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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 156 112
Rank change year-on-year +53 -44 +13
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,362 718 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 2.08% 2.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 42.94% 30.19% 30.40%
Number of salaries quoted 996 549 678
10th Percentile £27,081 £26,450 £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 £55,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -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 3,172 2,378 3,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.67% 6.88% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,187 1,592 1,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,525 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,299
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +2.73%

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 10 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 10 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 +77 372 £42,500 +6.25% 156
South East +26 309 £40,000 -1.48% 157
East of England +57 229 £36,500 -11.52% 77
Midlands -3 192 £42,500 +10.39% 95
North West +55 179 £44,000 +10.00% 100
Yorkshire +50 152 £40,000 +37.93% 50
West Midlands -6 119 £50,000 +13.64% 59
South West -59 110 £36,250 +0.69% 83
Scotland +9 81 £31,500 -10.00% 63
East Midlands -28 73 £37,500 +3.45% 36
North East -33 41 £47,500 -29.63% 8
Wales -47 38 £32,000 -21.95% 12
Northern Ireland -48 32 £50,750 -27.50% 12
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
1 469 (34.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (2.50%) CMS
3 27 (1.98%) Confluence
3 27 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
4 16 (1.17%) IIS
4 16 (1.17%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.59%) Apache
5 8 (0.59%) nginx
6 5 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
7 3 (0.22%) SAS
7 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 137 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (8.52%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.95%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.73%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.37%) Trello
10 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.22%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.22%) Revit
12 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.15%) Simulink
12 2 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 57 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.25%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.073%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (75.84%) Microsoft 365
2 571 (41.92%) Azure
3 471 (34.58%) Entra ID
4 354 (25.99%) Power Platform
5 326 (23.94%) OneDrive
6 213 (15.64%) PowerApps
7 205 (15.05%) Power Automate
8 155 (11.38%) Microsoft Copilot
9 88 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
10 79 (5.80%) SaaS
11 71 (5.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 61 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
13 41 (3.01%) Mimecast
14 36 (2.64%) Copilot Studio
15 28 (2.06%) AWS
16 22 (1.62%) IaaS
16 22 (1.62%) Serverless
17 20 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (1.47%) Google Workspace
18 15 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 264 (19.38%) Firewall
2 259 (19.02%) DNS
3 227 (16.67%) DHCP
4 186 (13.66%) VPN
5 140 (10.28%) VLAN
6 119 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
7 90 (6.61%) TCP/IP
7 90 (6.61%) Wireless
8 88 (6.46%) VoIP
9 68 (4.99%) LAN
9 68 (4.99%) WAN
10 31 (2.28%) Network Security
11 22 (1.62%) SSL
12 17 (1.25%) Skype
13 15 (1.10%) PBX
14 14 (1.03%) Cisco Wireless
15 11 (0.81%) Intranet
15 11 (0.81%) SAN
16 10 (0.73%) Broadband
16 10 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (12.41%) Power BI
2 47 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (0.88%) Metadata
5 10 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.66%) GIS
7 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.29%) EDMS
8 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.22%) Power Query
9 3 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.073%) MySQL
11 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.073%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (5.51%) JIRA
2 28 (2.06%) 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
6 2 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.073%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 680 (49.93%) Social Skills
2 200 (14.68%) Finance
3 142 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
5 89 (6.53%) Legal
6 78 (5.73%) Manufacturing
7 68 (4.99%) Public Sector
8 42 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.94%) Marketing
10 37 (2.72%) Law
11 34 (2.50%) Retail
12 30 (2.20%) Publishing
13 27 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.84%) Local Government
14 25 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.81%) Games
16 11 (0.81%) Legal Technology
17 9 (0.66%) Advertising
17 9 (0.66%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 332 (24.38%) IT Support
2 225 (16.52%) Support Engineer
3 210 (15.42%) IT Engineer
4 191 (14.02%) Senior
5 187 (13.73%) IT Support Engineer
6 141 (10.35%) Developer
7 140 (10.28%) Analyst
8 99 (7.27%) Support Analyst
9 83 (6.09%) IT Technician
10 75 (5.51%) Administrator
11 65 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 64 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support
13 63 (4.63%) Lead
