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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 150 105
Rank change year-on-year +38 -45 +30
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 1,095 732 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.51% 2.16% 2.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.39% 28.05% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 885 578 1,303
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -7.23% -2.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
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 2,780 2,610 5,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.82% 7.71% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,118 1,722 3,770
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -7.52%

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 23 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 23 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 +59 297 £42,500 +20.23% 91
South East -1 231 £50,000 +33.33% 107
East of England +52 192 £41,250 +1.85% 37
Midlands -11 158 £38,500 - 38
North West +43 150 £50,000 +25.00% 51
Yorkshire +33 126 £40,000 +40.35% 23
South West -41 103 £32,500 -27.78% 37
West Midlands -11 98 £42,500 -4.79% 22
Scotland +50 62 £28,500 -21.38% 22
East Midlands -30 60 £37,500 +3.45% 16
Wales -20 39 £39,250 -3.09% 8
North East -40 21 £43,136 +34.80% 18
Northern Ireland -61 9 £62,500 +25.00% 3
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
1 400 (36.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.65%) Confluence
3 12 (1.10%) CMS
4 11 (1.00%) IIS
5 10 (0.91%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.091%) Apache
9 1 (0.091%) nginx
Applications
1 76 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.91%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.91%) CorelDRAW
5 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.091%) InDesign
9 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.091%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.55%) Raiser’s Edge
5 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.37%) 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 (0.091%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.091%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 882 (80.55%) Microsoft 365
2 517 (47.21%) Azure
3 383 (34.98%) Entra ID
4 254 (23.20%) OneDrive
5 248 (22.65%) Power Platform
6 148 (13.52%) Power Automate
7 145 (13.24%) PowerApps
8 83 (7.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 72 (6.58%) SaaS
10 54 (4.93%) Mimecast
11 48 (4.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 47 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 24 (2.19%) Copilot Studio
17 23 (2.10%) AWS
18 20 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 15 (1.37%) PaaS
20 14 (1.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (21.00%) Firewall
2 223 (20.37%) DNS
3 194 (17.72%) DHCP
4 154 (14.06%) VPN
5 103 (9.41%) VLAN
6 100 (9.13%) Wi-Fi
7 82 (7.49%) VoIP
8 73 (6.67%) LAN
9 70 (6.39%) TCP/IP
10 69 (6.30%) WAN
11 58 (5.30%) Wireless
12 20 (1.83%) Network Security
13 12 (1.10%) Internet
13 12 (1.10%) SAN
14 11 (1.00%) Broadband
14 11 (1.00%) Skype
15 9 (0.82%) Intranet
15 9 (0.82%) SSL
16 8 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (0.73%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (11.42%) Power BI
2 49 (4.47%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.19%) Metadata
5 9 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.27%) Power Query
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 (0.091%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.091%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 72 (6.58%) JIRA
2 5 (0.46%) Git
2 5 (0.46%) Postman
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.091%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 484 (44.20%) Social Skills
2 136 (12.42%) Finance
3 101 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (8.58%) Legal
5 79 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (4.93%) Manufacturing
7 46 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.56%) Law
9 33 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.19%) Retail
11 24 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.19%) Local Government
13 10 (0.91%) Advertising
14 8 (0.73%) Banking
14 8 (0.73%) Marketing
15 7 (0.64%) Games
16 5 (0.46%) Military
17 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (29.50%) IT Support
2 193 (17.63%) Support Engineer
3 191 (17.44%) IT Engineer
4 169 (15.43%) IT Support Engineer
5 158 (14.43%) Senior
6 125 (11.42%) Analyst
7 118 (10.78%) Developer
8 87 (7.95%) IT Technician
9 85 (7.76%) Support Analyst
10 77 (7.03%) Support Technician
11 68 (6.21%) IT Analyst
12 66 (6.03%) IT Support Technician
13 61 (5.57%) 2nd Line Support
14 59 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (5.39%) IT Support Analyst
15 53 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
16 49 (4.47%) Administrator
16 49 (4.47%) Senior Developer
17 46 (4.20%) Consultant
18 45 (4.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.29%) HTML
2 40 (3.65%) .NET
2 40 (3.65%) Microsoft Graph
3 38 (3.47%) CSS
