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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 143 102
Rank change year-on-year +36 -41 +31
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,252 767 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.58% 2.21% 2.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 42.54% 29.91% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 970 597 1,006
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,831
90th Percentile £73,875 £63,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £43,000 £42,000 £45,680
% change year-on-year +2.38% -8.06% -8.64%

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 2,943 2,564 4,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.70% 7.38% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,147 1,765 2,872
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,437 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -2.68%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +50 342 £42,500 +21.43% 88
South East +3 274 £47,500 +18.75% 78
East of England +49 228 £37,500 -7.41% 37
North West +35 167 £50,000 +25.00% 40
Midlands -8 163 £39,000 -2.50% 80
Yorkshire +34 146 £38,772 +36.04% 39
South West -51 103 £36,250 -9.38% 48
West Midlands -26 98 £44,621 +0.78% 54
Scotland +37 66 £30,000 -20.00% 29
East Midlands -22 65 £37,500 -2.60% 26
Wales -31 43 £32,000 -20.99% 11
Northern Ireland - 32 £63,500 - 9
North East -33 29 £45,871 +43.35% 11
Isle of Man -2 2 £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
1 456 (36.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (2.88%) CMS
3 30 (2.40%) Confluence
4 27 (2.16%) Sitecore CMS
5 16 (1.28%) IIS
6 13 (1.04%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.48%) nginx
8 5 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.24%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.88%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.80%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.72%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.16%) Revit
10 2 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.080%) InDesign
11 1 (0.080%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 50 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.48%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.32%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.24%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.080%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.080%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.080%) Shopify
7 1 (0.080%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 958 (76.52%) Microsoft 365
2 546 (43.61%) Azure
3 429 (34.27%) Entra ID
4 321 (25.64%) Power Platform
5 264 (21.09%) OneDrive
6 193 (15.42%) PowerApps
7 180 (14.38%) Power Automate
8 108 (8.63%) Microsoft Copilot
9 89 (7.11%) SaaS
10 62 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
11 59 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
12 50 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (3.99%) Mimecast
13 31 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 30 (2.40%) AWS
15 24 (1.92%) IaaS
16 23 (1.84%) Copilot Studio
17 22 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 19 (1.52%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 250 (19.97%) Firewall
2 232 (18.53%) DNS
3 197 (15.73%) DHCP
4 155 (12.38%) VPN
5 116 (9.27%) VLAN
6 109 (8.71%) Wi-Fi
7 88 (7.03%) VoIP
8 75 (5.99%) TCP/IP
9 70 (5.59%) Wireless
10 64 (5.11%) LAN
11 59 (4.71%) WAN
12 25 (2.00%) Network Security
13 18 (1.44%) SSL
14 15 (1.20%) Internet
15 14 (1.12%) Skype
16 13 (1.04%) SAN
17 12 (0.96%) Broadband
18 10 (0.80%) Intranet
18 10 (0.80%) PBX
19 9 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (13.26%) Power BI
2 45 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (0.88%) Metadata
5 8 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.48%) GIS
6 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.32%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.32%) Power Query
9 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
11 1 (0.080%) EDMS
11 1 (0.080%) MySQL
11 1 (0.080%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.080%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (6.23%) JIRA
2 11 (0.88%) Git
3 5 (0.40%) Postman
4 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.24%) Selenium
5 3 (0.24%) 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 (0.080%) Carbide.c++
7 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 606 (48.40%) Social Skills
2 177 (14.14%) Finance
3 131 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.75%) Legal
5 94 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
6 66 (5.27%) Manufacturing
7 52 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.04%) Law
8 38 (3.04%) Marketing
9 31 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.40%) Retail
11 27 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 27 (2.16%) Publishing
12 25 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.52%) Local Government
15 11 (0.88%) Advertising
16 10 (0.80%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.64%) Games
17 8 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 321 (25.64%) IT Support
2 217 (17.33%) Senior
3 204 (16.29%) Support Engineer
4 194 (15.50%) IT Engineer
5 174 (13.90%) IT Support Engineer
6 134 (10.70%) Developer
7 122 (9.74%) Analyst
8 94 (7.51%) IT Technician
9 77 (6.15%) Support Analyst
10 73 (5.83%) Support Technician
11 68 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 65 (5.19%) IT Support Technician
13 64 (5.11%) 2nd Line Support
14 63 (5.03%) Administrator
