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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 153 102
Rank change year-on-year +40 -51 +33
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,082 737 1,745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.51% 2.18% 2.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.42% 28.30% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 878 585 1,426
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,688
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
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 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £66,250
UK median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.53% - -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 2,745 2,604 6,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.83% 7.70% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 1,712 4,139
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,599 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -12.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £71,991
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 July 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 July 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 +63 292 £42,500 +19.06% 78
South East -10 224 £50,000 +33.33% 107
East of England +44 190 £42,500 +5.59% 32
Midlands -7 165 £38,250 -0.65% 28
North West +41 149 £50,000 +25.00% 44
Yorkshire +24 122 £40,000 +40.35% 21
West Midlands -3 105 £43,750 -1.19% 17
South West -35 99 £32,500 -25.71% 37
Scotland +35 60 £28,500 -21.38% 18
East Midlands -18 60 £37,500 +3.45% 11
Wales -20 39 £40,000 -1.23% 2
North East -45 21 £43,136 +34.80% 14
Northern Ireland -52 9 £62,500 +19.05% 1
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
1 390 (36.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.68%) Confluence
3 12 (1.11%) CMS
4 10 (0.92%) IIS
5 9 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.092%) Apache
9 1 (0.092%) nginx
Applications
1 77 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.92%) CorelDRAW
5 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.092%) InDesign
9 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.092%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.55%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.37%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.28%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.18%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.092%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.092%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 1 (0.092%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 866 (80.04%) Microsoft 365
2 512 (47.32%) Azure
3 370 (34.20%) Entra ID
4 248 (22.92%) OneDrive
5 241 (22.27%) Power Platform
6 146 (13.49%) Power Automate
7 144 (13.31%) PowerApps
8 79 (7.30%) Microsoft Copilot
9 67 (6.19%) SaaS
10 51 (4.71%) Mimecast
11 47 (4.34%) Dynamics 365
12 44 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
13 42 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 24 (2.22%) AWS
16 24 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 14 (1.29%) PaaS
19 13 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (21.16%) Firewall
2 221 (20.43%) DNS
3 193 (17.84%) DHCP
4 153 (14.14%) VPN
5 102 (9.43%) VLAN
6 100 (9.24%) Wi-Fi
7 79 (7.30%) VoIP
8 73 (6.75%) LAN
9 70 (6.47%) WAN
10 68 (6.28%) TCP/IP
11 58 (5.36%) Wireless
12 19 (1.76%) Network Security
13 12 (1.11%) Internet
13 12 (1.11%) SAN
14 10 (0.92%) Broadband
15 9 (0.83%) Intranet
15 9 (0.83%) Skype
16 8 (0.74%) PBX
16 8 (0.74%) WLAN
17 7 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (11.83%) Power BI
2 50 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.20%) Metadata
5 9 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.28%) Power Query
8 2 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.18%) DataStage
8 2 (0.18%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.18%) MySQL
8 2 (0.18%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.18%) Tableau
9 1 (0.092%) EDMS
9 1 (0.092%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 70 (6.47%) JIRA
2 5 (0.46%) Postman
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) Git
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.18%) Selenium
4 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.092%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 476 (43.99%) Social Skills
2 136 (12.57%) Finance
3 97 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (8.13%) Legal
5 82 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 46 (4.25%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.79%) Law
9 33 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (2.31%) Retail
12 24 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.20%) Local Government
14 10 (0.92%) Advertising
15 8 (0.74%) Banking
15 8 (0.74%) Marketing
16 7 (0.65%) Games
17 4 (0.37%) Military
17 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 322 (29.76%) IT Support
2 191 (17.65%) IT Engineer
2 191 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 167 (15.43%) IT Support Engineer
4 154 (14.23%) Senior
5 129 (11.92%) Analyst
6 119 (11.00%) Developer
7 88 (8.13%) Support Analyst
8 86 (7.95%) IT Technician
9 75 (6.93%) Support Technician
10 70 (6.47%) IT Analyst
11 65 (6.01%) IT Support Technician
