SharePoint Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft SharePoint
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 104 105
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 183 155 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.21% 2.71% 2.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.76% 32.49% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 144 130 146
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,375
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,313 £50,000 £55,938
90th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% -

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 449 477 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.98% 8.35% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 339 334 413
10th Percentile £29,600 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -14.25%
75th Percentile £60,875 £59,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £69,350
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,643 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% -0.65% -4.35%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SharePoint job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SharePoint
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in the Midlands

SharePoint
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
West Midlands -13 113 £47,085 +7.01% 53
East Midlands -22 70 £37,500 -2.60% 29
SharePoint
England

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 55 (30.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.01%) IIS
3 8 (4.37%) Apache
3 8 (4.37%) nginx
4 5 (2.73%) SharePoint 2013
4 5 (2.73%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (8.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.55%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 114 (62.30%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (47.54%) Azure
3 65 (35.52%) Entra ID
4 47 (25.68%) Power Platform
5 38 (20.77%) Power Automate
6 25 (13.66%) OneDrive
7 23 (12.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 20 (10.93%) PowerApps
9 19 (10.38%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (6.01%) Copilot Studio
12 8 (4.37%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.73%) PaaS
14 4 (2.19%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (2.19%) Serverless
15 3 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 3 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (1.64%) SaaS
16 2 (1.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.86%) Firewall
2 32 (17.49%) DNS
3 21 (11.48%) DHCP
3 21 (11.48%) VPN
4 20 (10.93%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (7.10%) Wireless
6 11 (6.01%) LAN
6 11 (6.01%) TCP/IP
6 11 (6.01%) VLAN
7 10 (5.46%) WAN
8 9 (4.92%) VoIP
9 8 (4.37%) SAN
10 7 (3.83%) Network Security
11 6 (3.28%) Internet
12 5 (2.73%) Skype
13 3 (1.64%) Broadband
13 3 (1.64%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.55%) BIG-IP
14 1 (0.55%) PBX
14 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.93%) Power BI
2 15 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.55%) EDMS
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Git
2 5 (2.73%) JIRA
3 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.55%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 101 (55.19%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.77%) Finance
3 29 (15.85%) Legal
4 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.65%) Law
6 9 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.28%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.73%) Local Government
10 3 (1.64%) Retail
11 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Advertising
12 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Environmental Health
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) iGaming
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (17.49%) IT Support
2 27 (14.75%) Developer
3 24 (13.11%) Support Engineer
4 23 (12.57%) IT Engineer
4 23 (12.57%) Senior
5 20 (10.93%) Analyst
6 16 (8.74%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (8.74%) Support Analyst
7 15 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Administrator
9 12 (6.56%) 1st Line Support
9 12 (6.56%) IT Analyst
9 12 (6.56%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (4.92%) IT Support Analyst
10 9 (4.92%) Lead
10 9 (4.92%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) SharePoint Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Technical Support
12 7 (3.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.83%) JSON
2 4 (2.19%) XML
2 4 (2.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.75%) Management Information System
2 24 (13.11%) Onboarding
3 23 (12.57%) Driving Licence
4 12 (6.56%) Clustering
5 8 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.28%) BYOD
8 4 (2.19%) Replication
8 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.19%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.64%) CMDB
9 3 (1.64%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.09%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (38.25%) Windows
2 40 (21.86%) Windows Server
3 18 (9.84%) Windows 10
4 16 (8.74%) Linux
5 8 (4.37%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.28%) Android
7 5 (2.73%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.97%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (31.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (19.67%) AI
4 32 (17.49%) ITIL
5 29 (15.85%) Customer Service
5 29 (15.85%) Service Delivery
6 25 (13.66%) CRM
7 22 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (12.02%) Project Delivery
8 21 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (11.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (9.84%) DevOps
11 16 (8.74%) ERP
11 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (8.20%) Agile
12 15 (8.20%) Patch Management
13 14 (7.65%) Load Balancing
13 14 (7.65%) Service Management
13 14 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.94%) PowerShell
2 28 (15.30%) SQL
3 7 (3.83%) C#
4 4 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (13.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (10.38%) Degree
3 17 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 16 (8.74%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.73%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.19%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.09%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) CCNA
8 1 (0.55%) CIPD
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.10%) SLA
2 10 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.92%) ISO 9001
4 8 (4.37%) GDPR
5 6 (3.28%) ISO 14001
6 5 (2.73%) COSHH
6 5 (2.73%) NEBOSH
6 5 (2.73%) QA
7 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.19%) WCAG
8 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.64%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.09%) NIST
9 2 (1.09%) PMO
10 1 (0.55%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (33.88%) Active Directory
2 26 (14.21%) Hyper-V
3 23 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.64%) vSphere
6 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 37 (20.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.64%) SCCM
4 2 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 144 (78.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.30%) VMware
3 17 (9.29%) SonicWALL
4 15 (8.20%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.56%) Veeam
6 8 (4.37%) Citrix
6 8 (4.37%) Foundry
7 6 (3.28%) Apple
7 6 (3.28%) Dell
7 6 (3.28%) McAfee
7 6 (3.28%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.28%) Sophos
8 4 (2.19%) HighQ
8 4 (2.19%) SAP
9 3 (1.64%) Cisco
9 3 (1.64%) HP
9 3 (1.64%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.09%) Acronis
10 2 (1.09%) Google
10 2 (1.09%) Samsung