15 58 (4.63%) Consultant
15 58 (4.63%) Lead
16 54 (4.31%) IT Analyst
17 51 (4.07%) Senior Developer
18 47 (3.75%) 3rd Line Support
18 47 (3.75%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.31%) HTML
2 45 (3.59%) CSS
3 42 (3.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 37 (2.96%) .NET
5 35 (2.80%) HTML5 Canvas
6 34 (2.72%) SPFx
7 24 (1.92%) JSON
8 19 (1.52%) .NET Core
9 15 (1.20%) REST
10 13 (1.04%) React
11 11 (0.88%) ASP.NET
12 8 (0.64%) .NET Framework
12 8 (0.64%) Terraform
13 7 (0.56%) Razor View Engine
13 7 (0.56%) XML
14 6 (0.48%) Middleware
14 6 (0.48%) Node.js
14 6 (0.48%) Playwright
15 5 (0.40%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 143 (11.42%) Driving Licence
2 119 (9.50%) Onboarding
3 110 (8.79%) Management Information System
4 74 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (2.24%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
6 27 (2.16%) Blog
7 26 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 24 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.52%) Clustering
11 17 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.12%) CMDB
14 13 (1.04%) Replication
15 12 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.88%) Social Media
16 11 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
17 10 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 485 (38.74%) Windows
2 251 (20.05%) Windows Server
3 106 (8.47%) Windows 10
4 81 (6.47%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.64%) Android
6 32 (2.56%) Apple iOS
7 30 (2.40%) Linux
8 27 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.56%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.32%) VMS
13 3 (0.24%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (24.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 227 (18.13%) Customer Service
4 188 (15.02%) ITIL
5 182 (14.54%) Cybersecurity
6 145 (11.58%) AI
6 145 (11.58%) Business Intelligence
7 127 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 127 (10.14%) Service Delivery
8 119 (9.50%) Project Delivery
9 118 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
10 115 (9.19%) CRM
11 112 (8.95%) User Experience
12 105 (8.39%) Service Management
12 105 (8.39%) Workflow
13 102 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
14 101 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 100 (7.99%) Agile
15 100 (7.99%) Project Management
16 91 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 191 (15.26%) PowerShell
2 122 (9.74%) SQL
3 65 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 61 (4.87%) C#
5 27 (2.16%) R
6 25 (2.00%) Python
6 25 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.04%) VBA
8 8 (0.64%) Ruby
9 7 (0.56%) C
9 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.24%) Bicep
10 3 (0.24%) C++
10 3 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.24%) Java
10 3 (0.24%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.16%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.080%) Bash
12 1 (0.080%) VB
Qualifications
1 179 (14.30%) Degree
2 125 (9.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 66 (5.27%) Security Cleared
4 57 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.40%) DBS Check
7 29 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.68%) CCNA
9 20 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.04%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.04%) HND
11 13 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 12 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (0.80%) HNC
14 9 (0.72%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.64%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 62 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (4.71%) GDPR
4 41 (3.27%) SLA
5 34 (2.72%) QA
6 23 (1.84%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.12%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.64%) PMO
11 7 (0.56%) NIST
12 5 (0.40%) COSHH
12 5 (0.40%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.40%) NCSC
12 5 (0.40%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.32%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.16%) IEC 61131
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 2 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 475 (37.94%) Active Directory
2 125 (9.98%) Hyper-V
3 118 (9.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.52%) vSphere
5 18 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 11 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
7 11 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.080%) Docker
10 1 (0.080%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 308 (24.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.24%) SCCM
3 25 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.56%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.40%) Ansible
8 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.24%) cPanel
8 3 (0.24%) Plesk
8 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.16%) Puppet
9 2 (0.16%) vRealize
10 1 (0.080%) Nessus
10 1 (0.080%) VxRail
10 1 (0.080%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,038 (82.91%) Microsoft
2 141 (11.26%) VMware
3 78 (6.23%) Cisco
4 68 (5.43%) Veeam
5 55 (4.39%) Apple
6 36 (2.88%) SonicWALL
7 32 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 31 (2.48%) Adobe
9 30 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
9 30 (2.40%) Meraki
10 27 (2.16%) Sitecore
11 25 (2.00%) Google
12 22 (1.76%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.52%) Datto
14 17 (1.36%) Ubiquiti
15 15 (1.20%) Aruba
15 15 (1.20%) HP
16 14 (1.12%) Palo Alto
17 13 (1.04%) Citrix
18 12 (0.96%) Sophos