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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 146 101
Rank change year-on-year +31 -45 +36
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,116 745 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 2.18% 2.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.37% 28.34% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 902 588 1,210
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -9.41% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,625 £63,750 £68,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%

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 2,835 2,629 5,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.85% 7.70% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,144 1,739 3,475
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.81%

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 28 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 28 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 +52 304 £42,500 +21.43% 78
South East +2 236 £50,000 +26.58% 117
East of England +44 197 £40,000 -1.23% 42
Midlands -20 159 £39,000 -2.50% 38
North West +43 152 £50,000 +25.00% 40
Yorkshire +25 128 £40,000 +40.35% 24
South West -34 102 £33,500 -21.18% 34
West Midlands -5 100 £42,500 -4.79% 21
Scotland +51 66 £28,500 -24.00% 22
East Midlands -30 59 £37,500 +3.45% 17
Wales -29 39 £39,250 -3.09% 6
North East -30 24 £47,500 +48.44% 15
Northern Ireland -60 9 £62,500 +19.05% 2
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
1 407 (36.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.69%) Confluence
3 13 (1.16%) IIS
4 11 (0.99%) CMS
5 10 (0.90%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 81 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.90%) CorelDRAW
4 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.090%) InDesign
9 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.090%) Revit
Business Applications
1 22 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.54%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.18%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.090%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.090%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.090%) Shopify
9 1 (0.090%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 901 (80.73%) Microsoft 365
2 523 (46.86%) Azure
3 391 (35.04%) Entra ID
4 258 (23.12%) OneDrive
5 256 (22.94%) Power Platform
6 157 (14.07%) Power Automate
7 151 (13.53%) PowerApps
8 88 (7.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 72 (6.45%) SaaS
10 52 (4.66%) Mimecast
11 50 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 46 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 25 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 24 (2.15%) AWS
17 23 (2.06%) Copilot Studio
18 21 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 16 (1.43%) IaaS
19 16 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 233 (20.88%) Firewall
2 226 (20.25%) DNS
3 196 (17.56%) DHCP
4 156 (13.98%) VPN
5 104 (9.32%) VLAN
6 103 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
7 83 (7.44%) VoIP
8 72 (6.45%) LAN
9 70 (6.27%) TCP/IP
10 68 (6.09%) WAN
11 59 (5.29%) Wireless
12 21 (1.88%) Network Security
13 13 (1.16%) SAN
14 12 (1.08%) Broadband
14 12 (1.08%) Internet
14 12 (1.08%) SSL
15 11 (0.99%) Skype
16 9 (0.81%) Intranet
16 9 (0.81%) PBX
17 8 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.65%) Power BI
2 49 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.16%) Metadata
5 9 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.36%) Power Query
8 3 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.18%) DataStage
9 2 (0.18%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.18%) MySQL
9 2 (0.18%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.18%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.090%) EDMS
10 1 (0.090%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 74 (6.63%) JIRA
2 5 (0.45%) Git
2 5 (0.45%) Postman
3 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.090%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 495 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 142 (12.72%) Finance
3 107 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.60%) Legal
5 78 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (5.29%) Manufacturing
7 45 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.58%) Law
9 33 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (2.33%) Retail
12 25 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.16%) Local Government
14 11 (0.99%) Advertising
15 9 (0.81%) Marketing
16 8 (0.72%) Banking
17 7 (0.63%) Games
18 5 (0.45%) Military
19 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (28.94%) IT Support
2 192 (17.20%) IT Engineer
2 192 (17.20%) Support Engineer
3 170 (15.23%) IT Support Engineer
4 163 (14.61%) Senior
5 126 (11.29%) Analyst
6 123 (11.02%) Developer
7 89 (7.97%) IT Technician
8 85 (7.62%) Support Analyst
9 78 (6.99%) Support Technician
10 67 (6.00%) IT Analyst
10 67 (6.00%) IT Support Technician
11 62 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
11 62 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 58 (5.20%) IT Support Analyst
13 50 (4.48%) Senior Developer
14 49 (4.39%) Administrator
15 48 (4.30%) 3rd Line Support
15 48 (4.30%) Consultant
15 48 (4.30%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (4.48%) HTML
2 41 (3.67%) CSS
