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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 150 113
Rank change year-on-year +48 -37 +8
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,367 705 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.61% 2.07% 2.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 43.98% 29.70% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 558 723
10th Percentile £27,162 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £56,063 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,650
UK median annual salary £43,000 £42,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% -9.57% -6.00%

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 3,108 2,374 3,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.65% 6.96% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,201 1,601 2,132
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% -1.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +70 370 £42,500 +8.97% 112
South East +25 307 £45,000 +10.29% 172
East of England +61 237 £37,500 -10.71% 67
Midlands -10 196 £42,500 +8.28% 76
North West +44 177 £47,000 +17.50% 70
Yorkshire +44 154 £38,772 +33.70% 37
West Midlands -16 124 £47,085 +6.68% 38
South West -61 108 £37,500 - 64
Scotland +39 75 £31,500 -10.00% 36
East Midlands -29 72 £37,500 -2.60% 38
Wales -37 44 £32,000 -21.95% 12
North East -28 39 £46,250 +39.32% 6
Northern Ireland -51 31 £63,500 -9.29% 11
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
1 483 (35.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.41%) CMS
3 30 (2.19%) Confluence
4 27 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
5 18 (1.32%) IIS
6 15 (1.10%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.59%) Apache
7 8 (0.59%) 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 1 (0.073%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 130 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.05%) 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 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
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
11 2 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (4.24%) 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 1,034 (75.64%) Microsoft 365
2 585 (42.79%) Azure
3 477 (34.89%) Entra ID
4 351 (25.68%) Power Platform
5 305 (22.31%) OneDrive
6 209 (15.29%) PowerApps
7 203 (14.85%) Power Automate
8 137 (10.02%) Microsoft Copilot
9 87 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
10 84 (6.14%) SaaS
11 68 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 62 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
13 45 (3.29%) Mimecast
14 31 (2.27%) AWS
15 30 (2.19%) Copilot Studio
16 24 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
16 24 (1.76%) IaaS
17 20 (1.46%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.46%) Serverless
18 17 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 272 (19.90%) Firewall
2 256 (18.73%) DNS
3 219 (16.02%) DHCP
4 184 (13.46%) VPN
5 129 (9.44%) VLAN
6 123 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
7 89 (6.51%) VoIP
8 86 (6.29%) TCP/IP
9 84 (6.14%) Wireless
10 68 (4.97%) LAN
10 68 (4.97%) WAN
11 28 (2.05%) Network Security
12 21 (1.54%) SSL
13 16 (1.17%) Skype
14 15 (1.10%) PBX
15 14 (1.02%) Intranet
16 13 (0.95%) Internet
17 12 (0.88%) Broadband
17 12 (0.88%) SAN
18 11 (0.80%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (12.73%) Power BI
2 51 (3.73%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (0.88%) Metadata
5 11 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.66%) GIS
7 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.29%) Power Query
9 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.22%) EDMS
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.073%) MySQL
11 1 (0.073%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.073%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (5.78%) JIRA
2 26 (1.90%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 685 (50.11%) Social Skills
2 204 (14.92%) Finance
3 140 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (8.78%) Organisational Skills
5 89 (6.51%) Legal
6 72 (5.27%) Manufacturing
7 71 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 43 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.85%) Marketing
10 35 (2.56%) Law
11 33 (2.41%) Retail
12 28 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (2.05%) Publishing
13 27 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.61%) Local Government
16 12 (0.88%) Advertising
16 12 (0.88%) Games
17 10 (0.73%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (24.95%) IT Support
2 233 (17.04%) Support Engineer
3 220 (16.09%) IT Engineer
4 214 (15.65%) Senior
5 197 (14.41%) IT Support Engineer
6 146 (10.68%) Developer
7 140 (10.24%) Analyst
8 99 (7.24%) Support Analyst
9 86 (6.29%) IT Technician
10 72 (5.27%) 2nd Line Support
11 68 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 67 (4.90%) Support Technician
13 65 (4.75%) Administrator
13 65 (4.75%) Lead
14 62 (4.54%) Consultant
15 57 (4.17%) IT Analyst
15 57 (4.17%) IT Support Technician
16 50 (3.66%) IT Support Analyst
17 49 (3.58%) 1st Line Support
18 48 (3.51%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (4.10%) HTML
