SharePoint Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft SharePoint
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SharePoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 163
Rank change year-on-year +17 +94 -78
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 112 76 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.94% 3.00% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 59.89% 43.43% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 28 47 38
10th Percentile £24,500 - £28,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £43,586
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -25.43% -3.14%
75th Percentile £49,063 £42,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £60,375 £67,500 £64,575
UK median annual salary £41,620 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% +5.56% -5.26%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 187 175 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.57% 6.92% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48 91 176
10th Percentile £24,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £35,646
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,648 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -9.09%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SharePoint job vacancy trend in Scotland

SharePoint
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in Scotland

SharePoint
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Edinburgh +15 38 £31,500 -42.73% 5
North Lanarkshire - 16 - -
Renfrewshire - 12 - -
Glasgow +2 10 £58,750 +46.88% 5
South Lanarkshire - 8 - -
Lanarkshire - 4 - - 5
West Dunbartonshire - 4 - -
North Ayrshire - 4 - -
East Ayrshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 4 - - 2
Ayrshire - 4 - -
Aberdeen +3 2 £40,000 -43.66% 1
Fife - 1 £36,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 -
SharePoint
UK

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 68 (60.71%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (58.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (57.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 44 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (24.11%) Entra ID
3 25 (22.32%) Azure
4 16 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (8.93%) Mimecast
6 7 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.68%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.89%) AWS
10 1 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.89%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.89%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.89%) GCP
10 1 (0.89%) IaaS
10 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.89%) PaaS
10 1 (0.89%) ShareGate
10 1 (0.89%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) DHCP
1 5 (4.46%) DNS
2 4 (3.57%) Network Security
3 2 (1.79%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) Intranet
4 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Power BI
2 2 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.89%) Power Query
3 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.68%) Retail
5 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (66.07%) Senior
2 64 (57.14%) QA Manager
2 64 (57.14%) Quality Manager
2 64 (57.14%) Senior Manager
2 64 (57.14%) Senior QA Manager
2 64 (57.14%) Senior Quality Manager
3 14 (12.50%) Analyst
4 9 (8.04%) Support Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 5 (4.46%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (4.46%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (4.46%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) ICT Officer
7 4 (3.57%) ICT Support
7 4 (3.57%) ICT Support Officer
7 4 (3.57%) Service Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.89%) .NET
1 1 (0.89%) CSS
1 1 (0.89%) HTML
1 1 (0.89%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Windows
2 4 (3.57%) Mac OS
2 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.68%) Android
4 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (71.43%) Coaching
2 76 (67.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 68 (60.71%) Project Management
4 66 (58.93%) Performance Improvement
5 65 (58.04%) Customer Experience
6 64 (57.14%) Due Diligence
6 64 (57.14%) Lean Six Sigma
6 64 (57.14%) Quality Management
6 64 (57.14%) Six Sigma
7 16 (14.29%) Asset Management
7 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 16 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
8 13 (11.61%) ITIL
9 11 (9.82%) Agile
9 11 (9.82%) AI
10 8 (7.14%) Analytics
10 8 (7.14%) Information Security
10 8 (7.14%) Machine Learning
10 8 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
1 10 (8.93%) Python
2 8 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (1.79%) SQL
4 1 (0.89%) C#
4 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (57.14%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
2 6 (5.36%) Degree
3 4 (3.57%) HNC
3 4 (3.57%) HND
4 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.79%) MCP
4 2 (1.79%) MCSE
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.79%) MOS
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (58.04%) QA
2 8 (7.14%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.68%) GDPR
4 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.89%) P3O
6 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (14.29%) Terraform
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.57%) SCCM
4 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.89%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 96 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.46%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.68%) Apple
4 2 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (1.79%) Citrix
5 1 (0.89%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.89%) FIS
5 1 (0.89%) Proofpoint