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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 156 95
Rank change year-on-year +25 -61 +52
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 916 640 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.36% 2.24% 2.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.65% 27.79% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 727 512 1,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,740 £38,695 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% -3.26% -5.88%
75th Percentile £58,522 £53,688 £52,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -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 2,310 2,303 6,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.44% 8.08% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 1,478 4,599
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,925 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +36 240 £42,500 +21.43% 63
South East -12 177 £50,000 +17.65% 90
Midlands -6 171 £38,250 -0.65% 54
East of England +25 159 £42,879 +28.00% 36
North West +44 136 £50,000 +17.65% 32
West Midlands +1 114 £42,500 -5.56% 31
Yorkshire -5 91 £35,500 +24.56% 26
South West -28 86 £29,000 -35.56% 38
East Midlands -26 57 £37,500 +7.14% 21
Scotland -1 40 £36,000 +9.09% 14
Wales -7 31 £40,000 +23.08% 8
North East -37 13 £51,000 +59.38% 6
Northern Ireland -34 8 £60,000 +14.29% 13
Isle of Man +2 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
1 331 (36.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.60%) Confluence
3 8 (0.87%) IIS
4 7 (0.76%) CMS
5 5 (0.55%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.33%) govService
7 2 (0.22%) SAS
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
Applications
1 79 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.11%) InDesign
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.33%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.11%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 718 (78.38%) Microsoft 365
2 407 (44.43%) Azure
3 287 (31.33%) Entra ID
4 216 (23.58%) OneDrive
5 196 (21.40%) Power Platform
6 106 (11.57%) Power Automate
6 106 (11.57%) PowerApps
7 50 (5.46%) SaaS
8 38 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 37 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 34 (3.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 32 (3.49%) Mimecast
12 29 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 18 (1.97%) AWS
17 14 (1.53%) Serverless
18 13 (1.42%) PaaS
19 11 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (19.87%) Firewall
2 181 (19.76%) DNS
3 154 (16.81%) DHCP
4 126 (13.76%) VPN
5 91 (9.93%) Wi-Fi
6 80 (8.73%) VLAN
7 74 (8.08%) WAN
8 73 (7.97%) LAN
9 59 (6.44%) VoIP
10 43 (4.69%) TCP/IP
11 25 (2.73%) Wireless
12 14 (1.53%) Internet
12 14 (1.53%) WLAN
13 11 (1.20%) Intranet
13 11 (1.20%) Network Security
14 10 (1.09%) IPsec
15 9 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (0.98%) SAN
16 7 (0.76%) Broadband
17 6 (0.66%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (12.77%) Power BI
2 57 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.20%) Metadata
6 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.44%) Power Query
10 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.22%) DataStage
11 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.11%) EDMS
12 1 (0.11%) GIS
12 1 (0.11%) MySQL
12 1 (0.11%) PowerCenter
12 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (6.00%) JIRA
2 5 (0.55%) Postman
3 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.44%) Git
4 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.22%) Selenium
5 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 367 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 102 (11.14%) Finance
3 74 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (6.66%) Organisational Skills
5 59 (6.44%) Legal
6 45 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.04%) Law
10 28 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.40%) Retail
12 16 (1.75%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.64%) Advertising
14 11 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.76%) Local Government
15 7 (0.76%) Marketing
16 5 (0.55%) Banking
16 5 (0.55%) Games
16 5 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 253 (27.62%) IT Support
2 148 (16.16%) Support Engineer
3 139 (15.17%) IT Engineer
4 130 (14.19%) Senior
5 117 (12.77%) IT Support Engineer
6 102 (11.14%) Analyst
7 95 (10.37%) Developer
8 78 (8.52%) Support Technician
9 77 (8.41%) IT Technician
10 67 (7.31%) Support Analyst
11 64 (6.99%) 2nd Line Support
11 64 (6.99%) IT Support Technician
12 50 (5.46%) IT Analyst
13 47 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.69%) Lead
15 42 (4.59%) IT Support Analyst
15 42 (4.59%) Senior Developer
16 41 (4.48%) 3rd Line Support
16 41 (4.48%) Consultant
17 39 (4.26%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.37%) .NET