4 32 (2.92%) SPFx
5 30 (2.74%) HTML5 Canvas
6 23 (2.10%) JSON
7 19 (1.74%) .NET Core
8 13 (1.19%) REST
9 12 (1.10%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.00%) React
11 9 (0.82%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.82%) XML
12 7 (0.64%) Razor View Engine
13 6 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (0.55%) Node.js
13 6 (0.55%) Web Services
14 5 (0.46%) Entity Framework
14 5 (0.46%) Swagger
15 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 130 (11.87%) Driving Licence
2 90 (8.22%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.74%) Replication
8 15 (1.37%) Clustering
9 14 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.10%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.00%) CMDB
12 9 (0.82%) CCTV
12 9 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
12 9 (0.82%) IoT
12 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.73%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.73%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 438 (40.00%) Windows
2 225 (20.55%) Windows Server
3 102 (9.32%) Windows 10
4 78 (7.12%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.47%) Android
6 27 (2.47%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.92%) Linux
8 19 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.27%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.18%) Unix
11 2 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (31.32%) Problem-Solving
2 264 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 205 (18.72%) Customer Service
4 185 (16.89%) ITIL
5 162 (14.79%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (11.42%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 109 (9.95%) Service Delivery
8 102 (9.32%) User Experience
9 94 (8.58%) Agile
10 91 (8.31%) AI
10 91 (8.31%) Service Management
11 87 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 87 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 87 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
12 86 (7.85%) Project Delivery
13 81 (7.40%) CRM
14 75 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 74 (6.76%) Identity Management
15 74 (6.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 161 (14.70%) PowerShell
2 115 (10.50%) SQL
3 58 (5.30%) JavaScript
4 53 (4.84%) C#
5 30 (2.74%) R
6 26 (2.37%) Python
7 25 (2.28%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.55%) VBA
9 7 (0.64%) C
9 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.46%) Ruby
11 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.27%) Java
13 2 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.091%) Bash
14 1 (0.091%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 166 (15.16%) Degree
2 98 (8.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 59 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 50 (4.57%) SC Cleared
5 29 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (2.01%) DBS Check
8 19 (1.74%) A+ Certification
9 18 (1.64%) CCNA
10 14 (1.28%) HND
11 13 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
12 12 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.91%) HNC
15 8 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.55%) APMP
16 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 51 (4.66%) GDPR
4 28 (2.56%) QA
5 26 (2.37%) SLA
6 22 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.74%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.74%) ISO 9001
8 11 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.73%) PMO
10 7 (0.64%) NIST
11 5 (0.46%) COSHH
11 5 (0.46%) ISO 14001
11 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.27%) NCSC
13 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.091%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 446 (40.73%) Active Directory
2 106 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 92 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.74%) vSphere
5 16 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.55%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.091%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.091%) XenApp
12 1 (0.091%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 265 (24.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
3 19 (1.74%) SCCM
4 18 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.00%) FortiGate
5 11 (1.00%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.55%) Backup Exec
7 4 (0.37%) Terraform
8 3 (0.27%) cPanel
8 3 (0.27%) Plesk
8 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.27%) vRealize
9 2 (0.18%) Ansible
9 2 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.091%) Autotask
10 1 (0.091%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.091%) Nessus
10 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 900 (82.19%) Microsoft
2 116 (10.59%) VMware
3 67 (6.12%) Cisco
4 57 (5.21%) Veeam
5 51 (4.66%) Apple
6 33 (3.01%) Meraki
7 32 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.19%) Adobe
9 24 (2.19%) SonicWALL
10 16 (1.46%) Ubiquiti
11 14 (1.28%) Aruba
11 14 (1.28%) Datto
11 14 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.28%) Sophos
12 12 (1.10%) Google
12 12 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.91%) Foundry
14 10 (0.91%) Sage