SharePoint Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft SharePoint
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SharePoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 104 100
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +25
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 87 54 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.14% 1.94% 2.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.97% 17.65% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74 42 195
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 311 306 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.07% 10.97% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 195 215 688
10th Percentile £26,100 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £49,375
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -8.86% +3.95%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,393 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,950 £70,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -11.50%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SharePoint job vacancy trend in the South West

SharePoint
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in the South West

SharePoint
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Devon -4 19 £25,000 -21.57% 3
Bristol -15 16 £38,000 -15.56% 6
Cornwall +3 14 £28,250 -34.30% 1
Gloucestershire -18 11 £47,500 +63.79% 11
Somerset -35 11 £31,000 -46.09% 4
Wiltshire -9 8 £55,000 - 4
Dorset -12 8 £35,000 -12.50% 8
SharePoint
England

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 37 (42.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.75%) Confluence
3 4 (4.60%) IIS
4 3 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (21.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.60%) CorelDRAW
4 3 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (1.15%) InDesign
6 1 (1.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (78.16%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (48.28%) Azure
3 41 (47.13%) Entra ID
4 29 (33.33%) OneDrive
5 10 (11.49%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.90%) IaaS
6 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (6.90%) PaaS
6 6 (6.90%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.60%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (3.45%) SaaS
9 2 (2.30%) AWS
9 2 (2.30%) Stripe
10 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Priva
Communications & Networking
1 37 (42.53%) DNS
2 31 (35.63%) DHCP
3 24 (27.59%) Firewall
4 17 (19.54%) VPN
5 16 (18.39%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (13.79%) VLAN
7 9 (10.34%) LAN
8 8 (9.20%) WAN
9 7 (8.05%) TCP/IP
10 5 (5.75%) VoIP
11 4 (4.60%) IPsec
12 1 (1.15%) DKIM
12 1 (1.15%) DMARC
12 1 (1.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) Power BI
2 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.15%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
General
1 34 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Finance
3 6 (6.90%) Law
3 6 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.60%) Advertising
5 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (34.48%) IT Support
2 25 (28.74%) Support Engineer
3 21 (24.14%) IT Technician
4 19 (21.84%) IT Engineer
5 17 (19.54%) Support Technician
6 16 (18.39%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (16.09%) IT Support Technician
8 10 (11.49%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (10.34%) 1st Line Support
10 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (8.05%) 1st Line Engineer
11 7 (8.05%) 1st Line Support Engineer
11 7 (8.05%) Senior
12 6 (6.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 6 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 5 (5.75%) Developer
13 5 (5.75%) Junior
14 4 (4.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 4 (4.60%) Junior IT Engineer
14 4 (4.60%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) .NET
1 4 (4.60%) .NET Framework
1 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET
1 4 (4.60%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.48%) Driving Licence
2 10 (11.49%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.60%) Digital Signage
4 4 (4.60%) Educational Technology
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.30%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Replication
7 1 (1.15%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.15%) PDA
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (50.57%) Windows
2 31 (35.63%) Windows Server
3 13 (14.94%) Mac OS
4 11 (12.64%) Windows 10
5 10 (11.49%) Android
6 7 (8.05%) Apple iOS
7 5 (5.75%) Linux
8 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) ITIL
2 30 (34.48%) Customer Service
3 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (13.79%) Cloud Security
6 11 (12.64%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (10.34%) Service Management
9 8 (9.20%) Time Management
10 7 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (8.05%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (6.90%) CRM
11 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (6.90%) ERP
11 6 (6.90%) Identity Management
11 6 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.90%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.60%) C#
2 4 (4.60%) SQL
3 3 (3.45%) VB.NET
3 3 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Degree
2 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.60%) HNC
5 4 (4.60%) HND
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.45%) A+ Certification
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.90%) GDPR
3 5 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.15%) QA
6 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (54.02%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (26.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 65 (74.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.09%) Apple
3 11 (12.64%) VMware
4 6 (6.90%) Veeam
5 4 (4.60%) Adobe
5 4 (4.60%) Aruba
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco
5 4 (4.60%) ConnectWise
5 4 (4.60%) Datto
5 4 (4.60%) Draytek
5 4 (4.60%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.60%) Meraki
5 4 (4.60%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (3.45%) Progress
7 2 (2.30%) Remedy
8 1 (1.15%) Citrix
8 1 (1.15%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) Xero