12 63 (5.82%) 2nd Line Support
13 60 (5.55%) IT Support Analyst
14 58 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 52 (4.81%) 3rd Line Support
16 49 (4.53%) Senior Developer
17 47 (4.34%) Administrator
18 45 (4.16%) Lead
19 42 (3.88%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.34%) HTML
2 40 (3.70%) .NET
2 40 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 38 (3.51%) CSS
4 32 (2.96%) SPFx
5 29 (2.68%) HTML5 Canvas
6 23 (2.13%) JSON
7 19 (1.76%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.11%) ASP.NET
8 12 (1.11%) REST
9 11 (1.02%) React
10 9 (0.83%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.83%) XML
11 7 (0.65%) Razor View Engine
12 6 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.55%) Node.js
12 6 (0.55%) Web Services
13 5 (0.46%) Entity Framework
13 5 (0.46%) Swagger
14 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 129 (11.92%) Driving Licence
2 92 (8.50%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.55%) Management Information System
4 42 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.76%) Replication
8 14 (1.29%) Clustering
8 14 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.92%) CMDB
10 10 (0.92%) Security Posture
10 10 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.83%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.83%) CCTV
11 9 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
11 9 (0.83%) Data Centre
11 9 (0.83%) IoT
12 8 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 433 (40.02%) Windows
2 226 (20.89%) Windows Server
3 102 (9.43%) Windows 10
4 74 (6.84%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.51%) Android
6 27 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.85%) Linux
7 20 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.28%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
2 262 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 201 (18.58%) Customer Service
4 185 (17.10%) ITIL
5 158 (14.60%) Cybersecurity
6 127 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
7 111 (10.26%) Service Delivery
8 104 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 102 (9.43%) User Experience
10 97 (8.96%) Agile
11 91 (8.41%) Service Management
12 87 (8.04%) AI
12 87 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 85 (7.86%) Disaster Recovery
14 84 (7.76%) Technical Leadership
15 81 (7.49%) CRM
16 79 (7.30%) Project Delivery
17 71 (6.56%) Mentoring
17 71 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 69 (6.38%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (14.42%) PowerShell
2 117 (10.81%) SQL
3 57 (5.27%) JavaScript
4 52 (4.81%) C#
5 28 (2.59%) R
6 26 (2.40%) Python
7 25 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.57%) VBA
9 7 (0.65%) C
9 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.37%) Ruby
10 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.28%) C++
11 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.28%) Java
12 1 (0.092%) Bash
12 1 (0.092%) Bicep
12 1 (0.092%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.092%) VB
Qualifications
1 162 (14.97%) Degree
2 94 (8.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 60 (5.55%) Security Cleared
4 50 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 27 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 19 (1.76%) A+ Certification
9 17 (1.57%) CCNA
10 14 (1.29%) HND
11 13 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
14 10 (0.92%) HNC
15 6 (0.55%) APMP
15 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (5.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 49 (4.53%) GDPR
4 29 (2.68%) QA
5 27 (2.50%) SLA
6 23 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (1.85%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.85%) ISO 9001
8 11 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.74%) PMO
10 7 (0.65%) NIST
11 5 (0.46%) COSHH
11 5 (0.46%) ISO 14001
11 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.18%) NCSC
15 1 (0.092%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 436 (40.30%) Active Directory
2 106 (9.80%) Hyper-V
3 91 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.76%) vSphere
5 16 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.55%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.092%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.092%) XenApp
11 1 (0.092%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 254 (23.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
3 20 (1.85%) SCCM
4 17 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.65%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.37%) vRealize
9 3 (0.28%) cPanel
9 3 (0.28%) Plesk
9 3 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.092%) Autotask
11 1 (0.092%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.092%) Nessus
11 1 (0.092%) Terraform
11 1 (0.092%) WSUS
Vendors
1 882 (81.52%) Microsoft
2 115 (10.63%) VMware
3 65 (6.01%) Cisco
4 56 (5.18%) Veeam
5 50 (4.62%) Apple
6 34 (3.14%) Meraki
7 30 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
7 30 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.22%) Adobe
9 22 (2.03%) SonicWALL
10 16 (1.48%) Ubiquiti
11 14 (1.29%) Aruba
11 14 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.29%) Sophos
12 12 (1.11%) Datto
12 12 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.92%) Foundry
14 10 (0.92%) Google
14 10 (0.92%) Sage