2 34 (3.71%) HTML
3 33 (3.60%) CSS
4 32 (3.49%) Microsoft Graph
5 24 (2.62%) JSON
5 24 (2.62%) SPFx
6 23 (2.51%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (2.07%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.31%) REST
9 10 (1.09%) ASP.NET
10 9 (0.98%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.98%) React
11 6 (0.66%) Node.js
11 6 (0.66%) Web Services
12 5 (0.55%) Entity Framework
12 5 (0.55%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (0.55%) Swagger
13 4 (0.44%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (0.44%) Gherkin
13 4 (0.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.14%) Driving Licence
2 69 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.84%) Replication
6 16 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.09%) Clustering
10 10 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.87%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.87%) Social Media
12 7 (0.76%) CMDB
13 6 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (0.66%) FMCG
14 5 (0.55%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.44%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 358 (39.08%) Windows
2 181 (19.76%) Windows Server
3 77 (8.41%) Windows 10
4 54 (5.90%) Mac OS
5 44 (4.80%) Android
6 29 (3.17%) Apple iOS
7 19 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (1.64%) Linux
10 9 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.22%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) Unix
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
2 176 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 159 (17.36%) ITIL
4 143 (15.61%) Customer Service
5 109 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
6 108 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
7 92 (10.04%) User Experience
8 84 (9.17%) Agile
9 72 (7.86%) Service Delivery
10 70 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 65 (7.10%) CRM
12 64 (6.99%) Project Management
13 62 (6.77%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (6.66%) Disaster Recovery
15 60 (6.55%) Coaching
16 59 (6.44%) AI
16 59 (6.44%) ERP
16 59 (6.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 57 (6.22%) Mentoring
18 52 (5.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 124 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 97 (10.59%) SQL
3 40 (4.37%) C#
4 37 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.40%) TypeScript
6 18 (1.97%) VBA
7 17 (1.86%) R
8 16 (1.75%) Python
9 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.44%) C
11 4 (0.44%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.33%) Java
13 1 (0.11%) Bash
13 1 (0.11%) Bicep
13 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 136 (14.85%) Degree
2 72 (7.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 63 (6.88%) Security Cleared
4 44 (4.80%) SC Cleared
5 16 (1.75%) A+ Certification
5 16 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.42%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (0.87%) APMP
11 8 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.87%) MBA
12 7 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.66%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.38%) GDPR
4 26 (2.84%) SLA
5 23 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 19 (2.07%) QA
7 18 (1.97%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.09%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.87%) PMO
10 5 (0.55%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.44%) NIST
11 4 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 357 (38.97%) Active Directory
2 82 (8.95%) Hyper-V
3 58 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.87%) vSphere
8 6 (0.66%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.66%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.33%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.11%) Docker
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) XenApp
11 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 212 (23.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.18%) SCCM
2 20 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (1.20%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.98%) Backup Exec
5 9 (0.98%) vRealize
6 8 (0.87%) Terraform
7 7 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.11%) Autotask
8 1 (0.11%) CASB
8 1 (0.11%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.11%) MOM
Vendors
1 701 (76.53%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.39%) VMware
3 58 (6.33%) Apple
4 46 (5.02%) Veeam
5 36 (3.93%) Cisco
6 29 (3.17%) Adobe
7 26 (2.84%) Meraki
8 20 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
10 15 (1.64%) SonicWALL
11 11 (1.20%) Sophos
11 11 (1.20%) Ubiquiti
12 10 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.98%) Computacenter
13 9 (0.98%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.87%) Citrix
14 8 (0.87%) Logitech
14 8 (0.87%) WatchGuard
14 8 (0.87%) Yealink
15 7 (0.76%) Datto