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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 150 109
Rank change year-on-year +47 -41 +23
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,280 749 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.59% 2.15% 2.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 42.94% 29.76% 28.20%
Number of salaries quoted 986 584 909
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,788 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,473 £39,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% -7.65% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,125 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £72,750
UK median annual salary £42,879 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.09% -11.58% -5.00%

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 2,981 2,517 4,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.70% 7.24% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 1,732 2,664
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,456 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -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 2 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 2 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 +65 344 £42,500 +20.23% 101
South East +13 281 £47,166 +17.40% 144
East of England +60 233 £37,500 -7.41% 56
Midlands -9 174 £39,000 +1.30% 91
North West +38 163 £50,000 +25.00% 46
Yorkshire +36 149 £38,772 +34.86% 43
West Midlands -12 107 £45,000 +2.27% 60
South West -52 106 £36,250 -9.38% 56
Scotland +32 68 £30,750 -18.00% 39
East Midlands -25 67 £37,500 -2.60% 31
Wales -32 44 £32,000 -20.99% 10
North East -31 32 £47,500 +48.44% 14
Northern Ireland - 31 £63,500 - 26
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
1 467 (36.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (2.66%) CMS
3 30 (2.34%) Confluence
4 27 (2.11%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (1.33%) IIS
6 14 (1.09%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.55%) Apache
7 7 (0.55%) nginx
8 5 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 119 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.94%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.78%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.70%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.23%) Revit
10 2 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.078%) InDesign
11 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 52 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.31%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.078%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.078%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.078%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 976 (76.25%) Microsoft 365
2 557 (43.52%) Azure
3 445 (34.77%) Entra ID
4 333 (26.02%) Power Platform
5 275 (21.48%) OneDrive
6 201 (15.70%) PowerApps
7 187 (14.61%) Power Automate
8 118 (9.22%) Microsoft Copilot
9 88 (6.88%) SaaS
10 73 (5.70%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 55 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (3.83%) Mimecast
14 31 (2.42%) AWS
15 29 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (1.95%) IaaS
17 23 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
18 22 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
20 20 (1.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 259 (20.23%) Firewall
2 240 (18.75%) DNS
3 205 (16.02%) DHCP
4 166 (12.97%) VPN
5 122 (9.53%) VLAN
6 116 (9.06%) Wi-Fi
7 90 (7.03%) VoIP
8 78 (6.09%) TCP/IP
9 74 (5.78%) Wireless
10 66 (5.16%) LAN
11 61 (4.77%) WAN
12 27 (2.11%) Network Security
13 19 (1.48%) SSL
14 15 (1.17%) Internet
14 15 (1.17%) Skype
15 13 (1.02%) Broadband
15 13 (1.02%) PBX
15 13 (1.02%) SAN
16 10 (0.78%) Intranet
16 10 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (13.28%) Power BI
2 48 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (0.94%) Metadata
5 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.47%) GIS
7 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.31%) Power Query
10 3 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
12 1 (0.078%) EDMS
12 1 (0.078%) MySQL
12 1 (0.078%) PowerPivot
12 1 (0.078%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (6.02%) JIRA
2 17 (1.33%) Git
3 5 (0.39%) Postman
4 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.23%) Selenium
5 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.16%) JUnit
6 2 (0.16%) Mockito
6 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.078%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.078%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 623 (48.67%) Social Skills
2 185 (14.45%) Finance
3 134 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
5 95 (7.42%) Legal
6 67 (5.23%) Manufacturing
7 55 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.05%) Marketing
9 37 (2.89%) Law
10 36 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.27%) Retail
12 27 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (2.11%) Publishing
13 25 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.48%) Local Government
16 10 (0.78%) Advertising
16 10 (0.78%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.63%) Games
17 8 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 325 (25.39%) IT Support
2 223 (17.42%) Senior
3 214 (16.72%) Support Engineer
4 202 (15.78%) IT Engineer
5 182 (14.22%) IT Support Engineer
6 142 (11.09%) Developer
7 126 (9.84%) Analyst
8 90 (7.03%) IT Technician
9 82 (6.41%) Support Analyst
10 69 (5.39%) Support Technician