2 41 (3.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 40 (3.58%) .NET
4 33 (2.96%) SPFx
5 31 (2.78%) HTML5 Canvas
6 24 (2.15%) JSON
7 19 (1.70%) .NET Core
8 13 (1.16%) REST
9 12 (1.08%) ASP.NET
10 11 (0.99%) React
11 9 (0.81%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.81%) XML
12 7 (0.63%) Razor View Engine
13 6 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.54%) Node.js
13 6 (0.54%) Web Services
14 5 (0.45%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.45%) Swagger
15 4 (0.36%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 131 (11.74%) Driving Licence
2 94 (8.42%) Onboarding
3 66 (5.91%) Management Information System
4 45 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.61%) Replication
8 16 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.43%) Clustering
9 15 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.34%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (0.99%) CMDB
11 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.81%) CCTV
13 9 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
13 9 (0.81%) IoT
14 8 (0.72%) Social Media
15 7 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 440 (39.43%) Windows
2 226 (20.25%) Windows Server
3 104 (9.32%) Windows 10
4 79 (7.08%) Mac OS
5 39 (3.49%) Android
6 29 (2.60%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.97%) Linux
8 20 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.27%) VMS
11 3 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
2 274 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 207 (18.55%) Customer Service
4 184 (16.49%) ITIL
5 165 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
6 131 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
7 114 (10.22%) Service Delivery
8 111 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 107 (9.59%) User Experience
10 102 (9.14%) AI
11 97 (8.69%) Agile
12 94 (8.42%) Service Management
13 92 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
14 88 (7.89%) Project Delivery
14 88 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 88 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
15 86 (7.71%) CRM
16 76 (6.81%) Mentoring
16 76 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (6.54%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (14.78%) PowerShell
2 117 (10.48%) SQL
3 61 (5.47%) JavaScript
4 56 (5.02%) C#
5 29 (2.60%) R
6 27 (2.42%) Python
7 25 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.52%) VBA
9 7 (0.63%) C
9 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.45%) Ruby
11 4 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.36%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.27%) Bicep
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) Java
13 1 (0.090%) Bash
13 1 (0.090%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.090%) VB
Qualifications
1 165 (14.78%) Degree
2 104 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 59 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.57%) SC Cleared
5 30 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.06%) DBS Check
7 19 (1.70%) A+ Certification
8 18 (1.61%) CCNA
9 14 (1.25%) HND
10 13 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.90%) HNC
13 8 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.54%) MCSA
16 5 (0.45%) DV Cleared
16 5 (0.45%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 51 (4.57%) GDPR
4 32 (2.87%) QA
5 28 (2.51%) SLA
6 20 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.61%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.72%) PMO
11 7 (0.63%) NIST
12 5 (0.45%) COSHH
12 5 (0.45%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.45%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.36%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.36%) NCSC
14 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 1 (0.090%) IEC 61131
16 1 (0.090%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 449 (40.23%) Active Directory
2 108 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 94 (8.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.70%) vSphere
5 16 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.54%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.54%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.090%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.090%) XenApp
11 1 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 272 (24.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
3 20 (1.79%) SCCM
4 18 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.99%) FortiGate
5 11 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.45%) Backup Exec
6 5 (0.45%) Terraform
7 3 (0.27%) cPanel
7 3 (0.27%) Plesk
7 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.18%) Ansible
8 2 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.18%) vRealize
9 1 (0.090%) Autotask
9 1 (0.090%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.090%) Puppet
9 1 (0.090%) WSUS
Vendors
1 922 (82.62%) Microsoft
2 118 (10.57%) VMware
3 68 (6.09%) Cisco
4 59 (5.29%) Veeam
5 52 (4.66%) Apple
6 33 (2.96%) Meraki
7 32 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 31 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
9 25 (2.24%) Adobe
9 25 (2.24%) SonicWALL
10 17 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.43%) Ubiquiti
12 14 (1.25%) Aruba
12 14 (1.25%) Datto
12 14 (1.25%) Sophos
13 13 (1.16%) Google
14 12 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.99%) Sage
16 10 (0.90%) Foundry