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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 163 109
Rank change year-on-year +60 -54 +16
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,368 719 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.58% 2.08% 2.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 43.29% 30.31% 29.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 555 694
10th Percentile £27,146 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.70%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £42,879 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% -10.53% -5.00%

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 3,160 2,372 3,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.65% 6.86% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,204 1,576 2,006
10th Percentile £28,325 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,188 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,762
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.37% +1.29%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +70 373 £42,500 +6.25% 181
South East +26 308 £41,250 +0.61% 222
East of England +49 232 £37,000 -11.90% 110
Midlands -6 191 £42,500 +10.39% 117
North West +42 179 £44,000 +10.00% 100
Yorkshire +43 154 £40,000 +37.93% 60
West Midlands -8 121 £47,500 +6.74% 59
South West -60 112 £37,000 -1.33% 98
Scotland +19 79 £31,500 -10.00% 123
East Midlands -32 70 £37,500 +2.04% 58
Wales -37 43 £32,000 -21.95% 45
North East -25 40 £46,250 -31.48% 21
Northern Ireland -53 31 £63,500 -9.29% 14
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
1 475 (34.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.41%) CMS
3 29 (2.12%) Confluence
4 27 (1.97%) Sitecore CMS
5 18 (1.32%) IIS
6 16 (1.17%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.58%) Apache
7 8 (0.58%) nginx
8 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 137 (10.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (8.19%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.95%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.73%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.29%) Trello
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.22%) Revit
11 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.073%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 57 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.17%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.37%) Shopify
5 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,031 (75.37%) Microsoft 365
2 576 (42.11%) Azure
3 474 (34.65%) Entra ID
4 353 (25.80%) Power Platform
5 321 (23.46%) OneDrive
6 212 (15.50%) PowerApps
7 202 (14.77%) Power Automate
8 146 (10.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 88 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
10 80 (5.85%) SaaS
11 70 (5.12%) Microsoft Purview
12 62 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
13 42 (3.07%) Mimecast
14 33 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
15 31 (2.27%) AWS
16 24 (1.75%) IaaS
17 21 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (1.54%) Serverless
18 20 (1.46%) Google Workspace
19 15 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 271 (19.81%) Firewall
2 261 (19.08%) DNS
3 225 (16.45%) DHCP
4 189 (13.82%) VPN
5 137 (10.01%) VLAN
6 121 (8.85%) Wi-Fi
7 89 (6.51%) TCP/IP
8 88 (6.43%) Wireless
9 87 (6.36%) VoIP
10 71 (5.19%) WAN
11 70 (5.12%) LAN
12 29 (2.12%) Network Security
13 22 (1.61%) SSL
14 17 (1.24%) Skype
15 15 (1.10%) PBX
16 13 (0.95%) Cisco Wireless
16 13 (0.95%) Intranet
17 11 (0.80%) Broadband
17 11 (0.80%) Internet
17 11 (0.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (12.57%) Power BI
2 49 (3.58%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (0.80%) Metadata
5 10 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.66%) GIS
7 6 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.29%) Power Query
8 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.22%) EDMS
9 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
11 1 (0.073%) MySQL
11 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.073%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (5.56%) JIRA
2 28 (2.05%) Git
3 5 (0.37%) Postman
4 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.22%) JUnit
5 3 (0.22%) Mockito
5 3 (0.22%) Selenium
5 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.073%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.073%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.073%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 686 (50.15%) Social Skills
2 202 (14.77%) Finance
3 141 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (9.06%) Organisational Skills
5 87 (6.36%) Legal
6 76 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 71 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 43 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.92%) Marketing
10 37 (2.70%) Law
11 34 (2.49%) Retail
12 29 (2.12%) Publishing
13 26 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.75%) Local Government
15 23 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.80%) Games
16 11 (0.80%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.73%) Advertising
18 9 (0.66%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 335 (24.49%) IT Support
2 226 (16.52%) Support Engineer
3 213 (15.57%) IT Engineer
4 201 (14.69%) Senior
5 190 (13.89%) IT Support Engineer
6 143 (10.45%) Analyst
7 142 (10.38%) Developer
8 100 (7.31%) Support Analyst
9 83 (6.07%) IT Technician
10 70 (5.12%) Administrator
11 68 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 67 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support
13 64 (4.68%) Consultant
14 63 (4.61%) Lead
14 63 (4.61%) Support Technician
15 58 (4.24%) IT Analyst
16 55 (4.02%) IT Support Technician