11 68 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 67 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support
13 66 (5.16%) Administrator
14 61 (4.77%) IT Support Technician
15 60 (4.69%) Lead
16 59 (4.61%) Consultant
17 54 (4.22%) IT Analyst
18 52 (4.06%) Senior Developer
19 47 (3.67%) IT Support Analyst
20 46 (3.59%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (4.38%) HTML
2 47 (3.67%) CSS
3 41 (3.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 37 (2.89%) .NET
5 35 (2.73%) HTML5 Canvas
6 34 (2.66%) SPFx
7 26 (2.03%) JSON
8 19 (1.48%) .NET Core
9 15 (1.17%) REST
10 13 (1.02%) React
11 11 (0.86%) ASP.NET
12 9 (0.70%) XML
13 8 (0.63%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.63%) Terraform
14 7 (0.55%) Middleware
14 7 (0.55%) Razor View Engine
15 6 (0.47%) Node.js
15 6 (0.47%) Playwright
16 5 (0.39%) ASP.NET Core
16 5 (0.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 146 (11.41%) Driving Licence
2 123 (9.61%) Onboarding
3 111 (8.67%) Management Information System
4 72 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.11%) Blog
6 27 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
7 26 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 24 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.48%) Clustering
11 17 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.09%) CMDB
14 13 (1.02%) Social Media
14 13 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
16 11 (0.86%) Replication
17 10 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 496 (38.75%) Windows
2 259 (20.23%) Windows Server
3 103 (8.05%) Windows 10
4 80 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.58%) Apple iOS
6 32 (2.50%) Linux
7 31 (2.42%) Android
8 26 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.31%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (32.11%) Problem-Solving
2 309 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 237 (18.52%) Customer Service
4 193 (15.08%) Cybersecurity
5 188 (14.69%) ITIL
6 156 (12.19%) AI
7 149 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
8 137 (10.70%) Service Delivery
9 128 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 127 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 127 (9.92%) Project Delivery
11 119 (9.30%) CRM
12 110 (8.59%) User Experience
13 109 (8.52%) Service Management
14 106 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 106 (8.28%) Technical Leadership
15 105 (8.20%) Workflow
16 101 (7.89%) Project Management
17 99 (7.73%) Agile
18 89 (6.95%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 195 (15.23%) PowerShell
2 122 (9.53%) SQL
3 69 (5.39%) JavaScript
4 68 (5.31%) C#
5 26 (2.03%) R
6 25 (1.95%) Python
6 25 (1.95%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.02%) VBA
8 9 (0.70%) Ruby
9 7 (0.55%) C
9 7 (0.55%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.23%) Bicep
10 3 (0.23%) C++
10 3 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.23%) Java
10 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.16%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.078%) Bash
12 1 (0.078%) VB
Qualifications
1 178 (13.91%) Degree
2 129 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 66 (5.16%) Security Cleared
4 58 (4.53%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.64%) CCNA
8 21 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.09%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (1.02%) HND
11 13 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (0.78%) HNC
13 9 (0.70%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.63%) MCSE
15 7 (0.55%) MCSA
16 6 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 66 (5.16%) GDPR
3 62 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (3.28%) SLA
5 34 (2.66%) QA
6 22 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 22 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.25%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.55%) NIST
10 6 (0.47%) ISO 14001
10 6 (0.47%) PMO
11 5 (0.39%) COSHH
11 5 (0.39%) NCSC
11 5 (0.39%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.31%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.31%) WCAG
13 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.16%) IEC 61131
14 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 482 (37.66%) Active Directory
2 134 (10.47%) Hyper-V
3 128 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (1.48%) vSphere
6 15 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 11 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.078%) Docker
11 1 (0.078%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 311 (24.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.11%) SCCM
3 24 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.17%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.39%) Ansible
6 5 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.23%) cPanel
7 3 (0.23%) Plesk
7 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.16%) Puppet
8 2 (0.16%) vRealize
9 1 (0.078%) Autotask
9 1 (0.078%) Nessus
9 1 (0.078%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,071 (83.67%) Microsoft
2 149 (11.64%) VMware
3 79 (6.17%) Cisco
4 71 (5.55%) Veeam
5 54 (4.22%) Apple
6 41 (3.20%) SonicWALL
7 34 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 32 (2.50%) Adobe
9 29 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (2.27%) Meraki
10 27 (2.11%) Google
10 27 (2.11%) Sitecore
11 21 (1.64%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.56%) Datto
12 20 (1.56%) HP
13 17 (1.33%) Ubiquiti
14 16 (1.25%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.17%) Aruba
16 14 (1.09%) Citrix
16 14 (1.09%) Fortinet