SharePoint Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SharePoint
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SharePoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 150 99
Rank change year-on-year +36 -51 +44
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 993 676 1,940
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.48% 2.27% 2.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.02% 27.58% 29.20%
Number of salaries quoted 803 543 1,577
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,687 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.15% +2.35% -15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,481 2,451 6,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.69% 8.24% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,889 1,587 4,545
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,599 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -13.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SharePoint job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SharePoint
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SharePoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SharePoint

SharePoint
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SharePoint in the UK excluding London

SharePoint
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +55 277 £42,500 +21.43% 87
South East -14 185 £50,000 +33.33% 152
Midlands +3 177 £39,000 +1.30% 69
East of England +37 176 £42,500 +26.87% 62
North West +52 153 £50,000 +17.65% 43
West Midlands +17 117 £42,500 -2.05% 33
Yorkshire +9 105 £38,772 +36.04% 33
South West -31 85 £30,000 -33.33% 56
East Midlands -29 60 £37,500 +3.45% 36
Scotland +20 45 £36,000 +9.09% 33
Wales -12 36 £40,000 -2.44% 15
North East -37 19 £43,136 +34.80% 13
Northern Ireland -26 8 £61,250 +16.67% 27
Isle of Man +4 6 £45,000 +30.43%
SharePoint
UK

SharePoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 353 (35.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.02%) Confluence
3 10 (1.01%) CMS
4 9 (0.91%) IIS
5 6 (0.60%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.30%) govService
6 3 (0.30%) SAS
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (0.20%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Apache
Applications
1 78 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (7.15%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.60%) CorelDRAW
4 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.10%) InDesign
8 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.30%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.20%) Alphatax
7 2 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
8 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.10%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 786 (79.15%) Microsoft 365
2 458 (46.12%) Azure
3 319 (32.12%) Entra ID
4 233 (23.46%) OneDrive
5 212 (21.35%) Power Platform
6 122 (12.29%) PowerApps
7 121 (12.19%) Power Automate
8 56 (5.64%) SaaS
9 53 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 39 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (3.83%) Mimecast
12 37 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 33 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (3.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 28 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 24 (2.42%) AWS
17 19 (1.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 15 (1.51%) PaaS
19 14 (1.41%) Copilot Studio
20 13 (1.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 214 (21.55%) Firewall
2 200 (20.14%) DNS
3 173 (17.42%) DHCP
4 142 (14.30%) VPN
5 88 (8.86%) VLAN
5 88 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
6 70 (7.05%) VoIP
7 66 (6.65%) LAN
8 64 (6.45%) WAN
9 49 (4.93%) TCP/IP
10 36 (3.63%) Wireless
11 14 (1.41%) Internet
12 13 (1.31%) Network Security
13 11 (1.11%) Intranet
14 10 (1.01%) SAN
15 8 (0.81%) Broadband
15 8 (0.81%) WLAN
16 7 (0.70%) IPsec
16 7 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
17 6 (0.60%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (12.19%) Power BI
2 56 (5.64%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.11%) Metadata
4 11 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.30%) Power Query
8 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.20%) DataStage
8 2 (0.20%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.20%) MySQL
8 2 (0.20%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.10%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.10%) EDMS
9 1 (0.10%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 62 (6.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.50%) Postman
3 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.40%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.20%) Selenium
6 1 (0.10%) Carbide.c++
6 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 422 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 116 (11.68%) Finance
3 85 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (7.55%) Legal
5 72 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 45 (4.53%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.83%) Law
9 36 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.22%) Retail
12 20 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.21%) Advertising
15 11 (1.11%) Local Government
16 8 (0.81%) Marketing
17 6 (0.60%) Games
18 5 (0.50%) Banking
19 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
20 3 (0.30%) Billing
Job Titles
1 282 (28.40%) IT Support
2 169 (17.02%) Support Engineer
3 165 (16.62%) IT Engineer
4 141 (14.20%) Senior
5 140 (14.10%) IT Support Engineer
6 119 (11.98%) Analyst
7 102 (10.27%) Developer
8 81 (8.16%) Support Analyst
9 77 (7.75%) IT Technician
10 72 (7.25%) Support Technician
11 63 (6.34%) 2nd Line Support
11 63 (6.34%) IT Analyst
12 62 (6.24%) IT Support Technician
13 55 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (5.34%) IT Support Analyst
15 46 (4.63%) 3rd Line Support
16 44 (4.43%) Lead
16 44 (4.43%) Senior Developer
17 42 (4.23%) Consultant
18 40 (4.03%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.13%) HTML
2 40 (4.03%) .NET
3 36 (3.63%) CSS
4 35 (3.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 27 (2.72%) SPFx
6 25 (2.52%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (2.32%) JSON
8 19 (1.91%) .NET Core
9 12 (1.21%) REST
10 11 (1.11%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.01%) React
12 9 (0.91%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.70%) Web Services
13 7 (0.70%) XML
14 6 (0.60%) Node.js
14 6 (0.60%) Razor View Engine
15 5 (0.50%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (0.50%) Entity Framework
15 5 (0.50%) Swagger
16 4 (0.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (11.28%) Driving Licence
2 81 (8.16%) Onboarding
3 48 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.32%) Replication
6 20 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.21%) Clustering
9 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 9 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (0.91%) Low-Code
10 9 (0.91%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.81%) CMDB
11 8 (0.81%) Social Media
12 7 (0.70%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (0.70%) FMCG
12 7 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 398 (40.08%) Windows
2 203 (20.44%) Windows Server
3 92 (9.26%) Windows 10
4 68 (6.85%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.83%) Android
6 28 (2.82%) Apple iOS
7 22 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.91%) Linux
10 8 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.20%) Unix
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (31.22%) Problem-Solving
2 224 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 172 (17.32%) ITIL
4 167 (16.82%) Customer Service
5 137 (13.80%) Cybersecurity
6 116 (11.68%) Business Intelligence
7 99 (9.97%) Service Delivery
7 99 (9.97%) User Experience
8 88 (8.86%) Agile
9 83 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 75 (7.55%) Service Management
11 74 (7.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 70 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
13 69 (6.95%) CRM
13 69 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 64 (6.45%) Coaching
15 63 (6.34%) AI
16 62 (6.24%) Mentoring
16 62 (6.24%) Project Management
17 59 (5.94%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 140 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 113 (11.38%) SQL
3 45 (4.53%) C#
3 45 (4.53%) JavaScript
4 23 (2.32%) TypeScript
5 19 (1.91%) R
6 17 (1.71%) VBA
7 16 (1.61%) Python
8 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.50%) C
10 4 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.30%) Java
12 1 (0.10%) Bash
12 1 (0.10%) Bicep
12 1 (0.10%) C++
12 1 (0.10%) Ruby
12 1 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 145 (14.60%) Degree
2 82 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (6.14%) Security Cleared
4 44 (4.43%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.81%) A+ Certification
6 18 (1.81%) DBS Check
7 17 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.01%) CCNA
9 10 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.81%) HND
11 8 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (0.70%) APMP
12 7 (0.70%) MBA
13 6 (0.60%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 33 (3.32%) GDPR
4 27 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 27 (2.72%) SLA
5 23 (2.32%) QA
6 18 (1.81%) ISO 9001
7 17 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.81%) PMO
9 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 22301
10 4 (0.40%) NIST
11 3 (0.30%) COSHH
11 3 (0.30%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 1 (0.10%) AQAP
13 1 (0.10%) GxP
13 1 (0.10%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 391 (39.38%) Active Directory
2 94 (9.47%) Hyper-V
3 72 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.01%) vSphere
7 7 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.60%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.10%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.10%) XenApp
10 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 232 (23.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.52%) Jamf Pro
3 22 (2.22%) SCCM
4 19 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.11%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.91%) Backup Exec
7 8 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.70%) vRealize
9 4 (0.40%) Terraform
10 3 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.20%) cPanel
11 2 (0.20%) Plesk
12 1 (0.10%) Autotask
12 1 (0.10%) CASB
12 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 784 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 102 (10.27%) VMware
3 54 (5.44%) Apple
4 51 (5.14%) Cisco
4 51 (5.14%) Veeam
5 31 (3.12%) Meraki
6 27 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.32%) Adobe
8 21 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
9 20 (2.01%) SonicWALL
10 14 (1.41%) Ubiquiti
11 13 (1.31%) Datto
12 12 (1.21%) Sophos
13 11 (1.11%) Google
14 10 (1.01%) Aruba
14 10 (1.01%) Computacenter
14 10 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.01%) WatchGuard
15 9 (0.91%) Fortinet
15 9 (0.91%) Palo Alto