17 51 (3.73%) IT Support Analyst
18 49 (3.58%) 1st Line Support
19 45 (3.29%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.95%) HTML
2 39 (2.85%) CSS
3 36 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 27 (1.97%) .NET
4 27 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
5 26 (1.90%) SPFx
6 24 (1.75%) JSON
7 13 (0.95%) REST
7 13 (0.95%) XML
8 12 (0.88%) React
9 11 (0.80%) .NET Core
10 10 (0.73%) ASP.NET
10 10 (0.73%) Terraform
11 8 (0.58%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.58%) Middleware
11 8 (0.58%) XSLT
12 7 (0.51%) Playwright
12 7 (0.51%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (0.37%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 159 (11.62%) Driving Licence
2 147 (10.75%) Onboarding
3 133 (9.72%) Management Information System
4 76 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.97%) Blog
6 27 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
7 24 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 23 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.24%) Clustering
11 16 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 16 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
12 15 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
13 14 (1.02%) CMDB
14 13 (0.95%) CCTV
15 11 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.80%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 540 (39.47%) Windows
2 268 (19.59%) Windows Server
3 95 (6.94%) Windows 10
4 77 (5.63%) Mac OS
5 37 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 31 (2.27%) Linux
7 28 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (1.97%) Android
9 21 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.58%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.22%) VMS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.073%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
2 338 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 276 (20.18%) Customer Service
4 226 (16.52%) Cybersecurity
5 185 (13.52%) ITIL
6 182 (13.30%) AI
7 153 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
8 147 (10.75%) Service Delivery
9 142 (10.38%) Project Delivery
10 137 (10.01%) Disaster Recovery
11 130 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 125 (9.14%) Service Management
13 124 (9.06%) CRM
14 122 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 111 (8.11%) Agile
16 101 (7.38%) Migration
17 100 (7.31%) Project Management
18 98 (7.16%) Mentoring
19 94 (6.87%) ERP
20 91 (6.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 189 (13.82%) PowerShell
2 114 (8.33%) SQL
3 74 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 70 (5.12%) C#
5 27 (1.97%) Python
6 19 (1.39%) R
7 18 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.95%) Ruby
9 11 (0.80%) VBA
10 8 (0.58%) C
11 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.29%) Bicep
12 4 (0.29%) Java
13 3 (0.22%) C++
13 3 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
15 1 (0.073%) Bash
15 1 (0.073%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.073%) PHP
Qualifications
1 190 (13.89%) Degree
2 137 (10.01%) Microsoft Certification
3 62 (4.53%) Security Cleared
4 52 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 44 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 24 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
8 22 (1.61%) CCNA
9 21 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.39%) A+ Certification
11 14 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (0.95%) HND
13 10 (0.73%) HNC
14 9 (0.66%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (0.66%) MCSE
15 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.44%) CIPD
16 6 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.99%) Cyber Essentials
1 82 (5.99%) GDPR
2 54 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (3.87%) SLA
4 42 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 35 (2.56%) QA
6 24 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.24%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.80%) WCAG
10 8 (0.58%) PMO
11 7 (0.51%) NIST
12 6 (0.44%) ISO 14001
13 5 (0.37%) COSHH
13 5 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.29%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.15%) IEC 61131
16 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 511 (37.35%) Active Directory
2 145 (10.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (9.87%) Hyper-V
4 31 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.32%) vSphere
6 16 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 12 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.073%) Docker
10 1 (0.073%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 311 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.12%) SCCM
3 21 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
4 17 (1.24%) FortiGate
5 15 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.44%) Ansible
7 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.22%) Autotask
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
8 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.22%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.15%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.15%) vRealize
10 1 (0.073%) N-central
10 1 (0.073%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,164 (85.09%) Microsoft
2 166 (12.13%) VMware
3 83 (6.07%) Cisco
4 70 (5.12%) Veeam
5 58 (4.24%) Apple
6 47 (3.44%) SonicWALL
7 33 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 28 (2.05%) Sitecore
9 27 (1.97%) Google
10 26 (1.90%) HP
10 26 (1.90%) Meraki
11 23 (1.68%) Adobe
12 22 (1.61%) Datto
12 22 (1.61%) Fortinet
13 21 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (1.54%) WatchGuard
14 20 (1.46%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.39%) Salesforce
16 14 (1.02%) Aruba
16 14 (1.02%) Citrix