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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 144 87
Rank change year-on-year +13 -57 +62
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 895 685 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.34% 2.34% 2.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.69% 28.72% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 708 553 1,602
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,900 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,740 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £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 2,255 2,385 6,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.38% 8.13% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,726 1,566 4,630
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £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% -11.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%

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 20 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 20 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 +28 232 £42,500 +6.25% 68
South East -12 172 £50,000 +11.11% 103
Midlands -15 171 £39,250 -5.42% 48
East of England +22 154 £45,000 +34.33% 33
North West +39 132 £50,000 +9.58% 29
West Midlands -9 114 £42,500 -5.56% 31
Yorkshire -6 89 £35,500 +24.56% 33
South West -30 85 £29,000 -35.56% 39
East Midlands -32 57 £37,500 +7.14% 15
Scotland +4 40 £36,000 +9.09% 14
Wales -2 30 £40,000 +6.67% 8
North East -37 11 £57,038 +78.24% 7
Northern Ireland -33 7 £46,000 -12.38% 4
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
1 326 (36.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.58%) Confluence
3 7 (0.78%) CMS
3 7 (0.78%) IIS
4 5 (0.56%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.34%) govService
6 2 (0.22%) SAS
6 2 (0.22%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
Applications
1 78 (8.72%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.34%) 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 22 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
3 7 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.34%) 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
1 699 (78.10%) Microsoft 365
2 394 (44.02%) Azure
3 280 (31.28%) Entra ID
4 212 (23.69%) OneDrive
5 192 (21.45%) Power Platform
6 105 (11.73%) PowerApps
7 104 (11.62%) Power Automate
8 50 (5.59%) SaaS
9 38 (4.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 36 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
11 34 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
12 32 (3.58%) Mimecast
13 29 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (2.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 18 (2.01%) AWS
17 14 (1.56%) Serverless
18 13 (1.45%) PaaS
19 11 (1.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (20.00%) Firewall
2 178 (19.89%) DNS
3 151 (16.87%) DHCP
4 123 (13.74%) VPN
5 90 (10.06%) Wi-Fi
6 76 (8.49%) VLAN
7 72 (8.04%) LAN
7 72 (8.04%) WAN
8 57 (6.37%) VoIP
9 43 (4.80%) TCP/IP
10 22 (2.46%) Wireless
11 15 (1.68%) Internet
12 12 (1.34%) WLAN
13 11 (1.23%) Intranet
13 11 (1.23%) Network Security
14 10 (1.12%) IPsec
15 9 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (1.01%) SAN
16 7 (0.78%) Broadband
17 6 (0.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (12.74%) Power BI
2 55 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.12%) Metadata
5 10 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.45%) Power Query
9 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.22%) DataStage
10 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.11%) EDMS
11 1 (0.11%) GIS
11 1 (0.11%) MySQL
11 1 (0.11%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (6.03%) JIRA
2 4 (0.45%) Postman
3 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.34%) Git
3 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.22%) Selenium
4 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 357 (39.89%) Social Skills
2 100 (11.17%) Finance
3 72 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (6.48%) Legal
6 45 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.36%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.13%) Law
10 28 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.46%) Retail
12 16 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.68%) Advertising
14 11 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.78%) Local Government
15 7 (0.78%) Marketing
16 5 (0.56%) Banking
16 5 (0.56%) Games
16 5 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 246 (27.49%) IT Support
2 143 (15.98%) Support Engineer
3 135 (15.08%) IT Engineer
4 125 (13.97%) Senior
5 113 (12.63%) IT Support Engineer
6 100 (11.17%) Analyst
7 93 (10.39%) Developer
8 75 (8.38%) Support Technician
9 74 (8.27%) IT Technician
10 66 (7.37%) Support Analyst
11 61 (6.82%) IT Support Technician
12 60 (6.70%) 2nd Line Support
13 49 (5.47%) IT Analyst
14 46 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 42 (4.69%) IT Support Analyst
15 42 (4.69%) Lead
16 41 (4.58%) Consultant
17 40 (4.47%) 3rd Line Support
17 40 (4.47%) Senior Developer
18 38 (4.25%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.36%) .NET
2 33 (3.69%) HTML
3 32 (3.58%) CSS
3 32 (3.58%) Microsoft Graph
4 24 (2.68%) JSON
4 24 (2.68%) SPFx
5 23 (2.57%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (2.12%) .NET Core
7 12 (1.34%) REST
8 10 (1.12%) ASP.NET
9 9 (1.01%) React
10 8 (0.89%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.67%) Node.js
11 6 (0.67%) Web Services
12 5 (0.56%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.45%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (0.45%) Middleware
13 4 (0.45%) Razor View Engine
13 4 (0.45%) Swagger
13 4 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.17%) Driving Licence
2 66 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 40 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.91%) Replication
6 15 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.12%) Clustering
9 10 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 8 (0.89%) Security Posture
10 8 (0.89%) Social Media
11 7 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.78%) CMDB
12 6 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (0.67%) FMCG
13 5 (0.56%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 348 (38.88%) Windows
2 175 (19.55%) Windows Server
3 77 (8.60%) Windows 10
4 51 (5.70%) Mac OS
5 44 (4.92%) Android
6 29 (3.24%) Apple iOS
7 19 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (1.68%) Linux
10 9 (1.01%) 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
1 273 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
2 168 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 157 (17.54%) ITIL
4 138 (15.42%) Customer Service
5 108 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
6 105 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
7 89 (9.94%) User Experience
8 82 (9.16%) Agile
9 69 (7.71%) Service Delivery
10 68 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 64 (7.15%) Project Management
12 63 (7.04%) CRM
13 62 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
15 58 (6.48%) Coaching
15 58 (6.48%) ERP
15 58 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 56 (6.26%) AI
16 56 (6.26%) Mentoring
17 51 (5.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (13.52%) PowerShell
2 96 (10.73%) SQL
3 39 (4.36%) C#
4 36 (4.02%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.46%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.01%) VBA
7 17 (1.90%) R
8 16 (1.79%) Python
9 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.34%) C
12 3 (0.34%) Java
13 1 (0.11%) Bash
13 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 132 (14.75%) Degree
2 72 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 62 (6.93%) Security Cleared
4 43 (4.80%) SC Cleared
5 17 (1.90%) A+ Certification
6 16 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.89%) APMP
13 8 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.89%) MBA
13 8 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.67%) CCNA
15 6 (0.67%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.46%) GDPR
4 25 (2.79%) SLA
5 22 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 18 (2.01%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.90%) QA
8 10 (1.12%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.78%) PMO
10 5 (0.56%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.45%) NIST
11 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 352 (39.33%) Active Directory
2 80 (8.94%) Hyper-V
3 56 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.89%) vSphere
7 6 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.67%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.34%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Docker
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 205 (22.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.23%) SCCM
3 19 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (1.23%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.01%) Backup Exec
6 9 (1.01%) vRealize
7 8 (0.89%) Terraform
8 7 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.11%) Autotask
9 1 (0.11%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.11%) MOM
Vendors
1 683 (76.31%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.27%) VMware
3 56 (6.26%) Apple
4 45 (5.03%) Veeam
5 33 (3.69%) Cisco
6 29 (3.24%) Adobe
7 25 (2.79%) Meraki
8 20 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
10 14 (1.56%) SonicWALL
11 11 (1.23%) Sophos
12 10 (1.12%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.12%) Ubiquiti
13 9 (1.01%) Citrix
13 9 (1.01%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.89%) Computacenter
14 8 (0.89%) Logitech
14 8 (0.89%) WatchGuard
14 8 (0.89%) Yealink
15 7 (0.78%) Dell