14 61 (4.48%) Consultant
14 61 (4.48%) Support Technician
15 60 (4.41%) IT Analyst
16 54 (3.96%) IT Support Technician
17 53 (3.89%) IT Support Analyst
18 49 (3.60%) 1st Line Support
19 46 (3.38%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.96%) HTML
2 38 (2.79%) CSS
3 34 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 25 (1.84%) HTML5 Canvas
4 25 (1.84%) SPFx
5 24 (1.76%) .NET
6 21 (1.54%) JSON
7 15 (1.10%) REST
8 13 (0.95%) XML
9 11 (0.81%) React
10 9 (0.66%) .NET Core
10 9 (0.66%) ASP.NET
10 9 (0.66%) Terraform
11 8 (0.59%) Middleware
11 8 (0.59%) XSLT
12 7 (0.51%) .NET Framework
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
1 165 (12.11%) Driving Licence
2 153 (11.23%) Onboarding
3 133 (9.77%) Management Information System
4 75 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (2.57%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.98%) Blog
6 27 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
7 24 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 24 (1.76%) Product Ownership
8 21 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.25%) Clustering
11 17 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
12 16 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.10%) CCTV
13 15 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
14 14 (1.03%) CMDB
15 12 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 538 (39.50%) Windows
2 265 (19.46%) Windows Server
3 95 (6.98%) Windows 10
4 73 (5.36%) Mac OS
5 39 (2.86%) Apple iOS
6 29 (2.13%) Linux
7 28 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (1.84%) Android
9 21 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.59%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.22%) VMS
14 1 (0.073%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (24.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 279 (20.48%) Customer Service
4 222 (16.30%) Cybersecurity
5 186 (13.66%) AI
6 184 (13.51%) ITIL
7 151 (11.09%) Business Intelligence
8 144 (10.57%) Service Delivery
9 140 (10.28%) Project Delivery
10 134 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
11 128 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 125 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 123 (9.03%) Service Management
14 122 (8.96%) CRM
15 108 (7.93%) Agile
16 100 (7.34%) Migration
16 100 (7.34%) Project Management
17 93 (6.83%) Mentoring
17 93 (6.83%) Workflow
18 92 (6.75%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 185 (13.58%) PowerShell
2 107 (7.86%) SQL
3 75 (5.51%) JavaScript
4 70 (5.14%) C#
5 26 (1.91%) Python
6 19 (1.40%) R
7 16 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.03%) Ruby
9 9 (0.66%) VBA
10 8 (0.59%) C
11 4 (0.29%) Bicep
11 4 (0.29%) Java
11 4 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.22%) C++
13 2 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.073%) Bash
14 1 (0.073%) PHP
Qualifications
1 190 (13.95%) Degree
2 135 (9.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 59 (4.33%) Security Cleared
4 49 (3.60%) SC Cleared
5 44 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.64%) DBS Check
7 23 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
8 22 (1.62%) CCNA
9 21 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.40%) A+ Certification
11 14 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (0.95%) HND
13 10 (0.73%) HNC
14 9 (0.66%) MCSE
15 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.51%) DV Cleared
17 6 (0.44%) CIPD
17 6 (0.44%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 78 (5.73%) GDPR
3 53 (3.89%) SLA
4 51 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 37 (2.72%) QA
7 24 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (1.54%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.32%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.88%) WCAG
11 8 (0.59%) PMO
12 7 (0.51%) NIST
13 6 (0.44%) ISO 14001
14 5 (0.37%) COSHH
14 5 (0.37%) NCSC
14 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.29%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.15%) IEC 61131
16 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 1 (0.073%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 509 (37.37%) Active Directory
2 144 (10.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (9.69%) Hyper-V
4 30 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.32%) vSphere
6 15 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 12 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.073%) Docker
10 1 (0.073%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 309 (22.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.20%) SCCM
3 20 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
4 15 (1.10%) FortiGate
5 14 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.44%) Ansible
7 4 (0.29%) Autotask
7 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
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
10 1 (0.073%) vRealize
10 1 (0.073%) WMI
10 1 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,161 (85.24%) Microsoft
2 163 (11.97%) VMware
3 84 (6.17%) Cisco
4 67 (4.92%) Veeam
5 60 (4.41%) Apple
6 47 (3.45%) SonicWALL
7 32 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 29 (2.13%) HP
9 28 (2.06%) Sitecore
10 27 (1.98%) Google
11 26 (1.91%) Meraki
12 23 (1.69%) Datto
13 21 (1.54%) Adobe
13 21 (1.54%) Salesforce
13 21 (1.54%) WatchGuard
14 20 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
14 20 (1.47%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.47%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.03%) Aruba
15 14 (1.03%) HubSpot