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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 146 90
Rank change year-on-year +15 -56 +57
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 893 681 1,948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.34% 2.32% 2.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.71% 28.65% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 706 550 1,601
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £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 £58,693 £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 2,249 2,377 6,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.38% 8.11% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,720 1,558 4,629
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% -10.92%
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 19 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 19 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 +30 232 £42,500 +6.25% 65
Midlands -11 172 £40,000 -3.61% 46
South East -17 172 £50,000 +11.11% 106
East of England +22 152 £43,939 +31.16% 38
North West +44 132 £50,000 +9.58% 26
West Midlands 0 117 £42,500 -5.56% 30
Yorkshire -9 89 £36,500 +28.07% 33
South West -21 86 £29,000 -35.56% 41
East Midlands -31 55 £37,500 +7.14% 14
Scotland 0 40 £36,000 +9.09% 12
Wales -9 30 £40,000 +6.67% 7
North East -36 11 £57,038 +78.24% 7
Northern Ireland -35 7 £46,000 -12.38% 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
1 326 (36.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.58%) Confluence
3 9 (1.01%) CMS
4 7 (0.78%) IIS
5 5 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.34%) govService
7 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 77 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.11%) InDesign
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.35%) 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%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.11%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
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
1 695 (77.83%) Microsoft 365
2 392 (43.90%) Azure
3 277 (31.02%) Entra ID
4 212 (23.74%) OneDrive
5 191 (21.39%) Power Platform
6 105 (11.76%) PowerApps
7 103 (11.53%) Power Automate
8 50 (5.60%) SaaS
9 38 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 34 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 31 (3.47%) Mimecast
13 29 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 18 (2.02%) AWS
18 14 (1.57%) Serverless
19 13 (1.46%) PaaS
20 11 (1.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (19.93%) DNS
1 178 (19.93%) Firewall
2 151 (16.91%) DHCP
3 123 (13.77%) VPN
4 90 (10.08%) Wi-Fi
5 76 (8.51%) VLAN
6 73 (8.17%) LAN
7 72 (8.06%) WAN
8 57 (6.38%) VoIP
9 42 (4.70%) TCP/IP
10 22 (2.46%) Wireless
11 14 (1.57%) Internet
12 12 (1.34%) Intranet
12 12 (1.34%) WLAN
13 10 (1.12%) IPsec
13 10 (1.12%) Network Security
14 9 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (0.90%) SAN
16 7 (0.78%) Broadband
17 6 (0.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (12.88%) Power BI
2 54 (6.05%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.58%) 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 (0.90%) 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%) MySQL
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%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (5.94%) 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
1 359 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.09%) Finance
3 73 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
5 60 (6.72%) Legal
6 45 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.37%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.14%) Law
10 28 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.46%) Retail
12 17 (1.90%) 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%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.45%) Games
17 4 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 246 (27.55%) IT Support
2 143 (16.01%) Support Engineer
3 135 (15.12%) IT Engineer
4 125 (14.00%) Senior
5 113 (12.65%) IT Support Engineer
6 99 (11.09%) Analyst
7 95 (10.64%) Developer
8 75 (8.40%) Support Technician
9 73 (8.17%) IT Technician
10 64 (7.17%) Support Analyst
11 61 (6.83%) 2nd Line Support
11 61 (6.83%) IT Support Technician
12 48 (5.38%) IT Analyst
13 46 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 42 (4.70%) Lead
15 41 (4.59%) Consultant
15 41 (4.59%) IT Support Analyst
16 40 (4.48%) 3rd Line Support
16 40 (4.48%) Senior Developer
17 37 (4.14%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.59%) .NET
2 35 (3.92%) HTML
3 34 (3.81%) CSS
4 32 (3.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 24 (2.69%) JSON
5 24 (2.69%) SPFx
6 23 (2.58%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (2.13%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.34%) ASP.NET
8 12 (1.34%) REST
9 10 (1.12%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.01%) React
11 6 (0.67%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (0.67%) Node.js
11 6 (0.67%) Razor View Engine
11 6 (0.67%) Web Services
12 5 (0.56%) Entity Framework
13 4 (0.45%) Middleware
13 4 (0.45%) Swagger
13 4 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (11.31%) Driving Licence
2 64 (7.17%) Onboarding
3 40 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.91%) Replication
6 15 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.01%) Clustering
11 8 (0.90%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.90%) Social Media
12 7 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.78%) CMDB
13 6 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (0.67%) FMCG
14 5 (0.56%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.45%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 348 (38.97%) Windows
2 172 (19.26%) Windows Server
3 78 (8.73%) Windows 10
4 51 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 43 (4.82%) Android
6 29 (3.25%) Apple iOS
7 19 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (1.79%) Linux
8 16 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.22%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.11%) Unix
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (30.35%) Problem-Solving
2 170 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 155 (17.36%) ITIL
4 134 (15.01%) Customer Service
5 107 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
6 106 (11.87%) Business Intelligence
7 91 (10.19%) User Experience
8 82 (9.18%) Agile
9 69 (7.73%) Service Delivery
10 68 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 64 (7.17%) Project Management
12 62 (6.94%) CRM
12 62 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
13 60 (6.72%) Coaching
14 59 (6.61%) Disaster Recovery
14 59 (6.61%) Mentoring
15 58 (6.49%) AI
16 57 (6.38%) ERP
16 57 (6.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 50 (5.60%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 121 (13.55%) PowerShell
2 96 (10.75%) SQL
3 41 (4.59%) C#
4 38 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.46%) TypeScript
6 17 (1.90%) R
6 17 (1.90%) VBA
7 16 (1.79%) Python
8 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.34%) C
11 3 (0.34%) Java
12 1 (0.11%) Bash
12 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (14.56%) Degree
2 72 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 62 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 43 (4.82%) SC Cleared
5 16 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.68%) A+ Certification
7 13 (1.46%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (0.90%) APMP
10 8 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.90%) MBA
10 8 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.67%) CCNA
12 6 (0.67%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.47%) GDPR
4 25 (2.80%) SLA
5 22 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 18 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.02%) QA
7 10 (1.12%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.90%) PMO
9 6 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.56%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.45%) NIST
11 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.22%) WCAG
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 349 (39.08%) Active Directory
2 77 (8.62%) Hyper-V
3 56 (6.27%) 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 (0.90%) vSphere
7 6 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.67%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.45%) 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
1 204 (22.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.24%) SCCM
3 19 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (1.23%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.01%) Backup Exec
6 9 (1.01%) vRealize
7 8 (0.90%) 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
1 682 (76.37%) Microsoft
2 82 (9.18%) VMware
3 56 (6.27%) Apple
4 44 (4.93%) Veeam
5 31 (3.47%) Cisco
6 28 (3.14%) Adobe
7 24 (2.69%) Meraki
8 20 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 19 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (1.34%) SonicWALL
11 11 (1.23%) Sophos
12 10 (1.12%) Ubiquiti
13 9 (1.01%) Citrix
13 9 (1.01%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.90%) Computacenter
14 8 (0.90%) Logitech
14 8 (0.90%) WatchGuard
14 8 (0.90%) Yealink
15 7 (0.78%) Dell