 69
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,325 £27,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £55,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £64,000 £97,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £41,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +5.56%

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 279 182 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.41% 7.48% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 233 130 314
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £27,825
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,393 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +5.73% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £76,625 £76,250
North West median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% -5.00%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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
Ashton-under-Lyne - 10 £47,500 - 2
Bolton +21 7 £37,500 -6.25% 2
Salford - 1 £47,000 -
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 23 (28.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.32%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (90.24%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (47.56%) Azure
3 35 (42.68%) Entra ID
4 27 (32.93%) Power Platform
5 22 (26.83%) Power Automate
6 20 (24.39%) Microsoft Copilot
6 20 (24.39%) PowerApps
7 18 (21.95%) OneDrive
8 9 (10.98%) Copilot Studio
9 7 (8.54%) AWS
9 7 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.10%) Google Workspace
11 4 (4.88%) Dropbox
11 4 (4.88%) Serverless
12 3 (3.66%) SaaS
13 2 (2.44%) GCP
13 2 (2.44%) Mimecast
14 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (29.27%) Firewall
2 21 (25.61%) DNS
3 20 (24.39%) VLAN
4 18 (21.95%) DHCP
5 15 (18.29%) VPN
6 9 (10.98%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (9.76%) LAN
8 6 (7.32%) VoIP
9 5 (6.10%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (6.10%) WAN
10 4 (4.88%) Intranet
11 3 (3.66%) DKIM
11 3 (3.66%) DMARC
11 3 (3.66%) LTE
11 3 (3.66%) PBX
11 3 (3.66%) Unified Communications
12 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
12 2 (2.44%) Wireshark
12 2 (2.44%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Power BI
2 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Postman
General
1 36 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.32%) Finance
3 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (3.66%) Social Housing
3 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.44%) Marketing
5 1 (1.22%) Billing
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.22%) Legal
5 1 (1.22%) Local Government
5 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) IT Support
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
3 13 (15.85%) Developer
4 12 (14.63%) Lead
5 11 (13.41%) Analyst
5 11 (13.41%) IT Manager
5 11 (13.41%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 10 (12.20%) IT Analyst
7 9 (10.98%) IT Support Analyst
7 9 (10.98%) Support Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) IT Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Consultant
10 6 (7.32%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure Support
11 5 (6.10%) IT Support Manager
11 5 (6.10%) Support Analyst
11 5 (6.10%) Support Manager
12 4 (4.88%) Head of Digital
12 4 (4.88%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) HTML
2 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (8.54%) CSS
4 5 (6.10%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (6.10%) SPFx
5 3 (3.66%) REST
6 2 (2.44%) .NET
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (2.44%) Web Services
6 2 (2.44%) XML
7 1 (1.22%) ADO
7 1 (1.22%) MACH
7 1 (1.22%) OAuth
7 1 (1.22%) OpenID
7 1 (1.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (12.20%) Onboarding
3 8 (9.76%) Driving Licence
4 6 (7.32%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Licensing
5 3 (3.66%) Social Media
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Replication
7 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.93%) Windows
2 17 (20.73%) Windows 10
3 12 (14.63%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.20%) Mac OS
5 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.22%) Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.59%) Continuous Improvement
1 30 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.29%) Agile
3 14 (17.07%) Service Delivery
3 14 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (14.63%) Roadmaps
5 11 (13.41%) AI
5 11 (13.41%) Customer Service
6 10 (12.20%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (12.20%) Data Protection
6 10 (12.20%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 10 (12.20%) Incident Management
6 10 (12.20%) ITIL
6 10 (12.20%) Migration
6 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (12.20%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (10.98%) Coaching
7 9 (10.98%) DevOps
7 9 (10.98%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.63%) JavaScript
2 8 (9.76%) C#
2 8 (9.76%) SQL
3 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.44%) Python
4 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.66%) CCNA
3 3 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.66%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.66%) MCSA
4 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.66%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (25.61%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.54%) Hyper-V
2 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (12.20%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (4.88%) SCCM
4 3 (3.66%) cPanel
4 3 (3.66%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.66%) Plesk
5 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (97.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) Palo Alto
3 9 (10.98%) Cisco
4 8 (9.76%) Apple
5 7 (8.54%) VMware
6 5 (6.10%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.10%) Google
6 5 (6.10%) Juniper
6 5 (6.10%) Okta
7 4 (4.88%) Veeam
7 4 (4.88%) WatchGuard
8 3 (3.66%) Acronis
8 3 (3.66%) Datto
8 3 (3.66%) Meraki
8 3 (3.66%) NETGEAR
8 3 (3.66%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.66%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (2.44%) Netskope
10 1 (1.22%) Freshdesk