2 43 (3.15%) CSS
3 37 (2.71%) Microsoft Graph
4 31 (2.27%) .NET
5 30 (2.19%) HTML5 Canvas
6 29 (2.12%) SPFx
7 27 (1.98%) JSON
8 14 (1.02%) .NET Core
8 14 (1.02%) REST
8 14 (1.02%) XML
9 13 (0.95%) React
10 11 (0.80%) ASP.NET
11 9 (0.66%) Terraform
12 8 (0.59%) .NET Framework
12 8 (0.59%) XSLT
13 7 (0.51%) Middleware
13 7 (0.51%) Playwright
13 7 (0.51%) Razor View Engine
14 5 (0.37%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 156 (11.41%) Driving Licence
2 138 (10.10%) Onboarding
3 130 (9.51%) Management Information System
4 73 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.98%) Blog
6 27 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
7 25 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 21 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 18 (1.32%) Clustering
11 16 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
12 15 (1.10%) Web Conferencing
13 14 (1.02%) CMDB
14 12 (0.88%) CCTV
15 11 (0.80%) iPad
16 10 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 542 (39.65%) Windows
2 270 (19.75%) Windows Server
3 99 (7.24%) Windows 10
4 78 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 38 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 32 (2.34%) Linux
7 31 (2.27%) Android
8 25 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.29%) VMS
13 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.073%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (33.72%) Problem-Solving
2 334 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 268 (19.60%) Customer Service
4 223 (16.31%) Cybersecurity
5 190 (13.90%) ITIL
6 178 (13.02%) AI
7 155 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
8 149 (10.90%) Service Delivery
9 140 (10.24%) Project Delivery
10 135 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 132 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 125 (9.14%) CRM
13 123 (9.00%) Service Management
14 122 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 110 (8.05%) Agile
16 103 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
17 102 (7.46%) Project Management
18 99 (7.24%) Mentoring
19 98 (7.17%) Workflow
20 96 (7.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 194 (14.19%) PowerShell
2 117 (8.56%) SQL
3 76 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 73 (5.34%) C#
5 26 (1.90%) Python
6 23 (1.68%) R
7 21 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.88%) VBA
9 11 (0.80%) Ruby
10 8 (0.59%) C
11 6 (0.44%) 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%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.073%) PHP
Qualifications
1 190 (13.90%) Degree
2 140 (10.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 63 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 44 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.49%) DBS Check
7 33 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
9 22 (1.61%) CCNA
10 20 (1.46%) A+ Certification
10 20 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (0.95%) HND
13 10 (0.73%) HNC
13 10 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (0.66%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.66%) MCSE
15 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.44%) MCSA
17 5 (0.37%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 78 (5.71%) GDPR
3 59 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (3.73%) SLA
5 40 (2.93%) Accessibility
6 34 (2.49%) QA
7 23 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (1.54%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.24%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.80%) 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 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.15%) IEC 61131
17 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 514 (37.60%) Active Directory
2 143 (10.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (10.24%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.39%) vSphere
6 17 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 11 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.66%) 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
1 318 (23.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.98%) SCCM
3 20 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
4 17 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.37%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.22%) cPanel
7 3 (0.22%) Plesk
7 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.15%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.15%) vRealize
9 1 (0.073%) Nessus
9 1 (0.073%) WMI
9 1 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,154 (84.42%) Microsoft
2 164 (12.00%) VMware
3 80 (5.85%) Cisco
4 71 (5.19%) Veeam
5 58 (4.24%) Apple
6 44 (3.22%) SonicWALL
7 34 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 28 (2.05%) Sitecore
9 27 (1.98%) Google
10 26 (1.90%) Adobe
10 26 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
10 26 (1.90%) Meraki
11 24 (1.76%) HP
12 20 (1.46%) Datto
13 18 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 18 (1.32%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.32%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.17%) WatchGuard
15 14 (1.02%) Aruba
15 14 (1.02%) Citrix